have you ever tried changing your handwriting? i just did. it's refreshing. after about 15 years of writing a certain way, i've changed my handwriting. the above line is the old way. the subsequent lines are the new way. comments are welcome.

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Kelly
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Kelly
Date: Dec 23, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: what's up


do I know you?
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RE: what's up

no, i'm pretty sure you don't. it says in your profile that while we at least live in the same country, you enjoy going out to clubs, parties on the beach, and anything else that is fun. i however have spent the last 8 years locked in my closet trying to locate alternate dimensions other than our own, and sharpening my toenails with an old brick i found in the corner, you know, just in case. do you like books about faeries? i do.

best wishes.

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holiday message:

it is the holiday season. this means that it is the season where chanukah, christmas, kwanzaah, saturnalia, and other various pagan based festivals happen. this does NOT mean that it is NOT a time to bid good wishes towards jews, christians, pagans, and anybody else who deserves it. it is NOT a time to take your religious agenda, your holier-than-thou moral agenda, your 'i'm more politically correct than thou', your 'i'm getting more presents than thou', your 'i give more presents than thou,' your 'you better participate in our office christmas party, or you'll get on my bad side' attitude or your 'what do you mean you don't have plans for the holidays!?' questions, and foist, yes foist them on your fellow man....or fellow woman....or fellow were-man....for those of you listening to this from halloween town. it is a time to say happy holidays, and have it mean nothing but that....happy.....holidays.....it's times like these, i wish my atheist bretheren and i could rule the world, and show the devout that it is much better to chill up in your crib with a jug of tasty nog, vegan nog, if it need be, and say, hey non-denominational background for tax purposes only fellow man...happy holidays, and a happy new year. and if your neighbor is sporting a crucifix hoodie...and they're serious about it....wish them a merry christmas, and remind them that even though christ was born in the spring or summer, and not in winter, they're still expected to have a merry mass of christ. and tell your other neighbor, the one with the menorah in his window, that even though chanukah is a minor jewish holiday, you hope he has major fun on it. and to all my atheist brothers and sisters....lets continue to reap all those free cookies and candy canes those religious nuts keep leaving around the office. peace, and goodwill, 2006.

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First:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#The_origins_of_Christmas

"This celebration of the winter solstice was widespread and popular in northern Europe long before the arrival of Christianity, and the word for Christmas in the Scandinavian languages is still today the pagan jul (=yule).

Rather than attempting to suppress every pagan tradition, Pope Gregory I allowed Christian missionaries to synthesize pagan traditions with Christianity, allowing many pagan traditions to become a part of Christmas.[2]"

However:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_christ#Chronology

"Based on the accounts in the gospels of the shepherds' activities, the time of year depicted for Jesus' birth could be spring or summer. However, as early as 354, Roman Christians celebrated it following the December solstice in an attempt to replace the Roman festival of Saturnalia."

So:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia

“The Saturnalia originally were celebrated with a public banquet. It became one of the most popular Roman festivals which lead to more tomfoolery, marked chiefly by having masters and slaves switch places, which led to widespread drinking which degenerated sometimes to debauchery such as homosexuality and men beating their wives, so that among Christians the (lower case) word "saturnalia" came to mean "orgy".”

Sadly, thus….

The orgy continues in other, more puritan ways:

http://www.personalshopper.com/jsp/index.jsp

More like this

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Because:

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"The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere -- they object to our deepest values and our way of life. And if we were not fighting them in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Southeast Asia and in other places, the terrorists would not be peaceful citizens -- they would be on the offense, and headed our way...... And I have never been more certain that America's actions in Iraq are essential to the security of our citizens, and will lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren."

joseph goebbels says....

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

this at least explains the high price of oil and the patriot act - the economic consequence, and the governments way of repressing dissent.

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an im conversation i just had with my girlfriend. i thought it was funny....

me: can we do nothing tonight?
her: sounds GREAT!!!!!
her: oh...
her: you'll probably record, huh.
me: maybe
me: maybe not
me: but maybe
me: er...meaning probably
me: translating to definitely
her: all night?
me: definitely meaning without you
me: without you meaning you're fat
me: you fat = you dumped
me: so yeah, i might record some stuff tonight.

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currently overhearing at a coffee shop:

one guy on his phone saying, "yeah, it was crazy, how are you feeling? you were punched repeatedly...huh? well, do you remember anything from last night? ...you sure you're alright?"

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yes, the threats were true; now i can whine in audio format! this be my podcast! it's not the greatest, but it's a start.

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yes, you do it too....

i adopted my department's test palm pilot as my own to use since it was just sitting aronud collecting dust. when trying to break the monotomy and clear my head in the bathroom - time spent mostly just sitting and relaxing rather than evacuating - i sometimes take out my palm pilot to doodle. here's my latest creations so far:

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