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Time for Aussies to lose 'bogan' chant?
- From: The Courier-Mail
- October 26, 2010
COURIER Mail writer Rory Gibson believes the world and Australia would be a better place if we were to stop using the chant: "Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi".
IF I ever find a receptacle with a genie in it who offers me three wishes in gratitude for being let out, I have no doubt my first request would be to erase from every Australian the desire to chant "Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi''.
I would keep a little loot for myself, for administrative purposes mainly, but also to travel the world watching great sporting events. Big item in my bucket list, that one.
But I would only really enjoy it if the genie could manage to achieve the first wish - ridding the planet of the most boring, irritating, cringe-making chant in the history of crowd noise.
So pervasive is this witless chorus, it was inflicted on the crowd in St Peter's Square at the Vatican last week by a bunch of Mary MacKillop yobs.
How utterly depressing that in a crowd made up of visitors from many nations gathered for a solemn ceremony, jingoistic bogans yet again show us up to be a country inhabited by ignorant boofheads.
If we spoke a language like Swedish or Polish that hardly anyone else speaks, fine.
Then we might be perceived as quaint because the majority of the world would not understand what the chanters were baying.
But we speak English, and so does most of the rest of the planet to some level of competence, so our lack of innovation in the barracking department is there for all to hear.
"Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi''? Is that all we've got?
Is that the best we can come up with?
It's not even ours. It is a variation of a British chant - oggie oggie oggie, oi oi oi.
An oggie is a slang word for a pastie, from the Cornish word "hoggan'', and the ``oggie oggie oggie'' chant is believed to derive from roving pastie sellers alerting workers to their presence.
A hungry labourer would hear the cry ``oggie oggie oggie'', respond with an ``oi'', and lunch was served.
It was a common chant at British soccer games, but they got bored with it, obviously because it is so inane, and also because Australians stole it.
You just have to listen to the humour and variety of the Barmy Army's songs, chants and wonderful insults to realise how bereft of intelligence we are as barrackers.
It's not just the puerile nature of the "Aussie Aussie Aussie'' chorus that grates, but also its relentless repetition.
A Melbourne couple, Greg and Diane Davies, registered the slogan as a trademark in 2004.
"Every time you hear it, I reckon it sounds great. But protecting it, that's the biggest thing,'' Greg Davies, who feared the words could be misappropriated by evil foreigners, said at the time.
"It's an Australian slogan and we just want to keep it for the Australian public, that's it.''
Please, Mr and Mrs Davies, please... if you still have control over this sound blight can you start charging for its use, or ban everyone from using it.
Sue anyone you hear yelling it out at the cricket, the footy or the Vatican.
About the same time that some dorks milling about at the Vatican thought they would let everyone there know that there were loud, obnoxious Australians in the crowd,
British public diplomacy expert Simon Anholt was in Australia for an international education conference.
Anholt runs an annual global survey gauging how countries are perceived by others, and his message for Australia is not good. We are seriously on the nose, dropping from a very high rating as a "welcoming'' country to being seen, in his words, as a "pariah state''.
Much of this stems from the attacks on Indian students in Melbourne over the past two years, with the fallout from the publicity spreading to countries including China, South Korea, Mexico and Brazil.
I reckon that inflicting "Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi'' on the world whenever we get the chance has worn out a lot of welcome too.
It's pathetic, and it is time to get rid of it.
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just the facts mame of melbourne Posted at 1:28 PM October 26, 2010
band a chant - well done - restrict ones freedom of speech under the title of image. Hmmmmm More government interference - it may not be your cup of tea but stop trying to mould us into your image...
Saxuka of Perth Posted at 1:24 PM October 26, 2010
You know what, I must be one of the Bogan Majority for saying this - But I love the chant.
Wolfy of Perth Posted at 1:23 PM October 26, 2010
Mindless cornball chant.


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Later that night, I went on-line and noticed that my deposit wasn't posted. I called B of A customer service and was told it will post the next morning. The next morning I checked, still no deposit credit nor anything pending.
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Each time I spoke or e-mailed with a B of A customer service rep I received conflicting info.
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Looks like a capitulation. Guessing DBSI decided to stop playing the waiting game but could be an endwaver waving the flag. Not sure. 2.6 is looking pretty good from here LOL. Glad I sold some there, wish it was more as I would be picking it back up here. Now its a waiting game. GLLs.
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Das Echo, D.990c (Schubert, Franz)
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Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894-95. Plate F.S. ?.
