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John 3:17: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

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Yeah, but their new slogan, "Most watched, most trusted" is equally frightening. I wouldn't trust Faux News even if they were reporting on how many American kitchens have cockroaches.

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Yeah, but their new slogan, "Most watched, most trusted" is equally frightening. I wouldn't trust Faux News even if they were reporting on how many American kitchens have cockroaches.

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That's awfully Trumpian - prioritizing ratings over anything else. "Most watched" - so what? "Most trusted" - by whom?

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Like those adverts where they tell us that they have been voted* "Product of the year".

*by 66 respondents on an online survey.
 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 
There's an ad in which a healthy-looking man says how much lower his cholesterol is since he changed to *product*.
Changed from what? Butter? Olive oil spread? margarine?
(Come to think of it, I don't think margarine is sold these days.)
I should make a note of his product and see how it's labelled in the store.

GG
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
I don't know the ad because I don't watch TV, but butter substitutes usually come under the category of table spreads in the supermarket, which always seems weird because they are in the dairy aisle, rather than with the peanut butter, honey, jam, and,vegemite which are labelled just as spreads.

I have been told that in the 1950s customers in NZ needed some kind of special medical dispensation to buy margarine - because everyone knows NZ butter is good for you and the best in the world (and the farmers needed trade protection).

Huia
 

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Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :
 
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I've been listening to little else but Verdi's LaTraviata for about 2 months due to being in it at Haddo House.

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I've just been in a different production of Traviata down here in Jorvik. Now faced with the challenge of forgetting all the Traviata words.

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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
I have to prepare one song and one dramatic monolog. I've chosen "Send In The Clowns" from A Little Night Music and one of the Marquis de Sade's monologues from Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade. Talk about strange bedfellows!

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Do you have to bring your own bathtub for the Marat/Sade?
 

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Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :
 
No. Marat is in the bathtub. I'm reading a Sade monologue.

I always wanted to play the role. When I was at college, I was active in the Theater Guild and on the committee that selected plays. I suggested Marat/Sade but was poo-pooed: too difficult, involves musicians, etc. Wouldn't you know, the very year after I graduated, they did it!
 

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I've decided to audition for a musical at a local amateur theater company. They're doing Frankenstein and Christmas Carol among others. I really don't expect to get a part, but I think I'd make a good Scrooge.

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I just stumbled across this and thought you all might enjoy it.

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*high-five* I've just been in a different production of Traviata down here in Jorvik. Now faced with the challenge of forgetting all the Traviata words so I have enough memory for the songs I've been learning for my Grade 6 singing exam... (I know all the words, I just can't be relied on to sing them in the right order) Maybe after that I will get to the random musical selections.

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Ooh! How did it go?

Cattyish, sans singing teacher for the past fortnight.
 

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Posted by Hedgehog (# 14125) on :
 
I just want to post in praise of AAA (I believe it stands for American Automobile Association--but everybody just calls it "Triple A"). I have been a member for years. It provides (among other things) "roadside" assistance for vehicles in emergencies.

Today, my car was struggling to start with a number of symptoms that convinced me that there was either (a) a major malfunction of the electrical system or (b) a dying battery. The battery sounded cheaper, so I was hoping that was it. I made it in to work (because the car did start eventually) but I was worried because I am going on a trip tomorrow and I had no desire to have a dead battery while away from home.

Solution? I called AAA. They have a battery service where they can drive out to where your car is, test your current battery (if you want) and then (if needed) replace it right then and there. So I called. At first, the AAA rep estimated that the truck would be with me in "no more than 61 minutes" (which struck me as ludicrously precise). Only 5 or 10 minutes later, the guy in the truck called to state that he would arrive in about 15 minutes. He came, tested my battery (it came back "bad cell") and replaced it with a new battery, checking with his technical equipment to make sure he had a proper battery for my make/model of car.

Everything went so smoothly (including the member discount on the battery) and quickly. I told him (and I absolutely believe it) that if I had driven to a dealership to have this taken care of I would still be cooling my heels in the waiting room by the time AAA had everything done.

Excellent service. Very satisfied.
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 
AAA membership is one thing I buy every year in the hope that I will never use it. On the occasions that I've needed them, they've been wonderful -- and I literally don't know what I would have done without them.
 

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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 
Swear by AAA. I joined because we were going to be taking a long road trip, and then a few weeks later couldn't start the car to go to the store. AAA to the rescue! We are of course still members.
 

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Posted by Martin60 (# 368) on :
 
The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

The Runes of the Earth.

