Lucky in love perhaps Jim ? angela ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim SHARPE <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:47 PM Subject: RE: [Gen-Friends] Brian's difficulty with the stairs > Well how d'ya explain the lousy luck. > I've been on the pools 50 years, done the lottery since day one religiously, > bought granny bonds and premium bonds in their > hundreds........result........Zilch. > > Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bubbles [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Gen-Friends] Brian's difficulty with the stairs > > Don't be silly Jim, you have 26 stairs, that's ok. > Bubbles from Robin Hood Country > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim SHARPE" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:09 PM > Subject: RE: [Gen-Friends] Brian's difficulty with the stairs > > > > Hey we've got two banks of 13 stairs right up to the loft. No wonder my > > luck's crap. > > > > Jim Sharpe Shaw, Oldham. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Frances Myette [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 8:28 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Gen-Friends] Brian's difficulty with the stairs > > > > Hi Bubbles! > > Not only UK houses have l3 stairs!...I also have > > the same...though my staircase is wide...and the > > surface of each step is also deep...so that one's > > foot fits it just fine....I also have 7 stairs to > > my family room which is over the garage...Had no > > 'trouble with the knees' though when we bought it > > l6 years ago. > > > > > > Frances > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, > > simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, > > or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go > > to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > --- > > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 > > > > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > > Visit and support: > > http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow > Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 > > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Please change the Subject line when the subject of the reply > changes. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I've never heard that one. The only one I know is "necessity is the mother of invention". Roz Mind you, I should have said that "Birds of a feather FLOCK together". > A very famous person once said, "Necessity is the food of life" > > > > > Birds of a feather stick together! > > > > Marj > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== Suspect virus messages should be sent to the List Admin only, NOT to the list, so they can be checked out before a panic starts. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Having a degree in psychology, I agree with the study. It's been long known that expressing feelings, specifically "bad" feelings has a positive effect on the individual... Acting out doesn't seem to work as well but those were different studies done at different times and may not correlate well... Marj, never give up posting! :> Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. -----Original Message----- From: Marged [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] from today's Telegraph Well, Jim, it's nice to have your considered opinion. As a matter of fact, I do concur with the message absolutely, having had the experience of making a lot of friends on the internet at a time when big changes in my life might have made me very lonely, and possibly even crack up. I do have a life outside e-mailing, but it certainly means a lot to me. Perhaps we might hear from others on the message, and also on whether it is worth my while going on sending ANYTHING to THIS List? Marj > I'm tempted to interject "Balderdash". What do you say Brian? > Since you opened it Marged I guess you concur with the psychologists? > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== Visit List General Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

April 22, 2002 *Who Gets The Dog?* A clergyman was walking down the street when he came upon a group of about a dozen boys, all of them between 10 and 12 years of age. The group surrounded a dog. Concerned the boys were hurting the dog, he went over and asked, "What are you doing with that dog?" One of the boys replied, "This dog is just an old neighborhood stray. We all want him, but only one of us can take him home. So we've decided that whichever one of us can tell the biggest lie will get to keep the dog." The reverend was taken aback. "You boys shouldn't be having a contest telling lies!" he exclaimed. He then launched into a 10-minute sermon against lying, beginning, "Don't you boys know it's a sin to lie?" and ending with, "Why, when I was your age, I never told a lie." There was dead silence for about a minute. Just as the reverend was beginning to think he'd gotten through to them, the smallest boy gave a deep sigh and said, "All right, give him the dog." --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

23 APRIL St George’s Day, the national day of England. Wear your Rose with Pride St George slayed the dragon in Libya in the third century, and became the patron saint of England when he appeared as an apparition in the sky while the Crusaders were fighting their Muslim enemy. 1564: William Shakespeare Born - playwright 1661: Charles II was crowned king of England. 1702: Queen Anne was crowned. 1791: Birth of James Buchanan, US Democrat statesman who became the 15th President during the run-up to the Civil War. 1861: Birth of Henry Hyman, Viscount Allenby, British Field Marshal during the First World War, who crushed the Turks at Megiddo in Palestine in 1918. 1879: The first Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opened in Stratford-upon-Avon, and in 1932 the New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was opened by the Prince of Wales. The opening performances were Henry VI Parts 1 and 2, Shakespeare’s first plays. 1898: Crosby Lightship sunk when hit by S.S. Mediana. 1897: Birth of Lester Bowles Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister (1963-8), and Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work in establishing the United Nations Emergency Force. He was also the designer of the Maple Leaf flag. 1924: King George V and Queen Mary opened the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium. 1935: The official opening by Stalin of the Moscow Underground railway took place. 1941: Greece surrenders to Italy and Germany during WWII. 1945: End of 'Dim-Out' Lighting restrictions. Liverpool's City centre shop windows lit up again. 1962: Stirling Moss crashed at the Goodwood circuit at 110 mph. He was rushed to hospital with a broken rib and leg, and serious head injuries. 1968: The first decimal coins appeared in Britain. They were the five-and ten-pence pieces which replaced the old 1/- (one shilling) and 2/- (two shilling) coins. 1969: In the US, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was found guilty of the assassination of Robert F Kennedy and was sentenced to die in the gas chamber. 1980: Saudi Arabia threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Britain following the screening on television of the documentary Death of a Princess, which described the events leading to the death of a Saudi princess for infidelity. 1984: The US announced the discovery of the AIDS virus. 1985: After 99 years of success, Coca-Cola executives announce they are changing the formula, calling it New Coke. (It failed to win the hearts of consumers, so the old formula was brought back.) 1988: A Greek myth relates that on this day Daedalus flew from the island of Crete across the Aegean Sea to the island of Santorini, a distance of 74 miles. This day, a Greek cycling champion, Kanellos Kanellopoulos, pedalled an extra-lightweight flying machine called Daedalus through the air over the same route, setting a record for man-powered flight. He crashed into the sea, just yards from the shore, and swam safely to land. 1990: The ‘silent man of the Great Train Robbery’ (8 August 1963), Charlie Wilson, was shot dead at his home near Marbella, Spain. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

