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Old 05-07-2006, 10:42 AM   #61
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People who argue or debate for the sake of hearing themselves is a real waste of time in my book.


*goes to plant flowers in garden*

I actually happen to agree with this. I have wasted alot of time in the past. I have come to the understanding that I am not the keeper of the 'ying and yang' of the universe.


Nor do I want to. I too prefer flowers.
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Old 05-07-2006, 10:57 AM   #62
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I think I'd take your word for almost anything Bruce.

lots of respect in my book.
Don't take my word, think for yourself, I could be wrong.
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Old 05-07-2006, 11:02 AM   #63
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Don't take my word, think for yourself, I could be wrong.

um, you're talking to a person who wishes it was still the 17th century and maypoles weren't outlawed :p




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Old 05-07-2006, 11:56 AM   #64
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um, you're talking to a person who wishes it was still the 17th century and maypoles weren't outlawed
When I was in kindergarden on May Day we did a maypole dance with a real maypole (not the playground toy by the same name, which is no doubt no longer to be found.) singing "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow". I seem to recall that we were dressed in pilgrim garb for the occasion...and it was only the Pilgrims who outlawed the Maypole. Trying to put the lid on handfastings and "greenwood marriages" apparently.

The tradition survives in the time-honored rhyme I didn't learn until college:

Hoorray hooray
For the tenth of May
Outdoor fucking
Begins today
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Old 05-07-2006, 12:29 PM   #65
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When I was in kindergarden on May Day we did a maypole dance with a real maypole (not the playground toy by the same name, which is no doubt no longer to be found.) singing "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow". I seem to recall that we were dressed in pilgrim garb for the occasion...and it was only the Pilgrims who outlawed the Maypole. Trying to put the lid on handfastings and "greenwood marriages" apparently.

The tradition survives in the time-honored rhyme I didn't learn until college:

Hoorray hooray
For the tenth of May
Outdoor fucking
Begins today
I grew up in the country. My elementary was an old fashioned three classroom home town school. We did the may pole dance. We weaved over and under these big streamers until the pole was covered.The sun was warm.
I was reluctant to mention it because it seems like a dream but I find it very nostalgic.


I like to read 'historical' novels. One of the cultural events is the celebration of mayday. With spring comming on and world events at odds with beauty it just makes me yearn for a time when people could just chill.


I thought it was the Catholics who outlawed many of these celebrations, or rather incorporated them?


I went to a handfasting marraige celebration in an old historical theater here in town. It was beautiful.



Thanks for sharing your story maggie. I don't feel so odd now :P
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Old 05-07-2006, 01:00 PM   #66
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I thought it was the Catholics who outlawed many of these celebrations, or rather incorporated them?
They were incorporated and THEN outlawed.

Most of the wiccans that I know are former Catholics. Including me.
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Old 05-07-2006, 01:08 PM   #67
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They were incorporated and THEN outlawed.

Most of the wiccans that I know are former Catholics. Including me.


ahh, I see

Catholic aye?
There is just something I like about the catholic religion tho Bri. The lighting of candles. The walking up to an alter in an open church and leaving at will. The no guilt rosery thing.


or.....Maybe I got that idea from one of my books? :P lol
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Old 05-07-2006, 05:20 PM   #68
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In the Far Side cartoon (which caused the invention of the term "Larson's Dog Effect" in the field of user interface design) Ginger actually can hear her name in between the "blahs".

Too bad I can't find an image of it...but I did find the next evolution in human-canine communication:



Ginger probably can't make subject and verb agree in number either, though. :-)

I know exactly what Larsons Cartoon says. But of course I knew you would argue it for the sake of hearing (seeing) yourself talk.

I think you need a hobbie maggie.


*yawns*
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Old 05-07-2006, 05:21 PM   #69
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