Hilarious! I'm still laughing... (and I can't help but wonder what the cat was thinking)
Happy Birthday, Ashleigh. You inspire us all.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
To
To who?
It's to whom!
Blue Bunny brand Premium All Natural Vanilla Ice Cream - the most intense vanilla ice cream I've ever had - it also has pieces of crushed vanilla beans in it. I always hated vanilla ice cream until I had this one.
A Florida state law states: "If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle."
In Florida, there is also a state law stating: "You may not kiss your wife’s breasts." Sorry, ladies.
sorry - double post, see next post for pic.
I don't have any medical evidence, but a theory I heard from one of my older relatives (long ago) was that they suspected hangovers were the result of a dehydrated brain (on account of the alcohol) and I was always encouraged to fight a hangover by downing a couple aspirin and drinking LOTS of water to re-hydrate it. I don't get that drunk very often (not in several years as a matter of fact), but it did seem to work quite well when I did have one.
As a side note, for me at least, Chianti used to give me really nasty hangovers without getting that drunk - 'experts', with some dispute, claim the sulfites, tannins, histamines or tyramines cause headaches from red wines and especially Chianti! 'Well' and other cheap liquors also give me problems.
Best bet is to stick to top shelf liquors and use in moderation to avoid hangovers entirely. Cheers!
They are all ideas I'll give a try. I've tried emailing them to myself, PM'ing them to myself on Lush. Today I submitted a story and clicked 'Cancel' when it asked me if I wanted to clean Word format and it gave me my best results to date but I still had to fiddle with it a bit. For me, using Notepad seems to eliminate the great majority of the desired Word formatting and doesn't allow formatting of individual passages (like an italicized introductory paragraph - if I try to italicize just one paragraph, the entire document changes. I may try copy/paste to Open Office, MS Works or Word Pad. Thanks to everyone who suggested solutions. Mark.
I've been using the "Word" app in Office XP and whenever I post a story it prompts me with 'Clear Word Format?' and assuming it is a necessary step, I click yes. I haven't tried no, yet. Invariably I end up needing to do some editing of paragraph breaks. Is there a tutorial on how to create a story on my PC without having to do so much work on the story on the website? Is there a formatting trick I can use with Word to make it easier to submit stories? Is there another word processing app that would work better? I have been using word to do technical writing in my IRL career so I am very comfortable with it and hate having to learn new things (unless I have to). I've also got Open Office, Microsoft Works and Adobe PDF creator I can work with. Anybody got any tips for me? I simply want to be able to write a story, copy and paste it into the submit page and wait for the comments and votes to roll in with minimum hassle. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Congratulations to all three winners! Great job everybody. I didn't read all the stories in the competition, but among those I read, my favorite ended up in the top 3. As soon as I post this, I'm going to add the other 2 top stories to my reading queue. Maybe I'll learn what it takes to succeed in a future competition LOL. Again to cocokisses, one winged angel and naughtyannie, my heartiest congratulations!
I cropped out part of my face on my avatar pic hoping I eliminated just enough face to prevent image search apps from finding my photo elsewhere. So far it's worked! My image gallery pics are un-changed.
At 20 (guys especially) I don't think ANYONE is good at having relationships. It's like anything else, there are skills and lessons that need to be learned in order to be prepared to enter into a serious, successful relationship. I think the best advice I could give is for you to wait before entering into a serious relationship until you've learned some of those skills and lessons (and no, I'm not just talking about sex - communication skills, diplomacy skills, etc.). Most of the lessons and skills can be learned by dating. By dating you will also learn more about what kind of person you want to be with and what kind of people want to be with you, at that point you can look for your soul-mate and hopefully it will be a long term, successful relationship. In the meantime, you can have a lot of fun getting to that point by doing more casual dating.
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd, although the album is kind of short so you have to click 'repeat' on the CD.
I grew up in a town that was a lumbering capital at the end of the 19th century, they called us 'Lumberjacks' but we didn't have a mascot at games, it was just a team name.
I gotta go with Somewhere In Time as well. It was filmed (for the most part) on Mackinac Island Michigan, a tiny island in the straits between the upper and lower peninsulas. I was in a band playing on the island during 7 days of shooting and although I never met any of the stars, the crew and a few extras packed the bar we were working at every night. Didn't know a thing about the movie until it came out and right off the bat I recognized the Grand Hotel. The Island is one of my favorite places in the world. Very cool.
Find yourself a wingman who is a little more socially at ease to get you started until you build a little confidence. I had a similar situation following a divorce some 20 years ago. I got over it quite quickly.