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|Alternative Title
|The Echo
|Schubert, Franz
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|B-flat major
|Year/Date of Composition
|1826? or 1826–28?
|First Publication
|1830 July – Vienna: T. Weigl
|Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781-1862)
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According to multiple reports, WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (31-1, 23KOs) will defend the title on April 2 against Italian former champion Giacobbe Fragomeni (27-3, 11KOs). The 41-year old Italian held the WBC title 2008-2009 but lost it to Zsolt Erdei. Site has yet to be announced. EU heavyweight champ Robert Helenius will also be on this bill in a featured bout.
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Council to set up commercial repairs and maintenance company
Residents and businesses of Bournemouth could benefit from the services of a council-owned building services company if given approval.
Members of Bournemouth Borough Council's cabinet will decide next week whether to go ahead with proposals to establish a trading company called, Bournemouth Building Maintenance Ltd, which would operate commercially in the private sector.
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GE Capital Retail Bank Care Credit stole my money and holding my cat's life hostage Orlando, Florida
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I have a Care Credit card which I use to pay veterinary bills. With this card there is a promotional period. If a charge is paid in full by the end of the promotional period (usually six months), there is no interest charged. If the charge is not paid by the end of the promotional period, there is a high interest rate of 26.99%.
On March 18 my cat became deathly ill. I took him to the vet, who advised me to take him immediately to an emergency hospital. We spent most of the day at the hospital where my cat had blood tests, radiographs, and an ultrasound, and was seen by both an emergency doctor and a cardiologist. Hours later, after my cat was stable enough to go home, I tried to pay the bill and discovered that my Care Credit account was maxed out.
The hospital staff graciously allowed me to sign a promissory note agreeing to pay the bill within five days. If not paid in that time, the agreement stated that they would turn over my account to a collection agency.
After going home and caring for my cat, I went to my bank's online site that same night, March 18, and transferred money from my savings account into my checking account, then used the online banking to order a payment sent to my Care Credit account. I sent the money to Care Credit instead of writing a check to the hospital, because I had promotional purchases from six months ago that were about to expire within the next month. I reasoned that it would be best to use the money from savings to pay off those promotional purchases before the high interest rate kicked in. Then with the payment credited to my account, I could use the card to pay the new emergency hospital bill, and have a new promotional period to pay off the new balance.
The bank site said the pay date (when my payment would be received) would be March 20, two days after I ordered it sent. That was fine, as I had five days to pay the hospital for the new charges.
On March 20 I logged into my bank site and confirmed that the payment to GE Capital Retail Bank had cleared. Then I logged into my Care Credit account. There I saw that the payment did indeed show up as having been received on March 20, and my current balance was well below my credit limit. However, it still showed that I had no available credit.
I checked again on March 21, the day after the payment was shown as being received. It still said I had no available credit. I called the number on my credit card and asked why, if they had received my payment the day before, I still could not use the card to pay my new vet bill. The agent acknowledged that they had received my payment but said even though they had received the money, it could take another 24-48 hours for it to be posted. I pointed out that it was already posted as having been received. If they received it, they should apply it to my account immediately. The agent said there was no way they could do that and I simply should wait another 24-48 hours.
I called the veterinary hospital and updated them on the situation. I gave them my card number over the phone and asked them to try to run it the next day, and if it didn't work to try again the day after that, and if it still didn't work, to call me.
On March 23, five days after I had used online banking to send the payment and three full days after GE Capital Retail Bank indicated they had received it, the hospital called me to say that they still were not able to charge my card for my cat's bill.
I went back to the GECRB/Care Credit site and checked my account. It still shows my payment as having been received March 20, my current balance well below my credit limit, and no available credit. I tried to contact customer service by phone and they were closed.
The five day period I agreed to in the promissory note is now up. The hospital can turn over the account to a collection agency at any time.
Meanwhile my cat is still sick. Since the emergency visit on March 20 I have called the hospital several times because he had another episode on the 22nd, and when I called the hospital about that episode the doctor phoned a new prescription to a pharmacy, and when I filled the prescription and gave him the medicine he had a bad reaction to it. I am very worried that if my cat has to go back to the hospital and I have not been able to pay the bill from his last visit, we will be turned away. This could easily cost my cat's life!
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Taylor Hall is spending his second straight summer rehabbing an injury that ended his season prematurely. But even with his busy schedule the talented winger still made time to coach at the All-State All-Canadian Mentorship Camp early this summer.
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We now see the problems of America.
Politics trumps action.
Politics trumps historical fact.
Politics is confused with leadership.
5 were killed yesterday and another 3 were taken prisoners (US accuses alqaeda, I thought we toppled the Talibans and defeated alqaeda late in 2001! What happened!)
Today we hear this:
Associated Press - May 14, 2007
Four US troops have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and south of the capital.
The US military says a fifth soldier died of non-combat related causes.
With that, at least 3,398 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war.
