Happy and or Random Thoughts

[Swing Kitten]

Happy thought: I just discovered the 5 discs worth of oldies music my dad put on my lap top while I was home for the summer!! That was very nice of him... (it's music I like but do not really own) he can be a pretty silly guy-- which I like!

[SwinginBoo]

Oldies music is my favorite. I'm talking about the real 50's stuff. Doo wop rules :!: :!: :!: My mom used to sing in an acapella 50's band. They were awesome. It's the stuff that dreams are made of.

[Swing Kitten]

Random thought: How do they clean out cement trucks???

[pygmalion]

DO they clean out cement trucks? If they do, probably some sort of solvent, not just water, to dissolve the cement while it's washed/rinsed away? :? *shrug*

[pygmalion]

Why is a shoe called a shoe? Why is a horse called a horse?

(Sorry. Still thinking about the movie duos thread. Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple, you know. :D )

[pygmalion]

Hmm. Everyone seems to be in a silly mood today. Not a single serious dance topic has been adressed yet this morning. Must be a Friday! :D

[pygmalion]

Man! Vince just ruined a perfectly good silliness streak by posting something serious! :lol: :lol: Doesn't he know it's Friday? :lol:

[Vince A]

Oh man . . . some of us work for a living.

Besides, someone needs to keep you "kids" in line!

Shoes?

Horses?

Hmmmmm . . . horseshoes!

[SDsalsaguy]

Why are butterflies called butterflies? They're not flies and they don’t subsist on butter. They should be called flutterbys because that’s what they do – flutter by!

[SwinginBoo]

How observant of you SD :D

[SwinginBoo]

You know what is strange/random? Nail polish. Yes Nail polish. Who ever thought it would be a good idea to paint our nails strange colors? They get ruined after a few days and then you have to use a harsh chemical to get off the paint, only to repaint and take off, repaint....humans are strange creatures :roll:

[Vince A]

And tea . . . we boil it to make it hot, then we add ice to get it cold!
We add sugar to make it sweet, then add lemon to make it sour.

Or football. Why that word? The players mainly use their hands and the ball is not shaped like a ball.

Or, how about "military intelligence?"

[will35]

In England where football was invented, they call soccer football. It is a ball that you kick with your foot. Even in Spanish speaking countries they call it futbol.
Tea was a popular drink in the old days when good drinking water was scarce. The heat killed the bugs. Then, when we got to the colonies, we decided the weather was too hot, so we cooled it off.
The military intelligence one I'll go for. It is pretty dumb.
Nail polish is wierd, but what about tattoos? They don't even come off. Ever.

[SwinginBoo]

Or, how about "military intelligence?"

lol I don't think we've had any of that these past four years.

woops, did I say that outloud? :P

[pygmalion]

Here's a random thought for you: Did you know that if you go to dance-forum.com rather than dance-forums.com, you get a bulletin board in German? Hmmm.

[Vince A]

Oh yes. . . been there, and if you plug in .whitehouse.com . . . what you get? Don't do it . . . it's a porn site!

[will35]

I'll bet somehwere on the German site there is a conversation about this site and how easy it is to get mixed up between the two.

[will35]

No, I tried searching on the german site for any stuff relating to dance-forums.com. They must not have any random thoughts about this site.

[SDsalsaguy]

Well, the Germans have never struck me as a particularly random culture...

[will35]

I was thinking it would turn out like one of those Borges stories with mirrors and labyrinths. It seems like I remember he claimed some German ancestry. He was a random type if I ever saw one.

[will35]

Have you ever heard of Benford's law? It states that random numbers are not as random as they seem. There are certain numbers in certain decimal places that come up more than others. If you jump into the middle of a set of random numbers in a very, very large database, and you exchange some numbers with some that you made up, a person can use Benford's law to find approximately what you changed.

[Swing Kitten]

Why are butterflies called butterflies? They're not flies and they don’t subsist on butter. They should be called flutterbys because that’s what they do – flutter by!

There's a children's book about that! I heard it was wonderful!

[Swing Kitten]

I have the sneaking suspicion that nail polish came around to conceal figer nail nastiness (middle ages??) purfume started that way.

[pygmalion]

Check out what I found you-know-where. (google, of course! 8) )

Believe it or not, people have been manicuring their nails for more than 4,000 years. In southern Babylonia, noblemen used solid gold tools to give themselves manicures and pedicures. The use of fingernail polish can be traced back even further. Originating in China in 3,000 B.C., nail color indicated social status. According to a Ming Dynasty manuscript, royal fingernails were painted black and red. The Egyptians also colored their nails using red to designate the highest social class. It is said that Cleopatra's nails were painted a deep red, whereas Queen Nefertiti went with a brighter ruby shade. In ancient Egypt and Rome, military commanders also painted their nails to match their lips before they went off to battle.

[Swing Kitten]

fasinating!

I need to think of a happy thought! happy thought... those have been more scarce than usual this week-- not that this week is horrible just tough and I'm having a difficult time putting a possitive spin on it.

Ah Ha!! I got to talk with my sisters this week!! JOY!!

ok. now back to work!

[will35]

Before I married my present and only wife, we dated for two years or so. I think one of the things she liked most about me was that I had pink skin under my fingernails. The first time she noticed them, she said, "Wow!" She said pink is a very healthy color for the skin under the nails. Could it be that the practice of painting the nails is linked to the healthy appearance that people need to attract a mate? Red lips, red nails, dark skin to survive in the sun. Good breeding characteristics? Maybe that is why people without tans don't win the competitions, too. Come on, who would believe a ghost white salsero? But what about the Viennese waltz?

[SDsalsaguy]

Why are butterflies called butterflies? They're not flies and they don’t subsist on butter. They should be called flutterbys because that’s what they do – flutter by!

There's a children's book about that! I heard it was wonderful!
Do you mean Hope for the Flowers? If so, then yes, that is a fantastic book...and an important lesson for all ages!

[dancer_of_god]

good point.
why are men such egoistic maniacs? i mean, seriously. they all insist on making the first move, and then they never do! :?

[Swing Kitten]

Hello dancer_of_god,

Welcome to the forums! It is nice to have you with us. Wow, what a great random thought! I wouldn't say that all men are egotistic maniacs in the least! I know several who are quite balanced and even some who greatly perfer to not make the first move (are we talking relationship type-wise?).
I'm sure we've all had our frustrations in this department (if I'm understanding you correctly)... I know I certainly have been burned! I have found that dancing helps a great deal! What type of dance is your favorite and what got you started?

I look forward very much to hearing your 'story' from where I sit it seems that you have a lot to say! :wink:

--Kristen

[Swing Kitten]

My happy/random thought: I get a thrill from being surrounded by old books! It is just an amazing feeling looking at the spine of bound periodicals that are dated 1909... it's a magical thing when you run onto objects that are alive with a sense of history... a past life. I have found this feeling more since living in Connecticut... everything is older out here. It's nice to submerge myself for a few hours.

[pygmalion]

it's a magical thing when you run onto objects that are alive with a sense of history... a past life.


Have you ever been to Europe, SwingKitten? It's like that too. An amazing sense of history everywhere. Sightseeing in churches that were built in the fifteenth or sixteenth century can be a very humbling experience. For me, though, it got old (okay, pun intended :lol: ) after a while. I made the mistake of doing too much touristy-type itinerary planning, at least the first time I was there. After five or six days of traipsing all over the place, I lost my sense of wonder. One fifteenth century cathedral starts looking a lot like all the others. Fortunately, I took photos, which now, I find pretty amazing. :D The wonder is back! :D

[SDsalsaguy]

Yup, Europe is pretty cool in that way...but I've also visited both Israel and Egypt...now that's having some history around you!

