post toasties:
Happy Birthday to Trudy and Kara. Mmm...Kara born on the same day as Trudy...'splains an awful lot.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
River ,'Trash'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
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Cashmere - Sep 11, 2008 4:26:27 am PDT #5266 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Emily - Sep 11, 2008 4:33:12 am PDT #5267 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's sort of a convenient thing to have a concrete object to focus on when pledging.
Really? I mean, I don't mind facing it, as a symbol. I just don't feel that I have any allegiance to it. Do you? Is it just me?
Jars - Sep 11, 2008 4:35:10 am PDT #5268 of 10001
I don't get the pledging allegience to anything. Seems a bit culty to me.
SailAweigh - Sep 11, 2008 4:36:55 am PDT #5269 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Happy Birthday, Trudy!!
Happy Birthday, Tyrone-Raptor Girl-Kara!!
billytea - Sep 11, 2008 4:44:50 am PDT #5270 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have a question. Why do we pledge allegiance to the flag? Why don't we just directly pledge allegiance to the republic? I always feel funny about that, because I don't feel much allegiance to that particular design. Anyone?
It's to show your sincere gratitude that your flag isn't any of these ones: [link]
ChiKat - Sep 11, 2008 4:45:36 am PDT #5271 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
happy birthday, Trudy!!! And, Kara!!
Care to come and take on DD and 50 Intensive English 3 students?
Dude, I'm hiding in the corner with Jen and rooting you on.
I just don't feel that I have any allegiance to it. Do you? Is it just me?
Personally, I hate saying the pledge every morning. Feels a bit Loyalty to the Fatherland. Flag = piece of fabric. Granted, that fabric is loaded with symbolism of an ideal democracy, but still. Fabric.
Cashmere - Sep 11, 2008 4:45:40 am PDT #5272 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Really? I mean, I don't mind facing it, as a symbol. I just don't feel that I have any allegiance to it. Do you? Is it just me?
I think it depends on your experience. One of my first memories of the U.S. flag is seeing the folded triangle that was the flag on my Uncle Ernie's coffin (he died at age 19 in Vietnam). So my family had a great deal of reverence for it. My dad was in the military and was commander of our American Legion post so there were a lot of flag bearing duties and military funerals in my childhood. It's just a thing, I suppose, but that's what I remember.
Steph L. - Sep 11, 2008 4:55:52 am PDT #5273 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Emily, flags have been very important in organized societies for a very long time. They started out as military symbols and for communication purposes from Rome and to Medieval times. This was how you figured out where you stood and to determine friend from foe. It's sort of a convenient thing to have a concrete object to focus on when pledging.
"We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. 'I claim India for Britain!' And they're going, 'You can't claim us, we live here! There's five hundred million of us!'
" 'Do you have a flag?'
" 'We don't need a bloody flag, this is our country, you bastard!'
" 'No flag, no country! You can't have one! That's the rules, that... I've just made up.' "
Jessica - Sep 11, 2008 4:59:57 am PDT #5274 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRUDY & KARA!
Jessica - Sep 11, 2008 5:03:26 am PDT #5275 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, okay, I guess I'm serial-posting. (I had more in the posting box for the post above, but it didn't take.)
EXCELLENT billboard, Tep!
So, theoretically, if someone you'd worked with for almost 5 years walked in one morning and had BLACK HAIR instead of the fading pink/purple she'd had yesterday...you'd notice, right?