A roadside bomb near the southern city of Basra also killed one Danish soldier and wounded five.
Is the US administration going to start releasing quarterly earnings result on the Iraq war business venture? Let us hear some good news on a regular basis to balance the regular basis death toll bad news. Let us know how much profit was made in the latest quarter in Iraq. Heck, why not list the whole business venture on the stock exchange.
Keep Bailing, Bear. EVen moderate Republicans recognize the nonsense that is the Iraq Missadventure. Whatever missguided Conservative you are attempting to draw sustenance from aint helping you, your cause or the debacle that is the Iraq Missadventure. Wake up. Nearly nothing good is happening in Iraq. And the leadership, Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld have been a disaster there.
it has to do with the re-surfacing of the "Copperheads"...
London: An American soldier's graphic account of fighting in Iraq has won the "Lulu Blooker prize" for best book based on a blog.
Colby Buzzell's My War: Killing Time in Iraq is a spin from his blog, which he wrote from a frontline internet tent as a way to "kill time". He was then serving as a machine-gunner in Mosul.
The blog ran for just eight weeks before being shut down by the US military, but publishers offered Buzzell a book deal when he left the army in 2005.
"I would come back after missions, my ears still ringing from the firefight ...
In one entry titled Men in Black, Buzzell describes being ambushed by a man "dressed in all black, with a terrorist beard" shooting a machine gun at him.
"I heard and felt the bullets whizz literally inches from my head, hitting all around my hatch ...
And do pray tell Bear... What in hell does the current Iraq Missadventure have to do with "martyred Lincoln, the salvation of the Union and the destruction of slavery."
For 30 years after the war the Democrats carried the burden of having opposed the martyred Lincoln, the salvation of the Union and the destruction of slavery.
Bear... Didnt realize that you thought Iraq was a sessionist State. Lincoln knew better.
Isnt it time you started thinking through this Iraq mess instead of following your Conservative KnumbNutz into the Valley of Death.
alph,,good thing Lincoln didn't think like you
Stop with the revisionis Vietnam nonsense. Like this Mess in Iraq, you militarists fools have oversold your mantra. Iraq or more exactly Hussein was neutralized, years ago. These past 4 years have been a lesson in failure. Failure to impose our values of western democracy and compromise. American lives are being wasted. Ten years from now, fools like you will even realize this. But as with Vietnam, you will choose to argue the irrelevant.


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I called and spoke with Mrs. Jones (?) from this firm and informed her that she had no legal right to attempt to collect a bad debt that I did not incur, nor was I responsible for in any way, shape or form. My nephew is 25 years old and legally responsible for his own debts.
I sincerely doubt that my number will be removed, but I will process a complaint to the Attorney General in the State of New York about this harassment by MRS Associates in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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Carol Ann Duffy loves to provide new points of view on old stories. Her collection The World's Wife features a bunch of dramatic monologues from the point of view of historical and fictional women. In "Anne Hathaway," she writes in the voice of Shakespeare's wife. In "Mrs. Darwin," she speaks of Darwin's theory of evolution from his wife's point of view. Duffy loves to get in the minds of women who have been neglected by history (literary and otherwise) and give them a chance to speak for themselves. "Havisham" is one of her first poems to do so, and we think that she's been pretty darn successful so far.


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Northeast Georgia History Center
Gainesville, GA 30501
The Northeast Georgia History Center at Brenau University is a not-for-profit institution dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the region.
Permanent exhibits include:
The Land of Promise ~ An exhibit that tells personal stories of those who have lived in northeast Georgia and serves as a reminder that our land is a land of promise for everyone.
Northeast Georgia Sports Hall of Fame ~ A pictorial tribute to those from northeast Georgia who have achieved national recognition in sports.
Cherokee Chief Whitepath's Cabin ~ Here is an opportunity to see what home life was like for Cherokee Indians.
Other exhibits include "Adventures of Mark Trail," "An American Freedom Garden," "Folk Pottery," " A City Laid Waste" and a "Blacksmith Shop." Temporary exhibits, which change regularly, are also featured.
The Northeast Georgia History Center serves as a unique and popular field trip destination and has available resources for educators to check out for classroom use.
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The Treaty of New Echota, ratified by the US Senate in 1836, sealed the fate of the Cherokee in Georgia – enabling the process that began with the Removal Act and that ended with the infamous Trail. Though recognized by the United States, the Treaty was negotiated and signed by a minority faction of Cherokee leadership – leading to internal conflict among the Cherokee themselves which only made the Trail of Tears more bitter.
