From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #112 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Monday, April 3 2000 Volume 03 : Number 112 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: questions [Katherine Alexandra ] Re: ET: Just something important [JonBoy911@aol.com] ET: Fwd: Mmm..Trivia!! [Jeremy H ] ET: "Virginia is for Lovers" (our state tourism motto) [kara garbe ] Re: [ET: questions] [Naomi Vaughn ] ET: to all on the eda-thoughts list [Mike Connell ] ET: Jumping into the deep end of the pool [JewelAng@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:23:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Katherine Alexandra Subject: ET: questions it's me, kat. i am one of the first that joined this list, then i took awhile off, and now i am back...everyone that has been here for awhile will know what i am about to say is probably true: THINGS HAVE CHANGED. how horribly obvious though. this once was a sort of community, away for us all to leave reality, and come back through rants, questions, fiction, poetry, lyrics. now we all (me included) through out our words (words of wisdom, beauty, uncertainty), but we aren't COMMUNICATING *so cheesy i know*, and i know we can....if everyones with me on this (i realize how corny i am being, but bite your lips. we all need a little cheese), perhaps we could do a question thing...where we all ask questions and everyone should try to answer it, no matter how small or long the answer or question is. this is to create some more thoughts (isn't that what this should be? not only the thoughts, but the CREATION, the BIRTH of thought?), and get to know ourselves and others here a little better. (stop laughing, this is a brilliant idea! **please someone back me up! *LOL**). i'm going to start with a pretty basic question but something that might spawn some more thought: where do you live? what is it like? what are the smells, sounds, events...what makes your place different from mine?? i know this is a dumb question, but at the same time, it's an awareness of where you are...which all of us should have. also, where are you originally from? where do you consider your hometown (if you consier any place it) where would you like to be??? alright...please someone help me out here *lol* love ya, kat imperfection angel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 08:05:13 EDT From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: Re: ET: Just something important hmm.....I didn't like it. I can agree with certain parts of it, but others I don't like. For instance.... 1) Being a Christian I am aware of the fact that history tells us that Christians have been the most brutal religion in the history of this world. Yet, this writer assumes that all our problems started with taking prayer out of school. What?? 1a) Wasn't this country founded on religious freedom? So according to this writer you can be any religion you want as long as it's a Christian religion. Well that sounds fair! 2) I'm strongly pro-choice, and this writer obviously is not. :) 3) So, what I get from it is that if we beat our kids, and let school officials beat their kids then everything will be ok? Yes!!! Please, everyone, continue the cycle of violence, then maybe it will stop!!! 4) My school doesn't give out condoms, my, nor my friend's parents give out condoms. We have to go to the store to buy them, but that e-mail said something like, "let's have schools give condoms to students so they don't have to say they got them from their parents" 5) this is 2000, not 1950. 6) the world was never good, we just forget about the bad, so that we can remember an easier better time. It didn't all start here. 7) We need to move towards acceptance and celebration of everyone's diversity, not a blindness that makes everyone the same. Namaste, Jon Hamilton ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 05:00:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeremy H Subject: ET: Fwd: Mmm..Trivia!! > Those of you at Sydney Uni may have already seen this, but if you have never > watched the Simpsons, don't bother reading this! > > Simpsons Trivia, devoted to a very tasteful individual, none other than > Homer J. > Each Question gives you a situation; you just have to complete his > response-'Mmm... > So if the situation if 'Tipping his chair back at the dinner table,' the > answer is 'Mmm...slanty'. > > Enjoy! > > (1) Eating a donut after his brain has been implanted in a robot. > (2) Tasting some beef jerky during his shift at the Kwik-E-Mart. > (3) Looking enviously at Santa's Little Helper's dog food, as the family > is forced to eat chub to economise. > (4) Discussing the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, he mentions > Justice Warren Burgher. > (5) Passing the candy bar of the movie in 2030 when he and Bart go to see > Itchy and Scrathcy:the Movie. > (6) After hearing that excess alcohol can cause liver damage and cancer > of the rectum. > (7) After eating the last bite of the donut for which he agreed to sell > his soul to the devil. > (8) When he drinks the liquid used for MASA's lung capacity test. > (9) After eating the waffle formerly stuck to the ceiling which he had > mistaken for God. > (10) Eating some food convered with Marge's pepper spray. > (11) Seeing some goldfish swimming in a pond in the third dimension. > (12) Swallowing the plastic bride and groom from Selma and Troy's wedding > cake. > > Answers > (1) Mmm...sprinkles > (2) Mmm...salty > (3) Mmm...snouts > (4) Mmm...burger > (5) Mmm...Soylent Green > (6) Mmm...beer > (7) Mmm...forbidden donut > (8) Mmm...mediciney > (9) Mmm...sacrilicious > (10) Mmm... incapacitating > (11) Mmm... unprocessed fishsticks > (12) Mmm...pointy > > Hope you enjoyed