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Teriyakicat said:
Why does she have you on ignore?
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This post made me think she put me on ignore:
Shell said:
There is one way of getting rid of rainbow frog. :)
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I like to think that ignore list is some kind POW camp where you Shell are this guy (or the female equivalent if you're going to be nitpicky)
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And if I ever join the ranks I will be this guy:
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Everyday I will attempt to free the Fremantle prisoners being held captive :p

#ifeartheignorelist
 
BotsMaster said:
This post made me think she put me on ignore:


I like to think that ignore list is some kind POW camp where you Shell are this guy (or the female equivalent if you're going to be nitpicky)
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And if I ever join the ranks I will be this guy:
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Everyday I will attempt to free the Fremantle prisoners being held captive :p

#ifeartheignorelist
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Fremantle prisoners? Are you talking about the players living under the oppressive Lyin rule of their dictator coach, Ross?
 
The Crocheted Tablecloth
beautiful story..... makes you
understand that things happen for a reason ..
The brand new pastor and his wife,
newly assigned to their first ministry,
to reopen a church in suburban
Brooklyn, arrived in early October
excited about their opportunities.
When they saw their church, it was
very run down and needed much
work. They set a goal to have everything
done in time to have their first service
on Christmas Eve.
They worked hard, repairing pews,
plastering walls, painting, etc., and
on December 18 were ahead of schedule
and just about finished.
On December 19 a terrible tempest -
a driving rainstorm hit the area and
lasted for two days.
On the 21st, the pastor went over
to the church. His heart sank when he
saw that the roof had leaked, causing a
large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet
to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary
just behind the pulpit, beginning about
head high.
The pastor cleaned up the mess on
the floor, and not knowing what else
to do but postpone the Christmas Eve
service, headed home.
On the way he noticed that a local business
was having a flea market type sale for
charity so he stopped in. One of the items
was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored,
crocheted tablecloth with exquisite
work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered
right in the center. It was just the right
size to cover up the hole in the front
wall. He bought it and headed back
to the church.

By this time it had started to snow.
An older woman running from the
opposite direction was trying to catch
the bus.... She missed it... The pastor
invited her to wait in the warm church for
the next bus 45 minutes later.
She sat in a pew and paid no attention to
the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers,
etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall
tapestry.. The pastor could hardly believe
how beautiful it looked and it covered
up the entire problem area.

Then he noticed the woman walking down
the center aisle. Her face was like a
sheet.... 'Pastor,' she asked, 'where did
you get that tablecloth?'
The pastor explained. The woman
asked him to check the lower right
corner to see if the initials, 'EBG'
were crocheted into it there. They
were. These were the initials of the
woman, and she had made this
tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria .
The woman could hardly believe it
as the pastor told how he had just gotten
the Tablecloth. The woman explained
that before the war she and her husband
were well-to-do people in Austria .
When the Nazis came, she was forced
to leave. Her husband was going to
follow her the next week.
He was captured, sent to prison and
never saw her husband or her home again.

The pastor wanted to give her the
tablecloth, but she made the pastor
keep it for the church.
The pastor insisted on driving her home,
that was the least he could do... She
lived on the other side of Staten Island
and was only in Brooklyn for the day
for a housecleaning job.

What a wonderful service they had on
Christmas Eve. The church was almost
full. The music and the spirit were
great. At the end of the service, the
pastor and his wife greeted everyone
at the door and many said that they
would return.
One older man, whom the pastor
recognized from the neighborhood
continued to sit in one of the pews
and stare, and the pastor wondered
why he wasn't leaving.

The man asked him where he got the
tablecloth on the front wall because
it was identical to one that his wife had
made years ago when they lived in
Austria before the war and how could
there be two tablecloths so much alike.

He told the pastor how the Nazis came,
how he forced his wife to flee for her
safety and he was supposed to follow
her, but he was arrested and put in a
prison.... He never saw his wife or his
home again all the 35 years in between.

