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#117241 - 03/29/06 04:02 PM
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You have my deepest sympathy.
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#117253 - 04/01/06 02:07 PM
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Registered: 08/06/04
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Including George W?
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#117256 - 05/30/06 11:47 AM
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The IDEA Man
Registered: 11/11/03
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When you decide to start a family, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The Gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy" But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills... and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.
But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.
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#117257 - 07/07/06 08:14 AM
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The IDEA Man
Registered: 11/11/03
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#117258 - 07/08/06 06:08 AM
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The IDEA Man
Registered: 11/11/03
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Recently, I was diagnosed with AAADD: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:
* I decided to wash my car. As I started toward the garage, I spotted the mail on the hall table.
* I should go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay the car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.
* So, I put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.
* Since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I might as well pay the bills first.
* I see my checkbook on the table, but there is only one check left.
* My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the bottle of juice that I had been drinking.
* I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to move the juice aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The juice is getting warm, and should be put in the refrigerator to chill it.
* Heading toward the kitchen with the juice, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye. They need to be watered.
* I set the juice down on the counter, and find my reading glasses, for which I've been searching all morning. I had better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
* I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water, and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
* Tonight when we sit down to watch TV, we will be looking for it, and nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table. I should put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
* I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So I put the remote back down on the table, and get some towels to wipe up the spill.
* Then I head down the hall, trying to remember what I was planning to do.
* At the end of the day, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with my car keys. I'm trying to figure out why nothing got done today; it's quite baffling because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.
* I know this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.
* Do me a favor, will you? Send this message to whoever you think might enjoy it, because I don't remember who I've already sent it to
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -Aesop, 620 BC - 560 BC
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#117259 - 07/21/06 02:22 AM
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The IDEA Man
Registered: 11/11/03
Posts: 33102
Loc: ohio
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One day God was looking down at earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So he called one of his angels and sent the angel to earth for a time.
When he returned, he told God, "Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not."
God thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion."
So God called another angel and sent him to earth for a time, too. When the angel returned he went to God and said, "Yes, it's true. The earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving, but 5% are being good.
God was not pleased. He decided to email the 5% who were good, because He wanted to encourage them, give them a little something to help them keep going.
Do you know what the email said?
No?
Okay, I was just wondering, because I didn't get one either!
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