August 24th ( was Re: Kerry's war record vs. Georgie boy's)

[Ether St. Vying]

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi

"To hunt a monkey you secure a gourd to a tree
and then place something shiny inside as a
monkey watches. Then leave. The monkey wants
the shiny object and will grasp hold of it and
as his fist closes around the object it becomes
too big to fit through the hole in the gourd
and he is trapped. The monkey would be free if
he would just let go but even as hunter
approaches he will not thus he forfeits his life."
[From: 'Spirit Paradox' by Todd Vickers]

"There have been 1,097 coalition deaths, 966 Americans,
65 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, one
Estonian, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian,
10 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards,
two Thai and eight Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq
as of August 24, 2004"
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

I keep crashing on the CNN site.

Try a different corporate-website-friendly browser.

I will ... soon ... I promise ... honest ...

Is this military personnel
or civilians as well?

Military. The death toll of civilians, collaterally speaking,
is immensely depressing: http://tinyurl.com/52hma

It was immensely distressing knowing it would happen.

http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/august_24.html
August 24, 79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
August 24, 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman
Empire
August 24, 1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
August 24, 1391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
August 24, 1349 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
August 24, 1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid
baptism
August 24, 1542 Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
August 24, 1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common
Prayer
August 24, 1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed
witch
August 24, 1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
August 24, 1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for
learning
August 24, 1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
August 24, 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
August 24, 1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000
Russian
August 24, 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
August 24, 1912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition
govt
August 24, 1914 Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
August 24, 1914 German troops occupy Namur Belgium
August 24, 1919 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of
lightning
August 24, 1921 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
August 24, 1929 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
August 24, 1929 Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
August 24, 1931 France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
August 24, 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia
Earhart
August 24, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit
fascists & communists
August 24, 1939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
August 24, 1940 Luftwaffe bombs London
August 24, 1942 Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
August 24, 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
August 24, 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
August 24, 1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000
Yemenite Jews
August 24, 1950 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
August 24, 1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived
Wash DC
August 24, 1954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
August 24, 1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the
Communist Party
August 24, 1960 -127¯F (-88¯C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
August 24, 1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's
minister of justice
August 24, 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 24, 1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
August 24, 1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on
Mururoa
August 24, 1969 Peru nationalizes US oil interests
August 24, 1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center
in Madison
August 24, 1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
August 24, 1978 USSR performs underground nuclear tes
August 24, 1979 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
August 24, 1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English
Channel
August 24, 1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for
Lennon's murder
August 24, 1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
August 24, 1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
August 24, 1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
August 24, 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
August 24, 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
August 24, 1990 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
August 24, 1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
August 24, 1991 Ukraine declares independence from USSR
August 24, 1991 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
August 24, 1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
August 24, 1992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
August 24, 1992 Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of
Larry Flint
August 24, 1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
August 24, 1994 Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to
Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare &
tourism
August 24, 1995 Windows 95 debuts
http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/august_24.html
[SHNEEEEEEPPP!]

So there I am, at The Coprophagia Cafe, sitting in a booth with Marlee Matlin, Joe Regalbuto,
and Jorge Luis Borges. We're drinking espresso and smoking Gitanes. I've just told them a story
about a friend of a friend of a friend. She was at some huge glitterati-littered event, and she
happened to glance up at the balconey where a small crowd and several bodyguards were hovering
around an old lady. "Who is that old lady getting all the attention?", she wondered. She made
her way up to the balcony to check it out ... and shockingly, the old lady turned out to be Mick
Jagger. Now, it's not easy going from being a hot babe to being an old lady, but can you imagine
how tough it must be going from being a male celebrity sex symbol to being an old lady? Marlee
and I laugh our asses off.

Steve Guttenberg is taking a meeting with Hideo Kojima in the next booth over, and Durward
Kirby is 2 booths up, having coffee and pie with Mason Williams. I want to go over and ask him
if it's true that he was the head writer on the Smother's Brothers show, in addition to having
written, recorded and performed that evocative evergreen, Classical Gas.

Joe Strummer and Jim Capaldi are lingering over a the dregs of their pints of Guinness, while
John Cipollina and Joe Chambers tune their guitars. I can hear John Bush singing arpeggios in
the can, and Ken Hensley is starting to tinkle the ivories. I guess we're going to jam at some
point.

