May. 9th, 2004

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One of the newsgroups I belong to forwarded me this, and I thought it was kind of poignant and wanted to offer it up for perusal.


"Here is the original, pre-Hallmark, Mother's Day
Proclamation, penned in Boston by Julia Ward Howe in 1870:


Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant
agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy
and patience.
We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the
summons of war.
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the
dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to
the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of
Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of
nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most
convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace. "
x_los: (Default)
One of the newsgroups I belong to forwarded me this, and I thought it was kind of poignant and wanted to offer it up for perusal.


"Here is the original, pre-Hallmark, Mother's Day
Proclamation, penned in Boston by Julia Ward Howe in 1870:


Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant
agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy
and patience.
We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the
summons of war.
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the
dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to
the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of
Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of
nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most
convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace. "
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about
10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked passed you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left
hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
completely solid..

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about
10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked passed you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left
hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
completely solid..

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

STEVE!

May. 9th, 2004 02:23 pm
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Okay, not only is Steve of Blues Clues very much alive, he has a blog, and it's hillarious.

http://www.steveswebpage.com/

STEVE!

May. 9th, 2004 02:23 pm
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Okay, not only is Steve of Blues Clues very much alive, he has a blog, and it's hillarious.

http://www.steveswebpage.com/
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yevrahml: in a late night sesson of brainstorming, deep arguing persued on how to portray destiny..
LadyXlos: What are we going to do, trade off on sentences?
LadyXlos: insued^
LadyXlos: not persued
yevrahml: sure ^^
yevrahml: true
LadyXlos: Neil raked his chalk white hands through his tangled, dark hair. "It's not a bloody 'Christmad Carrol.' How stupid will we look is we just steal the character design of the ghost of christmas future and run with it?"
LadyXlos: if, not is
yevrahml: "But he needs more depth than just a stoic figure in dark robes."
yevrahml: .. sorry, am laughing hysterically
LadyXlos: we can do a coupple sentences in a turn, right? Cause it's eassier to voice a thought that way
LadyXlos: why the laughing?
yevrahml: sure.. I just haven't been having thoughts more than a sentence
yevrahml: I don't know, most fun I've been having all day?
yevrahml: want to take a couple of sentences?
yevrahml: I'm drawing a blank
LadyXlos: Burton commented. Despite the late hour, his voice was oddly serene. Gaimen, wired up on enough caffine to power the london underground just to stay conscious for their late-night scripting session, hated him for it.
yevrahml: or rather distracted by phone
LadyXlos: kay
yevrahml: It's *gaiman
LadyXlos: sorry, typo.
LadyXlos: Burton had infuriatingly vast stores of personal composure, whereas Neil's fuse was short and none too sweet. Burton sailed throught the pressures of filmmakeing. Neil dragged like a zombie long denied brains.
LadyXlos: eugh, goofy metaphor. X that.
LadyXlos: your go
yevrahml: Gaiman knew, however, that if anyone could produce a Sandman film properly, it would be Burton. They could not often agree on the proper portrayal of characters, but that was not due to Burton's shunting of a comic. Burton could shape animate characters into ways that Dave McKean could exploit Neil's thoughts.
yevrahml: gah, I'm not having a good writing night
LadyXlos: that last sentence isn't working for me- could we reword
yevrahml: yes
LadyXlos: you're fine, it's just always slower getting started
yevrahml: *that's how I talk -- very disjointed and vocabulary that doesn't really make sense
yevrahml: because my brain works faster than my hands or mouth can deal with
LadyXlos: heh- typical computer kid's disregard for smooth sentences
yevrahml: that sentence was horrible
LadyXlos: so what did you mean by it?
yevrahml: ooh, just that working with burton was analagous to working with mckean
yevrahml: and by reading ng's journal, he really likes dave mckean
yevrahml: crap, I'm being kicked off the computer.. reminded to go to sleep
LadyXlos: heh
LadyXlos: by family?
yevrahml: yeah
yevrahml: computer is in mom's bedroom, she wants to sleep
LadyXlos: we can finish in a bit
LadyXlos: will copy onto lj,
yevrahml: I'll write in private and attempt to be coherent!
LadyXlos: coolies
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yevrahml: in a late night sesson of brainstorming, deep arguing persued on how to portray destiny..
LadyXlos: What are we going to do, trade off on sentences?
LadyXlos: insued^
LadyXlos: not persued
yevrahml: sure ^^
yevrahml: true
LadyXlos: Neil raked his chalk white hands through his tangled, dark hair. "It's not a bloody 'Christmad Carrol.' How stupid will we look is we just steal the character design of the ghost of christmas future and run with it?"
LadyXlos: if, not is
yevrahml: "But he needs more depth than just a stoic figure in dark robes."
yevrahml: .. sorry, am laughing hysterically
LadyXlos: we can do a coupple sentences in a turn, right? Cause it's eassier to voice a thought that way
LadyXlos: why the laughing?
yevrahml: sure.. I just haven't been having thoughts more than a sentence
yevrahml: I don't know, most fun I've been having all day?
yevrahml: want to take a couple of sentences?
yevrahml: I'm drawing a blank
LadyXlos: Burton commented. Despite the late hour, his voice was oddly serene. Gaimen, wired up on enough caffine to power the london underground just to stay conscious for their late-night scripting session, hated him for it.
yevrahml: or rather distracted by phone
LadyXlos: kay
yevrahml: It's *gaiman
LadyXlos: sorry, typo.
LadyXlos: Burton had infuriatingly vast stores of personal composure, whereas Neil's fuse was short and none too sweet. Burton sailed throught the pressures of filmmakeing. Neil dragged like a zombie long denied brains.
LadyXlos: eugh, goofy metaphor. X that.
LadyXlos: your go
yevrahml: Gaiman knew, however, that if anyone could produce a Sandman film properly, it would be Burton. They could not often agree on the proper portrayal of characters, but that was not due to Burton's shunting of a comic. Burton could shape animate characters into ways that Dave McKean could exploit Neil's thoughts.
yevrahml: gah, I'm not having a good writing night
LadyXlos: that last sentence isn't working for me- could we reword
yevrahml: yes
LadyXlos: you're fine, it's just always slower getting started
yevrahml: *that's how I talk -- very disjointed and vocabulary that doesn't really make sense
yevrahml: because my brain works faster than my hands or mouth can deal with
LadyXlos: heh- typical computer kid's disregard for smooth sentences
yevrahml: that sentence was horrible
LadyXlos: so what did you mean by it?
yevrahml: ooh, just that working with burton was analagous to working with mckean
yevrahml: and by reading ng's journal, he really likes dave mckean
yevrahml: crap, I'm being kicked off the computer.. reminded to go to sleep
LadyXlos: heh
LadyXlos: by family?
yevrahml: yeah
yevrahml: computer is in mom's bedroom, she wants to sleep
LadyXlos: we can finish in a bit
LadyXlos: will copy onto lj,
yevrahml: I'll write in private and attempt to be coherent!
LadyXlos: coolies
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