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7/16/01
A few people have been bringing up the thing that has turned the wrestling world
on it's ear...
My comments are simple. Good to see some of my favorite workers aren't out of a job. It
opens up storyline possibilities like never before. I just hope since it's all under the creative
control of the WWF minds that the product doesn't get very stale very fast. We'll see if it lasts
past the initial excitement. If it does we can look forward to some great entertainment.
6/29/01
Sad...sad...sad...Yesterday on the way to work there was traffic. Turns out someone hit a deer.
It was lying by the side of the road, Obviously in a lot of pain. It was twitching and looking at me.
Quite a shame to see this creature hurting so badly. I really didn't know what to do. I assume it was
put down. What a horrible way to end your existance.
6/3/01
OK... Randomness time again...I can now pop that part of my back that always required
someone picking me up or walking on me merely by twisting now. The River Rave was fun, complete with all the usual rock concert
trappings.... but ill planned...they ran out of supplies,
the surrounding area was all construction, the bands seemed lacking as a whole... kinda bored and
sanitized, and people really must learn proper mosh pit /general admission/ crowd surfing behavior.
It's not like the old days...In other news, a woman called in work the other day comparing her program
to a dead baby....now what would you say to that? On a happier note... I am in a musical upheaval...
similar to my college years..."Metal" John sees value lately in some Country, Hip-Hop, Rock a Billy,
Showtunes & a wee bit o' everything... lately people have been showing me alternatives to the
pablum that was thrown at me for the longest time... could it be that things are turning around?
I forgot music could be so fun and make you feel so much. And I'm a musician! By the way, anyone want to go shopping with me? I need clothes, equipment of various sorts.
and a truck.... And I want to go to some more shows... so people should start reminding me...
05/17/01
The World Needs A Hero
Hmmmm...Vic Rattlehead bursting through Dave Mustaine's chest? This could only mean one thing.
It's time for a new Megadeth CD kiddies! May 15th marks the first release for Megadeth on Sanctuary Records. Overall I am impressed.
It's not Rust In Peace. It's not Countdown to Extinction. It's Not Risk. What it is however, is a
statement of Megadeth circa 2001. This lineup has the skills and the CD is a natural evolution
from their previous releases. I believe some people might not "get it". But since this CD came out
I have listened to it 15-20 times and I got a feeling it will hold the test of time. Equal elements
of heaviness, melodies, great lyrical content & the unexpected make it a great listen. I would say that old school
heavy metal/hard rock is back with a new twist! And it's about damn time!
5/6/01
A police officer sees a man driving around with a
pickup truck full of
penguins. He pulls the guy over and says: "You
can't
drive around with
penguins in this town! Take them to the zoo
immediately." The guy says OK
and drives away. The next day the officer sees the
guy still driving around with
the truck full of penguins - and they're all
wearing
sun glasses. He pulls
the guy over and demands: "I thought I told you
take
these penguins to the
zoo yesterday?" The guy replies: "I did...today
I'm
taking them to the
beach."
4/17/01
My parents sent me the coolest Easter E-card...
It read...
" Johnny
Saw this particular bunny and
wondered if it was a relative of
'Yoda'. What do you think?
He just stands there and doesn't do
anything..probably thinking......can
the 'Force' be with him?
Ma and Dad
And the picture looked a little something like this...
Freaky huh? What's up with that baby?
4/3/01
Here's another from my dad...as I read it I realise how rare this really is. If you got it, hold on to it. If you lost it, try to get it back.
This is a test of the Emergency Friend System.
If this were an actual emergency you would be
instructed where to tune
for location information concerning your friend.
This is only a test.
A Friend....
A)ccepts you as you are
B)elieves in "you"
C)alls you just to say "HI"
D)oesn't give up on you
E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
F)orgives your mistakes
G)ives unconditionally
H)elps you
I)nterjects when they see something wrong
J)ust wants to "be" with you
K)eeps you close at heart
L)oves you for who you are
M)akes a difference in your life
N)ever Judges
O)ffers support
P)icks you up
Q)uiets your fears
R)aises your spirits
S)ays nice things about you
T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
U)nderstands you
V)alues you
W)alks beside you
X)-plain things you don't understand
Y)ells when you won't listen and
Z)aps you back to reality
3/20/01
How's this for a chuckle? A woman called me at work last week telling me she was "Bumfuzzled"! Sometimes you just gotta laugh at how silly people can be... So smile & enjoy these
that my dad sent to me.
Recently, when I went to McDonald's. I saw on the
menu that you could have an
order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a
half dozen nuggets. "We
don't have half dozen nuggets", said the teenager at
the counter. "You
don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or
twelve," was the reply. "So I
can't order a half-dozen nuggets, but I can order
six?" "That's right." So I
shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.
The paragraph above doesn't amaze me because of what
happened a couple of
months ago. I was checking out at the local Foodland
with just a few items
and the lady behind me put her things on the belt
close to mine. I picked up
one of those "Dividers" that they keep by the cash
register and placed it
between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After
the girl had scanned all
of my items, she picked up the "Divider" looking all
over it for the bar code
so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she
said to me "Do you know
how much this is?" and I said to her "I've changed
my mind, I don't think
I'll buy that today". She said "Ok" and I paid her
for the items and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.
