Post #234,936
11/18/05 5:17:26 PM
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Our local easy listening station
started playing xmas music 24/7 on Nov. 1st. That's 1320 straight hours of xmas music- at roughly 15 songs per hour, we're talking 19,800 songs. They play the same stinking songs over and over. It's mind numbing. How is hearing "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" 5x a day supposed to put me in the holiday spirit? It makes me want to shoot myself.
Best Christmas music ever, IMO, is by the Trans-siberian Orchestra
[link|http://www.trans-siberian.com/intro.html|http://www.trans-siberian.com/intro.html].
It gives me chills. I would have no problem listening to their music 24/7.
Follow your MOUSE
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Post #235,015
11/18/05 11:30:57 PM
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My new neighbor put up his xmas lites *before* Halloween..
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No new taxes.
--George H. W. Bush
We don't torture.
--George W. Bush
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Post #235,090
11/19/05 10:32:37 AM
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That is so wrong.
Maybe he didnt want to have to string the lights in the cold.
Follow your MOUSE
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Post #235,096
11/19/05 10:49:31 AM
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We have a neighbor like that
[link|http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Springdale+Rd+%26+Morris+Dr,+Cherry+Hill,+NJ+08003&spn=0.004444,0.011497&t=h&iwloc=A&hl=en|http://maps.google.c...t=h&iwloc=A&hl=en]
Note: Not that I know them.
They are a neighbor in the fact they own an huge mansion that borders on the development where I live. They own several car dealerships in the area.
A woman I worked with (about 12 years ago) lived right behind them when the house was built. She baked a batch of cookies and welcomed them to the neighborhood. Got a tour of the house.
Checkout the plot of land in the lower center of the link. You will see a huge driveway leading to the house, which is lined with trees.
These trees have sparkling white lights. I assume they are always there, they just turn them on at a certain point in the year, as of now.
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Post #235,100
11/19/05 11:00:48 AM
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Interesting. What's the oval track south of there?
It looks like it's got a couple of cars on it, but there's no stands for spectators. It seems to be on a farm too.
Someone's private race track? <envy type="green">
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #235,108
11/19/05 11:18:03 AM
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Yup. Farm
Usually see cows in the field.
The little shopping center (upper left from the oval) was a little Farm / Ice cream shop when I was growing up. Still have a bit of the farm left.
It was a forbidden destination for me to bike to since it was outside of the development. Nothing tastes better than forbidden fruit (or ice cream).
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Post #235,130
11/19/05 1:38:39 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #235129 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=235129|ICLRPD]
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
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Post #235,213
11/20/05 11:04:51 AM
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well I will be stringing lights soon, once
may add one or two next year. Why take them down?
thanx,
bill
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Post #235,280
11/21/05 2:59:38 AM
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lights went up today...
along with at least three other houses in the neighbourhood. There was a break in the rain. Put the lights up while the sun shines as they say.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #236,902
12/2/05 8:29:01 PM
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Christmas lights project for you
[link|http://media.putfile.com/WizardsofWinter-SM|Wizards of Winter]
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #236,905
12/2/05 8:50:59 PM
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Ha! Beat ya to it :-D
[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=235737|Read and weep.] (tears of mirth...responses are quite funny)
Peace,
Amy
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
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Post #236,947
12/3/05 2:52:27 PM
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hmph
"wizzards" indeed, no wonder it didn't come up on a search...
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #236,952
12/3/05 6:07:05 PM
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That was the way it was forwarded to me. :-/
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
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Post #236,977
12/4/05 4:54:46 AM
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Wizzard is a word, too
At least, if Terry Pratchett coins/uses it: I hear and obey.
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Post #237,092
12/5/05 2:03:25 PM
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Actually, its the name of a 70's rock band
[link|http://www.themoveonline.com/biogs_roy.html|...founded by Roy Wood.]
In any other context, its a typo...
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #237,126
12/5/05 9:43:12 PM
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I am with Ashton on this one
If we're talking about what is written on Rincewind's hat, then Wizzard is not a typo.
However Pratchett's choice of spelling was intended to convey Rincewind's general incompetence.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #237,157
12/6/05 10:04:46 AM
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I stand corrected
(for this context only).
jb4
shrub●bish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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