Posted on 04/16/2004 6:37:21 PM PDT by Mo1
.....Westy....
LOL! Will do. I might have to work on that this weekend. I can't afford to feed birdseed to a dozen or more squirrels! It's bad enough keeping them in corn and peanuts.
For a million dollars in Arkansas, you could buy your own town! Sheesh! Who the h*ll would want to live in Manhattan anyway?
Westy, are we having a 'poor mouthing' contest? LOL
.....Westy....
Well, I don't, thats for sure. But, some folks say it is exciting to live in Manhattan.
What will they think of next?
It is getting scarier out there yet it does not register in an everyday living!
Booby-trapped bra may have triggered suicide blast
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/07/13/1089694363909.html
Monty Python:
Yorkshireman II (Graham Chapman): Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chasselet, eh, Josiah?
Yorkshireman III (Terry Jones): Oh, you're right there, Obadiah.
Yorkshireman II: Ay.
Yorkshireman I: Who would have thought, thirty years ago, we'd all be sitting here drinking Chateau de Chaselet, eh?
All: Ay, ay.
Yorkshireman IV (Michael Palin): Them days we were glad to have the price of a cup of tea.
Yorkshireman II: Ay! A cup of cold tea!
Yorkshireman IV: Ay!
Yorkshireman I: Without milk or sugar!
Yorkshireman III: Or tea!
Yorkshireman IV: In a cracked cup and all.
Yorkshireman I: Oh, we never used to have a cup! We used to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!
Yorkshireman II: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Yorkshireman III: But you know, we were happy in those days, although we were poor.
Yorkshireman IV: Because we were poor!
Yorkshireman III: Ay!
Yorkshireman IV: My old dad used to say to me: "Money doesn't bring you happiness, son!"
Yorkshireman I: He was right!
Yorkshireman IV: Ay!
Yorkshireman I: I was happier then and I had nothing! We used to live in this tiny old tumble-down house with great big holes in the roof.
Yorkshireman II: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in the corridor!
Yorkshireman IV: Oh, we used to DREAM of living in a corridor! Would have been a palace to us! We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House, huh!
Yorkshireman I: Well, when I say "house", it was just a hole in the ground, covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us!
Yorkshireman II: We were EVICTED from our hole in the ground. We had to go and live in a lake!
Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to have a lake! There were 15 of us living in a cardboard box in the middle of the road!
Yorkshireman IV: A cardboard box?
Yorkshireman III: Ay!
Yorkshireman IV: You were LUCKY! We lived for three months in a newspaper-lined septic tank! We used to have to get up every morning, at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Yorkshireman II: Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work twenty hours a day at mill, for twopence a month, come home, and dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle... IF we were lucky!
Yorkshireman III: Well, of course, we had it tough! We used to have to get up out of the cardboard box in the middle of the night, and lick the road clean with our tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing cold gravel, work twenty-four hours a day at mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our dad would slice us in two with a breadknife!
Yorkshireman I: Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!
Yorkshireman IV: Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!
All: No, no they won't!
I feel like the odd one out!
There are some nice places in Manhattan that are reasonable!
As well as good hard working, decent folks!
It is funny but NYC being so liberal yet we have the highest rating conservative talks shows in the nation alway receiving #1 in Arbitron
It is the consevatives that support these air waves!
and the socialist control the voting booths!
What kind of excitment?
The kind of excitement you would find in an overpopulated urban area like Manhattan.
catpuppy might have a good suggestion, too. If not, what the heck, its always s'nice when he puts in an appearance :)
Yes, catpuppy's wisdom and charm are always appreciated.
.....Westy.....
Now THAT is a poor mouth story. LOL
Clueless as always
A little paint and maybe some windows and doors and a roof .. and it's good as new
She finished the program and moved back home 3 months before 9-11.
I would like to to know exactly the kind of excitment?
I don't smoke, drink, not engage in things that questionable, very seldom go to movie for most are offensive. BTW all this is going on in the ruel area also!
I do love good music that which is REAL music I don't listen to the noise they try to lable as music!
I like history and traditional Art!
I love the old buildings and some area I sense the pass!
Sadly many historic places have been taken down or been taken over by neon signs.
What is nice is during the summer one can go to Central park for Shakespeare Play or Symphony, Opera it so lovely under the stars.
Yet this activity can be had in the rual ares too!
So what is this excitement?:)
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