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Carved shell jewelry

Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on Tuesday. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Browsing carved shell jewelry by Shinji Nakaba, I came upon this ring.LOL, "Kiss the ring" has a new meaning. They show how it's made.…Continue

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Comment by Tony Carroll on August 29, 2012 at 5:51am: Hateful indeed. Reminded me of this pic that I have.

Comment by Steph S. on August 29, 2012 at 5:28am: Sk8eycat that is appalling!
I read Freethought Today and they are extremely hateful.

Comment by sk8eycat on August 29, 2012 at 2:35am: I wish!

If you read the "Crank Mail" section in Freethought Today, you'll see that they're still breeding and passing the hate along to their children. I wonder if there's a gene for that. One that could be snipped off chromosomes before meiosis...

Comment by Chris Breman on August 29, 2012 at 2:28am: You 'd have thought that sort died out by now...

Comment by sk8eycat on August 29, 2012 at 2:22am: Unbelievably appalling!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/republican-cnn-attack-anim...

An attendee at the Republican National Convention was allegedly thrown out of the convention center in Tampa on Tuesday after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, "this is how we feed the animals."

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Another walking advertisement for retroactive birth control.

Comment by Grinning Cat on August 28, 2012 at 11:55pm: Thanks, Joan, that derivation of "politics" is my favorite pseudoetymology. ("It really bugs me when I can't remember the entomology of a word.")

"Goodness gracious" and "Agnus Dei" reminded me of the Monk's Aria from P.D.Q. Bach's Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice:

... Mea culpa kyrie elei-
Sonny Tufts et Allah in Pompeii;
Donna nobis pacem cum what mei;
Agnus and her sister Doris Dei;
Lord, have mercy on my so...lo. ...

Comment by Ian Mason on August 28, 2012 at 11:44pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMy15O1tCw

Comment by Ian Mason on August 28, 2012 at 11:39pm: It also appears as gracious sakes alive and goodness gracious, Agnes, the latter partly drawn from the Latin words in the Mass, Agnus Dei . . . miserere nobis, ''lamb of God . . . have mercy on us,'' referring in that case to Jesus as sacrificial lamb

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-6-16...

Comment by Joan Denoo on August 28, 2012 at 10:42pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gHbYJfwFgOU

via Patricia

Bill Nye gives a heartfelt plea to parents to believe what they will, but do not saddle children with false belief in a 6,000 year old Earth, denying reality of infinite time and space, and deluding them to believe in things that have not been supported by evidence. The world needs children growing up with a clear understanding of facts of mathematics and science and eschew fables and myths told for generations as true.

Comment by Joan Denoo on August 28, 2012 at 10:06pm: booklover, I couldn't find the whole quote of "Goodness Gracious Godness Agnes!"

The "To market" one was in nursery rhyme books I read to my kids when they were small.