Field Mouse: A Final Wave at the World” or “The Alimony Tour, Year One”

Here ya go, Bruce!

Humility would be more popular if it was more tempting.

Give me that damn pie.

I didn't know that's the name for those weird utensils! Spork. Spoon-fork. ha. Why didn't they call it Foon? Or Fook? :)

You liked it so much you bothered to bold the letters.
I think this might really mean something to you.

RE: MsFannytwinkle-Butt - FUCK humility.

That was an extremely wonderful rant, worthy of Samuel Beckett.

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Your story reminds me of the following passage:

>>"I remember a mini-paradigm shift I experienced one Sunday morning on a subway in New York. People were sitting quietly - some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene.

Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway car. The children were so loud and rambunctious that instantly the whole climate changed.

The man sat down to next to me and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious to the situation. The children were yelling back and forth, throwing things, even grabbing people's papers. It was very disturbing. And yet, the man sitting next to me did nothing.

It was difficult not to feel irritated. I could not believe that he could be so insensitive as to let his children run wild like that and do nothing about it, taking no responsibility at all. It was easy to see that everyone else on the subway felt irritated, too. So finally, with what I felt was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, "Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn't control them a little more.?"

The man lifted his gaze as if to come to a consciousness of the situation for the first time and said softly, "Oh, you're right. I guess I should do something about it. We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago. I don't know what to think, and I guess they don't know how to handle it."

Can you tell imagine what I felt at that moment? My paradigm shifted. Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw things differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently. My irritation vanished. I didn't have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man's pain. Feelings of sympathy and compassion flowed freely. "You're wife just died? Oh, I'm so sorry! can you tell me about it? What can I do to help?" Everything changed in an instant.

In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow."
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey

http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People/dp/0743269519/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251921722&sr=8-1

Thoreau doesn't have much room to talk, mr. anti-social. Jail was actually nicer than his cabin. He knew what he was doing....Actually, I like Thoreau. Never mind.

Funny, but both of you seemed to have missed the point completely, which is a shame.

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"Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concerning this individual. One is that he suffers from spontaneity and individuality which may seem to be incurable. At the same time it may be said of him he does not differ essentially from the millions of the rest of us who walk upon this earth."

- Erich Fromm

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Mrsthing, I would have given anything to have had studies of Emerson crammed down my throat. I explored his work on my own. I will never get tired of Emerson.

Fan, I like Emerson, too--but when you have to learn what your teacher wants and spew it back to him for an exam, it takes a lot of the fun out of it. After college, I did some reading on my own, and liked Emerson much better.

from Emerson's wiki:

"Around 1826, during a winter trip to St. Augustine, Florida, Emerson made the acquaintance of Prince Achille Murat. Murat, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, was only two years his senior and the two became extremely good friends and enjoyed one another's company."

I wonder if all these 19th century American, British and European personalities ever got together for a corn and pig roast with some margaritas; a good Florida beach barbecue.

Jefferson Davis is in mine.



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Nobody's obligated to visit the forum! We just miss you when you're not here, Possum.

Tell the truth--was it Turkish who bit? Or was he bitten?

Awwww shit, mrsthing. Jefferson Davis's wife is in mine. We're connected!

That's kinda cool!

welcome to my family, cuz....

This is great news!

Murat and family, inlaws etc.,lived in the environs of Tallahassee, Fla.(close to Gulf, in North Fla.). Bonaparte dissaproved of marriage until he found out the "Lady Love" was a niece of G. Washington.

If we take back our family trees in time, we'll learn we're all connected.

Mrs Knight, if you were in Thailand, you could ask for a Ty-phoon with which to eat your pie.

Mrsthing, do you think that because you're from Jeff's family and I'm from V's, that perhaps we should feel an attraction for each other in an ancestral memory kind of way? I hope not, because I hate complications, but I just thought I'd throw that out there, even though both of us are straight and you are married. I'm thinking I should keep all my options out there, however, but actually I don't feel an attraction going on. Admiration, yes, but attraction, no.

Naughty, are you vampires?

Honestly, if someone put a gun to my head and said, "Pleasure this woman or DIE!", I might be able to do it, but I wouldn't enjoy it. I couldn't go gay for anyone. I've got nothing against gays; I've had a few experiences of being mildly sexually attracted to women, but I'm pretty decidedly straight. Breathe a big sigh of relief, Fan!

I admire you, too.

I think Ty-Phoo tea is overrated, though it is good.

It's quite popular tea, actually.

Ty-Phoo is hard to find in America, Chris. I only know it because we had a specialty shop nearby that sold British things.

Gunga thanks for posting that... After reading what Mr Cleese had to say about his divorce, wouldn't it have been easier/cheaper just to hire O J Simpson to sort out all his marital problems?

Brilliant article, Gungas, thanks for sharing it with us!

Well, yes... but these days it's fashion to let murderers, serial killers, serial rapists and paeodophiles walk out freely... You know, it is because it is so awful to be in a prison for life, even if you commit a mass-murder. The prisons are overcrowded... Well, I would have a much better solution for this problem, how to make the prisons empty and how to reach that murderers and rapists don't eat food on our expenses... But in these human-friendly days it's better if I don't say anything like that, because those who say similar things or even the victims of these prison-well-pampered bastards are imprisoned sooner than the murderers/rapists.

In the next century the victims would sit in prisons and the attackers would live happily outside. Well, perhaps it's safer in there, actually. Although, I don't have any intentions to try it.

I want to see him, too!