[will35]

I am a man. I like to take the first move but allow the woman to think she took it. It's more fun for both that way.

[will35]

why are men such egoistic maniacs? i mean, seriously. they all insist on making the first move, and then they never do!
-dancer_of_god

Maybe the particular egoistic maniac in question just wants to dance.

[Swing Kitten]

Have you ever been to Europe, SwingKitten? It's like that too. An amazing sense of history everywhere. Sightseeing in churches that were built in the fifteenth or sixteenth century can be a very humbling experience. ... ... One fifteenth century cathedral starts looking a lot like all the others. Fortunately, I took photos, which now, I find pretty amazing. :D The wonder is back! :D

I took a period styles of architecture course last semster which has helped me gain an appreciation for old buildings. In history it seems that only churches and palaces survive (but mostly the churches) so while I haven't been to europe but I've seen a lot of slides so that's basically the same right?? :wink:[/b]

[Swing Kitten]

The power went out in my neighbor hood... I wonder when they plan on fixing that.

hmmmm :?

[Swing Kitten]

The power went out in my neighbor hood... I wonder when they plan on fixing that.

hmmmm :?

LOL .... Ask and ye shall recieve!!

[DanceMentor]

To teach is to learn twice!

[Swing Kitten]

True that!

[dancersdreamland]

Why are butterflies called butterflies? They're not flies and they don’t subsist on butter. They should be called flutterbys because that’s what they do – flutter by!

Perhaps someone dislexic (definately not spelled correctly) name them! :wink:

[dancersdreamland]

Nail polish is wierd, but what about tattoos? They don't even come off. Ever.

Agreed, nail polish is weird...but at least it's named accordingly.

Tattoos...yes, weird, but I wouldn't trade mine in for anything. :wink:

[dancersdreamland]

Have you ever heard of Benford's law? It states that random numbers are not as random as they seem. There are certain numbers in certain decimal places that come up more than others. If you jump into the middle of a set of random numbers in a very, very large database, and you exchange some numbers with some that you made up, a person can use Benford's law to find approximately what you changed.

Huh...very interesting.

[will35]

I also have a tattoo. I don't regret it, but I still wonder why I had it done.

[dancersdreamland]

To teach is to learn twice!

Too true...too true!

[pygmalion]

I'm getting a tattoo, a scorpion. (I'm NOT a scorpio :D ) As soon as I find a tattoo artist that for sure doesn't share needles or ink.

[dancersdreamland]

Why are butterflies called butterflies? They're not flies and they don’t subsist on butter. They should be called flutterbys because that’s what they do – flutter by!

There's a children's book about that! I heard it was wonderful!
Do you mean Hope for the Flowers? If so, then yes, that is a fantastic book...and an important lesson for all ages!

We are having butterflies as a reoccuring theme at our wedding next fall. We have been searching for a related reading from a children's book. I think I'll have to find this book and see what it has to say. Thanks for the unintentional tip!!! :D

[SDsalsaguy]

I think you'll really fall in love with it once you read it...

Please let me know what you think after you read it.

[dancersdreamland]

I defintaley will...I'll run out tomorrow during my lunch break and see if I can find it. Do you know who the author is????

[dancersdreamland]

Ooh...just found it on Amazon.com. It's by Tina Paulus and after reading a very short except...it sounds like my kind of book. Can't wait to get it.

Has anyone ever read anything by SARK. She's fantastic and I highly recommend her!!!

[pygmalion]

Random thought: I have never posted a single thing in dance-forums without later discovering a silly typo. :cry: Even when I proofread. :?

[SwinginBoo]

LOL. I'm cnostatnly eiditing my psots for splelning erorrs.

[Swing Kitten]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

you're great Steph

[SDsalsaguy]

Random thought: I have never posted a single thing in dance-forums without later discovering a silly typo. :cry: Even when I proofread. :?
Hence the incomparable virtues of the all-mighty "edit" button! :lol:

[Vince A]

Why are butterflies called butterflies? They're not flies and they don’t subsist on butter. They should be called flutterbys because that’s what they do – flutter by!

There's a children's book about that! I heard it was wonderful!
Do you mean Hope for the Flowers? If so, then yes, that is a fantastic book...and an important lesson for all ages!

We are having butterflies as a reoccuring theme at our wedding next fall. We have been searching for a related reading from a children's book. I think I'll have to find this book and see what it has to say. Thanks for the unintentional tip!!! :D
Hi dd,
You mentioned wedding and butterflies in the same response, which reminded of a wedding that I went to this summer. Nearly 400 invited guests were given a small 2 inch by 2 inch box as they entered the wedding area - outside wedding of course!

As the couple was pronounced "man and wife," each guest was to open their box. The time came, 400 boxes opened up releasing 400 butterflies! It was a thing of beauty!

[Swing Kitten]

That sounds awesome!

[will35]

I found another word like traspie and strasthspey; traipse. I looked in an American dictionary and it says origin unknown. Someday I'll get to the bottom of this thing.

[pygmalion]

Random thought: why did I get the salsa freak september newsletter on October 10? Well ... at least the New Year's workshop is very reasonably priced. :lol:

[MissAlyssa]

Happy thought: I am off for the entire weekend with nothing to do but relax.

[dancersdreamland]

I also have a tattoo. I don't regret it, but I still wonder why I had it done.

I had my tattoo done in memory of my best friend who was killed in a very tragic car accident on my 19th birthday. She loved the Disney character Goofy and actually had his face tattooed on her hip. Sometime after her passing I wanted to get a Goofy tattoo in her memory.

I researched the art of tattooing FOREVER until all my questions were answered, then I asked about a million more questions. Then I had to find the perfect image...HUNDREDS of online searching hours.

I finally decided on an image of Goofy where you're actually looking at his back. His hands are straight out in front of him, as though he's pushing up against something. Then, he's looking back over his shoulder.

Jeni (my friend who passed) always used to look out for me and "watch my back," so I placed this image of Goofy on the small of my back. Now he (Goofy as a tatto) and she (Jeni as an angle) are aways looking out for me and "watching my back." Jeni also would push me forward with encouragement...Goofy's hands push on my back as though encouraging me forward.

Just thought I'd share...

[will35]

We had better warn Pygmalion that getting a tattoo is a little painful for a while afterward. Not something to do just for yucks.

[dancersdreamland]

We had better warn Pygmalion that getting a tattoo is a little painful for a while afterward. Not something to do just for yucks.

agreed...itchy too!!!

[dancersdreamland]

Hi dd,

You mentioned wedding and butterflies in the same response, which reminded of a wedding that I went to this summer. Nearly 400 invited guests were given a small 2 inch by 2 inch box as they entered the wedding area - outside wedding of course!

As the couple was pronounced "man and wife," each guest was to open their box. The time came, 400 boxes opened up releasing 400 butterflies! It was a thing of beauty!

We're actually trying to work this into our budget right now...and we're trying to make sure it won't be too cold. October in Wisconsin can be very iffy.

Thanks for the story!!!

[SwinginBoo]

Wow Dancersdreamland, that is the most moving story. I'm sorry about your loss. I'm sure your friend is still watching over you.

[pygmalion]

We had better warn Pygmalion that getting a tattoo is a little painful for a while afterward. Not something to do just for yucks.

agreed...itchy too!!!