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The most famous face in daytime drama history, Susan Lucci has held audiences spellbound for years as Erica Kane on ABC-TV's All My Children—the sexy, sassy, beautiful "woman you love to hate." Now, in this long awaited autobiography, she holds readers captive as the feisty, funny, authentic "woman you love to love." In the tradition of Julie Andrews' Home, Jane Fonda's My Life So Far, Barbara Walters' Audition, and other enthralling autobiographies from female icons of our time, the award-winning soap opera star's memoir of a life in the spotlight is sure to inspire, uplift, charm and surprise readers as they finally get to know the Susan Lucci her friends, family and colleagues love and know.
When Susan Lucci and All My Children were introduced to the world in 1971, American television changed forever. Susan's character, the beautiful, spirited, and mercurial Erica Kane, was an original. But while millions have enjoyed getting to know Erica's many sides, the woman who plays her has remained a mystery.
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The parson was changing the sign in front of the church. He'd completed one side which read: "Inside every senior citizen there's a child yelling, 'What happened?'" Now he'd moved to the other side. He placed three numbers on that side: "143."
A car pulled into the church parking lot. Rodney Swenson, the associate pastor at the Church of the Called-to-Redemption-and-Generous Giving, was driving. "Hey, Parson, is that a message from God or a message from you to your girl friend?'
"Either way," the parson said, "it's a powerful message."
"Got a minute?" asked Rodney.
"Sure," said the parson. "You want to come inside a to talk?'
"No, sir. I just need to ask you for some pastoral advice."
"What's that?" asked the parson.
"Well, I'm sure you heard about Jeff Smith, the little toddler who was killed in that horrible accident. Most of the members of the family are in our church. For some reason they seem to be reaching out to me. And I have to tell you the truth, Parson, I don't know what to tell them. It's a senseless tragedy."
The parson placed his arm on Rodney's. "Listen, Rodney, there are no answers to give them. There's no explanation you can provide. But you don't need to do either. Here's the thing, Rodney, what you need to do is be with that family. You don't, necessarily, need to say a thing. What you need to do is be with them. Listen to me, Rodney, being a pastor is not providing answers, being a pastor is not making people feel better. Being a pastor is being present. Just be with then, Rodney. Be with them.
The parson was enjoying the solitude of a quiet breakfast in the back corner of his favorite restaurant. Ellen, the competent server, was attending to his every need. The eggs had been consumed, the grits devoured, the bacon savored, the toast with grape jelly relished. And now the parson sat sipping his decaf as he looked over the notes he'd made for the coming Sunday.
The parson was interrupted. It was a surprise to see the church superior standing next to the table. "Hello, Parson," said church superior, "can I join you?"
The parson motioned for the church superior to sit across from him. He made a motion for Ellen to come over. She took church superior's order. The parson contemplated what to say. Truth be told, the parson was not that fond of church superior. But he was church superior, and so the parson waited patiently to discover why church superior had plopped himself into the booth opposite the parson.
"Parson, do you know Henry Sullivan?" asked church superior.
"I do," said the parson. "He's serving the Quiet Church In the Valley Beside the Gentle Flowing Stream."
"He is," said church superior. "And I have a problem."
"What's that?" asked the parson.
"Okay, Parson, we've decided we want to move Henry. He's a great servant, but we need someone more dynamic in that church, someone who can attract people to the church, someone who can build the congregation into something it's not now. Do you understand what I mean?"
"I have no idea what you mean," said the parson. "I gave up trying to figure out what you guys on the bishop's cabinet are trying to do back in 1994."
"Look, Parson. We need to move Henry out of his church so we can move a more dynamic preacher in. Someone who will attract a bigger attendance. But when I brought this up with the local congregation they didn't just resist; they down right rebelled. I don't understand it. Henry couldn't preach his way out of a wet paper bag, but those people are being defiant."
The parson smiled. Ellen arrived at the table with church superior's order. The parson watched him as he dug into the scrambled eggs.
"You know," the parson said to church superior, "my son is the artistic director of a world renowned dance company."
"I knew that," said church superior.
"Well, let me tell you something about that dance company," the parson said.
"And this has what to do with Henry Sullivan?"
"Look," said the parson, "you're the one who interrupted my solitude. So I'll tell the story in my own way."
Church superior nodded assent.
"So, over the years I've had the opportunity to watch more than a few dancers come and go with the Pilobolus Dance Theater. Some have been good; some have been great; some have been down right exceptional. But of all the dancers I've seen with that dance company, two - obviously excepting my son - have stood out. One was Rebecca Anderson. She's retired and doesn't dance with Pilobolus anymore. The other is Jordan Kriston. Now, here's the thing. Every dancer with Pilobolus is an exceptional dancer. They couldn't dance with that company without being so. But, there's a difference.
