A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....08-02,03-03....Week in Review

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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~ Billie, Mama_Bear, dansangel, dutchess, Aquamarine~ ~

To Our FReeper FRiends: We hope you've been having as much fun as we have with our essays and/or spotlight on various FReepers. We thought we'd kick back on the weekends and simply review the features of the week. If you missed seeing them and want to say hello there now, feel free to click on the link to that particular thread. If you'd like to drop in and out of this thread today and tomorrow, please feel free to do that also. One of us will always be around to see the welcome mat is still out, and maybe even put fresh flowers on the table. ~ Billie

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"Getting to Know You"

THIS WEEK'S THREADS


07-28-03 Military Monday....................................................... BILLIE

07-29-03 Quilts, Men, and America ...... BILLIE/FREETHEHOSTAGES

07-30-03 Where There's A Will - Canine Helpers.. DUTCHESS/BILLIE

07-31-03 John's Two Cents................... JOHNHUANG2/AQUAMARINE

08-01-03 Sistahs of the Spirit ...................................... LADYX/BILLIE

Have a wonderful weekend!

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[Mama_Bear]

[Mama_Bear]

Welcome to the "Finest Week in Review".
Wishing you all an extra Fine weekend.

If you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Finest Ping List, FReepMail me.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Saturday !!

Hey ! Here are the pics I couldn't post a week ago or so because they were HUGE !
Now they are smaller. Yay !

That second one isn't very good, but the only half-decent 'action' shot we got . . .

[LadyX]

Wishing everyone a happy, restful weekend!!
Thank you to everyone who participated yesterday
in reliving The Meeting of Sistahs Nan & Maggie -

I slept wonderfully, much like this critter:

[LadyX]

Just in case you didn't have time to fix breakfast,
here is some for you:

[JustAmy]

Wishing all my Finest FRiends a Bee-utiful Week-end!
Thanks for the Week in Review, Mama_Bear ..... We missed you last night!
LadyX ... Thank you and Nan for sharing your meeting with us.
OBTW .... thanks for breakfast. Now if either the Mayor or Gail would just get here with coffee ..

[LadyX]

Should have mentioned the coffee was on a table to the right, but trusted those caffeine-deprived and dependent folks to find it on their own..:))

In the meantime, here is mail humblegunner sent:

Rules in Texas

WE DO HAVE RULES IN TEXAS

  Rules to Enter Texas:
  Applies to each person as they enter Texas.
  Learn 'em & remember 'em.

  1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

  2. Let's get this straight! It's called a "gravel road." I drive a pickup truck because I need to.
No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus.
Drive it or get out of the way.

  3. They are cattle & oil wells. That's what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us.
Get over it. Don't like it? I-20 and I-10 go east and west, I-35 goes north and south. Pick one.

  4. So you have a $60,000 dollar car. We're impressed. We have quarter-million dollar
cotton strippers that we drive 3 weeks a year.

  5. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

  6. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand.
You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

  7. Yeah, we eat catfish & crawdads. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.

  8. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season.
It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

  9. We open doors for women. That is applied to everyone, regardless of age.

  10. No, there's no "vegetarian special" on the menu. Order steak.
Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.

  11. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads.
We use three spices: salt, pepper, and Pace Picante Sauce.

  12. You bring "coke" into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice.
You bring "Mary Jane" into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

  13. High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks,
and a heap more fun to watch.

  14. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit the water hazards - it spooks the fish.

  15. Colleges? Try U.T. TEXAS AT AUSTIN. They come outta there with an education plus
a love for God and country, and they still wave at passing pickups when they come for the holidays.

  16. We have more folks in the Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force than any other state,
so "Don't Mess with Texas." If you do, it will get your butt whipped by the best.

  17. Always remember what our great governor Sam Houston once said:

"Texas can make it without the United States, but! the United States can't make it without Texas."

   GOD BLESS TEXAS!!!   

[MeekOneGOP]

Mmmm-mmmmmm ! Yummy !
Thanks !

[MeekOneGOP]

I love 'em ! Thanks !!

17. Always remember what our great governor Sam Houston once said:
"Texas can make it without the United States, but! the United States can't make it without Texas."

[Dubya]

Funny.

[Dubya]

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[FreeTheHostages]

[Calpernia]

Goodmorning (oops, it is afternoon now) to the Finest!

[Calpernia]

Now THAT is CUTE!!!

Reminds me of a cute picture I HAVE to find now, and a story.

I was 5 years old and was in Las Vegas (Paradise Valley, just outside the city lines) visiting my Uncle.

He just built a nice house in the desert.

My uncle had a retired german shepard K9. I was outside playing with him (Rocky). We were chasing lizards and road runners having a blast!

All of a sudden I looked up. I saw nothing but desert. I had no idea which way was back to the house and GOT SCARED! I stood there crying.

Now, the odd part of the story is, Rocky took my right wrist in his mouth and led me back to the house! I have NO IDEA how that dog knew to do that.

I'll never forget that day.

I will try to find that picture this weekend. It is Rocky and I sitting next to each other with sunglasses on.

:)

[Dubya]

Hope entertained for the USO every year from 1942 to 1990, appearing at military and veterans hospitals from 1973 to 1982. Highlights of his 30 overseas tours:

•1944. South Pacific tour logs more than 30,000 miles and 150 performances. Includes Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna and a young dancer named Patty Thomas. Standing next to a skimpily clad Thomas, Hope would crack, "I just want you boys to remember what you're fighting for."

[Calpernia]

Morning Meekie Mouse!

Where is the pic of you skiing in green speedos (teasing!)

Nice idea, good day for water fun. I'll head for the lake in a bit.

[Calpernia]

Did you take that picture?? That is precious!!!

[Calpernia]

Now that is two things I never understood. Doves and crawdaddys. THERE is NO meat!

But, that could be the italian gavone in me.

[The Thin Man]

08-01-03 Sistahs of the Spirit .................................................. BILLIE

This is so sad, LadyX. You spend hours writing the thread and Billie gets ALL the credit. *sigh*

Mama_Bear, how could ya?

:-)

[Calpernia]

Similar emails are going around claiming to be from eBay and Paypal.

See the redirect URL they had on the email?

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn

Looks like it is an eBay URL; but, it is in Java Script. The hyperlink is really:

http://cgi3.ebay.com:aw-cgieBayISAPI.dllSignInRegisterEnterInfo&siteid=0co_partnerid=2@scorpius.spaceports.com/~avpo">http://cgi3.ebay.com:aw-cgieBayISAPI.dllSignInRegisterEnterInfo&siteid=0co_partnerid=2@scorpius.spaceports.com/~avpo

Anything BEFORE the '@' sign is not read. So you are really taken to this site:

www.scorpius.spaceports.com/~avpo

The eBay html is down now....but if you went there last week, it LOOKED like an eBay site; but it wasn't.