Partial lobotomies do work as he was one of the gentlest (and dullest) people I've known.

The first wasn't may fault but the second was. My mom said I could never have another hamster after the second.

I have also killed several fish.

This is probably why most of the writers I really really like are really really dead...

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...who knowingly picks a seemingly unwinnable legal battle with a Jew?

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For instance, baseball player Sandy Koufax once famously refused to play a World Series game during the fast of Yom Kippur. Convert Sammy Davis Jr. once refused to film while fasting.

During major fasts (and admittedly, Tisha B'Av isn't a very popular holiday, but Yom Kippur is widely, widely practiced, even among relatively secular Jews), we don't eat or drink anything, unless medically obliged to, engage in sexual intercourse, bathe beyond ritual washing up to the knuckles, or wear leather shoes. Also, because Tisha B'Av is considered a day of mourning, we don't greet anyone.

Tisha B'Av occurs during the dog days of summer, either July or August depending on how the Hebrew calendar falls, so working (as I was expected, in a kitchen with three ovens of all places) isn't merely a spiritual violation, it's a dehydration hazard as well.

I worked for most of my shift, until I felt too uncomfortable, then left. When the manager on duty objected, I told them there wasn't much they could do about it without getting sued.

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I do remember reading once, that an actor who was the first "team leader" on the 1960s series Mission: Impossible, the guy there the first year before Peter Graves...did practice his faith and not work on these holidays---which was one reason why, after one year, they dropped his contract and hired Graves.

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The trouble with bringing up past grievances (like the time they didn't let you off for that holiday) is they have an expiration date.

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I'm not arguing that religion is for everyone, but who is teaching these children to care more about celebrities in rehab or sparkling vampires, then the soldiers(or religious icons) who gave their lives for them?

Apathetic, ungrateful, uneducated... Yay for the future.

However, there are still others who go to bed at night with a flashlight so they can escape into books, teens who volunteer, or enlist, and little kids who can be still be taught to be better.

Here's hoping that is what spreads, not more apathy.
~Sheena

But I think you have a point about the youth. I've seen or heard similar things about the youth of today. I think certain Boomers forgot to teach their offspring some of the things they were taught as children but at the same time this isn't true of every younger person.

I should have added as you seem to know.

And "sparkling vampires" ???

Well, as for the younger generations not knowing anything about anything...I once got into conversation with some of my younger relations and it came out they had no idea who Paul Revere was. You've heard of him, haven't you?

Sorry--- just kidding. But it is reported that some High School grads thought we fought the English during the second Great War.

I don't know if they were just not paying attention or if it was because they weren't taught it but I heard of both Paul Revere and WW II so many times I would have absorbed knowledge of both events even if I hadn't paid attention.

Edited to add: BTW, "sparkle", as used in this context, means glimmer, not lighting up with tiny sparks of fire. I just realized this might need clarification.

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So, instead, here's the beginning:

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

And the end:

You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,---
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.

So through the night rode Paul Revere;=
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,---
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

You might be losing the light on your monitor, my sister's went out and it was creepy how you could see everything but not really. Like a ghost monitor.

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I guess it's not going to be too long before we can teleport, too.

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Every now and then a certain forum I am on used to shimmer when I called up the reply page. That is the letters shimmered. It almost gave me a headache trying to read the sentences I had just typed. I believe they did something to improve the site and it hasn't done it since. But probably that as a completely different problem than yours.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Every year that I've driven to work before Christmas I've had car trouble, the problems have ranged from a simple dead battery, flat tire, falling off alternator, side-swiping a car carrier, but this year took the cake, snapped off my timing belt. In an instant what had been a fine vehicle became an oversized paperweight, now I have to find a new car.

Edited to add: I have to find this car fast, begging for a ride home at 1 o'clock in the morning is putting me in serious favor debt.