A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into
her floppy drive and
pulling it out very quickly. When inquired as to
what she was doing, she said
she was shopping on the Internet and they kept
asking for a credit card
number, so she was using the ATM "thingy"....
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping
beside her car. Do you need
some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should
have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into
my car. Do you think they
(pointing to a distant convenient store) would have
a battery to fit this?"
"Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm too?" I asked.
"No, just this remote
thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys
to me. As I took the key
and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why
don't you drive over there
and check about the batteries it's a long walk.
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too
swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm
almost out of typing paper.
What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the
secretary told her. With
that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece
of paper, put it on the
photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank"
copies. (It probably was a resume for the White House internship!)
I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large
motor home was towed into
the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole
thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister". I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the
"cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.
IDIOTS & COMPUTERS My neighbor works in the
operations department in the
central office of a large bank. Employees in the
field call him when they
have problems with their computers. One night he got
a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've
got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"
Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated asuspect by placing a metal
colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and
police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed. ( The Winner...! )
03/11/01
I'm still exploring this new world I have been thrown into lately. My Dad sent me this & I thought that it had some really interesting & relevant points..
It made me think about my life and the people & things in it. And I still think that you can go back and fix things sometimes. All you need is to be patient
and open with the other person, be aware, to know your
mistakes & lessons in your heart and own them & be given the chance. So here's to chances and I hope you get something out of this.
An interview with GOD
"Come in," God said. "So, you would like to
interview Me?"
"If you have time," I said.
God smiled and said: "My time is eternity and is
enough to do everything.
What questions do you have in mind to ask me?"
"What surprises you most about mankind?"
God answered: "That they get bored of being
children The are in a rush to
grow up, and then long to be children again....That
they lose their health to
make money and then lose their money to restore
health.
That by thinking anxiously about the future, they
forget the present, such
that, they live neither for the present nor the
future. That they live as if
they will never die, and they die as if they never lived.."
God's hands took mine and we were silent for a while
and then I asked.."As a
parent, what are some of live's lessons you want
your children to learn?"
Smiling, God replied: "To learn that they cannot
make anyone love them.
What they can do is let themselves be loved.
To learn that what is most valuable is not what they
have in their lives, but
who..
To learn that it is not good to compare themselves
to others. All will be
judged individually on their own merits, not as a
group on comparison basis!
To learn that a rich person is not the one who has
the most, but is one who
needs the least.
To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open
profound wounds in persons
we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
To learn that there are persons that love them
dearly, but simply do not know
how to express or show their feelings.
To learn that money can buy everything but
happiness.
To learn that two people can look at the same thing
and see it totally
different.
To learn that a true friend is someone who knows
everything about them..and
likes them anyway.
To learn that it is not always enough that they be
forgiven by others, but
that they have to forgive themselves."
I sat there a while, enjoying the moment. I thanked
Him for his time and for
all He had done for me and my family. he replied,
"Anytime. I'm here 24
hours a day. All you have to do is ask for me and
I'll answer. Remember,
people may forget what you said. They may forget
what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them feel."
02/27/01
I have something to share and bit of an apology to make. For months now I have had a lot going on
in my life and I got ovewhelmed and caught up in the negativity. As a result I said and did things without
clearly knowing what I was doing. I destroyed a lot of things that are very important to me and I realise that now.
I just hope everyone can accept my apologies for the way I was acting and realise that I really didn't know what I was
doing and I have learned my lessons well... Come talk to me and see...
In that spirit I thought I would share some stuff that helped me a lot. Other than that all I can say is try and think positive
and not let things get to you. And kept the things that are important to you close. Never neglect them or take them for granted.
Always be willing to fight & sacrifice for them. And don't let down those that are truly there for you...Now tell me what you think of this...
Question: One maxim of self-development I sense is true is that the way out of any stressful
situation is to "go through it." How does this approach apply to reducing stress-producing
thought-attacks?
Answer: Everything depends upon our ability to inwardly discriminate between thoughts and feelings that
are for us as opposed to those that are against us. Whenever confronted with an onslaught of internal
impressions, the most powerful tool you have is to go silent. Step away from the situation inwardly by
bringing everything that is going through you into your deliberate field of attention. There is a native unity in
a silent mind that is able to both witness and "taste" the thoughts and feelings passing through it. It is this
internal field of silence that reveals the character of any impressions and shows them for what they are. It's
hard to make a mistake when your first wish is to see these thoughts and feelings instead of just
unconsciously turning your will over to them.
(The Seeker's Complete Field Guide to Self-Freedom, to be released Winter of 2001)
Question: How can I work to rid myself of these waking nightmares I have where I feel like
life is going to crush me?
