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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1797
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 10:41 am: |   |
I just bought my wife a mood ring so I could monitor her ups and downs.
When she's in a good mood, it turns green.
When she's in a bad mood, it leaves red marks on my forehead.
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sherrie_martin
Awareness Member
Post Number:
34
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 02:40 pm: | |
I just bought my wife a mood ring so I could monitor her ups and downs.
When she's in a good mood, it turns green.
When she's in a bad mood, it leaves red marks on my forehead.
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1520
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 06:08 pm: | |
I've got several moody rings. When my arthritis is in the mood to flare up, I can't pry the rings off my fingers. However, when the inflammation decides to take a break, the rings slip off my fingers. It's disconcerting to have the class ring and the service ring that I have worn for years constantly at risk of being lost. The cycle occurs so frequently that it would do little good to have them adjusted.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilante.htm |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1788
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 05:35 am: | |
Remember the rings that we used to get as radio premiums? (I'm from the generation where we got our first TV as I was entering my teens and it was the first one on the block.) They were fully adjustable for any size finger... I think that their demise was closely tied to the rapid expansion of the plastic industry whose product is much cheaper than brass but not as malleable.
Dennis Collins
Moderator
www.theunrealmccoy.com |
Tom Elkins
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
388
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 06:31 am: | |
Dennis -
So that was YOU! My dad was too cheap...claimed TV was just a fad. He finally bought one after I went off to college.
Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1523
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 05:43 pm: | |
It was just a fad. I haven't watched it in 20 years. Can't say that I miss it.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2292
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 06:29 pm: | |
WHAT ---- SOMEONE DOESN'T WATCH AMERICAN IDOL? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Fred that is totally un-american 
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1525
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 01:20 pm: | |
Idolatry is not for me. The majority of them couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I heard the winner singing on National Public Radio. It was overdone.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2595
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 01:51 pm: | |
actually, Fred,
This years current crop are mostly VERY GOOD, contrary to the last few seasons. The finalists are now down to 10 and going for 9 and it is a really tough choice, they are all so evenly measured and have both good presence and tonal abilities. There are a few of them that should already be out in the musical world, per se and have already gone far, but they are just at the beginning stage on Idol. For the next 9 weeks it will be a really tough decision as to who get axed each week, cause they have raised the bar so high and continue to do so each time they sing.
And I do watch it because they are so talented, and have only to go up in the musical world. And I do enjoy it. I haven't voted on any of them, but find the competition very engaging, and that makes the contestants try harder to perform at the very best of their ability. Even some of the ones who have gotten booted in previous weeks will go far, as well as some who got booted out in the other seasons prior. It takes a vast amount of talent to sing some of the songs that they are put to task on. And they have the talent for the most part. When they don't it really shows, and they tend to lose that week.
Claudia
MINDSIGHT MODERATOR
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Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1802
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 01:55 pm: | |
Hmmmm,
I don't watch the show either, but, Fred....how do you know it's overdone if you haen't seen it?
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1526
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 07:12 pm: | |
Bill,
I heard it on National Public Radio. Radio was around long before television and is nowhere near as distracting as the boob tube. Aren't there enough celebrities without us going out of our way to create more? By "overdone" I mean that this particular country singer wannabe was obviously straining to be saccharine. It says a lot about the people who watch the show that they didn't call her on it.
Every evening spent in front of the tube is one less evening spent writing. It's your choice. Do you want to entertain others or are you, like most consumers, looking to be entertained?
Ater calculating that she was spending more than $600 per year on cable TV, my housekeeper told them to come and take back their equipment. She got a "C" on her last nursing exam. I think she will do much better next semester by focusing on her studies.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
1803
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 08:21 pm: | |
Fred,
"Every evening spent in front of the tube is one less evening spent writing. It's your choice. Do you want to entertain others or are you, like most consumers, looking to be entertained?"
I like both. I don't watch TV 24 hrs per day, nor do I write 24 hrs. either.
I have several things in my life that I enjoy besides writing.
I guess it's that old saw, "what ever floats your boat"...
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Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1527
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 08:52 pm: | |
I enjoy other things, too, but it's difficult to keep the boat afloat while watching television. More than one pundit has likened the boob tube to a drug:
A medium, so-called because it is neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs
Television is an invention which permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. - Groucho Marx
Literature has taken a backseat to the television, don't you think? It really has. We don't have a culture anymore that favors the creation of writers or supports them very well. - Tennessee Williams
Set a good example. Do like Groucho Marx. When you get the urge to watch TV, go read a book instead. For heavens sake, you're an author. If you aren't being supported in the manner to which you would like to become accustomed, maybe you need to change your ways.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2293
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 09:00 pm: | |
The great braindrain --- tv
Were it not for the boob tube, I would be one of the most read writers of all time. Oh, I how I loathe all those hours of watching MASH, Walton's Mountain, Magnum PI - Roy Rogers, Star Trek, Perry Mason, Bozo, Jordan and the Bulls, Reruns of Gilligan's Island and glued to Doctor Who.
Yep, I saw who shot JR, laughed at Hee haw, sat in a trace watching Twilight Zone and revelled in HBO before the days of commercials on cable.
TV is a waste of time, I see that now that I'm older. American idol, Lost, Wife Swap and the current fare are - in my opinion - poor excuses for entertainment.
But then - I do like Boston Legal 
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