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Oklahoma Tornado
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An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue
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'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.
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Talented young singer
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Aldrich Lloyd Talonding is going to take the world by storm. What do you think? He's singing Dance With My Father Again. Continue
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Comment by Lillie on December 14, 2012 at 12:01pm -
And he is so pleasing to the eye!
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Comment by booklover on December 14, 2012 at 8:03am -
Tony, Hugh Jackman is an awesome actor and singer! I saw an interview with him. I can't wait until the movie version of Les Mis comes out soon with him in it!!!!
Have a nice Friday Peeps! :) ~ Melinda
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Comment by Tony Carroll on December 14, 2012 at 6:00am -
From the London revival of Oklahoma. Hugh Jackman singing 'Oh what a Beautiful Morning'.
Have a beautiful morning, my friends. And a better day. I'm off to work.
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Comment by Chris Breman on December 14, 2012 at 1:06am
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I like that lion, Ian! Reminds me of
Sunt Leones
The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arenaBy indulging native appetites played what has now been seen aNot entirely negligible partIn consolidating at the very startThe position of the Early Christian Church.Initiatory rites are always bloodyAnd the lions, it appearsFrom contemporary art, made a studyOf dyeing Coliseum sands a ruddyLiturgically sacrificial hueAnd if the Christians felt a little blue—Well people being eaten often do.Theirs was the death, and theirs the crown undying,A state of things which must be satisfying.My point which up to this has been obscuredis that it was the lions who procuredBy chewing up blood gristle flesh and boneThe martyrdoms on which the Church has grown.I only write this poem because I thought it rather lookedAs if the part the lions played was being overlooked.By lions’ jaws great benefits and blessings were begottenAnd so our debt to Lionhood must never be forgotten.Stevie Smith, “Sunt Leones” from New Selected Poems. Copyright © 1972
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Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 13, 2012 at 10:31pm -
I also had the nickname 'juice man' in high school because I hated drinking milk (still do) and for lunch I always washed down my food with a couple of these cheap, flavored juice drinks.
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Comment by sk8eycat on December 13, 2012 at 5:41pm -
Spud, I think my personal preference is Felaine..."feline" wth an "a" in the middle. There are times when I think I'd really like to be a cat, even though their lives are so much shorter than our are.
Flying None (tee-hee!), a discussion/conversation about nicknames would be fun! I've told you most of mine already; I don't think I want to talk about the one my best friend in elementary school gave me. For some reason we went through a "baby-talk" phase in 2nd or 3rd grade, and I ended up stuck with that damned name through high school! (People wrote it in my yearbooks! Gah!)
I also get a giggle out of all three of my initials: FEH. Spelled "feh," it's a Yiddishism for "ugh!" or "ick!"
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Comment by Idaho Spud on December 13, 2012 at 4:38pm -
Ice witch, I don't dislike any of your names. I'm just trying to find one that I can remember and remember how to spell. lol.
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Comment by booklover on December 13, 2012 at 4:18pm
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Carl, my mom calls me "Dear Child" when she sends me cards, etc. Not in a serious way, we don't remember how it got started. Most of our family doesn't call each other by our real names. My son will answer to anything I yell down the stairs to him. lol. Mindy is the official nickname of Melinda, which everyone in "real life" calls me.
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Comment by sk8eycat on December 13, 2012 at 4:08pm
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Ian: Lion 1 - xian 0. Too bad there weren't more lions.
There is a certain type of person who needs to feel persecuted, whether they really are, or not. If they're not being persecuted, they'll invent their own....and broadcast it.
When FFRF reminds people that putting any religious symbols and/or praying to their imaginary friend on publicly-owned property is unconstitutional, they immediately start wailing that we are trying to outlaw their particular fantasies altogether. I think they enjoy it; it makes them feel important.
They scare me... willful ignorance scares me.
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Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 13, 2012 at 4:07pm
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I think this would be a fun topic to discuss......what nicknames have you had during the course of your lifetime? My best friend from high school still calls me 'Mag' which is short for Maggot. Ahhhh...only the best of friends could get away with that. My two sisters endearingly call me 'The Creep.'
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