it! _______________________________________________________ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freelane.excite.com/freeisp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:43:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: kara garbe Subject: ET: "Virginia is for Lovers" (our state tourism motto) okay, i'm going to back up kat, because she's been so cool and giving me travel trips for my coming foray across the atlantic ocean. :) kat suggested that we all discuss where we live. so, i'm currently attending the university of virginia, which is in Charlottesville, Virginia. This is in central virginia, cow pastures and the like. I can talk more about the University than the city, because I can't separate the two. UVA was founded by Thomas Jefferson, and here he's some sort of living legend whom people refer to as "Mister Jefferson," which is pretty scary until you get used to it and sucked into the cult of Jeffersonian worship. I love this school though. The campus is great, lots of old brick buildings and trees. Also, since we're all writers, let me tell you that Edgar Allen Poe went here but got kicked out for drinking or gambling or something like that, but then since he went on to be famous, they decided to turn his old dorm room into a sort of shrine. It's got a class covering across the door and inside is this old-fashioned furniture that's supposed to take you back to his era, plus a big cheesy black stuffed raven. It's quite humorous. Oh, UVA also has one of the best graduate MFA (master of fine arts) programs in creative writing in the country. :) We have two pulitzer prize winning poets in the creative writing faculty -- rita dove and charles wright. Yay uva! I'm originally from northern Virginia, which we like to say is not part of the state of Virginia at all, but rather "a suburb of Washington DC." I think it's your typical middle class suburban place. I've lived there my whole life, so I can't really judge it, but everyone who comes to visit says that they like all the trees and green. That's actually how people from other places characterize the whole state -- they always comment on how green it is here. But, I can also say that people are not very friendly. I had lots of friends in high school who were in military families and had lived all over the world, and they said that virginia was the only place they'd lived where people didn't welcome them to the school and invite them to go eat lunch with them, etc. So, welcome to Virginia. :) Kat, did I sufficiently respond to your topic? Do we get an answer from you now as well? ~kara > where do you live? what is it like? what are the > smells, sounds, events...what makes your place > different from mine?? i know this is a dumb question, > but at the same time, it's an awareness of where you > are...which all of us should have. also, where are you > originally from? where do you consider your hometown > (if you consier any place it) where would you like to > be??? alright...please someone help me out here *lol* ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 00 09:36:55 CDT From: Naomi Vaughn Subject: ET: late night okay, i was up sleepless last night due to an excess of energy, so i ended up writing alot. i think i feel pretty good about most of it, and i feel like posting... so, joe, you're just gonna have to catch up! i don't want to wait. :P lindy, i'm just sending you this because, no, i haven't ever sent you any of my poems before, and you're one of the only (if not *the* only) people who'll get the Bob poem. :) Love you!! and love you, and you, and you... LOL... yes, NAomi's a little... off. Take care, bye. :) Love, Nai - --- ~Nothing compared to the dawn~ Lost & scared; Fumbling & scraping in the dark, silently pleading for you to see, for you to notice me not there, but, no... until I fell, tired & hopeless, to my knees. It's then I finally found my voice, & it's then, that you heard me --- I asked for help, for *something*... & you lowered your head, that you might hear me. Light poured from you, burning the blackness from my eyes, & pulling me to my feet --- You wondered at my lack of words when you answerd my cry... but what can I say? Nothing further was needed once I saw the way, &... I'm happy... now. Happy that I can see, happy that I can see you, and happy, that for the first time in weeks, I believe the sun is here to stay. - -- I think it was that moment when "doubled up in love" made me think of *love* and not *you,* that I felt most free. - -- (yes, I borrowed from Jewel) sure, fantasies are great, & maybe you'll still star in a couple here & there... but it's no longer my gravity. - -- ~talking to myself~ it's all fun in games, till you start talking back. - -- (don't ask, just accept ;) Bob says my brain is like an ink blot test, & it drives him crazy cuz he stares hour after hour & still can't make out the damn thing --- Bob says, that's why, he does bad things. - -- (this is Naomi not sleeping :P) ~3am~ counted sheep till they went to sleep counted stars till they faded to one counted thoughts till it got me thinking... maybe I'd sleep better if I made my bed and my feet didn't lay where my head belongs... one sheep, two sheep, three sheep... so, you know, I was thinking... I something find myself blurring into you, more all the time. my mother thinks we're one... hello, star... yeah, that's what I think. "And when somebody knows you well / well there's no comfort like that / and when somebody needs you / well there's no drug like that" ~Heather Nova ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 00 09:16:26 CDT From: Naomi Vaughn Subject: Re: [ET: questions] I'll back you up. Hey, great idea, Kat! :) Hehe, wow, I'll even try and go first. I'll try to the best of my ability, but if I don't answer *all* of them... well, I get points for going