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Post by Siren on Jul 24, 2012 7:21:42 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Jul 25, 2012 10:03:21 GMT -6
Like Stepper wrote in the 'Universe' thread, Sally Ride made a difference. Thanks for posting the link, Siren, and thanks to the both of you for bringing up the topic.
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Post by Siren on Jul 26, 2012 22:51:07 GMT -6
You bet, Gams. The more I read about Sally, the more I admire her. It seems that her biggest project this past decade has been www.sallyridescience.com , dedicated to supporting kids' interest in science, math, and technology. That photo of her on the home page, and its simple caption, brought a tear to my eye.
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Post by Siren on Aug 14, 2012 7:32:03 GMT -6
Was sad to hear of the passing of Helen Gurley Brown at age. I read the magazine she edited, "Cosmopolitan" when I was in high school and college, and it definitely influenced my outlook on life. (The magazine has definitely lost its way without her leadership.) I always wanted to be the "fun, fearless female" she urged her readers to be. Was glad to read this remembrance. A self-proclaimed "mouseburger", she followed her own advice, and accomplished a lot. I like this quote, that her goal was to teach her reader... "how to get everything out of life — the money, recognition, success, men, prestige, authority, dignity — whatever she is looking at through the glass her nose is pressed against." "I would want my legacy to be, 'She created something that helped people.' My reader, I always felt, was someone who needed to come into her own." news.yahoo.com/longtime-cosmo-editor-helen-gurley-brown-90-dies-222500045--finance.html
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Post by Siren on Aug 21, 2012 7:18:03 GMT -6
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Post by stepper on Aug 21, 2012 18:39:08 GMT -6
I agree with you Siren. She was funny, and a lady.
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Post by vickiej on Aug 22, 2012 7:49:40 GMT -6
Andy Griffith, and now Phyllis Diller. So much fun and laughter gone out of the world. They could be funny without putting anyone down, never mean-spirited.
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Post by Phalon on Aug 23, 2012 4:17:42 GMT -6
Except with Fang. Poor Fang!!!
Great article about a great woman, Siren. Thanks for the link.
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Post by Siren on Aug 25, 2012 6:56:38 GMT -6
I love the quote from Phyllis that said that Fang was a permanent part of her act, but that her real husbands were only temporary. Lol! You're welcome, Gams. A tip of the swim cap to Diana Nyad, who made news that week with her latest attempt at a lifelong goal, to swim 103 miles, through shark and jellyfish-infested waters, from Florida to Cuba. I admire that that, at age 62, that fire still burned in her, and that she could not be swayed from a quest some might not understand. "When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams,' " she had said. www.cnn.com/2012/08/21/health/diana-nyad-swim/index.html
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Post by vickiej on Aug 27, 2012 18:17:20 GMT -6
Neil Armstrong of course
The first to walk on the moon.Just heard something about him on NPR, and he also was a wonderful human being. RIP
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Post by stepper on Aug 27, 2012 18:48:32 GMT -6
The are certain firsts that everyone remembers. I remember sitting in front of a TV watching Walter Cronkite while the landing was taking place and thinking Armstrong was the first - the first to do something even my parents thought was impossible when they were young. We actually put a man on the moon. Even today, so many years later, only twelve people have done it and the last one was in 1972 - nearly thirty years ago. I wonder if we've lost our appreciation for just how difficult a thing it was, and still is to do.
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Post by Siren on Sept 6, 2012 22:21:03 GMT -6
I remember advertisers cashing in on the moon landing with products like Tang, the breakfast drink. The jingle said, "If you wanna do like the astronauts do, join the space gang and drink your energy Tang. Tang is for breakfast, lunch, and after school. Tang is energizing like rocket fuel."
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Post by Phalon on Sept 7, 2012 18:16:26 GMT -6
Tang! <cringe and bluck> I'm might have liked it back then, but just the thought now makes me shudder. Mom used to put a teaspoon of it in her tea, in place of lemon.
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Post by stepper on Sept 7, 2012 20:49:18 GMT -6
I keep some at my desk at work. We have a water dispenser in the vault and Tang goes well with cold water - at least I think it does.
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Post by Siren on Sept 8, 2012 7:07:43 GMT -6
I like it too, Step, though I haven't tasted it in years. It's another of those things like Hi-C fruit punch and soda pop that was a treat for us to have when I was a kid. I'm getting off-topic here, but when I was a kid, soda pop and ice cream and chips and eating out (even a hamburger from the drive-in) were all treats, and not everyday occurrences, as they are now. Looking back, we couldn't afford to have those things all the time. But then, those things were all looked at as luxuries, enjoyed occasionally, as they should have been. I'd be a lot thinner and healthier if I still felt that way!
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Post by vickiej on Sept 8, 2012 9:11:15 GMT -6
And those little paper packages of Kool-Aid you mixed with water. Had so many of those as a kid-cheaper than soda. Mean to look at the grocery sometime to see if they are still around.
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Post by Phalon on Sept 11, 2012 21:53:27 GMT -6
It was the same way in growing up for us too, Siren. There was always ice cream in the house, but never pop or chips except when it was Mom's turn to host her card club. I guess because of that, I don't really drink pop - maybe what amounts to one or two a year - and therefore, it's never in the house. Hubs doesn't drink it either, and the girls have never grown to like it.
Chips, on the other hand is a different story.
There was always a pitcher of Kool-Aid when we were kids. I think they still make it, but I don't know if it still comes in those little paper packages. I seem to remember seeing it recently in the grocery, pre-made in single serving juice-box type containers.
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Changing topic, but still off-topic because I don't really know where to put this and it sorta kinda in a round-about way fits in with a Heroes & Sheroes theme...and I thought it was kind of interesting.