Hey, what's a little itch and discomfort, when I can make a long-lasting statement? Who knows what the statement might be, but a statement I shall make! :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

Happy thoughts of late:

Talking to my mentor on the phone for the first time in months!
Having said mentor say he'll possibly have work for me when I get home for winter break.
Talking to favorite boy back home! ::swoon::
I've been able to get some sleep lately.
School shouldn't kill me .... .... .... yet.
Listening to Nat King Cole and thinking of favorite boy ::double swoon complete with chills up and down my spine:: it's a happy sad ::shrug:: alas! *sigh*



ok 'nough of that... back to work!

[pygmalion]

Hey Missy!

What's all this swooning about? And who's this favorite boy back home? Dish! :D 8)

[Swing Kitten]

it was just a happy thought... we're apart... 3,000 miles apart... not much more to tell.

Enough about me... What's your happy thought of the day?

[pygmalion]

Ah yes. The old absence makes the heart grow fonder phenomenon. Sweet. :D I love romance. Especially the kind that involves innocent longing. It doesn't get better than that! :D Enjoy your happy thoughts! :D

[danceguy]

I'm getting a tattoo, a scorpion. (I'm NOT a scorpio ) As soon as I find a tattoo artist that for sure doesn't share needles or ink.

Woo hoo! You're joining the Scorpion clan Jenn! :D :) :o :lol: 8) :roll: :wink: :) :o

Oddly enough, I have not a single tattoo...and that brings me to my random thought:

Why do certain people find tattoos sexy?

I recall a History teacher telling me about the early Europeans (from Spain) who first met the Pacific Islanders (Maori? Tahitians?) centuries ago by sailing to their islands. At the time...the native women saw these newcomers as full of "mana"...and literally started doing the horizontal mambo with these lucky !@!**&#!! *ahem* I mean adventurous Spaniards en masse. Since these islanders had a very strong tradition of having tattoos...this became the origin of the sexual myths around tattoos and sailors in our modern culture.

Hmm, I think I just answered my own question...I wonder about myself at times... :shock:

[pygmalion]

Horizontal mambo? That's a new one! :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

Horizontal mambo? That's a new one! :lol:
Just be careful which instructors you ask for lessons Jenn... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[SwinginBoo]

Happy or random thought...

It's friday and I'm going dancing tonight! :D

[will35]

Here is a random thought. I was sitting at a traffic light today watching the cars come and go. I thought, Whoever invented this thing is one hell of a guy. How many lives has the traffic light saved? And all we do is curse when we come to a red light. Some fantastic people really get no credit.

[Swing Kitten]

There could be an entire thread about amazing people we don't hear much about and obscure inventors.

What first pops into mind (because I've been thinking about it for a couple of days) is Charles Drew... I know he's not unheard of but he his also just barely touched upon in American History. He studied blood and blood transfusions and discovered that the plasma could be separated from the blood and the two could be frozen separately then recombined. This allowed blood to be stored for about a week (before that piont the shelf life of blood was about two days max). This made banking blood widely possible transfusions available to so many more people. Talk about the lives he saved!!

[will35]

Fascinating, isn't it? Regarding dancing, the same thing happens. We talk about all these famous couples, but who was the couple who invented the waltz? Were they just a couple of Italian peasants, and did they get credit in their time? We can even still find terrific recordings of singers and players who are completely forgotten today. How did we let that history disappear so quickly?

[Swing Kitten]

Probably because we're lazy. :lol: we can't know everything... maybe that's why many people do not try!

I think most things cannot solely be contributed to one person... i.e. there were blood transfusions before Charles Drew and I'm sure there have been advances in that field since his passing. He was a major contributor hands down.

Perhaps a better way to go about it is that I doubt the waltz was invented by a single couple. It grew and morphed and grew some more from dances that were danced for generations I'm sure. Logic would tell us that at one time there would have to be the first couple to dance the dance as it is recognized today...(chicken and egg anyone?) however they could not have gotten there if it weren't for those generations before them. I believe that most things of a cultural nature develope this way.

[will35]

Ah, here I was feeling nostalgiac and sad, and you poured on the logic. And somehow, it doesn't feel any better now.



That was supposed to be funny. Fuh-get abowd it.

[DanceMentor]

I feel FINE

Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional

--from "The Italian Job"

I was feeling this way when the forums went down a few minutes ago.

[Swing Kitten]

Ah, here I was feeling nostalgiac and sad, and you poured on the logic. And somehow, it doesn't feel any better now.



That was supposed to be funny. Fuh-get abowd it.

:( sorry.... stupid logic!

[SDsalsaguy]

:( sorry.... stupid logic!
Yes, please do. My students tend to and you're going to confuse me while I'm sitting here grading their papers if you keep throwing that stuff around! :wink:

[will35]

A girl who must have been about 18 today asked me how many feet were 72 inches. She really wanted to know. She had a catalog in her hand. I guess she wanted to order something that was that tall, and she needed to know if it would fit in her house or whatever. How many people do you suppose don't know the answer to the question? Do you suppose it is different in Canada or England? Do you think they know how many decimeters in three meters? My experience is that they know how to measure in feet and meters better than Americans. But I wonder. I have not spent that much time anywhere.

[pygmalion]

Yes, will35. It's completely amazing how many people somehow missed fundamental, I mean, total basics of an adequate education. I don't know about Americans versus others, but here's an observation. Everybody I know from a foreign country is at least moderately good at speaking and/or reading English. 25% of American adults are functionally illiterate in English. :shock: Think about it. I know my foreign friends are probably not representative of the population as a whole. But still. I wonder if there are stats out there about the relative literacy rates in various countries. Hmm. :?

[Swing Kitten]

did you try googleing it Jenn?

[pygmalion]

I resisted the temptation so far, but I don't know how much longer I can hold out! :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

It's perfectly fine to satisfy your need for google... it's alright! It's even helpful and interesting and even if it weren't we'd love you anyway!

[pygmalion]

:D I love you, too. :D

And I can't stand unanswered questions, so here goes. I found beaucoup websites. I won't bore you with them, because many of them are government reports -- long and boring! :x Here's the bottom line.

In the world overall, the US has a not bad literacy rate -- about 75% adult literacy. Compared to other industrialized nations, however, the US is doing very, very badly. There appears to be a strong positive correlation between socio-economic status and literacy rate, with pockets of low literacy in poor areas all over the US. The fifty countries in the world with the lowest rates of literacy are all impoverished, developing countries, and some of those have literacy rates as low as 18%. :cry:

And, fortunately for me, spelling ability is not at all related to assessment of literacy. One bright note in this whole ugly thing. :D Just kidding. Trying to lighten it up a bit. *shrug* :?

[SwinginBoo]

20% of Americans (adults and children) have language learning difficulties

10 - 13 % of them have moderate dyslexia

7 - 10 % are severely dyslexic

(I know this because I just attended a reading conference :D )

[SDsalsaguy]

Do you know if these statistics hold true for other countries as well Boo?

