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Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: Corin Stormhands
Hehehe
Dang... I am out of cards! Have to fold... I did meet Jacques Cousteau....
To: HairOfTheDog; htur_75
So when are we doing a simulview when everyone will actually be there? :)
To: Corin Stormhands
I had shoulder length hair I had a ponytail...wrestling coach made me lose it my senior year...
that was parted in the middle.
My Sgt Instructor told us only dope smokers parted their hair down middle...as he was staring at the part down the middle of my head...the world kinda got blurry after that...
To: HairOfTheDog
Dang... I am out of cards! Have to fold... I did meet Jacques Cousteau.... Well that's as high as I can go too. Although I did once shake Joe Gibbs' hand. I came home and told my wife "I can throw, I can throw!"
Actually one of my favorite stories comes from back in 1994 when I was unemployed but working as a "consultant" (which meant I wasn't getting paid) for Jack Kemp's PAC. I got to go to the Super Bowl in Atlanta. That Saturday there was a luncheon. Kemp was there along with Roger Staubach, Joe Namoth and yes, OJ (pre-murders), as well as several others football greats. I didn't get my picture with any of them, but hey, I was there...
My wife was working part time for a photographer friend of ours. That same week, she worked the Reagan/Thatcher dinner in DC.
Here we were surrounded by all this greatness and I think we had $12.00 in the bank...
To: All
Copied from TORN - AP story....
Director Jackson Urges Organ Donation
or
I have come for your liver! [my title - hair]
Mon Aug 12, 9:23 PM ET
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Film director Peter Jackson called on fellow New Zealanders to donate their kidneys, livers and hearts to those in need.
Jackson told New Zealand Woman's Weekly magazine, which hit newsstands Tuesday, he was appalled to discover people were dying because New Zealanders are failing to donate healthy organs.
Organ donation is a lifesaving gift which costs nothing, said the director of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."
"It's not until you're facing heart disease or liver failure that you realize how bleak the prospects are here for people who are critically ill," he says in the article.
"We have the skills here, the hospitals and the surgeons. What we lack is a population willing to give," he added.
Health Ministry figures show New Zealand has one of the lowest organ donation rates in the developed world. Since 1998, 15 people have died because they did not receive a liver transplant.
His comments were inspired by the plight of 11-month-old Katie Tookey, who suffers from biliary atresia, a rare condition that blocks the liver's ducts, causing permanent deterioration.
Her father, Andy Tookey, said the condition means that at some point in the next five years Katie will need a liver transplant.
"At the current rates you're left wondering if there will be a liver available when the time rolls around ... It's heartbreaking," he said.
Jackson, in Britain working on the second movie in the "Rings" trilogy, could not be immediately contacted.
Health professionals have welcomed the involvement of the high-profile Jackson in the campaign to increase organ donation rates.
To: g'nad
My Sgt Instructor told us only dope smokers parted their hair down middle... I'm older than you. In the 70s we all parted our hair in the middle.
To: HairOfTheDog
Health professionals have welcomed the involvement of the high-profile Jackson in the campaign to increase organ donation rates. Good for him. It's nice to see someone in the arts actually promoting a worthwhile cause.
To: Corin Stormhands
In the 70s we all parted our hair in the middleBAH! - And that refutes the former theory how? ;~D
To: HairOfTheDog
Beat me to it...
To: htur_75; Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed; JenB; All
After saying that we would wait till November to buy the DVD, we ended up buying it last Saturday. Aaarrrggh! Am I the last of the holdouts? Pressure... building... envy... rising... must hold out till November...
To: HairOfTheDog; g'nad; RosieCotton
And that refutes the former theory how? I don't believe I said it refutes his theory...just that we all parted our hair in the 70s (although I swear I never smoked pot...)
To: g'nad
must hold out till November...Here's the way I see it: if I don't get it now, I'm going to rent it at least four or five times before then, or I'll WANT to, in any case. It costs at LEAST $2.75 a rental at most of the local places. So I'd spend close to the cost of buying it by November in any case, and I'd also have moments when I wanted to just check something quickly and wouldn't be able to. So I guess it's worth it.
Plus, it saves me mental pain and anguish, if not much cash...
To: g'nad
Pressure... building... envy... rising... must hold out till November... Aye captain, she's gonna blow...
To: Corin Stormhands
ust that we all parted our hair in the 70s I was right there with ya...you ain't that much older than me...and I can neither cofirm nor deny the use of any illegal substance...
To: Corin Stormhands
I went to a dinner-lecture with Maggie Thatcher speaking.... It was part of a political lecture series that was really cool. Colin Powell was part of the same series.
Maggie Thatcher talked about free trade, and favored no trade restrictions at all between countries. She said that if we let the people of China and the former Soviet Union watch the Cosby Show, they would not remain content with their current conditions very long and would fight for their own change.
A horrid summary of course, but her point was socialism would not look attractive if we let our stuff in and let folk have a taste of the good life. I remember he being a fabulous speaker, with great presence in the room.
To: Corin Stormhands
Sneakity...
To: Corin Stormhands
Sneakity...
To: Corin Stormhands
Sneakity...
To: Corin Stormhands
sneak...
To: Corin Stormhands
rats
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