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Callahan's March 1999 Bar Rag!"To Callahan's Warmth
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Today's society puts a lot of pressure on people to conform: dress this way, do this job, look like this. I think we need to concentrate on accepting ourselves for who we are, and not try to live up to an unrealistic expectation. We could end up killing ourselves trying to be someone we aren't. Remember, God loves us the way we are. We should too. *CRASH* -- MiLady
"...that this communicating of man's self to his friend works two
contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves...
" We are indebted to Elizabeth Kate for uncovering this long ago quote. It is interesting to note that the author felt that doubling joys and halving griefs were contrary effects. We tend to think they're complimentary.. Mike Callahan's philosophy appears to compliment Sir Francis Bacon's. One wonders if they were associates at one time..:) But seriously folks, we'd all be interested in hearing your thoughts on "Of Friendship" or at least this one quote from it. Kathy has updated our top Web page to reflect one of our recurring themes at Callahan's - the Irish! We hope you enjoy the links to genealogy and Irish literature sites! But it is with great reluctance that we announce Kathy's resignation as Website Manager. Most of Kathy's time will be taken up by helping Delphi implement its agreement with World's Away - a web based 3D conference site. Kathy did much to liven up our website - giving it a clean, simple, and yet sophisticated look. We'll miss her. Our scheduled conferences continued apace this month but we have no specifics to report..:( Aside from our continuing strong Poetry threads, we also had an interesting discussion on Refuting Entropy this month. What do you think Spider meant when he said:
"Shared joy is increased. While our message board continues to thrive with poetry and renewed political discussions, we must conclude that rissatoo, our Message Board manager, will not soon return to us..:( We continue to hold out some hope and will not rush to find her replacement on staff.. Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:
The first three correct solvers of our February 1999 Riddle were Ilyana, Jim Crowley and Beth G. Congratulations to all. It's a lot easier to create a riddle than to solve one. We're always on the lookout for help with content here so send us your riddle creations today! And see our March 1999 Riddle for your chance to win a Spider Robinson book from our bookstore! One day up in heaven St. Peter decides to liven up his day by setting up a contest. He announced to those in line that only the best, most interesting death stories get you past the gate today, no matter what kind of life you had. So the first guy in line says no problem and starts to tell his story. He says he was a jealous husband. He was at work getting himself steamed up over the idea that his wife at home cheating on him. He was so convinced that she was cheating that he went home during his lunch hour to catch her in the act. He was so upset when he arrived home that he just ran right into the door in his hurry to get in. Finding it locked he rammed the door, breaking it open ran in and went straight to the bedroom. There he found his wife in bed. That did it, he is so sure there must be a man around that he charged around looking for the man. He finally looked out on the balcony and sure enough there is a man hanging from the fifth floor balcony. He started prying the man's fingers up so he'll drop, but the man held on. The husband ran back into the house, grabbed a shoe and started hammering at the guy's fingers. Finally the guy dropped, fell all five stories, and bounced. The husband can see that the man is not dead, so he went back in the house, ripped the small fridge out and threw it off the balcony at the man. The husband ended his story by saying, "I didn't get to see if I got him because at that moment I had a heart attack and ended up here." St. Peter says, "Ok, you win, that's quite a story, go on in." He turned to the next guy in line who says he can top that. "You see I was riding my exercise bike on my 8th story balcony when the brace popped off and sent me over. I thought for sure I was dead but then I managed to grab hold of someone's balcony. I was so relived, and when I saw this large man come out on the balcony I thought I was being rescued. "But no, this guy was insane and started prying my fingers up. I managed to hold on until he started pounding on my hands with a shoe. It was too much. I couldn't hold on. So I fell to the ground but I bounced off a hedge and survived the fall." "Just as I'm standing up thinking this is one for the records, a fridge landed on me, sending me here. St. Peter thinks to himself, "What irony" and let the guy in. Thinking that was the best he would hear in a day he turns to the next guy in line. "Ok buddy, what's your story?" The next guy in line starts off with, "You see I was hiding in this fridge..." -- Emailed in from Kat (KATINA3)
Go ahead and post a few. -- Mikel PEWTERPOT - a 2/28/99 post A husband and wife, Shelley, were waiting to get the signature of a nun on a certain document. The nun was very busy - so - the man said to his impatient wife.. "wait till the nun signs shelley" -- bard (BARDABARD) 2/4/99 and... a Dutch boy from the town of "Time" wanted to cross the border. The guards refused to let him pass as they had received the following message from hdqtrs: "Turn back the Hans of Time" -- bard (BARDABARD) 2/6/99 To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. -- Abraham Lincoln Joining Delphi is easy and FREE. The easiest way is to click on My Delphi and you'll automatically be sent to the registration screen. Then you can post on our message boards and join in our conferences. Membership is absolutely FREE!!! No gimmicks!!! Come visit us!!! We hope you find the Bar Rag entertaining and informative. We can always use good pieces and writers here. If you have something you would like to submit, or have a comment, good or bad, about the newsletter, or if you wish to be added to or removed from our Bar Rag mailing list, simply send us a note. |