[SwinginBoo]

I'm not sure. It would be interesting to see. I'm sure one of our dearest will google it. :lol:

[will35]

Well, we can google our hearts out, but that was not quite what I was thinking about when I thought about the girl. This girl was in the midst of making a chessboard for a Christmas gift for somebody. She was talking to somebody in line at a gasoline service station about her baby's pictures and Christmas and other things. I never meant to presume anything about the girl's education or literacy level, but it is a perfectly good question. But remember, we are not talking about anything with this girl but a certain type of mathematical literacy. She was reading a catalog, and that was literate enough for me at the time. What was strange to me about the situation was that she asked me how many feet in several measurement of inches, for example, "How many feet is 108 in, how many feet is 72 in, etc." They were all whole numbers of feet. Yet, she never asked me how I always knew the answers to her questions and how many inches in just one foot. I should gladly explain to anybody who asked me how I got the answers, but that was no question. She was perfectly content to continue asking me these things even as I was walking out the door.
I think it is more of a question of specialization of knowledge than of literacy in general. This girl seemed to think that there would always be some engineer type around to tell her how many feet in so many inches and all her other mathematical questions.
She obviously knew things that I didn't. She was a mother and she was making a chessboard. Those are two things I have never done. But she didn't seem to want to find the magic formula for feet and inches.
The reason I mention Canada is that most Canadians live very close to the border with U.S. and have to deal with conversions all the time. They have a need to understand things. When I ask a Canadian for directions, he/she normally tells me in kilometers and then in miles to be certain that I understand.

[pygmalion]

Yes, will35. Some of the smartest people I've ever known have been people who, by our standards, are illiterate. Like the older gentleman I used to know, who never attended any formal school at all, and who ran several businesses, and when he died, left behind houses and properties, and money. All through his ingenuity. Or my grandfather, who, when he died of cancer at 99 years old, left behind four generations of well-educated, well-positioned children, grand, great-grand, and great-great grandchildren, and did it with a sixth grade education and one generation out of slavery. Yes, you are right.


And there are other issues. When I went to grade school, we were taught some practical things, like estimation, and other practical math "tricks" like knowing how many feet in 72 inches, etc. My nieces, who went to the same schools I did a decade or more later, weren't taught the same things. The educational approach was different.

And the third issue, a very real one, is illiteracy, in the US and across the world. How many people do we know, who are disenfranchised or excluded because they can't read? Or how many countries are there, that are economically crippled by their illitracy rates?

All important issues.

[will35]

Here, let me throw another monkey wrench in the statistics. How many people in the United States who participate in the literacy surveys and become part of the statistics can actually read in their native language, something other than English? How many of those surveys are conducted by people who also happen to be begging for money from the government to teach? Some of those surveys are about spin.
But I always seem to be asking the same questions. What do we need to teach? What do we need to learn? What does it take to learn to read? When I was growing up, my parents taught me that there were certain sounds normally associated with each letter of the alphabet. I was reading Henry James by the time I was five or six.
The average engineer nowadays puts some numbers in a computer, and expects the right answer.
I'm not complaining, just wondering?
Who teaches the parents in this country?

[pygmalion]

Oh my goodness! I'm trying to log off and go get something done! Will you please let me go? :shock: :lol:

Yes. Statistical sampling methods stink, and are often manipulated, intentionally or unintentionally, by the people administering the survey. What president was it that said there are three kinds of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics? Calvin Coolidge? True. Bias often determines the outcome. Still, there are real literacy problems.

And there are real educational system problems. Like the case you site about engineers expecting the answers out of a calculator. Absolutely right. When my nieces were in elementary and middle school, honest to pete, if you asked them the answer to 430 plus 300, didn't know the answer couldn't possibly be a million. No common sense in their education. Yet they had computers, and calculators. What is that about? Are we creating a generation of people who don't use their brains, but rely on someone else or a computer to supply them with the answers? Infuriating, and scary.

And the answer is, nobody is educating the parents, except the parents' parents, and the parents themselves. Which leave s a lot of people out of the social/educational viability equation all together.

What a world! :cry: :x

[will35]

Okay, you can get your stuff done. But expect more of the same when you get back.

[Swing Kitten]

Ok, now that we haven't had anything random for a little while:

I like mashed potatoes!

[will35]

Wine is healthy. It lowers cholesterol. Why don't the wineries sell tiny little bottles with just a sip for people to take even at work. I don't think it would hurt anything.

[SwinginBoo]

I thought of this one this morning. Why does american only have one kind of cheese? American cheese? The italians have provolone, mozarella, and parmesean. But we Americans just have one. What, we couldn't come up with any other kinds? How dull. :?

[pygmalion]

Is American cheese really cheese, or is it cheese food? And how come white and yellow American cheese taste different? And what's the deal with Kraft singles? And Velveeta is yucky! *shudder*

[will35]

Do you suppose American cheese made in Mexico would have a different flavor?

[pygmalion]

I don't know about cheese, but I know that ice cream made in the Cayman Islands tastes different. They make it with canned milk. Yuck!

[Swing Kitten]

:lol: I don't know but I'm sure it's more economic!

[will35]

Here's a good one. I saw a little American flag a few days ago with a shiny gold sticker that read "Made In China."

[Swing Kitten]

It's a sad sad day... that alone speaks volumes

[SwinginBoo]

Happy/random thought: I'm at work, but I'm not actually working (hence I'm here). When I go home I get to cook dinner, go for a run, and then go dancing! YAY! It's so good to be me today. :D

[pygmalion]

Hey did anybody see the "It's good to be Kelly Ripa" show that came on in the past couple days? I missed it. She's just too perky for me. It would have been interesting to see how she lives, though. :?

[SwinginBoo]

No, but I did happen to catch a bit of something like "A day in the life of...Britney Spears" YUCK :x I can't believe I even tuned into it for more than a few seconds, let alone 10 minutes. These things, they just pull you in. I really should get rid of my TV.

[dancersdreamland]

Random/Happy thoughts

1. I'm getting married in less than a year!!! (I've been waiting since Christmas 2001 to say that)

2. I belly dance tonight. By the way, pygmalion...how did your lesson go. I can't WAIT to hear from you.

3. I perform in Milwaukee in about two weeks...hooray!!!!

[Vince A]

Everyone,
With work the way it has been - the State and Federal budget screwing our funding up - and me just about living here at work trying to find funding for our office - my time at DF has been limited! Hopefully though, for not much longer . . . :?:

But I do log in several times a day, and one bright spot each and every day is this topic. I always read and keep up with it, chuckling all the while I'm reading, and then return back to work. However, the reality checks I just read helps to get me through another hour or two with a :) on my face.

Thanks to all of you who contribute.

Vince

[pygmalion]

Random thought. I saw a rainbow the other day. It was almost vertical, and off to one side of the horizon. When I lived up north, rainbows were almost horizontal and across the whole horizon. And when I went to Africa, I saw a rainbow that was circular and almost directly overhead. I wonder why. :? 8)

And I wonder what other things we take for granted that are completely different somewhere else. Hmm.

[Sarah]

Random thought. I saw a rainbow the other day. It was almost vertical, and off to one side of the horizon. When I lived up north, rainbows were almost horizontal and across the whole horizon. And when I went to Africa, I saw a rainbow that was circular and almost directly overhead. I wonder why. :? 8)


D'ya really want to know?

Rainbows form when sunlight is refracted through raindrops at a paticular angle, which results in the rainbow being a circle around the anti-solar point. If you imagine yourself to be at the centre of a sphere the anti-solar point is the point on that sphere opposite where the sun is. Point a stick at the sun - the other end of the stick points at the centre of the rainbow. Because the Earth isn't see-through the Sun has to be above the horizon to make a rainbow, so the centre point is below the horizon, so you only ever see part of the rainbow. I'm guessing that you saw your vertical rainbow near sunset, when both the sun and the centre point of the rainbow were near the horizon.

