RainbowSlider Forum Posts (7,174)

RE: Where's the beef?

Hey, there was no one to tell me anything different. Hmmm, you have a point.

RE: Where's the beef?

You then must be truly gifted. I applaud your conversational skills.

RE: Where's the beef?

You just can't talk to some people, jeez, lol.

RE: What is The Art of Deception?

The problem with deceiving another is that you eventually deceive yourself as well. I used to get caught in my own lies before I went to rehab. I had lied to myself so good and for so long that I began to believe the lie myself. Honesty for me had to be relearned. I had to be reprogrammed so to speak because a lot of my data from past experiences, beliefs and partial truths or half lies had decieved me. I could not rely on my own judgement. I had to rely on the judgement on my counselors, my fellow addicts/alcoholics and the merciful alanons who helped to believe in myself again.

RE: What is The Art of Deception?

Great point. It is not what we say but what we don't say. There was a television show about that. There is truth and there is truth without omission. The courts call this the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In the words of Joe Friday who was a police officer on Dragnet, the tv series, "Just the facts, mam."

Was anyone else born with a mother?

I guess I should not complain my dad was a real mother ******, lol.

Was anyone else born with a mother?

You have a point. Of course, the reson I was born was because someone got bald, lol.

Was anyone else born with a mother?

Oh, I hear that, lol. They say you can really never go home. It seems different after you leave the nest and strike out on your own.

Roy

Was anyone else born with a mother?

I can identify with that. Unfortunately, when the kids were growing up my ex's mother was different than mine. We were constantly throwing each other's mother up. My complaint was her mother was interfering and her complaint was that mine never came by. It was extreme points of view. Opposites might attract but that doesn't mean they will always get along.

Roy

Was anyone else born with a mother?

My mom is getting to be my best friend. I gave her a hug before I left. My younger sister is a bigger pain to her than I am so that is one consolation, lol. There are nine of us.

Was anyone else born with a mother?

Thanks friends I was feeling like I was the only one going through this torment, lol.

Was anyone else born with a mother?

What makes them that way? Why do they pick on your hair? Is there a cure, lol? Just got back from my mother's house. Won't you do something with your hair? I have thin hair. I told her it was her fault. She says it wasn't it was your father's fault you have thin hair. Then she gave ten dollars to go get a hair cut.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

You will always be a nine in my book, Pluto. I don't care what they say.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

Astronomers: Pluto just a dwarf
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Astronomers gave Pluto the Mickey Mouse treatment Thursday, classifying the world a "dwarf" rather than a full-fledged planet.
Like its cartoon counterpart, the celestial body became a sidekick when the International Astronomical Union meeting in Prague took a hand vote and decided to downsize the solar system to eight planets.
"Pluto is still Pluto; it is still the same scientifically interesting object at the edge of the solar system," says astronomer Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the IAU's planet definition committee. "Science has advanced to the point where we realize there are lots of Plutos out there."

Last year's announcement that a world larger than Pluto had been detected — named UB313 and nicknamed "Xena" by discovery team head Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology — put pressure on the IAU to redefine planets, says planetary scientist Will Grundy of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Over the last decade, some science museums and astronomers had removed tiny Pluto, which is smaller than Earth's moon, from the list of planets.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

We love ya Fluffy. Welcome to the solar system.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

I still think Fluffy sounds better.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

HAT-P-1 orbits one of a pair of stars in the constellation Lacerta, about 450 light-years from Earth.

"This new planet, if you could imagine putting it in a cosmic water glass, it would float," said Robert Noyes, a research astrophysicist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The planet, a gas giant, is probably a puffed up ball of hydrogen and helium.

HAT-P-1 is an oddball planet, since it orbits its parent star at just one-twentieth of the distance that separates Earth from our own sun. While Earth takes a year to orbit the sun, the newly found planet whips around its star once every 4.5 days.

Astronomers believe HAT-P-1 may belong to an entirely new class of planets, along with a second, smaller distant world that's also puffier than theories would have predicted, Noyes said.

Astronomers used a network of telescopes in Arizona and Hawaii to discover the planet. Its parent star is too faint to see with the naked eye but can be spied with binoculars.


Now they are even making fun of the new planet and calling it an oddball. They haven't even been there.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

I meant Puffy, lol.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

The largest planet ever found orbiting another star is so puffy it would float on water, astronomers said Thursday. The newly discovered planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is both the largest and least dense of the nearly 200 worlds astronomers have found outside our own solar system.

What the heck was wrong with just naming it Fluffy? I think Fluffy is a great name for a planet.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

Yeah, they just take away your name and give you a number. Its not fair, Pluto has had a name since I was a kid. Next they will just giving the other planets numbers. Where does it end? What number will they give earth?

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

Pluto is Now Just a Number: 134340

The New Mexico State University is protesting the change. There are signs like, "Protest for Pluto" and "Size Doesn't Matter". On Sept. 7, the former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the official organization responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.Pluto's companion satellites, Charon, Nix and Hydra are considered part of the same system and will not be assigned separate asteroid numbers, said MPC director emeritus Brian Marsden. Instead, they will be called 134340 I, II and III, respectively.

RE: The Nagging Wife

RE: Carrots, Eggs, Coffee

Thanks for sharing. A good reflection. :)

RE: Guys, For The Next Time You Drive...

Plus the finger given may be all she needs for a target. My sister was a crack shot. She could hit a penny laying down on a fence post nintey feet away with a twenty two rifle. I am just glad that she was a good shot when I was in an outhouse and she was shooting at the latch. I was in the right place because she scared the **** out of me.

Campfire by the river

I always wanted to see the Saint Lawrence River. I hope you get to experience the feeling.

RE: Why are we boring?

Now I miss my Drake 2C receiver. I would love to get the digital version even though watching the old tubes light up was awesome. With the old Kenwood shortwave which had a venier drive it had to have a huge antenna and then you had to remember to unplug it if it was lightning outside.

RE: Why are we boring?

I think the BBC is one of the best thing that happened to shortwave radio. I love that, "This is London" introduction. You can hear Big Ben in the background.

Campfire by the river

Whoops, lol. Well there are a lot more fish in the river, lol. A cat came by checking out the fish I had on a stringer. I found some minnows and gave the minnows to the cat.

RE: Cyber friends anyone???

This is sure a great place to get lost in.