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    Old 10-22-2010, 05:17 AM
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    Digitalis - the medicine - comes from the foxglove plant, and as a gardener I know that all parts of the plant are poisonous.

    And yet...

    ... someone figured out that just a little bit of it will help an ailing heart.

    How did they figure that out? How many people died while the "recipe" was being perfected?

    How do the deer in my yard know never to feed on the foxglove leaves?
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    Old 10-23-2010, 10:02 AM
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    The life span of a rock is so long that I've always wondered if rocks are aware of humans. :?:
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    Old 10-23-2010, 12:13 PM
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    Originally Posted by Grandmama Pat
    Originally Posted by 2wheelwoman
    I wonder how the trend came about to walk around with your underwear darn near on the outside. Who was the first person to do this, and why did others think it looked good? Boys with their underwear out and girls with the bra straps out...I just don't get it.
    This is a real good question. I don't think it's fashionable, I think it's stupid. I always thought bra straps were to be concealed as was underwear. Some guys have their pants so far down, it's a wonder they don't trip on the legs of their pants. It's disgusting. I don't care to see their hind ends!!
    It's evolution. Imagine what the Victorians would have thought about the bikini. And how does Victoria's Secret get away with showing women in their underwear on prime time TV?
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    Old 10-23-2010, 12:16 PM
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    Originally Posted by ptquilts
    Touche

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    Old 10-24-2010, 06:11 PM
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    Originally Posted by QUILT4JOY
    Originally Posted by Grandmama Pat
    Originally Posted by 2wheelwoman
    I wonder how the trend came about to walk around with your underwear darn near on the outside. Who was the first person to do this, and why did others think it looked good? Boys with their underwear out and girls with the bra straps out...I just don't get it.
    This is a real good question. I don't think it's fashionable, I think it's stupid. I always thought bra straps were to be concealed as was underwear. Some guys have their pants so far down, it's a wonder they don't trip on the legs of their pants. It's disgusting. I don't care to see their hind ends!!
    It's evolution. Imagine what the Victorians would have thought about the bikini. And how does Victoria's Secret get away with showing women in their underwear on prime time TV?
    i remember when i was a kid, the platex bra commercials on tv had a woman with a black turtle neck sweater, with the white bra on the outside...

    last christmas, there was some perfume commercial on tv where the runway model was striding right toward the camera, taking off her clothes...

    our dgd says "look grumpy (dh) she's gonna get nakie..."

    my how times have changed.
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    Old 10-26-2010, 03:45 PM
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    what IS a 'knick-knack-paddy-whack'...?
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    Old 10-26-2010, 06:12 PM
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    Originally Posted by postal packin' mama
    what IS a 'knick-knack-paddy-whack'...?
    Wow - that brings back memories from Camp 60 years ago - it's a song that can go on forever

    Knick-knack paddy-whack
    Give a dog a bone
    This old man went
    Rolling home.

    This old man
    He played one
    He played knick knack
    On his thumb

    with a knick-knack etc etc

    This old man
    He played two
    He played knick knack
    On my shoe

    With a knick knack etc etc
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    ...still don't know what it is, though...
    :o) tee hee
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    Old 10-27-2010, 04:10 PM
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    Originally Posted by postal packin' mama
    ...still don't know what it is, though...
    :o) tee hee
    I'm not sure anyone knows!!
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    How do the people in the news do the things they do?

    abusers etc.
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