Ice crystals about 20km high in the atmosphere also refract light, but at different angles, forming different (and rarer) arcs and halos in rainbow colours around the sun and around the zenith. (Can you tell I love this stuff?)

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/resource/intro.htm
Looks like a fairly accessable website - googling for `rainbow' is hopeless

Cheers
Sarah

[pygmalion]

Thanks Sarah. :D Yes, I really wanted to know.

Just for the record, I LOVE dance forums! :D

[SwinginBoo]

Why did the turtle cross the road?



To get to the shell station. :lol: :lol: :lol:

(I realize it's a bit corny, but I have a friend who loves turtles so it sort of struck me.)

[Vince A]

Another "corny" shell-related tidbit . . .

There were 142 Iraqis,
Fighting 154 Iranians,
For 69 days,
Over 5 miles of land . . .

Wanna know what they were fighting over???

On a calculator . . . punch in those numbers: 14215469 X 5 =

Turn your calculator upside down to read the answer . . .

[dancergal]

Another "corny" shell-related tidbit . . .

There were 142 Iraqis,
Fighting 154 Iranians,
For 69 days,
Over 5 miles of land . . .

Wanna know what they were fighting over???

On a calculator . . . punch in those numbers: 14215469 X 5 =

Turn your calculator upside down to read the answer . . .

I couldn't turn my calculator in my computer upside down, (it was too heavy) so I had to write it down. It still worked! :D

[Swing Kitten]

I LOVE garlic salt and curry powder!!

They will always be in my kitchen... even if I don't have anything to put them on right away... oh so good!!


I actually cooked today... thus my re-appreciation. I seldom make the opportunity but it was nice!

[SDsalsaguy]

I just got evicted from lunch!

I was at the nearest Souplantation with a friend when the police came by to evacuate the resteraunt because one of the San Diego fires was starting to head our way...

[Swing Kitten]

At least it wasn't personal!

... I hope everything gets under control very soon! I'd let you have some of our snow if I could.... believe me!

[SDsalsaguy]

That's true... a personal eviction would have been a bit less palatable. :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

Especially for Souplantation!! I hear it's wonderful!

[SDsalsaguy]

It is, it is!

Ummm, random thought... what are they going to do with all the food that was out when we all got booted out? I figure it'll probably go to waste anyway, so why didn't they just give me a big tray of the pumpkin raisin muffins to take home with me??? Mmm-mmm good!

[Swing Kitten]

You should have asked! :lol:

[SDsalsaguy]

I did ask for and get a to go container for the food on my plate but they seemed pretty intent on getting people out *now* ... there was a police car driving around the parking lot with lights and oficers in surgical type masks at the intersection preventing any traffic from heading east.

[Swing Kitten]

So sorry SD.

How is the fire situation? I haven't heard anything about it. :shock:

[SDsalsaguy]

How is the fire situation? I haven't heard anything about it. :shock:
Really? :shock:

It's been on CNN and everything, and we're being declared a national disaster area. Every school in the area, including the Universities, are closed tomorrow. There's been tons of damage and several fatalities so far. :cry:

[Vince A]

Hiya SD,
This is off-topic, but about what's being discussed . . .

I assume that you are safe?

Is the breathing "that bad" there??? How about indoors?

We have a competition there this coming weekend, and was wondering how bad is inside? We are planning on leaving Thursday sometime and will only cancel if the competition is cancelled. I assume it will be cancelled if the fires are not out by Thur.

This is an important event, as it's the last scheduled qualifying event for World's, so I bet they hold out as long as they can before it's cancelled!

Vince

[pygmalion]

Hope you're okay, SD. Living near wild fires is the pits. Even if you're not in immediate danger, the smoke is horrible, even miles and miles away. Keep us posted, okay?

[SDsalsaguy]

Hiya Vince and Jenn... Where I live is, thankfully, about as undisturbed as anything in San Diego. Even indoors, with windows closed, however, everything smells like smoke. Last report I heard they think it'll still be 5 days for full containment and most freeways are closed, at least for major chunks.

[pygmalion]

Oh. I feel for you. I lived through a whole summer of that in 98 (I can't believe it's five years ago!) Everything smelled like smoke. Asthmatics had it the worst. Kids couldn't play outside, and even with the windows closed, the minute you turned on the AC (which is all the time in a Florida summer), the smoke smell came barreling in. Oh! And the landscape afterward! :cry: Miserable! I hope it ends soon, for your sake.

[Swing Kitten]

How is the fire situation? I haven't heard anything about it. :shock:
Really? :shock:

It's been on CNN and everything, and we're being declared a national disaster area. Every school in the area, including the Universities, are closed tomorrow. There's been tons of damage and several fatalities so far. :cry:

That's awful! Please forgive my ignorance I live under a very big and heavy rock called grad school which I seldom manage to crawl out from under!

[SDsalsaguy]

No worries SK, I know what being in grad school is like too! :wink:

All the schools and universities are also officially being kept closed tomorrow except for emergency and other essential personnel. When I went out to my car today to drive over to campus (had to pick up some materials to grade) there was a thin film of ash all over everything…the grass, the parking lot, my car, etc. Definitely not the most pleasant… but far, far, far removed from those who are really being affected by this.

[Vince A]

Hiya Vince and Jenn... Where I live is, thankfully, about as undisturbed as anything in San Diego. Even indoors, with windows closed, however, everything smells like smoke. Last report I heard they think it'll still be 5 days for full containment and most freeways are closed, at least for major chunks.
SD,
Happy to hear that you are okay.

I just received an E-mail from the director of the event down there, and he says everything is "still on." But if you say the freeways are closed . . . I wonder how we get to the hotel where it is being held. We're staying at the Marriott-Mission Valley Hotel (Thur, Fri, Sat, and leaving late Sunday after awards, etc. That's at Highway 5 and something, if I recall correctly.

[SDsalsaguy]

Many of the freeways are open again Vince. The fires all seem to have been spreading Eastward, so still huge problems but less dissruptive to the more densely populated areas.

Do keep in mind that breathing probably we won't be as easy!

Keep me posted.

[Vince A]

Many of the freeways are open again Vince. The fires all seem to have been spreading Eastward, so still huge problems but less dissruptive to the more densely populated areas.

Do keep in mind that breathing probably we won't be as easy!

Keep me posted.
Thanks for the update . . .
We intend to leave the first thing Thursday morning, unless a server or two crashes at work. Guaranteed to leave Friday as weekend duty starts on Friday.

How far away are you? Can you swing by the event? Love to meet you. Friday night or Saturday night should have some good dancing, including some Salsa! Salsa can be requested too, as many at the events like to Salsa.

[SDsalsaguy]

WoW! :shock:

UCSD is going to be closed for a third, consectuive, unscheduled day! No classes Wednesday...

[Swing Kitten]

yikes... that'll come back to bight ya! Think of it as a snow day!

[SDsalsaguy]

AIM away message I just saw, :lol:

Goal: Strive to be like a polar bear. Large and strong, yet chill AND hot all at the same time.

[Sarah]

There is one thing better than kicking your way through drifts of fallen leaves in the autumn, and that is kicking your way through drifts of fallen cherry blossom in the spring.

