BS: New Years Resolutions 2009

Subject: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 11:19 AM

I resolve to ATTEMPT to find the good and the humour in everyone and everything.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 02:09 PM

Good resolution. I will try to join you. Maybe by concentrating on it, we can increase it.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: akenaton
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 02:25 PM

No more "Mr Nice guy"

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 03:08 PM

Yeah, Ake. I hear ya. But, like Ebbie says, try. Maybe WE can do it, despite the yahoos and the crap. This past year was not so great in those departments for anyone.

BTW... when I do sound cynical and I do make cynical and crass jokes... they ARE jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: akenaton
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 03:24 PM

You're alright gnu.......my son was lookin' over my shoulder as I typed my post, you know what he said?....."Are you sure that wasn't last years resolution?"

Whats 'e like?

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 03:40 PM

Err, to not back away and fail to say "that's fucking revolting bullshit" when I see unspeakable bullshit being vomited.

And of course to give everyone else a lovely big cuddley-woo kissey bekawse I'm such a dumbass sukka YUK YUK!

What am I like!!? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 04:04 PM

Play more guitar. Lose the weight chocolate had made me put me back on. Study and pass my exams. Be grateful we don't have a mortgage.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: akenaton
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 04:12 PM

A numpty??

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 09:35 PM

Hold onto my record of not smoking no more and get it down cold fer good this time...

Write more, schmooze less, fire up my afterburners and engage.


A

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 27 Dec 08 - 10:56 PM

I'm quitting again too Amos never say die.

Other than that, I'm resolving not to shoot anyone for talking too loudly in a movie theatre if their kids are there.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:15 PM

(Oh I see that news item has fallen off the pages already. On Christmas Day in Pennsylvania one dad shot another dad in the arm becuase the latter's kids were talking too loudly at The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Guns and religion all entangled in that guy's head.)

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:18 PM

Play more guitar! Also lose the weight chocolate helped me regain. Play more mandolin. Get a grip on the five-string banjo. Ignore irritating things and people at the office.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:26 PM

Yes... you should not irritate things or people at the office.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 01:44 PM

exercise, excercise, exercise....



(oh, yes...and refrain from sending nasty emails to every station, network and individual who tolerate using **insure** when they mean **ensure**) it won't do any good, anway.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 02:22 PM

It's like those who try and do instead of those who try to do. Are they trying to drive me mad?

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 02:27 PM

Mmmm, apart from continue being a stereotypical numpty, this year I resolve to 'get my arse in gear' and 'sort my shit out.'

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 02:33 PM

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 03:36 PM

Ha! That is one of my peeves, too, Bill D. Even in books.

"Are they trying to drive me mad?" They are trying, gnu, but do
they? *g*

Yes, Skarpi? (By the way, I hope fervently that Iceland's situation will improve markedly this year.)

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: heric
Date: 28 Dec 08 - 06:43 PM

Insure versus ensure used to bother me but I have let go of the negative energies emanating from that issue. Note that the word ensuren, in the middle of the fifteenth century, spawned both ensure and insure with the same meaning. It wasn't until the middle of the seventeenth century that insure took on its specialized meaning(s), and even today it does not exclusively entail those meanings, e.g. it also currently means "to guarantee against loss or harm" per Random House, or "be careful or certain to do something," per Princeton University Press. Add to all that the related word assure, and the fact that insurance in French is assurance (having itself apparently devolved from the Old French enseurer or aseurer), AND the fact that assure can be a replacement for insure in Britain, and, well, you have a right mess on your hands. Fancier distinctions (such as using ensure where there is no specific insured property or event) just can't maintain their integrity.

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: akenaton
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 02:46 AM

That's brilliant heric. I think words are wonderful!

Subject: RE: BS: New Years Resolutions 2009
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 12:10 PM

Invest in pryamid scheme like these guys

Sue CBS for $70 million

Enlighten those who stillt hink Sarah Palin is a breathe of fresh air by having a site "what would Sarah do and What did Sarah say"
Eventually the fresh air some thought they smelled will become as rancid as a real rotting moose.