Subject: Lesley is here now.
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 09 09
I'd always thought that once you got a blog you had a blog in perpetuity, and could continue to add to it, whether you were a paying member or not. That may have been right at one time, but it isn't now.
I wrote an update yesterday, a few hours after I'd had an email to tell me that my paying membership had expired, and got an "access denied" message. I thought it was a shame to waste it. Off I go...
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 09 09
I'd always thought that once you got a blog you had a blog in perpetuity, and could continue to add to it, whether you were a paying member or not. That may have been right at one time, but it isn't now.
I wrote an update yesterday, a few hours after I'd had an email to tell me that my paying membership had expired, and got an "access denied" message. I thought it was a shame to waste it. Off I go...
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sadwings 
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No need to ever be sorry about the truth on anything, Lesley. Yeah, Dick Van Dyke was certainly a great entertainer. Like many other entertainers, he had the kind of talents that you just can't teach to people - but I guess mastering the Cockney accent was evidently not one of them! :-p Reply #6021. Jan 22 18, 11:26 PM |
terraorca
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Kevin, Sometimes the truth can be too brutal for people. Mark Reply #6022. Jan 23 18, 12:46 AM |
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Got a newsflash for ya, Mark - I'm not one of those people. Bring it. Reply #6023. Jan 23 18, 1:25 AM |
lesley153
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Reply #6024. Jan 23 18, 7:48 PM |
postcards2go
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I had a conversation with someone in England, about 10 years ago. She wondered what we did about all the bears we kept running into. We should all (on both sides of the pond) probably stop watching movies LOL Reply #6025. Jan 23 18, 8:15 PM |
| terraorca
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I meant nothing personal Kevin! Reply #6026. Jan 23 18, 8:47 PM |
| sadwings
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No biggie, Mark. Yeah, Postie, you said it with the thing about watching too many movies. I guess I have evidently taken too much stuff for granted with all the movies I've watched all my life. Even so, there is still nothing more I would rather do than to be able to visit some huge castle in the UK and just be allowed to go around talking loudly in what I'm sure would be a horrible English accent so that my voice was just booming and echoing all over the place along with all these dramatic arm movements and all that, and I could pretend I was Richard Burton in a Shakespeare play or something. :-p Man, I could have the time of my life with that! :-) Reply #6027. Jan 23 18, 10:30 PM |
| sadwings
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They could even call it Redneck Romeo and make a TV show out of it over there! :-) Reply #6028. Jan 24 18, 5:36 AM |
| lesley153
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Reply #6029. Jan 24 18, 7:04 PM |
| sadwings
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Yes, I do believe we have a deal. :-) Now if I just had a magic carpet or something! I have been saying "spelt" and "learnt" for many years. There are so many words that people say or spell the wrong way over here in Redneck Land. There are tons of well-known celebreties who are in the public spotlight just about every day who are not capable of saying the word "nuclear" correctly if their lives depended on it. They say "nucular". One of my favorites is when people say "pacifically" instead of "specifically". You know, like they will say "I told him PACIFICALLY not to do that! " Whenever I hear somebody say something like that, I will say "Well, maybe you should try telling them Atlantically." I swear there is just no way I can keep myself from doing that! :-p You are making me want to write out our first episode of The Adventures of Redneck Romeo, lesley! I just changed the name of it. Hee hee! Would you believe I actually wanted to be a comedy writer more than anything in the world at one time? Shocking, I know. :-p Reply #6030. Jan 24 18, 11:53 PM |
| lesley153
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Reply #6031. Jan 25 18, 6:21 PM |
daver852
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I believe you are thinking of Noah Webster, the lexicographer who compiled the first American dictionary. A brilliant man, he recognized the British had butchered the English language, especially where spelling was concerned, sticking unnecessary vowels into words like "color" and "armor." He corrected the pronunciation of many words, such as "schedule" and "controversy," restoring a sense of dignity and propriety to the noble tongue of the Anglo-Saxon race. I have no idea why he prefered "gray" to "grey," but he was doubtlessly correct in his decision. Today, alas, the British have sunk even further into the mire of Europeanization, adopting the metric system, which has served no one well. Americans, on the other hand, while preserving traditional values, put a man on the moon. Reply #6032. Jan 25 18, 10:30 PM |
brm50diboll
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Nucular is a mispronunciation which long predates George W Bush, although I'll admit it was disconcerting to hear a President of the US pronounce that word that way. Other mispronunciations which grate at me include vee-hick-el for vehicle and am-byoo-lance (stress on the "lance") for ambulance. And ax for ask. Don't ax me why. Reply #6033. Jan 25 18, 10:58 PM |