"I go to a theater and watch a performance of Pilobolus. I can sit on the fifth row from the stage, or the ninth, or the twentieth. And it doesn't matter where I'm sitting when Jordan Kriston is dancing. She doesn't just perform; she is dancing with me. She sucks me into the performance. She makes me part of the story.
"And that's your challenge with Henry Sullivan," said the parson to church superior. "Henry Sullivan isn't just preaching. He's bringing them into the adventure, making them part of the story. So, you'd better recognize that you're not going to be able to replace Henry Sullivan.
"You know what," the parson said to church superior, "Jordan Kriston is going to be dancing in Chattanooga on April 18th. You should buy a ticket. Then you might understand."
Charlie Brown's vet, Dr. Keri Hogan-Stevens, posted a tribute to him on her Facebook page. Here's the post:
I have known a countless number of dogs in my life. They come in and out of the clinic, wag their tails, bark in excitement, sometimes nip a little but then they are gone and I'll see them again at their 6 month check up. Charlie Brown was different. He was a dog among dogs. A stray that wandered into the life of a dear man who happened to be a pastor at a church. Well Charlie immediately became the co-pastor of the church. Charlie attended every sunday service and if a congregant didn't like it, well they were welcome to leave. Charlie made his rounds and when Pastor Kent had to tend to a sick congregant or leave town to visit the sick in the hospital, Charlie would day board with us. He would enter on his own accord circle around the front desk and greet me with his head plopped in my lap. He was a friend to all and always in a good mood. Over the past ten years, i have seen Charlie almost once a week. he was literally part of Calhoun Pet Care. Over the past few years, he was obviously slowing down. Today, his 70 pound body barely able to walk into the clinic visited us. Today we said goodbye to one of the most precious honest sincere souls ever placed on this earth. He will be greatly missed by many, many people. He was truly one of a kind. you were a good man charlie brown.
Rest in Peace, Charlie Brown. Tell Ms. Parson I'm behaving
The parson worked hard. He deserved it. He'd worked hard all day. It was only Thursday and everything was prepared for the Sunday worship service. In addition, the front yard had been cut and the leaves raked up.
For some reason he decided to watch the Republican Presidential debate. In fact, he decided to bore himself so much he watched the Junior Varsity version of the debates also.
When the debates were over, the parson headed to the bedroom. He prepared himself for bed and then laid his head down and with a deep sigh fell almost immediately asleep. Then the parson dreamed.
In the parson's dream, there was another presidential debate. For some reason, in the parson's dream the debate had candidates from both parties, including the Republican JV team on the stage. There they were, each standing behind their non-descript podium, smiling for the cameras and hoping the next question would be directed toward them.
Before the candidates sat the questioners. There were three of them. Mr. Smile, Ms. Charming, and Mr. Well-Dressed.
The debate began with a question from Mr. Smile. The question was, "Senator What's-Your-Name, in regard to the question of entitlements, Social Security, aid to families with dependent children, and such, which take up such a large percentage of our federal budget, how would you address these issues if elected President of the United States."
Senator What's-Your-Name began his answer. He started talking. The parson rolled over in his sleep, moaning as he did so. Charlie Brown, the parson's faithful canine companion, sleeping in his bed next to the parson's, grunted in protest that his sleep had been interrupted. The parson's dream continued.
Senator's What's-Your-Name completed his answer. The next question came from Ms. Charming. She said, "Senator What's-Your-Name, my fellow journalist, Mr. Smile, just asked you a question. You didn't answer the question. You danced around it. I'd like to invite you to actually answer the question. The question was: "Senator What's-Your-Name, in regard to the question of entitlements, Social Security, aid to families with dependent children, and such, which take up such a large percentage of our federal budget, how would you address these issues if elected President of the United States."
Senator What's-Your-Name seemed stunned. He quickly began to talk. And he talked. And he talked.
The parson rolled over again under his covers. He snorted a bit. This time Charlie Brown, his faithful canine companion sleeping on his bed beside the parson's, did not protest as he was now in a deep, deep sleep.
The dream continued. Now it was the third journalist's, Mr. Well-Dressed, turn to ask a question. Mr. Well-Dressed said, "Senator What's-Your-Name, two of my fellow panelist tonight have asked you a question. You didn't answer either of their questions. That's kind of amazing as the question of each was the same. I wonder if you'd be willing to answer a question for me. The question is: "Senator What's-Your-Name, in regard to the question of entitlements, Social Security, aid to families with dependent children, and such, which take up such a large percentage of our federal budget, how would you address these issues if elected President of the United States."
Senator What's-Your-Name stuttered. Senator What's-His-Name shuffled his feet. Senator's What's-His-Name took a deep breath .....
