Jeanway

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  9. Posted · Edited by Jeanway

    OK, here is the idea for this game. Now look at the rules Please before you start.

     

    1. Pick any well known phrase OR a short sentence you make up.

     

    2. You can use NUMBERS AND PUNCTUATION ONLY. That means NO WORDS.

     

    3. Try to guess the last one and then 'TRY' to leave a new one. O.K.? :b-day::b-day:

     

    O.K. This is not very easy to do, but it's fun. It does take a little time. Look through all the smilies while your trying to decide what to say, that makes it easier. Good Luck.

     

    Here's my :lol: = :laugh::b-day::b-day:

     

    It doesn't have to be absolutely correct, just close enough :b-day:

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    <<-------My Avatar is a painting by the French artist Montague Dawson

     

    titled "Thermopylae Leaving Foochow". I chose it because it reminds me of our

     

    days in "Sea Trek" the story I and a few other members here were writing for a

     

    few months. In it, our last scene was in Macau Harbour in China on the Indian

     

    Ocean. As we were leaving the harbour in 1825 we were all sucked into an

     

    appature that hurled us into the future, to the year 3333. Where we then were all

     

    on a Starship, The Elusive. A picture of that is in my Signature. I miss 'Sea Trek'

     

    it was so fun. :b-day:

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    Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means

     

    "Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. "All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation."

     

    Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

     

    Founder of Labor Day

     

    More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.

     

    Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."

     

    But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

  23. Posted

    A slightly overcast morning here in the Mid-West. The Barometric Pressure is dropping at 29.6, rain people :b-day: It's coming :b-day: Even the REAL Weather guy on t.v. last night said today was going to be a Big, Fat Nothing Holiday. :b-day: But it's still Labor Day, September 6, 2004. :b-day: Where'd the summer ago anyway???? :b-day:

  25. Posted

    The monkeys watched them bringing in the meat and going down into the hole in center of the great room floor. The door was leaning back against the table. A few times Sam and the girls wanted to help, or they were just curious and tried climbing down the ladder but were quickly ejected by Chakotay. Amid a flurry of screaming protests. Eventually they got the message and retreated to the nest to watch. It took several trips to carry it all down to the cellar. When they were finished Chakotay and Janeway sat down by the fire to catch their breath. "I'll drag what's left of the carcass back into the forest." Chakotay said after a minute. "That should keep those scavengers away from the cabin. Then I'll finish washing the pelt." He added.

     

    As Chakotay walked to the stream dragging the sled behind him he could hear the preditory birds high up in the trees calling to each other. He looked up frequently and then back at the dis-membered carcass on the sled to make sure it wasn't falling off. At a spot far enough away from the cabin, he sat down in the snow and pushed it off with his feet onto the ground. He then continued towards the stream dragging the sled. Noticing the trail the heavy pelt made, it had uncovered some still green, growing matter that was buried before. He pulled up some leafy, edible plants along the way and planned on collecting them on his way back. He got to the stream and the current had surely been doing it's job on the pelt. It was a different color now, much lighter and all the fur was flowing and swaying in the water. Now free of all dirt and hopefully all the foul odor. He hauled it out of the water. He looked at the sled and decided to give that a good wash since the last thing on it was the filthy soaped up pelt. On his way back now he collected the greens and pulled up a few more roots he had spotted.