first, right? ;) I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's a nice town (er, city? :), getting bigger and bigger every year, and from my spot here on Delaware Ave. it feels like a busy, noisy city because I live on a street right outside downtown w/ non-stop traffic. I don't know smells and sounds of my entire city... so you'll have to settle for those from my little portion of this world. LoL. We have this huge tree in our front yard that grows these really beautiful white buds in Feb/Mar... they've all gone and died now. It was the most amazing thing to me. All the petals from all the branches fell off and were *all* over our yard and driveway... and it looked like snow almost. You could just pick up handfuls of these petals everywhere. I dunno, I got a kick out of it. :) The funny thing is, lovely as the flowers are, they smell horrible! Every year they bloom, and every year I mistakingly think there's been some sewer line break! :P Okay, events... uhmm, haha, you know, I was all but a hermit till this past year, so, I really don't know of too much. Maybe Joe can help me out there... (Joe? You've lived here all your life, c'mon. :) I'm trying to answer as much as I can here, honest honest. I am originally from California. I was born in Orange County, but I spent my childhood in Monterey. I moved here when I was 7, and I probably consider Tulsa my hometown, though I can't for the life of me say why. I lived in BA for 6 or so years, and have been in Tulsa for going on 5. Where do I want to be? Well, I wish I knew. I have no desination currently, but, as soon as I figure it out, I'll let you know. ;) So, there, okay, my feeble attempt! Your turn people, step up and shine. ;) And let us all thank Kat for her WONDERFUL idea! :) Hehe, love ya.. Evers, Naomi > where do you live? what is it like? what are the > smells, sounds, events...what makes your place > different from mine?? i know this is a dumb question, > but at the same time, it's an awareness of where you > are...which all of us should have. also, where are you > originally from? where do you consider your hometown > (if you consier any place it) where would you like to > be??? "And when somebody knows you well / well there's no comfort like that / and when somebody needs you / well there's no drug like that" ~Heather Nova ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:03:13 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: ET: to all on the eda-thoughts list Hi folks :-) I am about to post on jewel@smoe that the Jewel lists are closing down for ONE week. This does NOT effect this list. EDA-thoughts will be running as normal. Mike :-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:19:36 EDT From: JewelAng@aol.com Subject: ET: Untitled..(writen today) Heat seeps and eats at anything it can touch. It does not care if it is a pretty face, or a gentle touch. The heat does not care... Comments would be loved. Rebecca - -------------------------------- http://nettrash.com/users/majesticramblings .majestic.ramblings. http://www.envy.nu/souls Common hearts with common dreams http://www.angelfire.com/yt/horns My horns keep up my halo Webring - ----------------------------------- "There is all this love but nowhere for it to grow each second continually devours the next and we're moving too fast for it to fasten its roots to the wind" ~*Jewel*~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 01:25:09 GMT From: "~* cymbaline *~" Subject: Re: ET: questions I'm Kelly, 20 years old. I live in a small town in Florida, called Palm Coast. Its halfway between St Augustine and Daytona. Its a nice, small town... but it sucks! There's way too many old people, and the town is treated like its a retirement center. There's nothing to do. Smells, Sounds and Events? ell its smells like... nothing. I hear old people complaining. And Events?? Ha! For BikeWeek this year, there's this guy who owns this HUMOUNGOUS peice of land. We're talking acres and acres. So for Bikeweek, he wanted to have a 2 day music festival on his proporty, where people can camp out and listen to the music. There were gonna be some kinda big names there. This music fest would have been, like 2 miles from his house (see... told ya the property was big), but all the residents in that area complained and took him to court so he would not be able to get the permit to have this camping and concert going on. It would have been no where near the houses..... but people LOVE to complain in Palm Coast! I'm originally from Huntington, NY. But I've lived in FL so long, I consider this my Hometwon. But I want to live in St Augustine. Its so beautiful (the old part) and I can just walk everywhere... to the college, to shops.... it would be nice. :) Kelly ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:32:07 EDT From: JewelAng@aol.com Subject: ET: Jumping into the deep end of the pool (Written today too..) Jumping into the deep end of the pool Meeting you was like a fine mist that laid over my mind. It was like jumping into the deep end of a pool without the knowledge of how to swim. I had this nervousness inside my belly, that would not stop. Meeting you, is like jumping into the deep end of the pool, and learning at last how, to tread water. Feedback woud be loved. Rebecca - -------------------------------- http://nettrash.com/users/majesticramblings .majestic.ramblings. http://www.envy.nu/souls Common hearts with common dreams http://www.angelfire.com/yt/horns My horns keep up my halo Webring - ----------------------------------- "There is all this love but nowhere for it to grow each second continually devours the next and we're moving too fast for it to fasten its roots to the wind" ~*Jewel*~ ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V3 #112 **********************************