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HEAVEN and HELL

A man had a dream. In this dream, he went to hell. Upon arrival, he found himself in the lobby of an old and rank smelling hotel lobby. As he stood there, he began to smell food mingled with the stench of death.  He heard loud profanity and what sounded like brawling.  It came from behind a closed door just off the way.

Thinking he had nothing to loose since he had already gone to hell he made his way to the door and opened it. Setting at a huge table was dozens of people. Some he was sure he had known from life. On the table were mountains of edibles.  Every rich food that one could dream sat on the table. Still the starving people setting there had yet another problem.  Made into the end of their arms were long extended eating utensils.  The arms would only slightly bend. This caused them to be unable to maneuver the food from the plate to their mouths.

Often they would drop these precious morsels onto the one setting beside them causing a furry of obscenities and fighting. Still, they set starving in the mist of a banquet hall. They were so close to perishing that the scent of death drifted from their bloated bodies. As we, all know hell is forever and no one escapes. Desiring the freedom death would bring them they could only set on its threshold in agony.

The man now sickened by the sight he was witnessing rolled over in his sleep. He found himself in heaven. This time he stood in a beautiful hotel lobby and again there was another door with loud sounds coming from within.  However, these sounds were gleeful and ecstatic. Upon opening this door, he found people with the same problem as the ones in hell.  They also had their utensils permanently attached as hands and their arms were limited in how for they would bend. The only difference they chose to feed one another.

Now, you know it is our responsibility to serve one another. God made us this way and I personally would not want it any other way.


One More Time

Thought I would celebrate 12000 hits with my first blog’s

paragraph.

Things haven’t changed much

Merry Christmas 2008 dec 25

This is my first blog experience. I plan to tell the boring details of my life here plus put up some of my short stories from time to time. Today seems the perfect day for a Christmas story.

02/08/2010

Thanks for the visits. I am always blown away that so many visit.

Who Dat

Who Dat   Who Dat   Who Dat

That be the Super Bowl Winners

That be the Saints

That’s Who

I have nothing else to say today

FINDING JESUS

Ever wonders what Jesus really looked like?  Ever just, need to feel his presents.

I have a couple of suggestions.  Find someone that is ever day looking and is unpopular and share lunch with him or her.  Take the time to listen and be interested in what they have to say.

Do you feel the need to hold Jesus’ hand?  Shake a hand of a homeless person.  Look him in the eye as you treat him as an equal.  Don’t make him ask if you can spare some change.  Happily reach deep in your pocket and give until its hurt a little.  Don’t worry that he might use it wrong.  That is between him and God.  I didn’t say make a regular habit of giving where it does no good.  I am simply saying you don’t always know.

You want to get so close to Jesus that you smell his breath.  Smell the breath of a little baby.  Jesus dwells in them.

Want to witness the pain the Savior felt as he hung from that old cross grasping for his last breath.  Go to the cancer ward, set with a patient long forgotten by his family and friends.  One that is dying of lung cancer and is in their last days.

Do you want to give the greatest gift of all?  Find the most sin filled person you know. Tell him that Jesus loves him.  Then explain in a non-confrontational way that you also do.  This might be your own best friend. No one needs to hear the message more than that person.

Want to live as Jesus lived.  Be nice, be kind to everyone you meet.  Don’t expect any thing back.  Pray for the sick and weak.  Pray for the proud.  Visit someone in jail. Love though neighbor and attach no strings to that love.

Nothing written here in it self is hard yet the world and even the church seem to struggle with it each day.  My prayer for you and myself is that we continue to mature and keep trying to be more like Jesus.  You see that is what it is all about.  He set the example.  We just need to follow.









Rainy Days

I love rainy days but I hate rainy weeks.  I am not exactly when to say enough is enough.  I hate it when it rains in the morning and afternoons when I have to drive back and forth to work.  On the other hand, there is nothing I love more than for it to rain when I can sleep in.

Just think about it, the wind is howling and the rain is coming down by the buckets.  The alarm goes off and you remember that today is your day off.  You put a crack in the window, and find that warm comfortable spot.  While you in that thought, allow me to add a little more.

The wind chimes are blowing and the gutter of water from the roof is hitting the garbage can you didn’t bring in.  While we at it lets add just a little rolling thunder in the distant.  No lightning that would be a distraction.

The breeze coming through the window is almost cold but the covers are nice and warm.  Your dog that has no desire to get out in this and jumps up and snuggles up.  There is no one else in the house.

