Who you were then, is who you are now.

Bob--

Letty:

That's OK!

Sorry Letty. I was referring to new haven's post of small minded people in Massachusetts. Just wanted to know if he made an error in coming here.

Oh. Well, Bob. I'm certain New Haven wasn't referring to you. --just the people who used to be:

Ah, Boston, the land of the bean and the cod.
Where the Cabot's speak only to Lodges,
and the Lodges speak only to God..

and God's got his hands full just trying to keep the stars and stripes flying in a straight line and not getting caught up in a big bush

Poor Canada now has to cope with both fronts--still smarting from SARS and now hit by a mad cow. Damn.

My partner, bless her heart, was a big part of why my life has been so successful. When I was in pursuit of her, there were three doctors and a engineer trying to win her heart. I didn't even have a college degree, and she picked me! Wonders never cease. c.i.

You're a love, c.i.! Just accept it! :wink:

Well, C.I. and Rae, I'm just so glad to see both of youse guys

C.I. Obviously you did something very right to gain the love and trust of your wife, and obviously what you did then, you're still doing now.

growing up in germany in the 30's and 40's(that is 19xx) i was always fascinated by foreign lands. my parents had a good friend who supplied me with plenty of books about life in other coumtries - there was robinson crusoe, old shatterhand, leatherstockings, african explorers, count luckner(a german PIRATE or buccaneer) during world-war- one; all of these writers must have had some influence. however, i was always a fairly timid boy - poor at sports. still something must have lingered, because in the 1950's i decided that i should seek my FORTUNES(!) outside germany. at that time quite a few germans went to south-africa. of course i had no idea what life was like in s.a. - and luckily i did not go there. when i met a rather nice young woman(who three years later would become mrs. hbg ), i found out that she also was quite interested in trying out some other part of the world to make something of our lives. so we got married in may of 1956 and in early july 1956 we boarded a small dutch freighter(prins willem III of the oranje line) and went on a honeymoon-cruise to canada. so here we are 47 years later ! - and if someone asks us why we came to canada we can truthfully say "oh, we are just here on our honeymoon!". hbg

i should try introducing hamburger and mrs. hamburger that way sometime - X, these are my parents, they're here on their honeymoon :wink:

rebels, they're rebels!

heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .

Them Hamburgers, they're just a couple of ill-concealed lovebirds . . .

Most here know i'm not in the least religious, but as i don't believe in throwing that long-suffering progeny down the drain with the grey water, i'm still able to see when there's an interesting bit of folklore or common wisdom in a religious text . . .

If you raise a child up in the way he should go, when he is a man, he will . . . etc. (emphasis added)

The older i get the more i find myself like my grandparents, who raised me . . .

setanta: i guess we'll have interesting times ahead of us ... watching you become your own grandpa ! we'll just have to keep BOTH eyes on you. ... both cleo and bailey are guarding their foodbowls and are waiting for some more LECKERBISSEN ! hbg

well, ehBeth. It is quite obvious where your talents and song of the open road comes from.

Hamburger, Mrs. Hamburger. Salute. Bet you both know Schumann's...."Traumerei". I remember it with such fondness. In the midst of change, we find those constants that encompass all that is dear and holy.

ah,Setanta. You're just a wuss at heart.

letty : setanta a wuss at heart ??? yea, a real BIG one at that !!! hbg .... he not only has a way with the ladies ... dogs like him too; he doesn't mind sharing a big, fat sausage with them; makes them instant friends forever - the sneaky irish-man!

dogs, cats, and children aways liked me, but women? That's a whole new ball of wax. c.i.

C.I. As W.C. Fields once remarked:

Anyone who hates dogs and children, couldn't be all bad, but then there is this anecdote attributed to him:

A friend came to visit him when he was ill and found him reading the Bible. Stunned, the friend asked him:" But, Bill, I always thought that you were an atheist"
to which W.C. was reputed to have replied:

" Just lookin for loopholes."

Well, my friends. I guess we're all looking for loopholes. Goodnight

Letty, I found the 'loopholes,' and it was me! LOL c.i.

Letty, thanks for posting about the loopholes! I love quotes like that, as you well know! Anything that causes a body to think ... !!!