The parson woke. He rose. He pulled himself out of the bed. For a moment his mind was confused. Charlie Brown, his faithful canine companion, rose from his bed, walked over to the parson, head butted him as was his morning custom. The parson patted his head and said, "I really had a weird dream, Charlie Brown, a really weird dream."
The parson pushed the plate that recently hosted two eggs over easy, two sausage patties, and a heaping helping of grits that had been host to a small pond of butter. The plate was now almost clean, having been wiped free of the yolk, crumbs, and bits of grits with the remaining toast.
Wanda, the server who was used to the parson's habits, immediately appeared and filled the coffee cup with decaf, removed the plate, and leaned over to see the title of the book the parson was reading. "Theology Without Borders, An Introduction to Global Conversations," she said. "Parson, I don't have a clue about all this stuff you read."
The parson smiled, "Wanda, I'm just trying to look more intellectual than I am." Then the parson smiled even more. Over Wanda's shoulder he saw Cecil Turner, the lay leader at a nearby church, walking in the door.
Cecil spied the parson and headed toward him. "Parson, good to see you. How are things going."
"Things are going really well, Cecil," said the parson. "I'm sure they're going well for you, also." The parson felt a pang of guilt because Cecil did not know how the parson knew that things were going really well for Cecil.
Wanda brought a cup of coffee to Cecil and he asked her for a doughnut to go with it. He talked to the parson about some community affairs and some needs in a transitional housing ministry both his church and the parson's were involved in.
Finally, the parson couldn't resist. Maybe Satan whispered into the parson's ear. Whatever the source of the temptation, the parson gave in and said, "Cecil, doesn't Alice Peters go to your church? How she's doing? I haven't seen her in months."
"She's doing okay I guess," said Cecil. "She's usually at church every Sunday."
The parson sipped a bit more coffee. He opened his mouth to say something. He was going to ask Cecil, a widower, if he was dating anyone. But the parson went back to his better self and said nothing. The parson listened to Cecil talk about this and that. The parson was conflicted. The parson was having difficulty concentrating on what Cecil was saying. The parson's mind was on the latest text Cecil had written.
A few days before Alice Peters had sent a group text to some people in the community. The text concerned a project to raise funds in support of some indigent children in the schools. The text had gone out to a couple dozen people. Cecil apparently didn't realize it was a group text. Cecil had replied to Alice that he would love to help. And then Cecil added that he really enjoyed the weekend he and Alice spent together. Cecil also made reference to some activities he and Alice had engaged in during that weekend. Cecil also had not realized his reply text had gone to everyone in Alice's group text.
The parson's consternation was interrupted when Bill Elder walked over to the table. "Hey, Cecil, how are you doing?" asked Bill. "You and Alice doing anything this weekend?"
The parson did his best to look innocent and ignorant.
My cousin, Jean, passed a couple of weeks ago. She was 88. To say she had a dry sense of humor would be an understatement. To say she had deep theological thoughts wouldn't do her justice. Here's an essay she wrote back in 1988.
An Essay of Heaven
I don't know that I want to go to heaven. I guess I'd have to listen to all those old songs I don't like - might even have to sing' em. Sometimes they say we'll recognize our loved ones. If we do, do you reckon my Mama will want me to sit by her side and be a good girl again? On the other hand, they say we'll have a different form and no earthly relationship will remain. If that's the case, it'll be like being lonely in a crowd and I don't like that.
Too, some people who are sure they are going to heaven are not among my favorites down here. If we don't know each other, that's no problem. But if we do, I'd sure hate to have to put up with them through eternity. Down in hell, I am told, will be a lot of my fun friends. I'd about rather laugh and stew with them than than try to please these "good" folks.
I'd love to see Jesus and have him put his hand on my head or whatever facsimile I have - and to see him smile and hear his voice. I wouldn't even mind if he fussed at me a little. Because, you see, I'm not very good. But I love Jesus and he loves me. He loves us all.
Wonder if he'd be willing to meet me somewhere else because I'm still not sure I want to go to heaven.
Jean Howard German
September 14, 1988
Knock. Knock.
The parson pulled his hands from the soapy water of the sink, where he was washing dishes, and, while wiping his hands on a drying cloth, made his way to the door.
"What's up?" he asked the teenage boy form across the street.
"Parson, can you help us?" asked the young man with obvious distress in his voice. "Mom was coming home from shopping and the puppy (their newly acquired ten-week-old rescue ) ran out to meet her. She didn't see him. She ran over him. She's really upset. And the dog's really hurting."
The parson headed across the street to his neighbor's house. She was in a ball crying. Newly divorced, on her own, trying to make it by working two jobs and supporting a teenage son, the puppy was her one indulgence, a warm body to curl up in her lap when she came home, a living being that offered love with no conditions.
