azraelle

What is "it" (the world wide epidemic)? I don't get out much!

Well... I actually kinda stole the nickname from someone on a Wiki I used to read quite a lot,

What's a "Wiki"??

My wife and I had had 5 before the divorce, 2-d's, 3-s's. Glutton for punishment? Glutton for Joy, rather, I'd say. No amount of "punishment" could ever erase the joy and happiness that children bring if you are willing to put their needs above your own (and if you're not you shouldn't even consider being a parent in the first place--unfortunately, becoming a parent is usually the last thing that is on the minds of unmarried teens "in love" ).

Not meaning to gross you out, Laurie, but since you are of a size that many of the guys on this forum can fit into, have you considered the "titilation factor" here? It is a possiblity that some guys may get extreme pleasure out of wearing shoes formerly worn by a woman, rather than a man (e.g. the shoes that are sold by Hiluc, Xaphod, etc., on occasion). I am not in this category, oddly enough--I find the idea strangely fascinating and revolting at the same time. The point is, though, that your old shoes may prove to be quite valuable if you sell them in the typical 6-day ebay auction fashion--towards moving/wedding expenses, or whatever.

You might find it in the JW "green dragon" definitely sanitized version of the Bible but I doubt anywhere else. However, somewhere in OT KJV is a passage that says "...they will eat their own dung and drink their own piss." I will give chapter and verse in a few days.

his wife, keeping

I posted this to another thread, but at the risk of being drummed off the board as a modern-day heretic, let me share with you two small facets of "Mormon doctrine", to wit:

" As man is now, God once was; as God is now, man may become "

(--attributed to Joseph Smith)

[Jehovah, as the God of this world, speaking in vision to Abraham] "Worlds without number have I created..." and "[paraphrased] I have done nothing that I have not seen my Father do..."

By the way, Julietta, nice to see that you've returned, and thanks for condolences regarding my mother.

blade

(If any of you are Morman or JW, don't take it personally, please)

Dr. Shoe, you apparently didn't read the article(s) on random genetic drift.

They augment the evolutionary argument in a completely unrelated way. You seem to ignore the things you feel you can't explain away, and hope that no one notices.

An objective reading of the Genesis account should find no serious disagreement between a creation story written for the masses of superstitious intellectual ants that existed at the time of Moses, and historical geology as it is understood today. God started with the lesser forms of life, necessarily dividing the land from the sea before he started the process of creating life, and advanced to the higher forms only after the process had been perfected ("~and God saw that it was good...").

Judging from the modern-day lunacy and mind-boggling ability of otherwise mentally-capable human beings to ignore the obvious and still adhere to so-called creationist doctrine of an actual 6-day universal creation, it is only logical for Moses, to whom God showed all his creations--and enlarged his mind, somewhat, as to how he did it ("~I now know that [compared to God] man is nothing, which thing I had never before supposed..."), to have to greatly simplify the creation story for the Israelites. The vast majority, after 400 years of slavery in Egypt, probably couldn't read, probably would have had difficulty counting past 50, and couldn't possibly comprehend the vastness of what we know as time.

A scene from the movie Robin Hood, Prince of Theives (starring Kevin Costner) comes to mind--where one of the men asks Robin how many soldiers there are (there are ~50 or more) and he says 20, whereupon his Moorish companion asks him about the obvious discrepancy (to someone who knew how to count) and Robin says "they won't know the difference, anyway"! Or for that matter the fact that the words used for the numbering system in French changes completely at "40", the obvious implication that the commoners weren't expected (allowed?) to be able to count (or for that matter live past 40.

Might we not expect a similar situation to exist in the time of Moses? If you look at all the rules that are in Numbers and Deuteronomy for carrying on their everyday life, you get a pretty good idea of the intellectual dolldrum that Moses' people occupied. So he put the creation of the world in terms that the Israelites at the time could understand.

Wedges, schmedges! Real men only wear heels!!! :splat:

But no one says anything about how to fix her boots--y'all couldn't even stop and tell me that my idea was good or feckless!!

The only thing I could think of (as to why a brittisher might be called a "pom") was the pom-pom on top of the typically brittish hat of many years ago called a "tam-o-shanter". 'Course, it may also be a Scottsman's hat/cap.

I think the first part of Terrayon's post was good--mention that you have a "thing" for boots, then say "if you see me staring at you it's probably the boots you're wearing--consider it a complement on your excellent fashion sense. But by all means, if you find my staring objectionable, please don't hesitate to call me on it, surreptitiously after class, if you don't want anyone to know that you complained.", etc.

Sorry Laurie about the crack in your boot heel. I don't know if this would work or not--try filling it with black colored fiberglass resin, presumably available from a boat supplier. I assume it is available in colors now--haven't seen it used in about 30 years--back then I believe you had to mix in the pigment yourself. You'd probably need several fillings as it tends to shrink. Alternatively you could use 2-part epoxy resin, which amounts to the same thing, but it doesn't come in colors.

What the devil is a "pom" or a "whinger", or for that matter a "windie". Enquiring minds want to know.

LIAR

(Note the pronunciation similarities!)

(besides high heels)

(besides high heels)

Mould, psilocybin mushrooms,

I started out as a life member but lost a job in the middle of the payment plan so I ended up a paid-up 10-year member. HH Boots, yes, scarves of whatever material, no. And ties (or anything else constricting around my neck, including most men's T-shirts) as seldom as possible.

If I may inject a bit of Mormon Blasphemy here--this is a couplet attributed to the founder of the LDS Church (if you're a non-believer), or the first prophet in modern times (if you are a believer), Joseph Smith, to explain some fundamental ideas about origins:

As man is now, God once was.

As God is now, man may become.

Seems to me the ultimate definition of "evolution", don't you think?

I answered "no" on your poll. The only thing really good about smaller feet is that they don't have a problem finding shoes that fit, a point of envy for some, including myself. :x The Chinese have been doing an extremely painful procedure for several years on young women who wish to be taller (apparently tallness equates to better jobs, pay, respect, etc. for women in China these days) which involves breaking the leg bones, then putting the legs in tension for a period of about a year, during which the voluntary "victim" adjusts the tension a little more each day. It results in an increase in height of 4-5" over the time period. This according to an article in CosmoGirl. I wonder if some enterprising surgical team could come up with the reverse, applied to the feet?

Witness

(The Movie: Harrison Ford pastes a heckler in the jaw, whereupon his Pensylvania "Dutch" lady friend accuses him of being good at "whacking"!)