A few of FR's Finest....Every Day....08-23,24-05....What's in a Name?

Billie; ST.LOUIE1

[Billie]

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

Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay, or a profile of another FReeper.

On Mondays please visit us to see photos of A FEW OF FR'S VETERANS AND ACTIVE MILITARY

If you have a suggestion, or an idea, or if there's a FReeper you would like to see featured, please drop one of us a note in FR mail.

We're having fun and hope you are!
~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Aquamarine, DollyCali ~

Let's talk about FR screen names. How did you choose yours? Do you use your real name, a nickname, a silly name, a celebrity's name, your pet's name, or some other? Funny? Or serious?

With as many registered users as FR has, we are sure to see some highly unusual monikers. The first thing I thought of when I saw this name was:

Feiny (read more about her in our 09-18-02 Finest thread), as we like to call her, resides in California, and this is how she told us her screen name came about:

"I had a tough time coming up with a screen name. I tried several & they were not available. I remembered that my other half (do not call him Mr. Sukass) had called Diane Feinstein another name…..'Feinswine'. He said that is how he & his friends used to refer to her in San Francisco. For some strange reason, Feinswine was not available…so I added suksass..and PRESTO…I was a FReeper."

Let's talk about logos. If *you* had a logo, what would it be - your name? a favorite hobby? something you collect? Would we think of you each time we see a particular item? Those of us with regular, plain screen names sometimes get a nickname chosen *for* us, and it somehow sticks. With thanks to ST.LOUIE1 (who is much better known at the Finest as *Wolfie*), "Billie" soon became "BillieBlue", with a little bluebird as my sig.

I wanted to post a Few of Our Finest' logos here, and will post more later in the thread. Please feel free to show your own, and tell us why you chose your name. :)

Above is an early logo I made for Aqua based on her name, but after getting to know her better, as a sistah and hostess at the Finest, the following one - which she chose - fits her southern personality much better.

You've been seeing this guy at the Finest for a little over three years. He usually comes up for air once or twice a day to check in with us. :)

Our Fair Lady ... God bless her loving heart - she never runs out of kisses or interesting things to say.

Even before he grew into the suave, dashing and debonair wolfie he is now (in the photo below), he was still a bit of a rake and a rogue...but every bit as irresistible! (Plus he's helped me with some of the logos for today!) :*

Wolfie's partner in crime - that fox jwfiv....Yip AhRooooo!

Let us never have to wonder what the Finest would be like without Rev. Nan. :)

Or the honorable Mayor and his purple cup and daily devotional, not to mention his devotion to our Military and bringing us Military Monday week after week.

The distinguished and wise Mr.Owl, who diligently watches over us from his lofty perch.

MamaBear, aka Lori, always the fashion maven, shows off some of her jewels, furs and delightful chapeaus.

Yep! That's our Pipster! Any questions?! (((((((((Pip)))))))))

Amy has soooooo many logos (compliments of her 'bro') it's hard to choose which one to use, so I asked Louie to send me one of her favorites.

Hello, Dolly - it's so nice to see you here where you belong - on your bicycle, of course! :)

One of our most recent, and most patriotic! screen names - and even sweeter than this little angel. :)

As dutchess flies off into the wild blue yonder, I wish you all a beautiful good morning, and once again, my thanks to ST.LOUIE1, for some of these great logos you see above, and others that will be posted on the thread. Don't go way now! We've just begun to have fun!

06-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #12

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 8-22-05 Military Monday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[PrissyMissy]

"Uh-oh, does Unc wolfie know?"

Well ..... probby not yet but I'm sure he will think that I'm adorable and won't be able to resist my big blue eyes.

I think the signature he made for me is so ME.



I want to be a movie star someday,
but my gramma faints every time I say that so don't tell her, 'kay?
Maybe I can be a song writer or an astronaut instead.

[Billie]

Goodnight, Finest Friends.

[luvie]

(((hugs)))

'Nite, Billie! I look forward to your next project! :o)

[The Mayor]

Thank you Amy, that is so sweet!

[Jack Deth]

That's the guy, Billie!

Jack.

[NicknamedBob]

You two keep teasing me.

I've been trying to come up up with something fitting. Usually it isn't difficult, as in this example of "the Bob that can whip up a poem with only a word or two for inspiration."

In this case, poor Hope and Glory made the mistake of misspelling one teensy little word...

Lillte Miss In Pure White

Lillte Miss in pure white, with your sonorous flight,
So beguiling to us, cringing here in day’s night,
Is there hope for our souls, that they too may fly?
Though your lilting gives cheer, it does not answer why.

In our village of mean, dingy streets and of dirt,
How did something so pure come alive out of hurt?
With a voice that enthralls, and a delicate hand,
When will you depart with the Lords of the land?

In the meantime, sing on. Lift our hearts with your trill.
Let the tears of our joy down our dusty cheeks spill.
Help us lighten our burden, and embrace with faint hope,
That you will not be wed, and we lose Miss and ‘Thrope.