Cheers
Sarah

[pygmalion]

Hey. Does anyone still have the address where you can download that popup blocker? The thread in DA seems to have gotten corrupted, and I'm having a pop-ups nightmare, all of a sudden. I get so many pop-ups, my internet explorer window keeps crashing from timeout errors! :evil: :cry:

[Danish Guy]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

So close and so far away for a top googler :wink:

I use this one:

http://toolbar.google.com/

[Danish Guy]

On second thought, you might have installed some add or spyware,
to generate the pop ups. :evil:

I use this the ad-aware feeware program.
This clean up most of the non virus bad stuff from the net.

http://www.tucows.com/preview/236049.html

[pygmalion]

Thanks, Danish Guy! :D Needless to say, I'll try the google toolbar first! :lol: :lol: :D

[Swing Kitten]

I must be a really good patient! My oral surgeon just sent me a check for $106 !

[will35]

SK, are you missing something in your mouth? Maybe your surgeon has something that used to be yours.

[Swing Kitten]

I'm now missing four things in my mouth... but that was the point! :)

[will35]

Well, they must have been worth $26.50 each. Did you give the surgeon a receipt?

[Swing Kitten]

just a check!

[will35]

Don't get me wrong. I think you gave the surgeon quite a bargain. I just wonder what they could have brought on ebay.

[pygmalion]

:shock: :shock: :shock:
So close and so far away for a top googler :wink:

I use this one:

http://toolbar.google.com/
Yes! I installed the google toolbar yesterday evening, and I haven't seen one of those nasty pop-ups since (other than the ones I selected and allowed in my preferences). Thanks. :D

Ironically, the majority of the pop-ups were from a company selling a pop-up blocker. :evil: 327 pop-ups blocked in the past twelve hours.

[dancersdreamland]

Popups quite simply stink!!!!! Glad to see your popup blocker is working...

[will35]

Aristotle used to believe that there was something in the essence of every object that suggested a word or sound. For example, something about a tree made it want to be called "tree." Most linguists don't believe that now. If it were true, why would different peoples have different words for tree?
But, there is something curious in Guarani.
y means water
yvy means earth
yvyra means wood
yvytu means wind
syry means to slide or slip or to be fluid (running water is ysyry)

[redhead]

If you pierce your belly button, how long does it take to heal?

[will35]

I pierced my ear once, and it didn't heal until I took the earring out much later.

[SwinginBoo]

It takes a good three months before the tenderness goes away. You have to clean it 3 to 4 times a day. The first night I got it I almost passed out when I went to clean it. But that gets easier. Also remember that when it is pierced, they don't use a quick gun. They take a circular needle and slowly rip it through your belly button. I had mine for a few years and just took it out at the end of this summer. It had started to get infected and I was just sick of dealing with it so I took it out. And funny thing is is closes within a few days. So think about the decision before you do it.

Stephanie

[Swing Kitten]

When MadamSamba first posted I read it as SambaMamba... I think it has a nice ring to it! ... dislexia it's not always bad ;)

[pygmalion]

Ugh! One of my nieces has thirteen ear piercings, a belly-button peircing, a tongue piercing and an eyebrow piercing. :shock: I sure hope those things heal quickly if she ever changes her mind. :?

[Swing Kitten]

They do. One of my sisters went through that... since then she has become vegan and had greatly simplified her look... also tons of other people started doing it and she hates that. At one point she her lip, septum and had three piercings in her tongue (two posts and a ring through the little connective tissue found underneathe)... I forget how many she had in her ears... While she still has a number of them they heal quite quickly so you shouldn't have to worry and be able to focus on the person she is becoming in a more positive light.

[SwinginBoo]

Happy or Random thought.... :D :D I'm so in love! :D :D

(yes it's corny I know...but sometimes I just feel that so strongly..)

[Swing Kitten]

awwwwww..... as corny as Kansas in August! ;)

[bouncybouncyweee]

Yeah, I'll go along with the "so in love" thing. we are sick sick sick! Haha. Random thought: why am I on this forum instead of doing the homework I should be doing?! Damn you SDsalsaguy. growl. grrr. hisss.
Lily :evil:

[SDsalsaguy]

Random thought: why am I on this forum instead of doing the homework I should be doing?!
Silly Lily! This comment belongs in the procrastination thread (http://www.dance-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=1059)! :wink:

Besides which, isn't the answer obvious? The Forums rock! :cheers:

[SDsalsaguy]

:?:

Ok, I'm not sure what significance I should be seeing in this (if any) but, at the moment, the four members logged into the forums are two from California (d nice and I) and two from Europe (Danish Guy from Denmark and Salsero_AT from Austria).

Well, that's my randomness of the moment...

[pygmalion]

This is actually dance related. Here's a neat idea from another dance bulletin board. Take a couple packs of breath strips with you to dance class. Then, casually, of course, offer them around at the start of class. Instant fresh breath for everyone! :D Cool idea, not?

[Vince A]

The breath strips . . . funny . . . this past weekend, I was talking to two ladies who I had given DF website (that I made up) cards to at a previous event. The ladies mentioned that they never go to a dance now . . . without protection, er, uh, the breath strips. They got this from the DF . . .

Furthermore. . . both said that they have really begun to stare directly into the eyes of the leader, and that their dancing has become more in-tune with what the lead is giving.

I make it a point to give out the address of the DF to 10 individuals at each event . . . this past weekend, it was 12 - the last 2 at a large dinner table on Saturday night.

[SDsalsaguy]

. . . this past weekend, it was 12 - the last 2 at a large dinner table on Saturday night.
And right in front of me at that! :shock:

[Vince A]

. . . this past weekend, it was 12 - the last 2 at a large dinner table on Saturday night.
And right in front of me at that! :shock:
Yes, a bold move on my part . . . knowing a DF administrator was there, right at MY table :wink:

[SDsalsaguy]

Yes, a bold move on my part . . . knowing a DF administrator was there, right at MY table :wink:
:lol:

Well, no one ever got anywhere without initiative, right? :lol:

[Vince A]

Absolutely!!!

I probably should have made more cards to hand out, but then I hate carrying anything in my pockets . . .

[SwinginBoo]

AOL for Broadband has a gigantic satellite type radio section with so many different areas to choose from. I'm listening to all Doo Wop, and incredible rarity amongst radio stations today. It's so comforting to me. Reminds me of childhood. My mom used to sing in an acapella doo wop group. :D

[pygmalion]

Hey Boo! (Aside: Ever watch To Kill a Mockingbird?)

I love doo wop too. Maybe I'll download Aol for broadband. They have a 45-day free trial, right?

My brother used to sing doo wop all the time, too. Sad, for me. He can't sing anymore. Trachytomy. But he's still around. So a blessing for my family.

I'll check out that station. Even XM doesn't have one, I don't think. :?

[SwinginBoo]

No I've never seen To Kill a Mockinbird, only have read it.

Yes AOL does have a free trial.

Sorry to hear about your brother. Music has a way of comforting the soul.

[pygmalion]

Thanks, Boo!

Life is full of sadness, but if you look around, life is full of joy, too. :D Hugs.


Jenn

BTW I will check out the broadband stations, and check back in, to let you know what I think.
:D

[Swing Kitten]

I'm over worked and under slept (there are a few other things I'm missing too) and for some reason completely unbeknownst to myself the tip of my left pinky is numb! :?: what's going on here!

[pygmalion]

Oh SK. What can we do to help? Anything? Tell silly jokes? Will anything help? :? :roll:

[bouncybouncyweee]

Well, SK, this might brighten your day.

Isn't it cool how we call all the discussions "threads?" I mean, they are a bunch of threads that make up the fluffy quilt of the DFs and we're all underneath it! Rather cozy, don't you think?

[bouncybouncyweee]

Something random:

when I first saw this smiley: :notworth: I thought it was playing peek a boo, not bowing...

