Tag: listeners lounge
member name: Auntie Smedley
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November 30, 2006 09:56 AM EST --
scha-den-freu-de [shahd-n-froi-duh]
noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]
I love words, . . .
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January 23, 2007 01:47 AM EST --
Why does it seem that a great, galloping creative genius of a mind always seems to come with a tragic flaw for a sidekick? This appears to be the case no matter what the type of creativity – music, . . .
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February 05, 2007 10:29 AM EST --
Current DJ Mary Lucia made on on air comment last week that got me to thinking. She commented that a particular band was good, but that she "wouldn't follow 'em to the gates of hell, or anything". . . .
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November 13, 2006 11:08 AM EST --
What's your prediction for today???
The Listeners' Lounge™ is a free-form forum where the main rule is Have Fun! Feel free to express your inner maniac in a playful, supportive, and . . .
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November 07, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
Today's timely Lounge™ topic is ripped from the pages of The Good Citizen's Handbook (A Guide to Proper Behavior), by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
So you're going to VOTE!
The very first . . .
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December 01, 2006 10:58 AM EST --
It's a little known fact that I have a small fraction of Native American blood running through my veins, thanks to my French Canadian grandmother.
I understand that it has been the custom . . .
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January 08, 2007 08:01 AM EST --
I bought a new toy. Not just any new toy, mind you, but a shiny new laptop cybertoy. It just might be the appliance that saves my marriage (well, after the self-cleaning litter box).
I bought my new . . .
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April 26, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
Whoa-oooo-ooooo-ooooh!
I heard Mary Lucia play this song last week, along with Psapp's "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat". I love cat songs!
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February 08, 2008 01:25 PM EST --
Welcome to the Feb. 2008 edition of "Ye Olde Dilapidated House"! Auntie is playing hookey from work today and Monday to begin a daunting home improvement task on her needy, turn-of-the-century . . .
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December 22, 2006 09:53 AM EST --
No matter how I try, I seem entirely unable to drum up any holiday spirit whatsoever this year. I haven't put up any decorations. I put off all the shopping until the last minute. I didn't buy . . .
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November 10, 2006 12:08 AM EST --
Once upon a time the only productivity drains that an employer concerned itself with were water cooler confabs and personal phone calls. The wholesale adoption of desktop computers with internet access . . .
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October 18, 2006 09:36 AM EDT --
It has come to my attention that we have a copycat on Gather.com who "borrows" other Gatherer's intellectual property without permission.
Have you ever usurped someone's idea? Copied . . .
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December 13, 2006 10:06 AM EST --
One of the great seasonal pleasures of my childhood was the arrival of the animated Christmas specials on TV. Back then TV had 5 channels, and one was PBS. There was no cable, no video players, no betamax, . . .
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March 23, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
Exclamation:
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August 18, 2006 10:51 AM EDT --
The Listeners' Lounge™ is a free-form forum where the main rule is Have Fun! Feel free to express your inner maniac in a playful, supportive, and creatively charged atmosphere with other 89.3 . . .
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