In our village so poor, we have only one joy,
And we curse in a silence to await its employ.
Sing out your heart, while it still has its wings,
As we pause in our drudging of all lesser things.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . August 23, 2005

I guess I'll have to sleep on it...

[NicknamedBob]

In the meantime...

The Poem

The poem rests inside my head,
Like carvings set in stone.
And all I have to do is cut away,
The words that aren’t my own.

Every singing bit of rhyme,
Is like a memory.
So all I have to do is shed,
The parts that aren’t me.

One thing I often wonder,
As I chop the chips away,
How much of me is taken with,
The message I convey.

With all the mass of messages,
The scriptings that I’ve cleft,
When I set out the last of them,
Will anything be left?

NicknamedBob . . . . April 6, 2004

[JustAmy]

LOL

I've seen this someplace. :)

Excellent poems. Thanks.

[wallcrawlr]

[scubachick]

And we love all the Finest Family!

[scubachick]

I'd be scared of bear claws if I were you! Luckily for you, Babychick is patient, but she will hold you to your wolfie word for a logo later on. She has her reputation to uphold, ya know! (((((Wolfie))))) And don't think I didn't notice I was an afterthought! I guess I don't mind being after Babychick though! lol

[scubachick]

This is SO adorable!! Thank you so much Billie! Babychick and I love this! Babychick almost always has a smile on her face, so this is perfect and so cute! (((Billie)))

[The Mayor]

August 25, 2005

Broken Cisterns

Read:
John 4:9-14

They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water. —Jeremiah 2:13

Bible In One Year: 1 Chronicles 10-13

Picture yourself swinging a pick, digging from dawn to dusk, chiseling a cistern out of the hard, unyielding stone. You stay on the job, working through the biting cold of winter and the blazing heat of summer.

After years of strenuous effort you finally complete the task. Then you step back and wait for your cistern to fill—and it leaks. You discover—too late—that all cisterns, no matter how well constructed, will leak.

The story is a picture of the futility of our attempts to find satisfaction in life. It's an age-old problem.

God told the prophet Jeremiah that His people "have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters." Instead, they had expended their efforts on "broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13).

Are you driven by soul-thirst, yearning for satisfaction? There is a spring of living water, rising from hidden depths, pouring into our hearts, satisfying us even as it makes us thirst for more. Stoop down and drink.

Only God can satisfy your heart. Everything else will deceive and disappoint. "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst," said Jesus. "But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14). —David Roper

I thirsted in the barren land of sin and shame,
And nothing satisfying there I found;
But to the blessed cross of Christ one day I came,
Where springs of living water did abound. —Peterson
© 1950, Singspiration, Inc.

Only Living Water can quench the driving thirst of the soul.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Religion Or Christ: What's The Difference?

[OESY]

A Marine squad was marching north of Basra when they came
upon an insurgent soldier badly injured and unconscious.
Nearby, on the opposite side of the road, was an American
Marine in a similar but less serious state.

The Marine was conscious and alert. As first aid was given
to both men, the Marine was asked what had happened.

The Marine reported, "I was heavily armed and moving north
along the highway and coming south was a heavily armed
insurgent. Seeing each other we both took cover.

"I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable low-life
scum bag, and he yelled back that Teddy Kennedy is a rich,
good-for-nothing fat drunk."

"We were standing there shaking hands when a truck hit us."

[DollyCali]

this has definitely been a fun thread to visit & although I haven't posted much, I have read every post & enjoyed your contributions & signatures.

Billie, thanks again for all your work in creating clever logos for the folks who visit us with regularity at the finest - I enjoy mine & it is appropriate.

wallcrawlr.. guessing you are a spiderman fan??? which I am also. The latest was a great flick IMHO..

[OESY]

LETTER FROM A FARM KID, NOW AT SAN DIEGO MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING.

Dear Ma and Pa,

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine
Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up
quick before all of the places are filled. I was restless at first because
you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. but I am getting so I like to
sleep late.

Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and
shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to
split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon,
etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie
and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the
two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till
noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk
much. We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long
walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him
different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home.
Then, the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The country is nice but awful flat. The sergeant is like a schoolteacher.
He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels
just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals
for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk
head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at
home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't
even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to
wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break
real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about
the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver
Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only
5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get
onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter,

Mary

[OESY]

One day my fiancée's "little" sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations. She was alone when I arrived, and she whispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't overcome.

She told me that she wanted to make love to me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister. Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a word.

She said, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one last wild fling, just come up and get me."

I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. When she reached the top she pulled off her panties and threw them down the stairs at me.

I stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beeline straight to the front door. I opened the door, and headed straight towards my car.

Lo and behold, my entire future family was standing outside, all clapping!

With tears in his eyes, my father-in-law hugged me and said, "We are very happy that you have passed our little test. We couldn't ask for better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family."

And the moral of this story is:


Always keep your condoms in your car.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Good morning Mama Bear, got work to do, looking forward to when I can spend more time here. Cute logos!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

DOWNFALL!?!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Morning Billie! I'm still working on all that work they gave me. I hope to be able to FReep again one day.

: )