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LOL!
Back when I was about 20 yrs old, I had to type a memo that the President of our 10,000+ employee company would distribute company-wide. I was so incredibly embarassed when the memo was returned with one word circled in RED. The typo turned a rather bland word into a very bad one! It is funny now, but it wasn't then!
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erin74
Ministry is about people not structures.
Sounds like a woman I knew. She was a very reserved, very proper person.
When she was in her first job, just started, a more senior colleague came into her office. He was looking glum.
What she meant to say:
You look like the bottom has fallen out of your world.
What she said:
You look like the world has fallen out of your bottom.
When she was in her first job, just started, a more senior colleague came into her office. He was looking glum.
What she meant to say:
You look like the bottom has fallen out of your world.
What she said:
You look like the world has fallen out of your bottom.
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McWilliams
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Good grief Cyg! Not today! Already dealing with a bout of vertigo! Mercy!!
(referring to post 980!)
(referring to post 980!)
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you don't fancy dinner with me a top of some wonderful high building then sister ..... the views GREAT !!!! 
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Hmm, post 984 is on the edge of propriety, is it not?
or did I spend too many years working in psych with the humorously but dysfunctionally young people?
or did I spend too many years working in psych with the humorously but dysfunctionally young people?
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Dutchman builds modern Noah's Ark
Mr Huibers started work on the ark last summer
Dutchman Johan Huibers is building a working replica of Noah's Ark as a testament to his Christian faith.
The 47-year-old from Schagen, 45km (30 miles) north of Amsterdam, plans to set sail in September through the interior waters of the Netherlands.
Johan's Ark is a fifth of the size of Noah's and will carry farmyard animals.
Mr Huibers, who plans to open the vessel as a religious monument and zoo, hopes the project will renew interest in Christianity in the Netherlands.
Although Mr Huibers has tried to remain true to the ark described in the Bible, Johan's Ark is constructed with American cedar and Norwegian pine, rather than "gopher wood".
'Smell of dung'
According to Genesis, Noah kept seven pairs of most domesticated animals, and one breeding pair of all other creatures.
This will speak very much to children... they'll hear the creak of the wood, smell the smell of the dung
Johan Huibers
Noah's wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law lived together on the boat for almost a year while the world was flooded.
Mr Huibers' vision is more modest - he said he plans to stock his ark with horses, lambs, chickens and rabbits - mostly baby animals to save space.
"This will speak very much to children, because it will give them something tangible to see that Noah's Ark really existed," Mr Huibers told the Associated Press news agency.
The total cost of the project is estimated to be just under 1m euros (£0.7m; US$1.2m) and was funded with bank loans.
Mr Huibers plans to charge people to tour the boat and said a drink and religious pamphlet will be included in the admission price. At least 100,000 people will need to visit for the project to break-even financially. Mr Huibers said his wife was not very keen on the idea. "She always says: 'Why don't you go dig wells in Ethiopia?'," he said. "I've been involved in projects there before but she understands this is my dream."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4853890.stm
Dutchman Johan Huibers is building a working replica of Noah's Ark as a testament to his Christian faith.
The 47-year-old from Schagen, 45km (30 miles) north of Amsterdam, plans to set sail in September through the interior waters of the Netherlands.
Johan's Ark is a fifth of the size of Noah's and will carry farmyard animals.
Mr Huibers, who plans to open the vessel as a religious monument and zoo, hopes the project will renew interest in Christianity in the Netherlands.
Although Mr Huibers has tried to remain true to the ark described in the Bible, Johan's Ark is constructed with American cedar and Norwegian pine, rather than "gopher wood".
'Smell of dung'
According to Genesis, Noah kept seven pairs of most domesticated animals, and one breeding pair of all other creatures.
Johan Huibers
Noah's wife, three sons and three daughters-in-law lived together on the boat for almost a year while the world was flooded.
Mr Huibers' vision is more modest - he said he plans to stock his ark with horses, lambs, chickens and rabbits - mostly baby animals to save space.
"This will speak very much to children, because it will give them something tangible to see that Noah's Ark really existed," Mr Huibers told the Associated Press news agency.
The total cost of the project is estimated to be just under 1m euros (£0.7m; US$1.2m) and was funded with bank loans.
Mr Huibers plans to charge people to tour the boat and said a drink and religious pamphlet will be included in the admission price. At least 100,000 people will need to visit for the project to break-even financially. Mr Huibers said his wife was not very keen on the idea. "She always says: 'Why don't you go dig wells in Ethiopia?'," he said. "I've been involved in projects there before but she understands this is my dream."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4853890.stm
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Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, twas his intent
To blow up king and parliament.
Three score barrels were laid below
To prove old England's overthrow.
By God's mercy he was catched
With a dark lantern and lighted match.
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, twas his intent
To blow up king and parliament.
Three score barrels were laid below
To prove old England's overthrow.
By God's mercy he was catched
With a dark lantern and lighted match.
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.
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THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS.
DO NOT BE LIKE THAT CREATURE ABOVE THIS POST. I REPEAT, DO NOT BE LIKE THAT CREATURE ABOVE THIS POST. IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR, DO NOT BE LIKE THE CREATURE IN THE POST ABOVE--THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS!
DO NOT BE LIKE THAT CREATURE ABOVE THIS POST. I REPEAT, DO NOT BE LIKE THAT CREATURE ABOVE THIS POST. IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR, DO NOT BE LIKE THE CREATURE IN THE POST ABOVE--THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS!
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THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS, THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS.
DO NOT BE LIKE THAT CREATURE ABOVE THIS POST. I REPEAT, DO NOT BE LIKE THAT CREATURE ABOVE THIS POST. IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR, DO NOT BE LIKE THE CREATURE IN THE POST ABOVE--THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS!
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