Posted on 05/03/2005 8:23:05 PM PDT by Mo1
Yes.. I admit to having a soft spot for some people.
Heh heh heh.......
Sharkses, Snakeses, Squirrels, and other wraithy types 'round these parts, yes.
Doh! Wait......
What came over me......must have been a re-run of Gidget.....
*Dang, just dang*
LOL!
Poor Sally.......hard to live down.
Man....it's pouring here, mucho de thunder and lightingero. Coming your way.......
Okers.
Will be keeping an eye out for it.
The irony escapes me somehow.
When is "snake awareness week"?
Yeah.
Bear awareness week..
All I have ot do is wait outside long enough, and the local brown bear will wander by.
Eityher that, or some extremely hairt guy driving a pickup truck and belching louder than the vehicle rattle.
Undoubttedly does not belch........much.......or loudly.....
Later......be good.
Camano Island Sunset...
I had quite a time late, late last night...Didn't know if I was going to make it or not..
Had a few problems today too...Sure is hell getting old..LOL...
So, guess I'll just say Goodnight all...Hang in there, have a good one, and be careful...
.....Westy......
Westy, what happened?
Ooo....I'd like a dress out of those colors. LOL!
.
Thanks for those great photo you been giving us lately they are really neat!
Hope you are rested Sat to go out on Red!
Good night!
Arkansas Deputies Storm Wrong Home, Cop's Home
SEARCY, Ark. - More than ten deputies trying to make a federal weapons arrest stormed the wrong home and ended up in a police officer's house.
Searcy officer Ann Owens said she's upset at the mistake and doesn't think there should have been any confusion between her house and the address the deputies needed.
Lt. Det. John Slater of the White County Sheriff's Department said the county officers couldn't find the right address and neighbor mistakenly pointed them to Owens' house. The officers were seeking out the home of Richard Attaway to arrest him on federal weapons and explosives charges.
The deputies stormed the home through an unlocked door and saw a picture of Owens and her family.
''We realized this house is too nice, something was wrong here,'' Slater said.
Slater instructed that everybody pull out and left the house as it was found, undamaged.
But Sheldon Owens said that a gate was broken in his home and that numerous clues should have tipped the deputies off that this was his and Anne's home and not Attaway's house.
Sadly, there are a lot of real live Keystone Cops here.
Friday the 13th! - Bad Luck Day or Not?
Are you superstitious?
It's Friday the 13th
with so much to dread.
Some people ignore it
and just stay in bed.
Silly Superstitions
It's bad luck to walk under a ladder.
This came from the early Christian belief that a leaning ladder formed a triangle with the wall and ground. You must never violate the Holy Trinity by walking through a triangle, lest you be considered in league with the devil. (And you all know what good Christians did to people they suspected of being in league with the devil.)
Beware of Friday the Thirteenth.
Those who know about these things, inform us that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden on a Friday, Noah's flood started on a Friday, and Christ was crucified on a Friday. Christians also noted that twelve witches plus one devil are present at Satanic ceremonies so Friday and 13 make a deadly combination.
God Bless You.
During the sixth century, it was customary to congratulate people who sneezed because they were expelling evil from their bodies. Later, when a great plague took hold of Europe, and people began sneezing violently, the Pope passed a law. Since sneezing meant that the person was going to die of plague, people were required to bless the sneezer.
Don't spill the salt.
Although some people believe that Judas spilt salt during the last supper, this claim can't be proven. Salt was a very precious expensive commodity in the middle ages. It was also used for medicinal purposes. If you spilled any, you must immediately throw it over your left shoulder to strike the nasty spirits in the eye, thus preventing sickness.
Wear a St. Christopher Medal when you travel.
Historians don't believe there ever was a Saint Christopher.
Black cats are evil.
In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast, was a black female cat. Christian priests wanted to wipe out all traces of other religions so convinced their ignorant followers to destroy the evil demons that were black cats. While they were at it, they destroyed the kindly little old ladies who cared for the cats believing them to be witches.
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home.
It is bad luck to kill a ladybug because it represents the Virgin Mary.
Pie In The Sky.
Of course, this means to search for the impossible dream but it originated in the early 1900's. A famous labor organizer named Joe Hill was extremely critical of the clergy's treatment of slaves. He wrote a tune called 'The Preacher and the Slave" accusing the clergy of making false promises of a better life in heaven while people starved on earth. The song goes: 'Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when you die. That's a lie!'
Skin Of Your Teeth.
This saying means to barely escape from a harrowing situation. It comes from Job 19:20, where God inflicts all sorts of terrible things on one of those who love him. Poor Job had all his animals stolen, his children die, his house collapse and his body covered with sores. Job has this to say; "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
Fleshpot. -
Today 'fleshpot' describes decadence. In the time of Moses, it was a large pot in which to boil meat. Somehow, preachers managed to change the meaning to scare their flock about 'sins of the flesh'.
To make a scapegoat. -
The poor scapegoat gets the punishment for everyone else's mistakes. God condoned this cruelty to animals in Leviticus 16:7-10 "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scapegoat." The scapegoat got to escape, and carry the tribe's sins into the wilderness, to be eaten by some animal instead of being offered alive as a sacrifice for the Lord.
Get a rabbit's foot, a 4-leaf clover
or even a horseshoe.
If you think that might help,
it could always be true.
But no matter how much it
seems like an unlucky time,
It isn't any fun
to sit home and whine.
So, I've only got one thing to say
Happy Friday the 13th!
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