[SDsalsaguy]

Something random:

when I first saw this smiley: :notworth: I thought it was playing peek a boo, not bowing...
Really? :shock: ...that is random!

[bouncybouncyweee]

Did you notice that they all play Peek A Boo at the same time? (Or bow, depending on how you look at it...) :bouncy:

[SDsalsaguy]

Truth be told, no, I hadn't actually noticed! :roll:

Too much time on your hands by any chance Lily? :wink:

[bouncybouncyweee]

I'd also like to point out that the bouncing tongue smiley is named Bouncy. weeee! It's late. I hate studying. evil. grr. argh :evil:

[SDsalsaguy]

I hate studying. evil. grr. argh :evil:
Hence the utility and inestimable value of the procrastination thread... :D :D :D

[SDsalsaguy]

Random thought: is there any un-labeled food in your fridge?

[bouncybouncyweee]

yes, there is. My stuff isn't labeled (well, except for the MOO milk). But all of that is either: expired

or an onion.

:(

Wait wait!! THE WAFFLES!!

[SDsalsaguy]

Wait wait!! THE WAFFLES!!
Yup... and 1:30am definitely sounds like waffle time to me! :bouncy:

[Sarah]

Random thought: is there any un-labeled food in your fridge?

A rock melon, but it may be getting a bit old to still count as food.

Cheers
Sarah

[danceguy]

Sarah - what is a rock melon? You have no idea how hard it is for me to resist the urge to be a total pervert at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:shock: :P :shock: :oops:

[Swing Kitten]

On behalf of the Forums and the world I thank you!

[Sarah]

Sarah - what is a rock melon? You have no idea how hard it is for me to resist the urge to be a total pervert at the moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:shock: :P :shock: :oops:

It's a melon that looks like a rock. American trans = cantaloupe.
I thought I had a grubby mind!
:shock: :? :lol:

Cheers
Sarah <who really has no clue what SG is finding so exciting >

[SDsalsaguy]

It's a melon that looks like a rock. American trans = cantaloupe.
Man, they must be growing some odd looking rocks down there! :shock:

[Swing Kitten]

two words :

Wind Chill!!!!!


(BURRRRR)

[danceguy]

Here's a happy or random thought. After getting in a car accident last weekend my doctor told me to take a week off of dancing...and I had already missed a week of classes while on vacation so I was REALLY bummed about missing more. :evil:

Ignoring his wise council I went out to a dance tonight and had a great time...even though I wasn't on the floor much...and now despite the physical pain, my soul is very happy. :lol:

You can't keep a good dancer (well even a not so good one like me) down for long! :P

Woo hoo! :) :P :wink:

SG

[Swing Kitten]

I think there is something about having a full tank of gas that makes gas prices go down :?

[Sagitta]

I think there is something about having a full tank of gas that makes gas prices go down

Murphy's law at work!! I never get gas when the price goes down, only when it goes up!

Grey, wet, and cold outside!!! Want to stay in cozy warm home with cheerful yellow lighting but need to get my driver's license renewed. :(

[Swing Kitten]

Happy Birthday!!!

[dancersdreamland]

I might be purchasing a new car tomorrow... :bouncy:

2004 yellow Dodge Neon, SXT...complete with sunroof, spoiler, cd player, power everything

I'll be the sunshine-mobile!

[pygmalion]

Hey DDL! Best of luck with the car. :D

Random thought: I love my twin sister. She's here for a few days, and I feel so blessed. Nobody can read my thoughts and relate to me the way she can. :D :D

[Swing Kitten]

Did not know you were a twin... awesome... I'd image there is no bond quite like it.

[salsachinita]

I might be purchasing a new car tomorrow... :bouncy:

2004 yellow Dodge Neon, SXT...complete with sunroof, spoiler, cd player, power everything

I'll be the sunshine-mobile!

There's nothing like having a new car! :bouncy:

I had just bought one a month ago. 2004 Toyota Coralla Ascent in Silver, with a/c & CD player (woohooo! 8) )

I had NEVER own a new car before......

And guys, wait for it.........I got a number plate that reads : SALSA.1 8)

(this itself proves that I belong HERE in Dancers Annonymous)

[Swing Kitten]

you don't need proof that you belong here! ;)

[SDsalsaguy]

And guys, wait for it.........I got a number plate that reads : SALSA.1 8)

(this itself proves that I belong HERE in Dancers Annonymous)
I love it salsachinita! :D

[Swing Kitten]

Another girl!! You're becoming bad news and fast!

:lol:
;)

[Swing Kitten]

My happy thought is that I discovered that I had off the credit card I used to pay for school last year! HAHA I did it back in August! I was worried that I wasn't receiving my statements sinsed I came back to CT :lol: now I know why!!!

You'd think a person would remember something like that!

[Sagitta]

Nope! It's funny how the mind works sometimes. :roll: :) It's the negative, depressing things that stick in one's mind. The happy news usually quickly fades away... :(

By the way. Congrats!!! Now you have all that extra dough to spend on dancing!!!

[Swing Kitten]

what extra dough? :shock: A credit limit does not equal dough. ... but this was the only time I've had so much on a credit card that I couldn't / didn't pay it off at the end of the month.

[dancersdreamland]

Hey DDL! Best of luck with the car. :D

Thanks! I did purchase the car and absoultely LOVE it! Everyone says it completely fits my personality.

Random thought: I love my twin sister. She's here for a few days, and I feel so blessed. Nobody can read my thoughts and relate to me the way she can. :D :D

Twin! That's so great! Is it just really neat to have a twin? Do you ever feel mentally connected, like you're thinking about your twin and she calls, stuff like that?

[dancersdreamland]

There's nothing like having a new car! :bouncy: I had just bought one a month ago. 2004 Toyota Coralla Ascent in Silver, with a/c & CD player (woohooo! 8) )...I got a number plate that reads : SALSA.1 8)

CONGRATS on the new car!!!! I completely understand and share your excitement! :D :!: :D :!:

Personalized plates...how fun! I wanted to get new plates that read "SN SHNE" but I just can't afford it. I plan to use the window cling stickers to place "SUN SHINE" across the top of my back window. We'll see, though.

[pygmalion]

Hmm. I used to have specialty plates that said JNZA10. Jenn's a ten. Get it? They got LOTS of comments. Exactly the way I'd planned it. :wink: :lol: :lol: 8) :D

[dancersdreamland]

Too cool! 8)

[Swing Kitten]

extremely happy thought: chatting all night with favorite boy :swoon:

[SDsalsaguy]

I know that I've said this before, somewhere here, but this is the random thought going through my brain at the moment... what if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about? :shock:

[dancersdreamland]

I know that I've said this before, somewhere here, but this is the random thought going through my brain at the moment... what if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about? :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Swing Kitten]

I'd say that would be the time to shoot onesself for apparently there is nothing to live for!! ;)

[pygmalion]

Huh! Okay, so the right foot in, right foot out thing is not all that exciting. But shake it all about sounds pretty good to me. :lol:

[pygmalion]

Random thought: I love the holiday season. Putting up decorations today! :D

[pygmalion]

Another random thought: some bulletin boards call people who watch but don't participate voyeurs! :shock: Guest sounds so much nicer! :lol: :D Welcome, guys, even if you're not ready to post yet. :D

[Swing Kitten]

I have an AWESOME roommate-- I am so very thankful! (which has nothing to do with Thanksgiving btw... I'm always thankful)

[dancersdreamland]

It's cold and rainly outside and somone's car alarm went off for over two hours today. :evil: :x


I LOVE the new Britney song "Toxic" which has a FANTASTIC beat and middle eastern rhythm. I'm thinking choreography!! :D :D :D

[pygmalion]

Wow! I've been a member of DF for three months and one day! Seems like yesterday! :D

[Sagitta]

btw... I'm always thankful)

That's nice!!! No, really that's the way to be. Even if life seems hopless there is at least one thing that one can be thankful about.