Now the puppy lay in the shrubbery beside the driveway, yelping in pain, so much pain that when the familiar hand of the parson reached down he tried to bite. The parson covered his head with a cloth and looked at the injuries. Both back legs were broken, obviously. There was swelling in the lower portion of his underbelly.
The neighbor, as is the case with so many single mothers, was on a limited budget. The nearest twenty-four hour emergency facility was forty-five miles away, and, the parson knew, the charges were outrageous.
The parson called a staff member of a local vet clinic to get the number of the emergency facility and ask for advice. He explained the woman's limited financial abilities. He was referred to a local vet who offered twenty-four hour calls for emergencies. The parson called. The charges were $99 to come to the home and examine the animal. After that the vet would determine future charges.
The parson made arrangements to bring the puppy to the vet's local clinic. The parson knew what was the only outcome.
Arriving at the clinic, the neighbor let the vet examine her puppy in the back seat of the car. The vet, with care of lifting a newborn child, held the puppy to his chest, carried him into the clinic and began the examination.
Both back legs were broken. The left one was broken in several places. The puppy's bladder had most likely ruptured. There was internal bleeding. The blood pressure was dangerously low.
The doctor, call him Dr. Jay, with a compassion that is so lacking in so many of his profession looked at the parson's neighbor and gently, lovingly, told her the truth.
Five minutes later, Dr. Jay, after asking the neighbor to pet and talk to her puppy as he did what he had to do, injected the drug into the puppy's system.
Little Charlie, named after Charlie Brown, the parson's faithful canine companion, closed his eyes and fell asleep. He was in pain no more.
Little Charlie's mother is a single parent trying to make ends meet. The parson pulled out the church's credit card, handed it to the vet and said, "Charge the expenses on this."
The parson's neighbor will be mourning for a while. She'll miss Little Charlie. And she'll feel guilty.
The parson will talk to her, comfort her, and rejoice. The parson will rejoice that he pastors a church that allows him to unconditionally provide for the expenses of those in need. And he will rejoice that this community is the home of Dr. Jay, a vet who is willing to get up in the middle of the night to care for the puppies in need.


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On a day when the 51-year-old sent out his team under orders to make amends for their derby humiliation by Sunderland a fortnight ago, the Magpies slipped to their heaviest home defeat since 1925 as the Reds ran riot without the suspended Luis Suarez.
Pardew said: "Well I'm worried, of course. You can't come off a defeat like that and the manner it was without being worried.
"I'm not going to criticise my players, I'm not going to criticise the team in any shape or form on an individual basis.
"It was a collective effort and we fell down collectively."
Asked if he is confident he can drag the club out of a terrifying tail-spin,
Pardew said: "Yes, of course, and I think we have got enough in the dressing room to do that.
"We haven't become a bad staff or a bad set of players overnight. But we definitely need to roll our sleeves up and make sure we make a really good fist of these last three games."
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I have spoken with several reps on the phone and have been told on 3 seperate occassions that my $214.18 was being refunded or that there was a problem with them crediting my account. I have contactaed my bank and they have been no help.
I am on a limited income. I am recovering from a 2 strokes and found these people have taken food out of my mouth. I can not continue this stress or it will give me another stroke. Why can't they just return my money. I have also reported them to Verisign and next the BBB and to my governor and the newspapers and anyone else that will listen.
