Net Work Book Club discussion

Since it's a new year, we need a new thread! Here's the place to stop in and say Hi, make yourself known, or just natter on about whatever doesn't fit on another thread! Frenchie doesn't seem to be around anymore, so here we are again!

Hello everyone, a new thread for a new year, have a good one everybody

Wow I found you Ori, will wonders never cease. I just got a new phone, ok not top of the line but way advanced over the one I had. Been spending ours trying to figure it out. Couldn't even figure out how to answer it LOL.

Excellent news--my pastor had his PET scan results and they are excellent! There's only one tiny nodule left and it is so small, the specialist thinks it's probably just dead cells...just to be sure, he's sending Vicente to the radiologist for a second opinion. He's gained weight and strength and is raring to go.

Good news indeed, Ori

I had a pastor tell me when I was younger that "god takes care of his own" it seems in this case he had a big hand in the pastors care.

Oh indeed He did! At every turn. The man is a walking miracle. When they got the good news his wife came unglued and just cried and cried. The specialist just handed her a tissue and said, "Go on, it'll do you good." When they were going to leave, Vicente told Charo, "Dry your tears or everyone will think it was bad news!" because by this time everyone in the section knows them by sight.

I thought I'd bring a smile and a whisper of "awe" to everyone today. Only in nature can a perfect circle be formed. I can look at this all day:)

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder...

perfections is in the eye of the beholder.

I agree. And only perfection is created by the Beholder:)

No one's going to believe this strangeness that happened late, late last night. I looked outside my bedroom window and saw this round, glowing object in the neighbor's backyard. It was weird. It wasn't a balloon, or a ball, or a garden ornament. It just sat there in the puddle of rain. And it was gone by morning...

Rover!! (from The Prisoner)
Were you considering escaping?

Groovy wrote: "No one's going to believe this strangeness that happened late, late last night. I looked outside my bedroom window and saw this round, glowing object in the neighbor's backyard. It was weird. It wa..."

Er! a radioactive frog?

LOL! I don't think so, Doggie. It was too big, like a giant, glowing egg. I'll probably never know because I've been looking and there's no trace of it anymore.

I'm tellin' ya, it was Rover!

"I am not a number! I am a free man!"

BTW Groovy, I need to message you some more re: Vashti but I woke up at 2 AM today and it's now 9 PM. I'm off to bed before I'm less coherent than I am now.

Nah it's the reflection of the moon in a puddle, because of the angle she was looking at it, it looked like it was sitting over the puddle.

Rover, that sounds interesting.

I was thinking about her, too, last night. A show I was watching gave me an idea of how to tell the story. It's going to be a while, but I can't wait to get started on it. I will await your PM.

mrbooks wrote: "Nah it's the reflection of the moon in a puddle, because of the angle she was looking at it, it looked like it was sitting over the puddle."

It was raining, there was no moon. I should have thought to take out the cell phone. It was a glowing egg I tell 'ya:)

OK your neighbor has a radioactive chicken who laid an egg in the puddle LOL

Groovy wrote: "Rover, that sounds interesting.
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Don't know if you remember the old "The Prisoner" TV series. I remember when it came out in the US and I thought "I don't get this because I'm a kid." Ten years or so ago they showed it on the BBC and I tried to watch it again. Still didn't really grokk. You don't have to be high to watch "The Prisoner", but I bet it really, really helps!

OK now it clicks, I haven't seen much of the prisoner, is the rover tat big rubber ball that brings escaping prisoners back ?

Yup! And if he rolls over the person they basically suffocate. Horrid image burned into my brain at a very tender age. Looked like they were smothered in bubblegum.

Did you give up chewing bubble gum then ? or were you more careful where you disposed of it.

Didn't chew much as a kid, hate it now. Wouldn't even consider it. For some reason the mere idea of chewing gum grosses me out.

No, I've never heard of that show.

The prisoner is an English program that ran in the late 60. It made no sense to me when I watched some reruns in the early 80's. I think you need to be higher then a kite to understand and enjoy the show.

I'm following the PBS mini-series about Queen Victoria. I would say it's boring, but I love History, and that makes it interesting. Her spirited, self-entitled attitude reminds me of the present Queen. My question is, was Prince Albert really that good looking? The character that's portraying him is very attractive.

Also, do we really need another Beauty and the Beast movie? Seriously?

The present queen seems to consider herself a cross between Victoria and Elizabeth I. I never thought I'd say this, but the whole concept of monarchy is past its use-by date...and if my 15 yr old self heard that, she'd disown the current me.

I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe, it was necessary back then, although the thought of bowing and idolizing a human being rubs me the wrong way. But times have changed and governments are more needed than kings and queens.

I honestly think if your 15 yr old self were here today, she'd agree with you, too:)

Oh no...she was a real royalist, that kid. Needed someone to admire who was conveniently far enough away she couldn't see the gaps in their character.

If you could go back and talk to that little royalist about her admiration for the queen, what would you tell her? And would she listen?

If we don't have a monarch, what do we have?

A president?

Just askin'....

I don't think the two would be considered on the same level--just sayin'

Jane wrote: "If we don't have a monarch, what do we have?

A president?

Just askin'...."

Well some countries have both a president and a prime minister, which seems odd to me. We have a king and a president, which is also odd.

Groovy wrote: "If you could go back and talk to that little royalist about her admiration for the queen, what would you tell her? And would she listen?"

No, she wouldn't...she never could! I might tell her that I once saw Lizzy and she has the coldest eyes I've ever seen....

LOL! That's called 'self-entitlement':)

Groovy wrote: "No one's going to believe this strangeness that happened late, late last night. I looked outside my bedroom window and saw this round, glowing object in the neighbor's backyard. It was weird. It wa..."

Hey, Groovy, I think you have your next idea for a story.

LOL! And that's because people would only believe it if it was fiction:)

Question for the UK contingent: What does it mean when you're talking about someone with longterm health problems and someone says, "Well, he's all right in himself." Does that mean, like psychologically? Or maybe emotionally? Or what?

Ah iz cornfuzed.

It means that the person is coping well with whatever their health problem may be, is always positive and is sound in mind

Oh, okay. I've heard it applied to pets such as dogs and cats, too, which added to the confusion.

In pets it would basically mean, carrying on as usual

Couldn't have said it better myself HRH.

It's a very British mind set. Stiff upper lip and all that jazz. It is almost expected that one will carry on regardless of small inconveniences like illness, accident, etc

Yup

As I mentioned, I'm following the PBS series about Queen Victoria, and if it weren't for the fact that it's historical, because I love history, I would have moved on by now. (it's boring)

Anyway, I just learned, (and why would this be a surprise?) that she and Prince Albert were first cousins. First cousins?? Yuk!!! And they accuse southerners of being inbred.

And my question still hasn't been answered yet: Was the Prince really as good-looking as the actor portraying him?

No! but he would have been considered as good looking by the standards of those days

LOL! What??!!! Really???? The people you had to marry for the sake of world domination:)

Yes not so surprising many marriages were done to make political alliances and control of more space and domination of other countries. After tears of marrying for political agenda you will find that many of those who control the governments are related to those they marry. An old saying ran true at the time Keep it in the family...

Of course it can backfire at times, during the First World War, the king had to change his surname, which was German, to a more British one, public opinion was mounting against the King because of his name and the German connection, so his name was changed to Windsor which is the name that Kings and Queens have used since