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There was a time a number of years ago when David Letterman was really having quite a field day with the term "ax". He would just be casually talking to Paul, his side kick guy, and he'd be saying stuff like "I axed him about this and axed him about that." Man, I really got a kick out of that! Yes, it was indeed quite disconcerting to hear an American President say "nucular". I have heard world news anchor people say that, one of my college teachers - a retired rocket scientist - said "nucular" quite often, as well as countless people in the American spotlight. Michelle Obama is one of the jillions of people who say "I could care less" instead of the obviously proper " I couldn't care less." All of that stuff has always been really nothing more than a casual amusement to me, but what really peeves me is when people say "hisself" and "supposably". Those two really get under my skin for some reason. Actually, lesley, I really would need a magic carpet. That or a really large amount of money to just fall in my lap right out of the clear blue. Those big silver birds come with a big silver price tag that I just simply could not ever afford. I live a pretty modest existence on a disability check. A lot of people around here already know this, but I don't believe I have ever mentioned it to you. I went and got myself paralyzed from the waist down in '91 in a little auto mishap, so I am confined to a chair, to explain the thing with the disability check. That, in turn, brings up the fact that I have certain medical issues going on that really just makes the idea of travelling a very bad idea for me in my particular situation. Thanks for the thought, though, that is very sporty and very neighborly of you to be that nice and that adventurous Even so, it is still always fun to dream. ;-) So you are excited about the idea of me writing an Adventures of Redneck Romeo episode, ay, lesley? Hee hee! How sweet of you. Actually, if I really were going to do something like that for real, I would need to do a lot of reasearch into Shakespeare's work, which I know so very little about. Even then, it would only be amusing to those who were already familiar with certain portions of the dialogue from his plays. Looking at the whole idea realistically, I believe Shakespeare's work might be a little too classy and sophisticated for some American hillbilly like myself to toy around with! :-p When you asked me "Did you try it?", did you mean did I try writing comedy professionally? I have unfortunately never been graced with the opportunity to do that on a professional level, but I have absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever that I would be able to do it. I just enjoy the life that I have been given and try to make the best of the cards that I have been dealt, and I just chalk things like that up on my list of fun little dreams. ;-) Reply #6034. Jan 26 18, 5:55 AM |
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Reply #6035. Jan 26 18, 3:40 PM |
| sadwings
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Hmm....well, I started a blog a while back called Thank God For Buddy Holly and I honestly feel that it had a lot of very amusing and entertaining things in it, but most of it never really got any kind of reaction to speak of. There were never really that many people who posted on it to begin with and now it has just about died out. I know there is an audience for me and what I have to offer out there somewhere, I am just sorry to say that that audience is evidently not here on this website. No big deal, I still have a good time here. :-) Reply #6036. Jan 27 18, 4:05 AM |
| sadwings
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Okay, Lesley, I'm going to do an impression for you and let's see if you can guess who it is. Ahem....... ...We shall fight in France....we shall fight on the seas and oceans...we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our honor, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds....we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets....we shall fight in the hills....we shall neva surrenda! Hmm? Heh? Pretty good impression, ay? :-) Reply #6037. Jan 27 18, 7:02 AM |
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Reply #6038. Jan 27 18, 8:03 PM |
| sadwings
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I copy-catted that like a big ol' copy cat! Hee hee! That little piece from Mr. Churchill is the very beginning of a video from the almighty Iron Maiden (all hail) called Aces High. The song is about the heart-pounding exhilaration of dogfighting, and the video contains lots of actual dogfighting footage from what I am assuming is the actual Battle of Britain. You should check that thing out sometime, Lesley. You can always turn the volume down, although what Dave Murray - the blonde guitarist - does with his guitar on that song is just phenomenal. You know, the very spirit of heavy metal music is the very same element that has made your awesome nation such a powerful entity in the world for all these centuries. The music itself has not been around all that time, of course, but the spirit behind it certainly has indeed. Just a little something to think about. :-) Reply #6039. Jan 28 18, 2:43 AM |
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Woops. Guess I must have frightened everyone away again. :-( Where did you go, Lesley, I was having a lot of fun chatting with you. :-) Reply #6040. Feb 09 18, 1:12 PM |
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