I love it! wow after 10 days... that's more successful than a lot of marriages, mine only lasted 2 years and I woke up the morning after my wedding and said OMG what have I done??????
With out a doubt the Scottish... there's even a book called where in the world would the world be without the Scots? These are only about half of the inventions I found!
Adhesive postage stamps These were invented by Scot James Chalmers. Anaesthetics Antisepsis Artificial Diamonds In the mid 19th Century, a Scottish scientist managed to produce some tiny artificial diamonds by a secret process that has never been duplicated.
Agricultural Reaping Machine
Latent Heat Joseph Black (1728 - 1799) Chemist. Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry in Glasgow University (1756) and then Professor of Medicine and Chemistry in Edinburgh (1766). Developed the concept of "Latent Heat" and discovered Carbon Dioxide ("Fixed Air"). Regarded as the Father of Quantitative Chemistry.
Brownian Movement Botanist Robert Brown observed small specks of pollen suspended in a liquid were continually dancing around in a haphazard way. He correctly surmised that they were being pushed around by the molecules of the liquid which were themselves too tiny to see. In time his discovery contributed to the development of the Quantum Theory.
Buicks
Pneumatic Tyres John Boyd Dunlop patented his pneumatic tyre in 1888. He was a vetinary surgeon, but his interest in inventions led him to develop the tyres for his son's bicycle. He lived long enough to see his invention become the foundation for a huge industry around the world.
Chemical Bonds Alexander Crum Brown (1838 - 1922) was born in Edinburgh. After studying in London and Leipzig, he returned to the University of Edinburgh in 1863. He held the chair of Chemistry, which now bears his name, until his death. He devised the system of representing chemical compounds in diagrammatic form, with connecting lines representing bonds.
Cure for scurvy The first person to publish the idea that consuming citrus fruits would prevent scurvy, then a plague on board sailing ships, was an Edinburgh man.
Decimal Point
Encyclopedia Britannica
Fax Machines
First cloned mammal Dolly the sheep, in Edinburgh, 1997
Golf If you go to Edinburgh, be sure to have a dram at the 15th Century Golf Tavern near an ancient but now vanished golfcourse.
Halloween Americans think they invented it. Certainly, they commercialized the hell out of it, and pushed down our throats. What used to be a quaint and charming way of getting pocket money to buy fireworks for the 5th of November has turned into a mass-marketing of bite-sized snickers bars.
I'm cynical about romance... if he had had time to think up that line I would have laughed in his face... the fact that it was spontaneous makes all the difference in the world.
Oh god I'm so frickin' lovey dovey tonight anyone with diabetes should stay away from this thread!!!
It's funny 'cause we had this discussion earlier and I was going on about how I think movies and fairy tales give us a messed up perspective of love and here I am getting all frickin' moony and goofy over a date with a man I haven't seen face to face. If anyone had told me I would feel this way a month ago, I would have bet them any amount of money I wouldn't.
I'm actually starting to disgust myself...
To anyone actually reading all this crap... forgive me
YES! There are nights that I get involved in so many threads... and am searching for where I posted to see what replys had been added and and and .... I get so confused and then think I'm talking to much, which I probably am, but the wind has messed up the signal on my cable and I've read all the books in the house and there is nothing else to do, so I keep posting and reading and posting and reading and....
I've only been on the site for a couple of months and have met some wonderful people and have started developing friendships with several who I would love to meet. It hasn't taken the place of real life but has added another dimension to it! So my recommendation is get involved in the forums... lots of great people!!!
For those of you who have read my posts and threads in the past you probably get the fact that I'm not really a romantic, and quite a practical girl when it comes to relationships. Well this practical girl has been knocked off her feet! I'm going to meet a man that I have been talking to for over 2 months on Friday.
My original flight was supposed to get me there about 7pm which worked out great because he works until 5 and would be able to pick me up. Well that flight got canceled and now I'm arriving at 3pm. I called to let him know of the change and that I would be happy to entertain myself and meet him somewhere when he got off work. His reply was that no he would pick me up... he would just have to tell his boss that "the boats can wait... but heaven can't". If I heard that line in a movie I would gag, but the fact that it was a spontaneous response... well I can't think of anything more romantic and I'm feeling like a giddy school girl. Add to this that he's cooking for me... marinated roast lamb (my favorite) and has chosen a fantastic red wine to go with it and that he hopes I like champagne... I'm beginning to believe in romance...
Ok, I think we just hit on your problem... it's all about YOU!!!! For starters you never referred to yourself in the thread you posted but seemed to thing all the replys were about YOU, this post was directed to me but again you thought it was about YOU!!! Are YOU starting to see a pattern here?
I don't know if you do or not... to be honest your picture looks a bit stiff, you're not showing much of your personality... the guy I'm interested in and contacted because of his picture is on my profile page... I think you'll see the difference. Have somebody take some candid shots when you're having fun, show who you are...
Well to be honest I can appreciate looking at a really good looking guy just a I appreciate looking at a beautiful woman... but that's not what turns me on. I look for character in a face, something that makes the man interesting, I have never been attracted to pretty boys, I prefer meat and potatoes to dessert!
Will meeting him friday... if he is anything like he sounds on the phone, emails, etc, then he fits all the requirements, and cooks too! now just have to see if we have za za zoom...
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and jump right in!
how to keep a man... inflate his ego 'till he can't get out the door! 
Do you believe in Romance... what does it mean to you?
I can tell by your new picture... very romantic looking!!!