Unexpectedly, Kes gets beamed into the spotlight on the riser, and scares the hell out of Yasser
Arafat, who's in the corner booth in the back, by the busboys' station, hiding behind The
Shantytown Mirror, Evening Edition.

Kes taps the microphone to get everyone's attention and proclaims "I've been sent by readers
from the future, and they want to know why we're all here."

Knowing glances spread like cream cheese on hot toast. "It's Flag Day in Liberia." Strummer
quips with an evil grin.

"That explains why you're here ... maybe .. but what about me? Why am I here?" Kes persists.

"Have you heard the one about the old lady on the balconey?", I ask.

Everyone groans, exept Marlee, who pipes up with, "You were born August 24, 1974, Kes?"

"Are you sure it wasn't August 24, '75?", I ask "And you're only really 29 this year?"

Kes' glossy lower lip is quivering as she stammers "One to beam up."

"She'll always be with us, " Aleksei Tolstoi (the other one, not Leo Tolstoy) intones as the
transporter beam's glitter dissolves away, "as long as there are lists."

Strummer, having downed the last of his stout, walks over to his amp. He turns on his EFX
pedals, and cranks his amp up to 11. With a wicked grin on his face, he drags a tortured
rendition of Happy Birthday out of his screaming guitar.

It's all we have in common.

The more things change the more they seem to stay the same...
August 25

When, once upon a year, it was my first day as an air breather.

August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar
(238th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_25
Events [August 25]
1580 - Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1718 - New Orleans, Louisiana is founded
1825 - Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil
1830 - Belgium revolts from the Netherlands
1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates The Great Moon Hoax
1875 - Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded
1912 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded
1916 - United States National Park Service is created
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, started on August 13, now ends.
The Red Army is defeated.
1942 - Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies
1946 - Ben Hogan wins PGA Championship
1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the US Army to seize control of the
nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1960 - Games of the XVII Olympiad open in Rome
1980 - Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix
1980 - The Broadway musical "42nd Street" opened; the show's director,
Gower Champion, died earlier that day.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister
in Central and Eastern Europe
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft flies by Neptune.
1991 - Linus Torvalds first says in a post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup
that he is working on a new free computer operating system.
2003 - the Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib
First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo,
Northwest Territories
2003 - 52 killed in two Islamic terrorist bomb blasts in Mumbai, India.
Births [August 25]
1530 - Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") (d. 1584)
1635 - Sir Henry Morgan, privateer (d. 1688)
1724 - George Stubbs, British painter (d. 1806)
1767 - Louis Antoine Leon de Saint Just, French revolutionary and
writer (d. 1794)
1796 - James Lick, California land baron (d. 1876)
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Agency (d. 1884)
1836 - Bret Harte, author (d. 1902)
1841 - Emil Kocher, medical researcher (d. 1917)
1845 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
1850 - Charles Richet, scientist
1882 - Sean O'Kelly, President of Ireland 1945-59 (d. 1966)
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, scientist
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, composer (d. 1972)
1909 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
1909 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
1912 - Erich Honecker, head of state of East Germany (d. 1994)
1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist (d. 1973)
1916 - Van Johnson, actor
1917 - Mel Ferrer, actor
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer (d. 1990)
1918 - Richard Greene, actor
1919 - George Wallace, Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
1921 - Monty Hall, game show host
1927 - Althea Gibson, tennis champion
1929 - Gordon Sherwood, composer
1930 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
1933 - Regis Philbin, television host
1933 - Tom Skerritt, actor
1933 - Wayne Shorter, jazz musician
1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author
1938 - David Canary, actor
1941 - Marshall Brickman, screenwriter
1944 - Anthony Heald, actor
1945 - John Birch, soldier, missionary, first casualty of the Cold War
1946 - Rollie Fingers, baseball pitcher
1947 - Anne Archer, actress
1949 - Gene Simmons, bassist
1949 - Martin Amis, novelist
1949 - John Savage, actor
1952 - Peter Wolf, singer, composer
1954 - Elvis Costello, songwriter, musician
1958 - Tim Burton, film director, producer, screenwriter
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, singer
1962 - Viv Campbell, Def Leppard guitarist
1964 - Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 - Blair Underwood, actor
1968 - Rafet El Roman, singer, composer
1970 - Claudia Schiffer, supermodel

It's too bad that Elvis Costello missed the 24th deadline. He'd be good in our band.