The pastor asked him if he would allow
him to take him for a little ride. They
drove to Staten Island and to the same
house where the pastor had taken the
woman three days earlier.

He helped the man climb the three
flights of stairs to the woman's
apartment, knocked on the door and
he saw the greatest Christmas reunion
he could ever imagine.

True story - submitted by Pastor Rob Reid
Who says God does not work in mysterious ways....
 

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Teriyakicat said:
Why isn't a TomTom called a Tammy or something more girlie? Have you ever heard of a bloke who asked for directions??
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My brother has a TomTom, for the red light cameras + he has an Irish Colleen, who he calls Erin, as his TomTom voice.
 
BotsMaster said:
Thanks Teriyakicat

Chiefs image restrictions are annoying as I had to constantly compress and resize the image to suit.
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I couldn't get my avatar posted, so asked the wondering JB + he did it for me :hearts:
 
Teriyakicat said:
Speaking of picking berries...
I've got a huge tree full of mulberries that I'm too lazy to pick. They cost about $7-8 per 250g punnet I think. I usually save my strawberry containers and take kilos of mulberries in to school for the teachers - must get picking later today... once the rain stops.
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Yum!!! I adore mulberries! That's a tree every garden should have! You know Teri, we should begin a gardening thread! ;)
 
Teriyakicat said:
Just had a thought- if you wanted your psychedelic frog avatar up, maybe you can PM the person who's asked you not to use it and tell them to put you on ignore for a month while you use the avatar, then swap it over to something else. That way the lights and movement of the frog won't bother them.
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Tell the knob who complained about BotsMaster's avatar to go jump! I'm fed up with all those people who constantly complain + make negative comments!
 

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SquishyKitty said:
Yum!!! I adore mulberries! That's a tree every garden should have! You know Teri, we should begin a gardening thread! ;)
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I'll ship a bucketload over to you, then!!
The problem with mulberries is, because they're so soft, you can't put them into a deep container like you can with strawberries, for instance. I save all my strawberry punnets and put mulberries in them or I freeze them in disposable plastic food containers and put them in muffins or smoothies, etc. The bright purple colour of the smoothies can be a bit off-putting!

Oh- and mulberries are very very messy! Our tree fruits during one of the windiest times of the year, so plenty of fruit falls to the ground. The chickens and lizards can't keep up with the fruit fall.

A gardening thread? That's a great idea- but I don't know if there are many people interested in gardening. I was looking on the main board last week but couldn't find anything much. Perhaps we could start one and get people to post pics of whatever they've got in their gardens- e.g. flowers, trees, bushes, vegies, etc. I posted a few flower pics for Shai the other day but never thought to start a separate thread on it. I've been planting out herbs and have put some bean seeds into small punnets for planting out later on- so much to do, so many many seeds (collected a stack last year from my vegetables) but I don't know if I'll get much into the vegie patch this year.
 
allrighty said:
Our horse ringbarked our mulberry tree yesterday while standing in knee high green grass.
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Oh no!! I would've thought the horse would prefer grass! Will your tree be OK? Goats are a different kettle of fish!! Mine loves the bark of the eucalyptus trees and the liquidamber trees. I used to tie him up under those trees, to chew the grass underneath (saves on whippersnippering... or so I thought!) but he'd put his front hooves on the lowest branches and eat as high up as he could, then lick the bark all around. I had to tie him up under Melaleuca trees instead- they're not as tasty ;)
 

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Teriyakicat said:
I understand that the original complainant told Bots that he/she had epilepsy- and Bots was good enough to take it down straight away.
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Still an knob :p :D
 
allrighty said:
Our horse ringbarked our mulberry tree yesterday while standing in knee high green grass.
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NO!!! Did you shoot her? ;) (a la Cyanide + Happiness?)
 
allrighty said:
You know you can download R Rated voices for your GPS?
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NO!!! I didn't know that you could! + my question is why? ;) I can do a pretty good impersonation of Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday Mr President" lol I could sing GPS directions, maybe?
 
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