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otto korrek I've been seeing those ads for that also, but I figure as bad as he screws up the written word, I do not want to go into any kind of business with him where there are documents involved.

I wonder if it is as scary to people that live inland? Like if I see a movie that concerns earthquakes, that doesn't bother me because we don't have earthquakes in Florida. But I live on the Gulf Coast. Jaws scared the living hell out of me. Remember the sequel - JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER. It's been 50 years, and it still ain't safe to go back in the water.

That, I have had. There was a guy that decided he was going to make his fortune in the water buffalo business. Some of them got out. One lost an argument with a semi. This fella I knew that worked out near the water buffalo farm asked the buffalo's owner what he was going to do with the corpse. And the owner said that if he wanted it he could have it. He made a lot of biltong. Sliced up the meat, covered it with black pepper to keep the flies off, and air dried it. No putting it in the dehydrator. No putting it in the oven. He hung it on strings in his kitchen and have three fans blowing on it, and left it there. It was pretty good. He gave me a few pounds of it, and I ate it over the next four or five years. But he moved to nebraska, and I ain't got no connections with the water buffalo farm owner, so I don't reckon I'm going to get any more. Not for free, anyway. I did order some from a place in South Africa one time. Also ordered some ginger beer. Didn't like it. Ginger ale is better. The stuff I got from South Africa wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as Steve's. And I had to pay for it.

I was reading an article on how to figure cooking times for smaller items. I have a recipe for lasagna but it makes a 9x13 pan. Some months previous to this somebody here had spoke about making lasagna in bread loaf pans, which makes an obvious smaller amount. I was thinking that my 9x13 recipe would probably make three bread loaf recipes. But if cooked for the same amount of time it would probably be overcooked. So I was looking for advice. One piece of advice was to use a cooking thermometer to make sure that you weren't overcooking it. That makes sense. They included a photograph. At first glance, and even at second or third glance, that looks like the cooking thermometer is inserted into a large bug. Maybe it's a piece of meat that has been rolled and tied, and those are pieces of cooking string sticking out to the sides. But it appears to have legs. Little spindly cockroach-looking legs. Looks like a giant roach with stabbed to death with the meat thermometer.

One of the joys of the English language. I said, "can he marry", and while I meant "can he perform a marriage ceremony for", it could obviously have been taken to mean "can he enter into wedlock with".

The following is a humor article. 13 pages, from 1915, thinking about women's place in society. And why they probably should not get the vote. This was written by a man. THE WOMAN QUESTION, by Stephen Leacock https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20220127 This is a reply. From 1916. 12 pages, also humorous. By a woman, Nellie McClung. "An article in response to some men's attitudes toward the freedoms that women wanted during the early 1900s as posed in the article "The Woman Question" by Stephen Leacock." https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20250721

My father used to tell me that when I was a kid. I'd be watching some TV show or some movie, and they would do something so stupid. And I would burst out with, "Why in the world did he do that?!??" And Daddy would say, "It's in the script ".

Spielberg and Bruce

I just got into town and I didn't have nothing to do When I happened upon this telephone booth With a whole bunch of writing covering en-TIRE wall. Said if you ain't afraid to waste a dime And you want to have a real good time Just give Lucille a call Now underneath her number was this real long list Said that she'd do that and that she'd do this And I let my fingers do the walking through all kinds of things I missed Whooie! Well I shuffled through my pockets and I found myself a dime And I heard a ring or two and I got her on the line And I said, "Hello, Lucille? I want to have a real good time."

Looking at the flags in the picture. Just to the left of 12:00 is Australia. Directly beneath it, just left of 6:00, with red stars instead of white, is New Zealand right? Now we are to the right of Oz, and then Canada to the right of us. Then we have a pale blue flag with a Union Jack in the corner. Who are they?