Deaths [August 25]
1192 - Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, in Acre (b. 1142)
1774 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer
1822 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)
1867 - Michael Faraday, scientist
1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche - philosopher
1904 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
1908 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist
1925 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI
1942 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent
1967 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
1967 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor
1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader
1971 - Ted Lewis, jazz musician, entertainer (b. 1890)
1979 - Stan Kenton, jazz musician, big band leader
1979 - Ray Eberle, jazz musician, big band leader
1980 - Gower Champion, dancer, actor, choreographer
1984 - Truman Capote, author
1984 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
1985 - Samantha Smith, U.S. social activist, actress
1990 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer
2000 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
2001 - Aaliyah, singer
Holidays and observances [August 25]
Uruguay - National Day.
Roman Empire - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
Philippines - National Heroes' Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_25

or, one day earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_24

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"Bravo to teachers who stand for their beliefs
and defend the constitution. Without them, the dunce
sitting in the corner of the room will be our democracy."
- John F. Borowski
Actually, the notion of using laser-generated aerial
simulacra to create mass psyops hoaxes has been
circulating for some time, as in "Project Blue Beam" and
even admitted by the Maitreya <http://www.shareintl.org/>
as his "second coming" strategy. With computer
animation and sound effects appearing to come from the
depths of space, astonished followers of the various creeds
will witness their own returned Messiah in spectacularly
convincing lifelike realness. The various saviors will then
merge into one after "correct" explanations of the mysteries,
prophecies, and revelations will have been disclosed.
This event will occur at a time of great political and
general tumult. http://tinyurl.com/5ko2l

Wouldn't that be nice. I'm sure everyone would be fooled
by the spectacular FX. It would be like Didsnyland, but better.

Las Vegas PsyOps

Vanguard of the Mahdi
Who Is Imam al-Mahdi?
http://www.islamicweb.com/history/mahdi.htm
Quote: "Mahdi is NOT a prophet but he is the
final Rightly Guided Khalifa. Mahdi will lead
Muslims to a great victory against the Christian
Romans (i.e. All the white Europeans including
the Americans). This great war is called
al-Malhamah al-Kubrah or Armageddon. It will end
up with a great victory to Muslims against Romans
after six years. Muslims will take over their
capital Rome (this can be any city). In the
seventh year, the Antichrist will appear and a
greater war will start between Jews and Muslims
for 40 days (longer that usual days) and will end
when Jesus will come and Muslims will kill all Jews.

Hang on there a minute ... if Jesus comes, he would not let the Muslims
kill the Jews. He would call upon his heavenly father, and all the Muslims
would convert to Catholicism so that they could get into heaven and hang
out with the one true god. And then, and only then, would peace pervade the
whole world.

All people will convert into Islam. Peace will
pervade the whole world."
http://www.islamicweb.com/history/mahdi.htm

Mahdi ... Maud Dib. Dune. Frank Herbert was a visionary.

I wish he were alive today
to see the present situation
"The Vanguard of the Mahdi"
http://www.taliyah.org

If only. What a read that would be.

Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930)
is a Christian televangelist in the United States,
and founder of the Christian Coalition. He is the
host of the popular TV show The 700 Club, which
airs on many religious cable channels. His strongly
conservative views have made him the subject of
much controversy, especially his statements in
favor of the dissolution of the barrier between
church and state. ...
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Pat_Robertson

Cool. They could make it illegal. That'll stop it, eh.
Just say no to Islam.

"A society without a religion is like a maniac without a chainsaw."

Heh. Name one society without religion. Aye. There's the rub.

[]

"I believe that God wants me to be president."
-George W. Bush
http://tinyurl.com/4y2cl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/etc/synopsis.html

God told me he never said that.
Ether

God[ess] told me [S]He exists only in the
ruminating lobes of relatively higher
functioning primates on Earth and a few
other scattered few and far between
planetoids throughout the galaxies in
myriad forms & functions. Likewise,
G.W. Bushy is merely a figment of our
collective imaginations, a dream...

A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

BTW Dubya's God is male. He's an authoritarian old guy with a beard in a white robelike thing.
That's why I referred to him as 'he'.