You may lie here all day if it chooses to rain all day.

Then the phone rings and the dog start barking.  Your mate is on the phone with car trouble and needs you to come get them.  The dog suddenly decides its time to pee. you get up and find the floor is cold.  Bam, a bolt of lightning suddenly comes out of nowhere and hits a pole out side.  The only light in the house now is the flames from the transformer.

Now you  have to pee.  You catch your little toe on the edge of the door.  In all the excitement, the dog can’t hold it any longer and squats in the floor.

You curse the dog and push him out the door.  You barely make it to the bathroom.

When you get to car, you find that you left the lights on last night.  The rain is now pouring .The reason you did was it was setting in the driveway under the light and you didn’t notice.

Guess you will be waiting at least forty-five minutes for the man to come from AAA.

You say to yourself , I have forty-five minutes.  You go jump back in the bed for the best thirty-minute nap you have ever had.

I sure love rainy days

Here are the top words I used that you liked the most.

  1. Supper- I am amazed at how many different meals are called supper.  Breakfast still seems safe the best I can make out.
  2. Percolator- lots of people heard of it many still knew people that used it.
  3. Chimney- people still use them and had good and bad memories of them growing up
  4. Emergency brake – I got comments from around the world on this one.  Every one had their own name for it.
  5. Dimmer switch- many remembered it and several thought they should have never moved it.
  6. Rat Fink (Have you ever been called one.  Don’t answer out loud)
  7. Brassiere – Many different opinions on this old word.

Now for many words that you sent in.  Some I have not heard in years and others I have never heard.

  1. Inner Tube -  Two people sent in on this one
  2. Castro oil  -  I am making a face just typing it
  3. Parlor games – I was raised poor, no parlor for me.
  4. Kick the can – I could afford this one and enjoyed it often
  5. The Twist  – Chubby Checker – Did this in Jr. High
  6. Drive Inn – A great place to take a date
  7. Penny Candy – also penny matches – I was very young
  8. 45 records – Early teens for me
  9. Root Beer Fizzier – I hated them
  10. Hop Scotch – My sisters played it.
  11. Jacks – Wasn’t fast enough
  12. Spin a top – Right up there with a yoyo.  Do they still make either?

Clothes

  1. Britches – many of you mentioned this.  I still wear them.
  2. Pedal pusher – Have they come back in style with another name.
  3. Clam diggers – I think these were pants not sure.  Someone get me straight.
  4. Clothesline – They were in use before dryers.  It was deadly or at least very hurtful if you ran into one running as fast as you could.
  5. Unmentionables – Oh the joys of the Sears and Roebuck Catalog
  6. Chiffarobe – A cabinet with a hanging area.  A place to store hats, and mirror to dress or use to shave.  It also had a small area to lay watches and such.  This is before the modern closet, as we know it today.  ( I could not find this in spell check.)

Health issues or natural cycles of life.  (I best not comment on these.)

  1. Rabbit died (I will on this though.  You were pregnant; this was a real medical test.  No pee on the stick back then, something had to die.  It might be you if you weren’t married.  Your daddy would at least threaten it.)
  2. monthly
  3. cardinal red
  4. fell off a roof
  5. The curse -  (mentioned a number of times)

Measurements

1. bushels

2.pecks

Other words submitted

  1. coal shute
  2. shoulder bolder
  3. picture tube
  4. radio tube – I remember when you could check and buy them at the 7/11 store
  5. baby carriage – Today’s stroller
  6. Steamer Trunk – People make coffee tables out of them today
  7. Send a wire
  8. Observation Car –Don’t they still have these???
  9. Bumper Jack – The last one I used had to be in early 70’s
  10. boondoggle
  11. Lollygag
  12. Three on a tree – Shift was behind the steering wheel.  Like an automatic today except it was manual shift.
  13. Valise –  A suitcase
  14. Davenport – Had several mentions- I sold furniture for three years.  I was there two before I knew what this word meant.  I grew up using couch and now most call it a sofa.

Well folks I have lollygagged long enough.  I am going to pack my valise, go set on the davenport, and wait for a hitch.

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Thanks For The Hits

I just wanted to say that I have had the biggest two days ever.  Actually, I have never had so many hits before.  I had no idea so many people would show such interest in words that were going extinct.