Really nice day -- went out in shorts and a T-shirt -- and this in central New York at the end of November :)

Tried out the lindy/jump swing choreography that I wanted to do with some others on december 5th and it was hopeless. Have a bit of a head cold and sore throat and was way too sluggish. :( Could even do some of the simpler moves like the pretzel that I have down cold!!! :( :(

So, I missed out on this cajun/zyedco concert...I'wasn't feeling up to it, BUT I managed to get up some energy to practice two cha sets of moves that I learnt in ballroom class last Tuesday, and even put them together so that I could seemlessly transition from one to another over and over again. :) Also, worked on making circles in salsa rudea...rather then the linear movements I learnt a long time ago...

AND, now after resting am thinking that I'll check out the folk dance class at Cornell U. in half an hour. They are doing American and vintage so I'm curious what will be covered. At least I can watch if I get tired :)


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[Sagitta]

Another quick thought. Got notified that Alfagamabetizado (CD, Release Year: 1997) by Carlinhos Brown was available at half.com I've wanted that CD for months now, but it hasn't been available!!! :( Just got confirmation from seller that CD is available and will be shippped to me!!! :bouncy:

[dancersdreamland]

Another quick thought. Got notified that Alfagamabetizado (CD, Release Year: 1997) by Carlinhos Brown was available at half.com I've wanted that CD for months now, but it hasn't been available!!! :( Just got confirmation from seller that CD is available and will be shippped to me!!! :bouncy:

Fantastic! Congrats!!!!

[danceguy]

Wow! I've been a member of DF for three months and one day! Seems like yesterday!

As of 6 pm Pacific Time on 11/23/03:

2443 posts by Pygmalion divided by 91 days =

26.8 posts per day!

My stars Jenn! :shock:

SG

[Sagitta]

To add to what SG said....

As of a couple seconds ago Jenn's profile said she has posted 16.65% of total posts!! That's something. DF forums would be sorely lacking without Jenn.

:notworth:

[Swing Kitten]

yup! she's NUTS!


I mean that in the best way possible!! ;)

[danceguy]

So are you! :)

(whoops, I didn't mean to say that!) :shock: :) :D :o :lol: :P

[Swing Kitten]

hey I resemble that!!!

did I ever mention how we really really really need a raised eyebrow smilie?

[SDsalsaguy]

hey I resemble that!!!

did I ever mention how we really really really need a raised eyebrow smilie?
Ummm, is this a multiple choice question... :?



:wink:

[Swing Kitten]

sure....

A) Yes
B) Of Course
C) I'm not sure because I've been too busy flirting with people allowing life to pass me by as I'm not paying attention to the world around me.


... your choice SD ;)

[SDsalsaguy]

Ummm...let me see now... (eeny meeny miny mo...) OK, I choose B! Did I win, did I win??? :lol:

[danceguy]

C) I'm not sure because I've been too busy flirting with people allowing life to pass me by as I'm not paying attention to the world around me.

Hmm, that sounds like someone I know...heh heh. :P
Of course, I am NOT a flirt. I am a "coquetador"...sounds much more elegant in Spanish. :twisted:

SG

[Swing Kitten]

did I ever mention how we really really really need a raised eyebrow smilie?

[Sagitta]

You really want that raised eyebrow smile SwingKitten?!!! Don't you!!

DanceMentor, someone give the kitty her smile!!!

[danceguy]

did I ever mention how we really really really need a raised eyebrow smilie?

:ladiesma:

(SG with Pygmalion and Swing Kitten. Tis good to be a flirt!)

:P

[Danish Guy]

did I ever mention how we really really really need a raised eyebrow smilie?

:ladiesma:

(SG with Pygmalion and Swing Kitten. Tis good to be a flirt!)

:P


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[Sagitta]

http://www.clandisa.dk/forum/images/eyebrows_125.gif

A proposed eyebrow smile? Take note "person who is in charge of emoticons"!!!

I had a staff meeting today and it was combined with a luncheon. Right at the end when they brought out the desert (home-made and really good) and card I discover that it was for my birthday (27 on the 27th!!!!) that the food was because of my birthday...they even went out of their way to get search for and find a dance appropriate card saying..and this is what they came up with:

On your birthday
remember that anything is possible

when you see the world
through the eyes of your heart
and dance to the music
of your dreams. :)

Pretty nice of them, especially as it was completely unexpected!! Still have a big grin on my face. :)

[SDsalsaguy]

Happy almost birthday Sagitta! :D

[SwinginBoo]

Happy thought: I spent last night with Swing Kitten and we had a girly night. We had a blast! And can you believe it, we didn't dance not even one time!!! (although we did talk about dancing quite a bit :wink: )

[dancersdreamland]

Happy early birthday, Sagitta!

Happy early Thanksgiving, Dance Forum Friends!

I LOVE DANCE FORUMS!!!!

[danceguy]

Happy B-Day Sagitta! 27, man you are getting old now, almost as old as me! I turned 29 last month...one more year until the dreaded age of 30...actually I'm looking forward to it. :D

Now, if I could just do something about these gray hairs... :oops:

SG

[danceguy]

DDD,

You made your post right before I made mine...very sneaky! Have you been working out today? :wink:

[dancersdreamland]

SG - Yes, I am very sneaky! :twisted: :wink: :shock: 8) I just sent you a message about workout...THANK YOU for checking up on me! :D

[danceguy]

:mrgreen:

[salsachinita]

Happy birthday, Sagitta! Another November one....!
Mine was just the other day! Didn't really celebrate much though (hay fever....aaaahhhh-chooooo.....!)
I turned 33 :D

I've noticed that the older I get, the more care-free I am.
Life gets better :bouncy: !

[Swing Kitten]

After waiting ALL day I'm finally doing my load of laundry!! :twisted:


Nice to see you Boo... we need another slumber party soon!

[salsachinita]

Ok, I've finally done some of my class notes :D
Back to the forum.......... :wink:

[Sagitta]

Class notes?

[salsachinita]

Class notes?

For my students!!!

I am trying to be really organised. I am a patchwork quilts teacher now :wink:

Who'd ever thought a hobby could turn out ot be my livelihood one day...?

[Sagitta]

Cool!! :)

[SwinginBoo]

Well I'm going home to RI for Thanksgiving so I won't be around for a few days. I want to wish you all a very happy and safe holiday. Eat lots of turkey and stuffing and stuff....it will give you a reason to get out and dance your butts off this weekend. :lol:

[Sagitta]

A Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! I'll be checking back in Sunday/Monday!! I'm heading to NY city some time today if I get my act together. No dancing for me as my sister does not dance! (Wouldn't want her to be miserable would we? :) ) A good chance to rest anyway, as next week I have ballroom dances on the 5th and 7th, latin dancing on the 2nd and 3rd, plus the usual dance lessons...

[pygmalion]

Happy hanksgiving Sagitta! :D

Happy thought. Home baking pies today. Sweet potato, pumpkin, lemon meringue, apple. 21 pound turkey and a house full of guests. Now THAT's what I call Thanksgiving. :D

A busy couple days ahead, so I'll check in when I can.