Ether

[rbb]

Post by Ether St. Vying
A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

The sync is hitting
Chris has beaten you with the all you need is love.
You are beating me with the nightmare.

[Ether St. Vying]

Post by rbb

Post by Ether St. Vying
A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

The sync is hitting
Chris has beaten you with the all you need is love.
You are beating me with the nightmare.

Last week I accidentlly dropped 3 or 4 of those 7 lb(3 kg) garden wall
bricks on my left foot while lifting a big heavy bag of yard waste off
the pile. There was raw meat on my ankles, shin and calf. I went inside
and disinfected the wounds, put on some antibiotic ointment, and some
nice big anti-bacterial bandages and went back out to continue what I
was doing. The top of my foot swelled up, so I put Arnica gel on it. It
went down .. but it wasn't till days later that I noticed that most of
the top of my foot was blue black ... then black fading to green ... and
now most of the black has faded to green and yellow and the scabs are
starting to come off. I didn't take any pictures of it. I just lived it.

I hope I haven't beat you to this too. :-)

[Bill Cleere]

Post by Ether St. Vying

Post by rbb

Post by Ether St. Vying
A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

The sync is hitting
Chris has beaten you with the all you need is love.
You are beating me with the nightmare.

Last week I accidentlly dropped 3 or 4 of those 7 lb(3 kg) garden wall
bricks on my left foot while lifting a big heavy bag of yard waste off
the pile. There was raw meat on my ankles, shin and calf. I went inside
and disinfected the wounds, put on some antibiotic ointment, and some
nice big anti-bacterial bandages and went back out to continue what I
was doing. The top of my foot swelled up, so I put Arnica gel on it. It
went down .. but it wasn't till days later that I noticed that most of
the top of my foot was blue black ... then black fading to green ... and
now most of the black has faded to green and yellow and the scabs are
starting to come off. I didn't take any pictures of it. I just lived it.
I hope I haven't beat you to this too. :-)

Erm, I assume this is a running gag and have no wish to interrupt,
but I must ask if it's like a contest or something. I mean, does he
have to now have a piano fall on him, or what?

[Ether St. Vying]

Post by Bill Cleere

Post by Ether St. Vying

Post by rbb

Post by Ether St. Vying
A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

The sync is hitting
Chris has beaten you with the all you need is love.
You are beating me with the nightmare.

Last week I accidentlly dropped 3 or 4 of those 7 lb(3 kg) garden wall
bricks on my left foot while lifting a big heavy bag of yard waste off
the pile. There was raw meat on my ankles, shin and calf. I went inside
and disinfected the wounds, put on some antibiotic ointment, and some
nice big anti-bacterial bandages and went back out to continue what I
was doing. The top of my foot swelled up, so I put Arnica gel on it. It
went down .. but it wasn't till days later that I noticed that most of
the top of my foot was blue black ... then black fading to green ... and
now most of the black has faded to green and yellow and the scabs are
starting to come off. I didn't take any pictures of it. I just lived it.
I hope I haven't beat you to this too. :-)

Erm, I assume this is a running gag and have no wish to interrupt,
but I must ask if it's like a contest or something. I mean, does he
have to now have a piano fall on him, or what?

I hope not! I'm beating them to it again with the potential West Nile Virus mosquito bite I just got while
reading the froup.

Ether

[Bill Cleere]

Post by Ether St. Vying

Post by Bill Cleere

Post by Ether St. Vying

Post by rbb

Post by Ether St. Vying
A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

The sync is hitting
Chris has beaten you with the all you need is love.
You are beating me with the nightmare.

Last week I accidentlly dropped 3 or 4 of those 7 lb(3 kg) garden wall
bricks on my left foot while lifting a big heavy bag of yard waste off
the pile. There was raw meat on my ankles, shin and calf. I went inside
and disinfected the wounds, put on some antibiotic ointment, and some
nice big anti-bacterial bandages and went back out to continue what I
was doing. The top of my foot swelled up, so I put Arnica gel on it. It
went down .. but it wasn't till days later that I noticed that most of
the top of my foot was blue black ... then black fading to green ... and
now most of the black has faded to green and yellow and the scabs are
starting to come off. I didn't take any pictures of it. I just lived it.
I hope I haven't beat you to this too. :-)

Erm, I assume this is a running gag and have no wish to interrupt,
but I must ask if it's like a contest or something. I mean, does he
have to now have a piano fall on him, or what?

