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Callahan's June 2001 Bar Rag!"To Callahan's Warmth
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To Friends ... God's Life Preservers! ***************SMASH***************** - Sue SUEMO Hi all.. Gathering 2001 approaches.. and we've selected Boston, Massachusetts on the northeast corner of the United States as our Gathering Place. Boston has a rich 400 year history and we have several Callahanians living in the area who will be happy to serve as our hosts - showing and telling us all about it..:) The Gathering will be held over the weekend of September 2, 2001 and we hope you will join us. More information such as hotel room rates and who our hosts will be coming soon..:) The Month began with Bee (Rawlinson) hosting a chat called, "England Calling Callahans." Several people stopped by and Bee made a wonderful hostess. The tea was hot, the orange juice was cold, and the Blessings flowed freely! This month, after many years of service, Delphi ended legacy chat.. The new PChat is taking a bit to get used to, maybe because we miss many of the features of legacy chat, but all in all people are still having the usual good times in Callahan's conferences..:) And Callahan's conferences are always interesting... a good example would be Sandra's Military Reminiscenes Chat held on May 31th. Afterwards, Lou said he wanted to tell his Tales of Thailand but the moderator wouldn't let him. The nameless moderator (namely Walt) responded with "On behalf of the nameless moderator, I would like to state that Lou was encouraged to tell his Thailand stories numerous times." His reply was consistently, "I have the right to remain silent and make no statement at all." Tall tales, memories and fun were part of the evening. Silky's four year hitch took her back and forth across the US and then across the Atlantic to Europe. May was also about travel here at Callahans. Exotic locales, interesting people, amazing experiences, eye-opening wonders were discussed this month. From David: In May, the Creative Writing folder was a case of "few, but roses"! Cat (CatFantastic) shared many things from her Creative Writing course, among them Golden Age, her tongue-in-cheek look at an infestation of Beavs. She continued the thread with the self-denying "I don't do poetry" and A Season of Masks. Her excerpts from Midsummer's Eve continue to haunt me. To see the larger work, visit Millenium's Eve, which was started back in March. Ilyana charmed us with Flat Cats, her delightful exploration of bio-engineering.
Colonel Eric's
The Blouse is a sensual peek
Tom McAlister invited us all to
Critique a Scene, provoking a discussion that
lasted well into June.
The month's activity was rounded out with Selena's
look at
Fanfic and copyright, and, of course, with much
supportive criticism and comments from all and sundry.
And finally, Parrish has been keeping us up to date
on the latest re-releases in paperback.. "allahan's Lady"
will be coming out again in August and "Time Travelers Strictly
Cash" will be making a return in September.
Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:
Calliversaries Last Month
A note from Chad:
*Most* of the Calliversary dates appear to be correct,
but if you see one that isn't, please let us know.
A small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the
stand in trial -- a grandmotherly, elderly woman. He approached
her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"
She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr.Williams. I've
known you since you were a young boy. And frankly, you've been a
big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, you
manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You
think you're a rising big shot when you haven't the brains to
realize you will never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper
pusher. Yes, I know you."
The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed
across the room and asked, "Mrs. Williams, do you know the
defense attorney?" She replied, "Why, yes I do. I've
known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. I used to baby-sit
him for his parents. And he, too, has been a real disappointment to
me.
He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. The man can't
build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is
one of the shoddiest in the entire state. Yes, I know him."
At this point, the judge rapped the courtroom to silence and called
both counselors to the bench. In a very quiet voice, he said with
menace, "If either of you ask her if she knows me - I will hold
you in contempt of court!"
"A man that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green."
- Francis Bacon
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