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THURSDAY THUNKS....

1. If you won a brand new house in a Dream House Giveaway would you move into it, sell it to pay the taxes and make a profit, rent it out or give it to a family member/friend who might need it? I think I already have a 'dream house'. So, I'd sell it; pay the tax and then invest the profit--- definitely.

2. Are you good at billards? You mean billiards...right? Yes....well, let's put it this way, I love the game. I tellya, I've always liked playing with balls....and lots of 'em even makes the play more fun!! I like the long slender stick too. Eight ball in the corner pocket! I win....rack 'em up. Double or nothing.

3. Does anyone on the planet really want to see Levi Johnston naked in Playgirl (other than when Bristol Palin did)? Huh? I'm probably the only one that is going rogue on this!! The way the question is written, it's like we all saw him the same time Bristol did....I think not! I'll, personally, be glad when the media hoopla over this Alaskan family is over!!!!

4. Is your phone ringing right now? Nope....I always have the ringer off. It's something I do. [if you haven't heard...I don't like phones. ---The ringer is turned off, but it's still an active phone...If there is an incoming call, it lights up with picture ID---and vibrates; which is especially nice when I'm in the middle of my billiard game.]

5. Do you think man has eaten or tried to eat every type of animal on the face of the earth at one point or another? If not, what don't you think man has tried? I just bet anything and everything has been tried at least once. I'm thinking perhaps termites...but then again ....there's a show called Survivor, so the little 'termies' have been tried and tested. I like meat myself, but I am probably not considered a carnivore ---I don't salivate at road kill and I don't stop to grab a bite to eat at the sight either....and I'm not one to hunt and kill and ravenously bite open the warm flesh to eat...blood and all. Enough already...I'm moving to question number six---

6. The new movie Avatar has been showing sneak peeks and been hyped to the max. Will you see it? I've only seen the preview once...and to be honest I never paid attention. Will I see it? At the movie theater, :::shrug:::....perhaps when it comes to DVD.

7. If a slightly bigger fish eats a small fish, then a bigger fish immediately eats that one, then an even bigger fish immediately eats that fish and then finally a huge fish eats the one that just ate that fish and it gets caught by you... how many meals will you have from that one fish? Depends on if it's fresh water or salt water fish here!! Oh heck...what I'm really trying to say is that "SIZE does matter." I'm on a roll!!!

8. If you had an appointment with the doctor and all the plants in the office were dead, would you still see the doctor? The plants I've ever seen are made of silk these days. What does that tell me? Doctors are artificial. There's that 'fish' word again...artiFISHal.

9. Have you ever seen the number 666 in a dream? No not that I recall...but ironically the other day, the atomic thermometer we have had the indoor temp 66.6!!! Made me take a double take on the reading f'rshure!!

10. "At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment."
~ Benjamin Franklin
So what happens at 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100? 50---the number of candles on my cake lights the way. 60---they heat the room. 70---they are used to warm up the strained carrots. 80---they set off the alarm. 90---gives me a chance to meet and greet the best lookin' firefighter crew ever!! And 100 candles...well, the ashes on the news coverage shows just how hot I really am at that age!!

11. Would you want your phone number to be (area code) 123-4567? I've always wanted my number to be ----3668-2255-63-455-2255-968 [you'll need to have a phone keypad to figure it out if you're interested]



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THURSDAY 13

For Thursday 13, I sometimes do research to find 13 facts. Of course, Google comes into play. I always learn so much doing it this way. In fact I told Bud "I sure wish we would've had Google back some 50 years ago..." I then added: "We'd all be brilliant!" He so sternly disagreed with me. In fact his comeback was "Not really, I'd still be getting C's and D's. I'd still be trying to figure out how to log in and use the keyboard." It was funny. You had to be there!! Mainly, 'cause it's true!! He can't type worth diddly squat and hunts and pecks at the keyboard....



THURSDAY 13...
aka How Long Did it Take You to Figure This Out----

1] This was first written in 1788
2] Poet: Robert Burns
3] Made to music
4] Sang most always on the year's end holidays
5] Also sang on Burns' Day January 25th
6] Scottish by heritage [song and poet]
7] Thought to be sung/read for friendships long past
8] "Modern" translation is: "Time Gone By"
9] The music which Burns composed for this song was rejected by his publisher, and Burns then submitted an existing tune. Burns’ song was not published until 1796, after Burns’ death.
10] Robert Burns, or Rabbie as he was known, was the son of a farmer, born in Alloway, Ayrshire, in the southwest of Scotland on January 25, 1759.
11] George Thomson a Fife‑born music publisher enlisted Burns to write lyrics for 114 songs and he commissioned many of the leading European composers, including Haydn and Beethoven, to set many of these poems to music. Burns was working on this collection up until his death.
12] Literally, it translates from old Scottish dialect meaning 'Old Long Ago'
13] Pronounced properly "Awl-d Lang Sign" [We North Americans seem to mispronounce it with the "Z" in Syne...it should be with a soft 's'.]

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu'd the gowans fine;
But we've wandered mony a weary fit
Sin' auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roared
Sin' auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And there's a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught

For auld lang syne.

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

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As y'all know from my last book review on "Lost Symbol", I picked out another book that is part of my 'to read' stack. This one, Bud read in paperback edition about a year ago and liked it a lot. He raved of it. But, he then traded it in without giving me a chance to read it. Of course, I'd prefer the larger books...hardcover; because paperback print is too small & straining on my eyes. Well, I then went and bought the hardcover edition and saved it to my ever-growing shelf of books I wanted to read. And of course being that Dan Brown's books are so controversial to many, I feel compelled to perhaps follow-up on some more of the same subject. This one, The Betrayal, by the Gear couple is just that...fiction. A Novel. It's been 32 years of research on writing this book. To quote the authors: "One of the most important discoveries we made in our search for the historical Jesus was that the original gospels had undergone a great deal of editing and rewriting in their long journey to become the books we know today as the New Testament." And of course, I'm always open to new things, new concepts and profound ideas. I never close my mind to something that perhaps would shock a nation...shock the whole Christiandom [if there is such a word as Christiandom...Google says there is, so I'm going with it]. A couple of reviews, other than Bud's word, states "I've read many books on Jesus. Few range as widely or as deeply into his life and the early centuries of Christianity as The Betrayal. A passionate book about a man who changed the history of the world."--Thomas Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of Lights Along the Way: Great Stories of American Faith. And --"This is a unique and creative telling of a vital story and offers a depth of knowledge and information unmatched in any other work of fiction."--Lewis Perdue, New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Legacy. I'm sure I'll have an opinion if I complete the entire book. Only then, will I agree or disagree. LOL






POSTED: Thursday, November 19th, 2009
4:34 A.M.