Comments on: The transitional period. http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-transitional-period one writer's daily download Wed, 23 May 2012 23:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jenflex http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204675 Jenflex Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:13:09 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204675 Gawd, for a sec I thought someone had photoshopped John Edwards' face into the cat pic. Gives that "mah hair is a mess" quote a whole new meaning. Gawd, for a sec I thought someone had photoshopped John Edwards’ face into the cat pic.

Gives that “mah hair is a mess” quote a whole new meaning.

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204669 nancy Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:42:02 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204669 Eeexcellent.... Eeexcellent….

]]> By: Linda http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204657 Linda Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:38:44 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204657 Nancy, you might be interested to know that people on Fark are captioning the cat picture as we speak: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3820132 as well as many others. Nancy, you might be interested to know that people on Fark are captioning the cat picture as we speak:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3820132

as well as many others.

]]> By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one) http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204636 Jeff (the mild-mannered one) Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:36:04 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204636 Biden? Oh, this will be a fun fall . . . for secretary of state, sure, but this may be a trainwreck for the Obama campaign by October. All that's left is for McCain to pick Pat Buchanan and we'll be in cable producer heaven. CNN-Fox-MSN-local access will all have no problem filling their 24 hour air budget with unique content! (They texted me at 4:48 because that tells me what, exactly, about Barack? That his staff has no more personal discipline than Bill's did? "Hey, it's 3 am, let's send Monica out for lattes! Say, where is Monica, anyhow?") Biden? Oh, this will be a fun fall . . . for secretary of state, sure, but this may be a trainwreck for the Obama campaign by October.

All that’s left is for McCain to pick Pat Buchanan and we’ll be in cable producer heaven. CNN-Fox-MSN-local access will all have no problem filling their 24 hour air budget with unique content!

(They texted me at 4:48 because that tells me what, exactly, about Barack? That his staff has no more personal discipline than Bill’s did? “Hey, it’s 3 am, let’s send Monica out for lattes! Say, where is Monica, anyhow?”)

]]> By: Dexter http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204633 Dexter Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:04:18 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204633 Oh yeah, TerryWalter...I remember a high school coach marrying a cheerleader; he had gotten her pregnant, no criminal nuthin'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Former Ft. Wayne mayor Bob Armstrong has passed away. http://fwdailynews.com/articles/2008/08/23/obituaries/hid35423sect_2aa5e1ea85839251a65.txt Oh yeah, TerryWalter…I remember a high school coach marrying a cheerleader; he had gotten her pregnant, no criminal nuthin’.
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Former Ft. Wayne mayor Bob Armstrong has passed away.

http://fwdailynews.com/articles/2008/08/23/obituaries/hid35423sect_2aa5e1ea85839251a65.txt

]]> By: Terry WAlter http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204629 Terry WAlter Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:47:06 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204629 When I was a sophomore in high school, there was a nice looking blond in my biology class. And there was the teacher who had the steely blue eyes, about 15 years older. Seemed to favor her. Can't remember the timeline, but I remember rumors flying. Anyway at some point, they ended up getting married. Just saw their names in the paper recently, a few decades later. In todays supercharged atmosphere, you have to wonder if this could have happened without him going to jail. Exploitation, hell, after the I dos' turned into honey dos', that no doubt got turned around. Bet it made for some interesting moments "how was it that you met mom/dad?". And at our church, the call went out for people to help with the kids. "so if you're interested, there's this class you gotta take". When I was a sophomore in high school, there was a nice looking blond in my biology class. And there was the teacher who had the steely blue eyes, about 15 years older. Seemed to favor her. Can’t remember the timeline, but I remember rumors flying. Anyway at some point, they ended up getting married. Just saw their names in the paper recently, a few decades later. In todays supercharged atmosphere, you have to wonder if this could have happened without him going to jail. Exploitation, hell, after the I dos’ turned into honey dos’, that no doubt got turned around. Bet it made for some interesting moments “how was it that you met mom/dad?”. And at our church, the call went out for people to help with the kids. “so if you’re interested, there’s this class you gotta take”.

]]> By: Dexter http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204624 Dexter Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:23:39 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204624 Memories came back of long ago back-to-school days at the two-room schoolhouse in rural DeKalb County, Indiana. New blue dungarees that Mom never saw the need to wash first to soften them up a bit, yellow Goldenrod tablets, big pencils, baloney sandwiches carried in a steel lunch pail and a great teacher who taught four grades in the same room and produced valedictorians and salutatorians for the surrounding high schools in the process. Best deal: Wal*Mart had ruled tablets 10 for a buck a few years ago. I bought way too many. Strangest back-to-school year: I was in Vietnam, then 72 hours later I was at IUPUFW as a student, marvelling at the clean floors and restrooms and hearing about some guy named Marshall MacLuhan . Memories came back of long ago back-to-school days at the two-room schoolhouse in rural DeKalb County, Indiana. New blue dungarees that Mom never saw the need to wash first to soften them up a bit, yellow Goldenrod tablets, big pencils, baloney sandwiches carried in a steel lunch pail and a great teacher who taught four grades in the same room and produced valedictorians and salutatorians for the surrounding high schools in the process.
Best deal: Wal*Mart had ruled tablets 10 for a buck a few years ago. I bought way too many.
Strangest back-to-school year: I was in Vietnam, then 72 hours later I was at IUPUFW as a student, marvelling at the clean floors and restrooms and hearing about some guy named Marshall MacLuhan .

]]> By: Carolyn http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204623 Carolyn Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:17:34 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204623 Nance, Bonnie just started eighth grade. I remember my own terror when she hit middle school. And, yes, they do keep the innocent sixth-graders far from the big kids. When we toured Bonnie's school I asked the counselor to "Show me these mythical eighth-graders." She did, and they didn't look so scary. Still, Bonnie spent her first year of middle school in shock. The social and political pressure brings to mind the Rove era in the White House. Read Queen Bees and Wanna Bees if you haven't. Tina Fey's movie Mean Girls is based on it. You'll recognize your daughter and yourself. And the shock does abate. Bonnie glides down the halls now. All to begin again in high school next year! Nance, Bonnie just started eighth grade.
I remember my own terror when she hit middle school.
And, yes, they do keep the innocent sixth-graders far from the big kids.
When we toured Bonnie’s school I asked the counselor to “Show me these mythical eighth-graders.”
She did, and they didn’t look so scary.
Still, Bonnie spent her first year of middle school in shock. The social and political pressure brings to mind the Rove era in the White House. Read Queen Bees and Wanna Bees if you haven’t. Tina Fey’s movie Mean Girls is based on it. You’ll recognize your daughter and yourself.
And the shock does abate. Bonnie glides down the halls now.
All to begin again in high school next year!

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204622 nancy Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:50:39 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204622 Sometimes it's the hardest lesson to teach: News is what you <i>don't</i> know. That a tank is large and belches smoke? Is not news. Sometimes it’s the hardest lesson to teach: News is what you don’t know. That a tank is large and belches smoke? Is not news.

]]> By: MichaelG http://nancynall.com/2008/08/22/the-transitional-period/#comment-204609 MichaelG Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:38:22 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2088#comment-204609 AP story first sentence: “Columns of hulking, smoke-belching Russian tanks rolled out of key positions deep inside Georgia…” Who writes this shit? AP story first sentence: “Columns of hulking, smoke-belching Russian tanks rolled out of key positions deep inside Georgia…” Who writes this shit?

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