I am currently getting bounced messages from: [email protected] but do not recognise the address. Does anyone else? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

Yes, I can, see. NER! It was George W Bush! Or me! Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] from today's Telegraph > Who was that person? I bet you can't tell us. Everyone knows that > necessity is the MOTHER OF INVENTION! > > Marj > > > > A very famous person once said, "Necessity is the food of life" > > > >> > > > Birds of a feather stick together! > > > > > > Marj > > > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, > simply resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, > or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

Mind you, I should have said that "Birds of a feather FLOCK together". > A very famous person once said, "Necessity is the food of life" > > > > > Birds of a feather stick together! > > > > Marj > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

Who was that person? I bet you can't tell us. Everyone knows that necessity is the MOTHER OF INVENTION! Marj > A very famous person once said, "Necessity is the food of life" > >> > > Birds of a feather stick together! > > > > Marj > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

A very famous person once said, "Necessity is the food of life" Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] from today's Telegraph > Birds of a feather stick together! > > Marj > > > > I agree, Jim. The world is full of these so-called "experts" although > most > > of them work for Social Services Departments because they would never get > a > > job anywhere else. > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

Now then - do I detect a little wry humour here? Once we start thinking we can't be done without, we are in big trouble! Marj > > :-) We couldn't exist without praise and this list couldn't exist without > Marged. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

And another thing ................ The main purpose of sending on articles such as the one that has caused a flutter in the dovecot is not just to prove the point that the writer of the article is making, or otherwise as the case may be BUT - to engender discussion in the manner Pam and Frances have just demonstrated. In future when I send anything in, I am going to give it a heading saying "Discuss - do not shoot down in flames"! Marj > > > I agree, Jim. The world is full of these so-called "experts" although > most > > of them work for Social Services Departments because they would never get > a > > job anywhere else. > > > > > > > > I'm tempted to interject "Balderdash". What do you say Brian? > > > Since you opened it Marged I guess you concur with the psychologists? > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

To have a trivia list where people could talk c*** to unwind. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: "Brian" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] from today's Telegraph > I deny it! What was my idea? > Marj > > > > Oh, dear, Marj. What's up? Don't stop Jim expressing his opinion. It's > > differences of opinion which make this list the success it is. That was > the > > idea [your idea] when the list started you know. > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

I thought that was always! :-) We couldn't exist without praise and this list couldn't exist without Marged. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] from today's Telegraph > Thanks Pam. I like it when people agree with me, especially when I am > right! > > Quote from (I think) W. Somerset Maugham: People ask your opinion, but all > they really want is praise. > > Marj > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

There you are you see - it must be a woman thing! Thank you Frances. some very sound reasoning there for you fellers. Marj > Marged!..I agree l00% with this writing. Yes, it > absolutely does help when one is perhaps in a > time of crisis..whether it be sickness..or..a > change in one's life that has become somewhat > difficult to cope with at the time of it > happening > ...I also have read and do understand that this > works very well especially for women..more so > than > men..as they do tend to internalize these any > unhappy event/crisis/change...due to a line of > thinking..."I can handle..work this out...myself" > ..which in my opinion is an "extension" to the > admonitions as a young child..'little boys don't > cry' --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

Peace at last. :-) Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin www.lordbramhall.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bubbles" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:17 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Night night > and so to bed. > Bubbles from Robin Hood Country > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Visit List General Archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002

Marged!..I agree l00% with this writing. Yes, it absolutely does help when one is perhaps in a time of crisis..whether it be sickness..or..a change in one's life that has become somewhat difficult to cope with at the time of it happening ...I also have read and do understand that this works very well especially for women..more so than men..as they do tend to internalize these any unhappy event/crisis/change...due to a line of thinking..."I can handle..work this out...myself" ..which in my opinion is an "extension" to the admonitions as a young child..'little boys don't cry' .... We 'can cry' if we are emotionally hurt ..and for valid reasons for a temporary state of depression...why not?? We were ..All..blessed with 'tear ducts'...and all the same emotions ...be we female or male...it makes no difference...Yes, some it helps by 'writing down their feelings'... others..to speak with someone personally either in person,,or, by phone...but, speak about your feelings is always the best way of returning back to the avenue of good health..both mentally and physically!! This is my humble opinion...and yes, Marged, I agree with you that I too have had times when this was the only way to 'get on with life'... Best wishes to all ~! Frances __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Birds of a feather stick together! Marj > I agree, Jim. The world is full of these so-called "experts" although most > of them work for Social Services Departments because they would never get a > job anywhere else. > > > > > I'm tempted to interject "Balderdash". What do you say Brian? > > Since you opened it Marged I guess you concur with the psychologists? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02

and so to bed. Bubbles from Robin Hood Country

Thanks Pam. I like it when people agree with me, especially when I am right! Quote from (I think) W. Somerset Maugham: People ask your opinion, but all they really want is praise. Marj > Marj, I agree with you. I am grateful for all the friends I have made on > the internet. I think I would have gone mad these past few months if I > hadn't had all the friends writing to me and wishing me well. > Also, being able to use the computer to find things on the web has kept me > busy and my mind off all the problems. > Some of you might know that I do a lot of transcribing for FreeBMD and > FreeCens and if I didn't have the internet then I wouldn't have found out > about them, and they have kept me busy too. > So Marj, you carry on sending things to the list, I always read them. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02