Chapter 'I am content' p. 126

The COMMUNITY of RETRIBUTION

You are worthless. Broken. Empty of faith. Without value to God or man or Satan. Unworthy even of damnation.

Spellbinding, compelling horror just repeating it.

Lord Foul to Linden Avery.

Enthroned just now I got to the end of the chapter 'The Will of the Ranyhyn', p. 485. Just remembering my eyes are hot. Upstairs I burst in to tears.

Enlightenment: 'Then she surged upright and began to run with the Ranyhyn, run and run frantically, flinging herself like ecstasy or abjection around the dell as if she had gone out of her mind.'.

Dark.

And light.

Then back to cleaning the toilet.
 

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Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
So - yesterday afternoon, when the kids were (as per usual) driving me bonkers with endless requests for food and equally endless refusals to eat apples, bananas, or toast, I sent the following text to my absent other half:

"Help! Am being assaulted by angry, entitled, children who think snacks are a fundamental human right."

I had typed in, "Help! Am being assaulted by-" and looked down at the three suggested words underneath the message. In centre space, I kid you not, was the word "priests". My phone sure didn't learn that from any previous messaging of mine...
 

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Posted by wild haggis (# 15555) on :
 
Watching a very fat wood pigeon, through the window, trying to get onto a thin branch beside my wee bird-feeder, and it keeps falling off. But keeps trying. Hilarious.

He'll have to go hungry but it has given me amusement on a blowy, cold, cloudy day. We have somehow lost summer in Britain. Has anyone found it? Can you return it to us please?

Maybe the pigeon has flown off with summer and we now have autumn!
 

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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Courtesy of a friend, we now have a new family saying when something goes wrong and it's NOTHING TO DO WITH US- "Not my circus, not my monkeys". Sums things up pretty well.
 

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Posted by anoesis (# 14189) on :
 
I promise I won't turn this thread into 'Kids Say the Darnedest Things' - but there's a couple of doozys from this week.

Had my daughter with me when out shopping, and I tried on a jumper and pair of jeans. She came into the changing room with me, and looked on. As I was turning this way and that, she said, "Mummy, I really like that jumper, you should buy it. But I don't think you should get those jeans." "Oh, why not?" say I. "Well, they're a bit tight already, aren't they - so they probably won't fit you for very long." "Do you think I might be getting fatter, then?" "Oh, definitely." Great, just great...

Then this one. A bit of background. There's not heaps I like about the way I look, but I do like my eyes. I have green eyes, and green is my favourite colour. They're not really brilliant green, like redheads have, more grey-green, wet river rocks, sort of thing. But I like them. So, I'm towelling off my son, after a bath, crouching down - so my eyes are about level with his. "Mummy", he says, "you know what?" 'What, then?" I ask. "Your eyes are the colour of snot, Mummy..."
 

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Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :
 
I knew there was a reason I decided to have cats, rather than kids.

Huia

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Posted by Martin60 (# 368) on :
 
At most this life is conception.
 

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 

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Courtesy of a friend, we now have a new family saying when something goes wrong and it's NOTHING TO DO WITH US- "Not my circus, not my monkeys". Sums things up pretty well.

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In the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, by Douglas Adams, there's something called an "SEP field". Idea is that most people will ignore something, if they think it's Somebody Else's Problem. That's the basis of a spaceship invisibility cloak.

 

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Posted by Galloping Granny (# 13814) on :
 

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Watching a very fat wood pigeon, through the window, trying to get onto a thin branch beside my wee bird-feeder, and it keeps falling off. But keeps trying. Hilarious.

He'll have to go hungry but it has given me amusement on a blowy, cold, cloudy day. We have somehow lost summer in Britain. Has anyone found it? Can you return it to us please?

Maybe the pigeon has flown off with summer and we now have autumn!

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In the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, by Douglas Adams, there's something called an "SEP field". Idea is that most people will ignore something, if they think it's Somebody Else's Problem. That's the basis of a spaceship invisibility cloak.

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The one piece of ornithological advice I remember from High school science was, " Never walk under any berry tree where there is a kereru eating". The warning was to avoid the copious amounts of poo pigeons excrete.

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Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :
 
Putting in a plug for new TV show: "The Orville", on Fox broadcast.

It's sci-fi. Partly a shout-out to "Star Trek", especially the movies. (I think bits of the music were...borrowed.) A *little bit* of a spoof. There's humor and wit--BUT serious stuff, too.

I've seen two episodes so far. I'm already a fan of a particular character.

Anyway, it's worth seeing. Will be interesting to watch how it grows.

 

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The more frequently a household attends worship services, the more likely its members donate to religious institution...

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