LX is taking English Composition I and II this year as dual enrollment at the local college. Her first assignment was to find an essay prompt on-line from any college she might possibly have even a vague notion of attending, and complete the essay.
Here's what she found for an Eastern Michigan University Children's Lit course:
"Salman Rushdie has noted that, in The Wizard of Oz, 'the power of men…is illusory; the power of women is real.' Do the genders possess equal power? Do any characters question or go against their traditional gender roles?"
I thought it was interesting when she brought it up, because in all the years I've watched 'The Wizard of Oz', I never picked up on the gender reversal of power theme.
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Post by stepper on Sept 12, 2012 15:36:35 GMT -6
They still have it...I'm a BIG fan of their pink lemonade.
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Post by stepper on Sept 15, 2012 10:03:01 GMT -6
It was the same way in growing up for us too, Siren. There was always ice cream in the house, but never pop or chips. * * * "Salman Rushdie has noted that, in The Wizard of Oz, 'the power of men…is illusory; the power of women is real.' Do the genders possess equal power? Do any characters question or go against their traditional gender roles?" I thought it was interesting when she brought it up, because in all the years I've watched 'The Wizard of Oz', I never picked up on the gender reversal of power theme. Two things here. I see an interesting etymology - is it soda or soda-pop or pop. Or fizzy lifting drink? The word and its pronunciation seems to be regional. Around here, 'soda' is a genus, but the most popular drink is iced-tea. All restaurants, drive throughs, and beverage dispensers, offer iced-tea or a variant. As for Oz, is it a reversal of the power scheme or the fantasy of that concept? Or prophesy? In the end, Dorothy wakes up in bed – evidently having been bashed in the head and therefore not thinking clearly – with all the “right minded” family around her concerned for her well being. (Wait until she tells them about the flying monkeys.) You’re right Phalon; it’s an interesting question.
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Post by Siren on Sept 15, 2012 11:55:15 GMT -6
Actually, Step, I would say I am in the minority in this area; most people refer to soft drinks as "Cokes", as in "Let's go get a coke." instead of "Let's go get a pop/soda/etc." I usually ask the guys as the office, "Do you want a soda?", which is really unusual for around here. I don't even know where I picked up saying "soda".
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Post by stepper on Sept 15, 2012 17:19:28 GMT -6
I've heard of that one too Siren - people saying they're going for a coke irrespective of the actual type of soda. And I've heard that some places they'd say they were getting a cola. I'm no expert on the subject - and as long as I get the correct drink I won't complain.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 15, 2012 17:29:35 GMT -6
Nowadays, I call the drink by it's name. Back when I was a kid, we called it 'soda' here in Kentucky. But in Michigan, (Jackson), where I lived for about 4 years, they called it 'pop.' That's also where I picked up, "You Guys." I go back and forth between, "You All," "Y'all," & "You Guys." And I say, "You Guys" in more of a MI accent than a KY accent too.
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Post by stepper on Sept 15, 2012 20:42:01 GMT -6
Steppet is from the back side of a mountain in PA - she says yen instead of you guys or y'all.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 21, 2013 7:10:28 GMT -6
Even without me writing about the weather here, you all know it's cold in Michigan during winter, and yes, it snows. Appropriate footwear would be, of course, boots - Stepper's laughed at me for wearing slippers, but at least I was wearing something. In our local paper this weekend was a story about a boy a few towns away who went barefoot throughout the winter....in fact, he went barefoot for an entire year. He did it for orphans in Uganda "who were unable to attend school because they had no shoes. Apparently a school uniform is required and provided for the children but shoes are also required and not provided. Kids just couldn't go to school because they had no shoes. Some kids even prostitute themselves in order to get enough money to buy shoes....I figured I could do something to help a few kids get shoes so they could go to school." Our local paper is not available on-line, but here's another news story from last August, right after he completed "A Year Without Shoes". www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/08/gobles_teen_completes_barefoot.htmlSince that story was written, the boy made his trip to Uganda, and continued raising donations for the project, which total $11,398 and 520 pairs of shoes for children in Uganda and in the U.S.. He will be traveling to D.C. this spring to receive an award for being one of America's top youth volunteers.
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Post by Siren on Mar 27, 2013 22:56:25 GMT -6
That is an amazing story, Gams. And it also amazes me that one generation before mine, my dad and his siblings went barefoot. Steppet is from the back side of a mountain in PA - she says yen instead of you guys or y'all. I've heard a variant of that from REALLY country people here, usually elderly, "You'uns", which, now that I think of it, would sound a lot like "yens". Maybe it's the same thing as "yen", but an accent or drawl makes it sound different.
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Post by scamp on Jun 17, 2013 0:24:47 GMT -6
Margaret Mead. Time named her “mother of the world.” She changed how we saw the world and ourselves. She had a brilliant mind coupled with a profound respect for diversity and difference which enabled her to illuminate the complex human interactions (both as individuals and in groups) that built societies and kept them functional. www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/margaretmead.html
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Post by Phalon on Jun 18, 2013 4:22:08 GMT -6
Quite the accomplished and interesting woman. Thanks for the link!
"John Wiley, her editor, said of her, '.... Clarity and sanity were her goals.'"
Hey! I have those goals too!
Unfortunately, I have reached neither of them.
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Post by scamp on Jun 25, 2013 9:10:18 GMT -6
"John Wiley, her editor, said of her, '.... Clarity and sanity were her goals.'" Hey! I have those goals too! Unfortunately, I have reached neither of them. 1. Me too! 2. Me neither
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Post by Siren on Jul 6, 2013 9:21:11 GMT -6
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Post by Mini Mia on Jul 6, 2013 23:10:47 GMT -6
Wow. Just wow. I'm a wuss. She is amazing!
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