Answer: The next time you find yourself bogged down or stressed through some everyday event,
deliberately break out of the circle of thoughts that are both describing the event to you and defining you
within that description. Remember the Higher in this moment, and keep your attention, if nothing else, on
the fact that there is more to your life in that moment than the reality you've been given by the perceiving
self.
("Chatroom Classroom" transcript, 1999)
Question: I want to let go of my familiar painful thoughts and feelings, but fear what will
happen next. Who will I be without all of my usual feelings?
Answer: You will be that rare someone who experiences a real miracle. As you walk away from your own
self-generated inner-life, you begin to discover that all of the stimulating sensations you thought were
giving you life were actually separating you from it. To your grateful astonishment, you realize that
self-stimulation pales next to being self-completed - which is what you were looking for in the first place.
Now you understand that real life is real satisfaction, because as you leave the self-generated self
behind, you step into the Real World where everything is already complete - including you.
(The Secret of Letting Go)
Question: When I look at myself, it seems that my most prevalent emotion is anger. It's
always there, and I feel powerless to stop my raging thoughts. What can I do? I really am
weary of my own out-of-control emotions.
Answer: You already know that your anger is destroying you. It is... and it will. The fact that you are tired of
losing your life to these self-harming psychic states means you are ready for a change. Here is a new way
to work with what's been working you over: The next time some hostile state takes you over, either in
thought - as in remembering something someone did to you in the past - or in an actual moment of conflict
with someone standing before you, take the following inner steps as soon as you can remember yourself
to do so: Start by seeing that something foreign to your True Nature has imposed itself on you, taken over
your life. Once having done this, do nothing else except realize that while you may be temporarily
powerless to stop the lower state from possessing you, you are empowered to recognize the negative
state as the intruder that it is. This awareness, this conscious, unself-justifying awareness of your true
pained condition, is what it means to put the Light on the problem. That's your job. The Light will do its part
if you'll do yours. Persist until you are free!
(The Intimate Enemy)
Question: Why do I continue to get angry, and why do I always feel so justified in my anger
even though it always makes me feel terrible at a later time?
Answer: To be angry is to suffer. It doesn't help anyone to get angry. Anger hurts whoever is angry. It
burns. Anger ruins relationships, causes heartache and regret, and devastates health. And yet, in spite of
all of these facts, when we are angry, it feels right. Somehow, in some unseen way, anger proves to
whoever is experiencing its heated feelings that he or she is right even though, in the eyes of reality,
nothing could be further from the truth. Anger feels like it is in your best interest because, at the time of its
intrusion into your life, it temporarily fills you with a powerful false sense of self. However, this anger can
only exist without your conscious consent or awareness of its being there. So it is good that you are
wondering how you can be tricked into feeling bad about anything. The Truth wants you to know that it is
never in your best interest to suffer, no matter how inwardly convincing it may feel to you that you will be
betraying yourself if you don't. Anger hypnotizes you with a flood of itself. Step back and learn instead to
listen to the quiet stream of higher insight that runs softly through your true nature. Let it show you that your
anger and suffering proves nothing.
(The Secret of Letting Go)
01/16/01
The Depot wants to extend Get Well wishes to SID...
Who SEVERELY broke his leg at recent WCW Pay Per View. If you haven't seen the footage
you don't want to. Sid suffered a double compound fracture of his leg; indications are that both bones in
his leg snapped above his ankle, and that at least one of the bones broke through the
skin. Sid was rushed to an Indianapolis hospital for treatment.
I have never seen a leg pointed at that particular angle and just lay there limp.
Most disturbing! He should be out the better part of a year after getting a pin placed in his leg yesterday.
Who says wrestlers don't really get hurt?
01/15/01
The more things change... the more they stay the same?
01/14/01
Silly Interesting Facts or not:
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the
shutter on backwards.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated,
dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and
hiccoughed."
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which
are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase
"Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead".
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Camel's milk does not curdle.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean
elephants.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan
All porcupines float in water.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire
town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of
yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were
stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight
staircases.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was called "American Pie."
(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in
an "A" is Afghanistan.
When opossums are playing 'possum', they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into
account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times,
but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up
on the bottom.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
English Dictionary, is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word
with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones
are the largest anagrams.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig
farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor:
Mint Oreo.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty
Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses
II who fathered over 160 children.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after
Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A
Wonderful Life."
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider
than your thumb.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left
hand.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover
Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the
same sex.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are
known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of
rhinos is called a crash. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A
group of whales is called a pod. A group of ravens is called a
murder. A group of officers is called a mess. A group of larks is
called an exaltation. A group of owls is called a parliament.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early
mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched
across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.
"Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came
about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people
needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used
once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The
skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was
mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about
the wreck.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing
the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float.
Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and
it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building
it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that
falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct
itself.
The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a
brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used
in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid
formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold
outside, they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
or it will digest itself.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in
the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in
the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if
the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes. (ed. note: if the rider's head is up the horse's ass, the
rider
died a politician.)
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people
without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the
expression "to get fired."
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
01/01/01
Two things...
Would this band suck?
And would this be the crowd?