I  plan to make a collection with the most favorite ones you guys wrote to me about and the ones that you reminded me of that I have either forgot or never heard before. 36 hours in I have 7750 hits. unbelieveable

If you would like to have your favorite added just drop me a comment.

I will have a list up in a few days.

Again thank you all for making my day twice. Oh, I know a few didn’t like the poem.  That is what blogging is all about you write what you think and be ready to hear what someone else might think.

gary

http://gartalker.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/words-that-are-going-extinct/

Words that are on the endanger list.

A term I haven’t heard in a long time, and thinking about ‘fender skirts’ started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like curb feelers.  Any body remember them.

And ’steering knobs.’  (AKA) suicide knob, Neckers Knobs.

Since I’d been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.

Any kids will probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms

‘Continental kits

They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental.

Emergency Brakes

At some point ‘parking brake’ became the proper term.  I miss the hint of drama that went with ‘emergency brake.’

Clutch ‘Foot Feed    Dimmer Switch.

I’m sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the ‘foot feed.’  Many today do not even know what a clutch is or that the dimmer switch used to be on the floor.

Running Board

Didn’t you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the ‘running board’ up to the house?  You felt like a real G-man.  Heck, most of you most likely don’t know what a G-man is.

‘Store-bought

Here’s a phrase heard all the time in my youth but never anymore -’store-bought.’ Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days.  However, once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of
candy.

Coast to Coast

Coast to coast’ is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing.  Now we take the term ‘world wide’ for granted.  I guess that soon it will be Universal.

Wall to Wall

On a smaller scale, ‘wall-to-wall’ was once a magical term in our homes.  In the ’50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting!  Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors.  Go figure.

In A Family Way or P G

When’s the last time you heard the quaint phrase ‘in a family way?’  It’s hard to imagine that the word ‘pregnant’ was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company, so we had all that talk about stork visits and ‘being in a family way’ or simply ‘expecting.  The more sophisticated town girls called it P G.
Brassiere

Apparently, ‘brassiere’ is a word no longer in usage.  I
said it once to my daughter when she was a teen and she cracked up.  I guess it’s just ‘bra’ now.  ‘Unmentionables’ probably wouldn’t be understood at all.

Picture Show

I always loved going to the picture show.  In fact, I have written about it in this very blog. I considered ‘movie’ an affectation.

Rat Fink

Most of these words go back to the ’50s, but here is a pure-’60s word I came across the other day - ‘rat fink.’ Ooh, what a nasty put-down!  These two words could cut like a sharp knife.  Especially if they were true.

Percolator          DynaFlo          Elevtrolux        Spectra Vision

Here is a word I miss - ’percolator.’ That was just a fun word to say.  What was it replaced with?  ‘Coffee maker.’  How dull.  Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.
I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro.  Words like ‘DynaFlow and‘Electrolux..’ Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with‘SpectraVision!’

Lumbago       Castor Oil

Food for thought – Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago?  Nobody complains of that anymore.  Maybe that’s what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.

Supper

Some words aren’t gone, but are definitely on the endangered list.  The one that grieves me most, ’supper.’ Now everybody says ‘dinner.’  Save a great word.  Invite someone to supper.  Discuss fender skirts

Chimney

One last thing, when I was a kid we passed a neighbors house.  They had a T V antenna strapped to their Chimney.  It was a cold day and smoke was bellowing out the old leaning stack.

My mother said, “Look there can’t afford butane to keep warm but they got a television set.

Yes, when I was kid a sure sign of poverty was smoke coming from your chimney.  Now you know you are in an up scale neighborhood.

THE BLONDE RED HEAD

Well, I haven’t told a blonde joke in a while so I feel as though I need to share at least one.

A red head went to the doctor and said, “I hurt all over.  There isn’t one place on my body that I can touch without being in terrible pain.”

The doctor said, “That is medical impossible.  You can’t hurt everywhere.”

“I do.”

“Show me.”

The woman touched her own shoulder and screamed with pain.  Next, she touched her head and then her foot and lastly her knee.  Each time she screamed with pain. The doctor set looking at her in amazement.  He thought and rubbed his chin for several seconds.

“You aren’t a true red head are you Ms.”

“No I am blonde but I got tired of all those terrible blonde jokes and died it red.  Why, what has that to do with this pain I am in?”

Ms. Your finger is broken.

Kurt Warner

QB Kurt Warner retires

ending 12-year NFL career

Things like this happen when you play the mighty  Saints. Is Brett next?

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