The Roman Church does, or at least it used to, have rules about divorced people. Does the Greek Church have similar rules? I just finished watching Mama Mia. This is a great musical comedy romance that takes place on a Greek Island. 21 years ago Sam and Donna had a couple of hot and heavy nights, and then Sam told her that he had to leave because he had to go back to England to get married. He was engaged. The whole plot of the movie is wrapped around Donna's daughter Sophie, who is getting married, and who wants her father (who she's never met) to be at the wedding. At the wedding Sam asks Donna to marry him. She tells him that she is not a bigamist. "Neither am I. I'm a divorced man who has been in love with you for 21 years." So they get married. In that church with the ceremony performed by what looks like a priest. Since the church is in Greece I am assuming that this is a Greek Orthodox Church. I could be wrong - they don't specify. But that's what I presume. And since Sam had proclaimed in front of the priest that he was divorced, the priest knows. Knowing this is a movie and they can do whatever they want to --- in real life, can a Greek Orthodox priest marry a divorced person? Or are there rules against it?

There are two - count them, two - Os in Saloon. A salon styles hair. Pay attention to what you're doing boy!

I do not style hair.

I read this years ago. I'm thinking it was probably Reader's Digest, Life in These United States. Wouldn't swear to where I read it though. Elementary School class. Fourth, maybe 5th grade. And they're doing history and talking about the revolution. The teacher passes out a copy of the Declaration of Independence. It's going around the room. Most kids just glanced at it then pass it behind. It gets to this one little boy. And he read it. And when he got it read all the way through, and read the signatures, he picked up his pencil and he signed it. Then he handed it to the kid behind him.

Happy birthday Manny. Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis

This brings a second thought, or maybe it's simply a continuation. If the California Minister could marry somebody in Tennessee, could a California Justice of the Peace marry somebody in Tennessee? Not an ordained minister - just somebody allowed by the state to do the ceremony. Has "the authority vested in" by the state of wherever? I myself was married by a notary public. Could the same woman have performed the ceremony if we had all been in Alabama instead of in Florida? So I went searching for the answers to this and I came across a website that has it listed state by state. And it amazed me what it said about California. They are the ones that put it in red and bold. Although marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil, and not a religious, contract, a marriage may be solemnized by any of the following who is 18 years of age or older: (a) A priest, minister, rabbi, or authorized person of any religious denomination. A person authorized by this subdivision shall not be required to solemnize a marriage that is contrary to the tenets of his or her faith. Any refusal to solemnize a marriage under this subdivision, either by an individual or by a religious denomination, shall not affect the tax-exempt status of any entity. That needs to be in more state laws. Let's say that I belong to the Church of What's Happening Now (Reverend Leroy presiding), and we believe that it is a sin and against the Bible for same-sex marriage. "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve". And Jim and Frank show up at my church and wish to get married, and the Rev tells them to go somewhere else. Jim and Frank cannot sue Reverend Leroy for refusing to perform the ceremony, or use the courts to force him to perform the ceremony. (Like that same-sex couple sued that bakery for refusing to make a wedding cake for them because the baker did not believe in same-sex marriage.)

You've all seen it, on TV or movies - "by the power vested in me by the United Methodist Church and the state of California, I now pronounce You man and wife". The state - in my example, California - legally allows him to perform the ceremony. So if this hypothetical California preacher happens to be in Tennessee, could he marry somebody? Would it be legal for him to do so? There's a series of comedic novels. One of the main characters is the Reverend Mother Emeritus of the God is Love in All Forms Christian Church Incorporated. In New Orleans. In the first book where she shows up, she performs a wedding in Louisiana. That's fine. She's a preacher in Louisiana Church. Three or four books later the comment is made that while a ship's Captain cannot marry somebody, once an American airplane leaves the ground it becomes American soil, and therefore all that is needed is an American minister. And out steps the Reverend Mother, "dearly beloved ..." They were flying over England at the time. And in the one I'm currently reading she is going to assist in a wedding taking place in Las Vegas. I'm well aware that these books are fiction and that you can do whatever the hell you want to in fiction. I'm just curious about whether somebody who had their authority to perform the ceremony vested by the state of Louisiana, could perform that ceremony in the state of Nevada? Anybody know?

First thing I thought of when I read the post was - get in touch with Colorado Mountain and talk to Smitty. He can probably take care of you.