Random Statements About Something NOBODY Cares About, the resurrection

[Alex]

Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.

I didn't meet my now wife until I was 38 and we had our son when I was 44, so you still have time.

[Trevor]

Death washed away Princess Diana's sins.

It's strange, I came across a tabloid from June 1997 with a cover story that was blasting on her for hooking up with an Egyptian (in the article he was dubbed "Arab") playboy. This article got mean, as in really mean, as it quoted people in Britain who were ragging on her, saying some truly rugged stuff about her character and morals, and one woman called her a "traitor."

Flash forward eight or nine weeks and those same people likely not only forgave her all that, they probably forgot they ever felt that way about her as they cried and wailed that she was the People's Princess whom they'd always loved and would love to the end of time. (Insert chirping crickets....)

If I was a young virginal bride who was courted by the future King of England as a potential breeding oven because his ugly whore's baby-making parts were useless, I would go out and commit as many sins as I desired.

I don't dispute that Princess Diana had many affairs and there were many people who didn't like her: my sister was one of them but she was genuinely sad that Diana had died.

[ER]

Death washed away Princess Diana's sins.

It's strange, I came across a tabloid from June 1997 with a cover story that was blasting on her for hooking up with an Egyptian (in the article he was dubbed "Arab") playboy. This article got mean, as in really mean, as it quoted people in Britain who were ragging on her, saying some truly rugged stuff about her character and morals, and one woman called her a "traitor."

Flash forward eight or nine weeks and those same people likely not only forgave her all that, they probably forgot they ever felt that way about her as they cried and wailed that she was the People's Princess whom they'd always loved and would love to the end of time. (Insert chirping crickets....)

If I was a young virginial bride who was courted by the future King of England as a potential breeding oven because his ugly whore's babymaking parts were useless, I would go out and commit as many sins as I desired.

I don't dispute that Princess Diana had many affairs and there were many people who didn't like her: my sister was one of them and she was genuinely sad that Diana had died.

Princess Diana's death was strange for me, because like I've said I heard about it on a portable pocket radio while in the middle of the Hundred-Mile Wilderness section of the Appalachian Trail in extreme rural Maine. ("Nowhere's nowhere...") I heard the morning after amid static on a distant station from downstate and thought, did they really say that, and felt a jolt of shock that I remember was bigger than any sadness, but I heard it as a passing headline, not any extended coverage, and we talked about it a moment and then I and those I was with went on, and because you try to save batteries out there, we didn't turn the radio on except for a few minutes each morning when the weather was good (and then the batteries came out and got stored in a waterproof baggie) and we finished our hike at Mount Katahdin a few days later and got back to find all the spectacle and grief and coverage on TV showing acres of stacked flowers and people lining London streets, so I only got Point A's announcement and Point C's mega-event, no point B transition like most people had to prepare me for how big a cultural moment her death unfolded to be. It was surreal to come back into that when I'd only caught it as a news headline and not much else, and to be grubby and sore and cold and worn out and riding a weary achievement high of finishing a hard trail section, but the world was filled with upset people grieving. (And people loudly rejecting that grief to anyone who would listen.)

Very strange experience.

[JuanSnz]

Hey, thanks for the kind words

Now, about the 'hammer and the nails', is that a euphemism? And if it's not, why I think it is?

[LilCerberus]

What is the difference between CNBC & MSNBC?

[RCMerchant]

What is the difference between CNBC & MSNBC?

CNBC is more focused on business and financial news. The 'C' stands for "consumer'.

[LilCerberus]

^Oh.^

[RCMerchant]

Why did the Redskins change their name to the Commanders? It seems like the Salmons would fit better.
And it would look cool on their helmets!

[LilCerberus]

^ ^
Salmons are pink, not red....

[RCMerchant]

^ ^
Salmons are pink, not red....

So give them pink uniforms!
And why do they have to be red?
If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?

[LilCerberus]

If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?

Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....

[ER]

If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?

Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....

There's always an innocent victim in things like this, and I heard Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Mrs. Butterworth, the Washington football team mascot, and the tribal lady off Land 'O Lakes butter have all had to go the welfare.

[ER]

Well, It seems that this year I will continue with my tradition of be single in Valentine's Day. It's not like I really care about that day, but I start to think about why be single at my 38 don't worry me. I mean, I really want to meet a woman and have children, start my own family, but here I am. The irony it is this 'statement' sound a bit depressive, but it is not. OK, just a little.

Hey, I don't think I'll have a date for Valentine's Day, either, and I don't really want one. I just stopped seeing someone seriously.

The irony is, when I was your age I really wanted to meet a wife and start a family. In my 40s I decided I wouldn't chase that dream anymore---and suddenly, more women started coming to me. It just became so much easier once I removed that pressure from myself. Hopefully the same will happen for you.

I hope your next relationship is even better, Rev. Good luck toward happy times still to come.

[RCMerchant]

If they have to be- why not the Washington Apples?

Ummm, 'cause I think they're suppose to represent Washington DC & not Washington State, which is why they tend to practice somewhere in Virginia.....
Come to think of it, they once tried to cover up the little indian logo on their helmets, making it look like they were wearing little white ps & qs.....

DC??? I did not know that! I swear all these years it was Washington State. I don't watch football.
Then it should be the DC Rioters!

[RCMerchant]

Rudy Giuliani was on the Masked Singer.  
I'm sure they both have the same audience.