I hope not! I'm beating them to it again with the potential West Nile

Virus mosquito bite I just got while

Post by Ether St. Vying
reading the froup.
Ether

So far in NoCal we've just a shitload of birds dying, but no humans....yet.

-- Bill Cleere

[Jeremy Donovan]

Post by Ether St. Vying

Post by rbb

Post by Ether St. Vying
A bad dream that gets worse the more you wake up.

The sync is hitting
Chris has beaten you with the all you need is love.
You are beating me with the nightmare.

Last week I accidentlly dropped 3 or 4 of those 7 lb(3 kg) garden wall
bricks on my left foot while lifting a big heavy bag of yard waste off
the pile. There was raw meat on my ankles, shin and calf. I went inside
and disinfected the wounds, put on some antibiotic ointment, and some
nice big anti-bacterial bandages and went back out to continue what I
was doing. The top of my foot swelled up, so I put Arnica gel on it. It
went down .. but it wasn't till days later that I noticed that most of
the top of my foot was blue black ... then black fading to green ... and
now most of the black has faded to green and yellow and the scabs are
starting to come off. I didn't take any pictures of it. I just lived it.

I hope you don't take offense, but it is disturbing to my "faith" to
discover that saints bruise like anyone else, and that the messengers
of God may get dreadful rashes. I am wondering if this information
might be an important clue somehow. Hmmm...I wonder...


-J.

[rbb]

"Jeremy Donovan" <***@hotmail.com> wrote in > I hope you don't take
offense, but it is disturbing to my "faith" to

Post by Jeremy Donovan
discover that saints bruise like anyone else, and that the messengers
of God may get dreadful rashes. I am wondering if this information
might be an important clue somehow. Hmmm...I wonder...

You of little faith:
Most Saints suffer from stigmata during life.
With other words you cannot be a Saint and not have bruises.

RBB Saint of perception.

[Ether St. Vying]

Post by Jeremy Donovan
offense, but it is disturbing to my "faith" to

Post by Jeremy Donovan
discover that saints bruise like anyone else, and that the messengers
of God may get dreadful rashes. I am wondering if this information
might be an important clue somehow. Hmmm...I wonder...

Most Saints suffer from stigmata during life.
With other words you cannot be a Saint and not have bruises.

I have miraculous bruises that appear out of nowhere. I mean, sometimes, I
whack my elbow or something, and go "yeah, that's gonna be a bruise" but
other times ... I have no idea how they got there. Same with little knicks
and cuts, and abrasions. Where are they coming from? It's a saintly mystery.

Post by Jeremy Donovan
RBB Saint of perception.

Ether, Patron Saint of Mysterious Bruises

[slider]

rbb wrote

You of little faith:
Most Saints suffer from stigmata during life.
With other words you cannot be a Saint and not have bruises.

### - will urban scars do? :)

[rbb]

Post by Ether St. Vying
I hope I haven't beat you to this too. :-)

You have.
I just got something on my right toe.
A bit of blood and could surprisingly walk and no swelling.
Besides that was no total sinc......
You left, me right.
First time I was right... HE? ;-)


By the way. I haven't forgotten, I am just late again....

RBB

[Ether St. Vying]

Post by rbb

Post by Ether St. Vying
I hope I haven't beat you to this too. :-)

You have.
I just got something on my right toe.
A bit of blood and could surprisingly walk and no swelling.
Besides that was no total sinc......
You left, me right.
First time I was right... HE? ;-)
By the way. I haven't forgotten, I am just late again....

Gosh, I hope you're not pregnant! ;-D

As I was reading adc, I noticed a sensation on my right ankle ... and I
looked down and saw a mosquito. So instead of flicking it off like
you're supposed too, I immediately got hyper-adrenal and slapped it
hard, completely overkilling it, and smeared a drop of blood onto my
skin. I have no idea of whether it was my blood or a previous blood
meal. The reported cases of West Nile Virus deaths are starting to come
in. It's prime WNV season here. I'm hoping that my little bloodsucker
didn't have it ... or that I'm one of the 90% who shows no symptoms.
Ironic that I spend so much time outdoors and then get bitten inside the
house.

Have I beat you to this one too?

Ether