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text: Shotgun Radio Hollywood To know Greco and the innate electronic pulse that flows through him, you would assume he slid out of the womb straight into a warehouse of glow sticks and strobe lights. You would never imagine he learned his production skills on a farm in Tranquility, California, just outside of Fresno. Rumor has it that his first keyboard was made from kernels of corn. True or not, Greco's signature sound has since tattooed hundreds of songs. At age five, Greco Rossetti learned to play the drums, piano, saxophone and the guitar. In high school, he played percussion in the jazz band that toured the state, learning the ropes of life on the road, minus the sex and drugs part. Greco was born into a musical family. Greco's uncle was a famous mariachi singer in Mexico and his great grandparents were avid songwriters. Their folk band toured the U.S. through the late 1970's. In addition, his mother has been a dance instructor for over 40 years, hence Greco's conniptions on stage. (Editor's note: See a live Shotgun Radio show and try not being sore just watching him). Over the course of his musical youth, Greco became bored with traditional instruments and began learning the technical aspect of modern music. He bought his first 808 drum machine at thirteen years of age and started making beats for local hip-hop kids. While most kids collected baseball cards, Greco's home studio became a museum of vintage gear with such pieces as a Roland-juno 60, Moog source, etc. With influences such as Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, New Order and Nine Inch Nails, Greco became addicted to electronic music and formed the electro-pop band, Artistry alongside friends John Riley and Jason Delgado. With high hair in tow, they played numerous shows and eventually opened up for Prodigy and Moby. As the band's sound got heavier, so did their identity spawning the band to change their name to Reverse. Shortly thereafter, the band was signed to an independent record label in Los Angeles and put out an album before suddenly dismantling. With that, Greco was on pace to be potentially featured in a future episode of E! True Hollywood Story. In 1994, following his inner cruise control, Greco took the back roads to the highway, running out of gas in Los Angeles, California. He had outgrown the small pond complex and accepted the challenge of testing his gills in rough, unforgiving waters. Slamming the car door, these two worlds collided. Greco attended the Los Angeles Recording Workshop and, immediately after graduation, landed an assistant engineering job for Ice-T's Body Count album and was the keyboard programmer for Body Count's Ernie C Encounter. Also during this time, Greco worked on Michael Jackson's "History" album, edited for Ozzy Osbourne and Brazzaville, performed at a Super Bowl halftime show with Diana Ross and played keyboards for Laurie Kranz at a party for the film, "54" at Studio 54 in New York City. All the while, Greco was working on his own music as well and recorded out of his home (his bathroom doubling as a vocal booth) and called it Room107 Studios. Although intimate and convenient, Greco was persuaded to move his gear and work as the in-house producer for the newly-formed Tantrum Entertainment, located between Hollywood & Vine and the Capitol Records building on one side and Mann's Chinese Theater on the other. Having met too many people with empty promises and filled heads, Greco was weary of who he shared his talents with. One day, Tantrum Entertainment hired Marcel Saxlund and with only a few seconds of sideways glances and visual assessments like dogs sniffing each other (no actual sniffing occurred, however), the two hit it off and eventually created the band, Shotgun Radio and have since released two albums in that same studio (Tantrum Entertainment eventually folded), had several commercial and film licensing credits to their name as well as being sought after producers and remixers. Shotgun Radio's tracks Beautiful Wreck by Shotgun Radio published on 2013/05/08 03:59:47 +0000 Welcome To Earth by Shotgun Radio published on 2013/02/05 05:25:02 +0000 Star 69 (Shotgun Radio & a girl named jaen) by Shotgun Radio published on 2012/02/07 21:05:56 +0000 Hometown Junkie by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 01:27:53 +0000 Drive by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 01:15:25 +0000 Cumulus by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 00:58:44 +0000 A Bad Place Ft. Mimi Page by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 00:41:45 +0000 Particles by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 00:25:58 +0000 Sunday Sessions by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 00:14:53 +0000 Ill-Gotten by Shotgun Radio published on 2011/10/29 00:02:45 +0000


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IT'S a big week for Miley Cyrus.
Twerking has gone for a rather disgusting act to do with your tongue poking out, to an official word in the Oxford Dictionary.
And it's not just a "dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance" that has been given official status in the quarterly update to Oxford Dictionaries Online.
"Picture this," the Oxford University Press announced.
"You've just uploaded a selfie to your favourite social media website using your phablet when your FIL (that's your father-in-law) shares a supercut of a srsly mortifyingtwerking session.
You immediately unlike his page because there isn't an emoji capable of expressing your desire to vom:apols, but it's time for a digital detox."
Many of the words that have emerged in popular culture are to do with the internet and technology, but food and fashion also rated new entries including flatform and fauxhawk.
If you've had a lunch big enough to make your gut stick out, you can now claim to have a food baby and not be criticised for making up words.
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The OED says the word originated in the British political comedy television series The Thick of It and means "a comprehensively mismanaged situation, characterised by a shambolic string of blunders".
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It was too good to be true. I fell for what marketing people call a "Till Forbid" scam. In a Till Forbid scheme, the company has your permission to withdraw funds from your bank or credit card until you specifically forbid it. Usually, they make it very hard to cancel, which is NewsMax's specialty.
Apparently, I had also signed up for three subscriptions to costly publications such as the Gold Stock Advisor, The Franklin Prosperity Report, and the Financial Intelligence Report. The fees for these reports were several hundred dollars and I was faced to pay overdraft charges totalling more than $245. [continued below]....
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Today I spent 34 minutes calling the NewsMax Customer Service hotline at 800-485-4350 and got a message that my wait time on hold was estimated at 34 minutes. I used this time productively by calling my bank's fraud department and cancelling the transactions. At this time, a dispute notification has been sent to Visa who will take it up with NewsMax. After 34 minutes, I was disconnected from the call.
I've called NewsMax back, and have been on hold another 20 minutes. I'm using that time productively, too, by reporting the NewsMax ripoff to Ripoff Report.
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