I challenge you to graphically represent a switch :)

Never taught me about this in Catholic school....hm
 

zinnias
 

This year I intend to plant zinnia flowers. My grandmother always had them going on in the warm months.

It took 2 years for me to get calla lily flowers from the bulbs I purchased. After being successful with the callas, time to move to something different.

I loved my grandmother so much. She was a great woman. I will plant the zinnias in honor of her.

I'm not really all that fond of flowers but it will be an interesting little outdoor side project.

I have the seeds and watched some youtube growing instructionals. Intend to germinate them this weekend. As I understand, it will be 5 to 10 days from germination date before I can put them in the ground.

I'll post along the way about how this little endeavor rolls out. Should be a stroll in the park, right?

PLANT ZINNIAS THEY SAID
IT WILL BE FUN THEY SAID
;)

KFC 'sorry' after lesbian couple are kicked out of Bath restaurant for 'heavy petting'


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...g-9268654.html

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Exactly what is the big deal KFC? Wasn't your restaurant founded by 'Carnal Sanders'? ;)

True, a gay couple would be judged more harshly for making out in a restaurant, than a straight couple, but honestly I don't want to see anyone, straight or gay, making out in a restaurant where I'm having a meal. When people make out in a public place, they're treating the other people in there, like furniture. It's rude. What did the two women expect, to be given a pass because they're lesbians?

lol, that's right.
 

No offense, honestly, and I do know this is a place to post random stuff...but would be great if more of us posted our original thoughts from time to time, here, even if they aren't all "neat" or " slick and eye catching".

I know we often find clever marketed phrases on tee-shirts, coffee cups etc,etc. that we can relate to. They are often fun and have their place but lately I feel a bit like I'm reading way too much life as seen through a bumper sticker.

Me, I'm old school. I figure that it takes a lot more to figuring out your sh*t than a bumper sticker or even 10. Yes, yes, it's fun; no, no glib isn't going to get you past the first 10-second chuckle. Oh, and I do know that many of us aren't looking for deep meaning and a few chuckles are worth their weight in gold.

BTW This isn't a hard stand and if you've an eloquent convincing argument as to why bumper/tees may carry the "Meaning of Life", please let me know.

Easter. Easter. Bang-Bang!
 

May you enjoy a basket full of fun today. And, to all the stoners, as if you needed another day to celebrate 420!

happy easter!
 

this may not be an eloquent convincing argument...but here goes...I like the "bumper stickers" because they get the point across and are short and sweet....the are also open to interpretation and can mean whatever you want them to mean...so...in order to avoid judgment and misunderstanding...I will continue to post "bumper stickers." okthanksbye :)

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some ppl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Italian Easter bread. Miss having access to this stuff.
 

I come here for the laughs.

The punchy sayings and funny cartoons do that for me.

Often, they allude to irony, trends in popular culture, and human fallibility. Gotta keep a sense of humor or that stuff can get you down.

And they are often original.

But Colette, I like what you're talking about, too—which I think is some kind of original perspective or observation on some facet of life. Bring it on!

There's room for it all.

Yes Ginger, thanks. All I'm really saying is that sometimes I figure we are beginning to forget how to form and articulate our own views, our own humour, as we increasingly use these "pre-fab" sayings: the way we pick items off a menu...sentiments off a Hallmark Card, humour off a bumper sticker.

All of this is not to say there isn't some wonderful, insightful humour to be had in a great cartoon (The New Yorker is renowned for those) but sometimes I think that our own takes can be just as dead-on-funny or profound and I suppose that I admire those original thoughts and efforts more. Not everyone can write well or wants to, but I do love seeing an original well turned short phrase and I wish more of us made that effort before we lose the skill altogether.

118th Boston Marathon....April 21st
 

Hopefully it will be a peaceful run.

Good time to remember Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run in the marathon.



At a time when it was believed that women were not physiologically capable of running marathon distances and the longest sanctioned women’s race was 1.5 miles, Bobbi Gibb challenged the prejudices and became the first woman ever to run the Boston Marathon.

Refused an entry application to the prestigious men’s division race, she decided to run anyway. She felt certain that once people knew that women could run these distances, the race would open up to women. She knew that if she could disprove this false belief, she would throw into doubt all the other false beliefs about women that had served for so long to deny women opportunities in many walks of life.

She hid in the bushes near the start, wearing her brother’s Bermuda shorts and a blue hooded sweatshirt. When the starting gun fired, she eased into the middle of the pack. The men around her quickly realized that she was a woman, and to her great relief, they were supportive.

When she removed the hot and constricting sweatshirt, everyone could see that she was a woman, and to her surprise, the crowd cheered. The press saw a story in the making. A local radio station broadcast her progress along the route.

She ran all the way to Boston and crossed the finish line in three hours, twenty-one minutes and forty seconds, ahead of two thirds of the men. Her feat, which was front-page headlines, astounded the world and was a pivotal event that helped to change social awareness and drew attention to running as a way of life for everyone.

In 1996, the Boston Athletic Association officially recognized her three wins in 1966, 1967 and 1968, and her name was inscribed with the names of the other winners on the Marathon Memorial in Copley Square, Boston.

It was not until 1972, when the Amateur Athletic Association changed the rules governing sports, that an officially sanctioned women’s division race opened in Boston. Until that time, all women were running in the yet to be sanctioned women’s division Boston Marathon. This era is now referred to as the pre-sanctioned era. Sara Mae Berman was the pre-sanctioned women’s winner in 1969, 1970 and 1971. Nina Kuscsik was the first women’s winner of the officially sanctioned women’s division in 1972.

http://www.bobbigibb.com/index.html