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Old March 10th 05, 07:25 AM
Zoot Katz
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Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:39:34 -0500,
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Once I found ten bucks!


I found forty when it used to buy more than lunch.
I was just approaching it when a car in front of me parked and the
driver was walking in my direction. I'd beat 'em to it though they'd
not seen it until I picked it up. He said, "hey, twenty bucks! cool",
I fanned them and saw there were two and said "Nope it's forty.
Happens all the time." I think I jinxed myself at that point since its
not happened since.
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Old March 10th 05, 07:51 AM
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"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
...
I recently received an email from someone who apparently didn't find me so
saintly. A post I had made to a local commuter board expressing

frustration
regarding traffic at a particular intersection caused someone to let me

know
that she thought that I was a hypocrite for advocating meditation in my

sig
and at the same time being angry about cars and being inconsiderate by
blocking traffic and taking the lane.

Well, she should see what an angry, nasty bitch I'd be if I didn't have
meditation as a resource. I'd be even more of an emotional basketcase,
probably on drugs or psychotherapy or both. The zendo is not a hall of
saints, but an asylum from lunacy.

I don't get what causes people to post or email purposely hurtful things.
Why write disparging remarks about other people, especially without
provocation? If someone bugs you, a quiet killfiling would seem to

suffice.
Why be mean?


Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky


"The zendo is not a hall of saints, but an asylum from lunacy." ...nice!


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Old March 10th 05, 07:56 AM
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Once I found ten bucks!


Oh deer!

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Old March 10th 05, 08:07 AM
Zoot Katz
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Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:56:24 -0600, , Tom
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Once I found ten bucks!


Oh deer!


That's not a lot of doe.
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Old March 10th 05, 08:22 AM
Zoot Katz
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Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:05:26 -0800,
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And then there is the adage about not mud-wrestling with pigs, because
you get muddy, and the pig enjoys it.


The pigs always end up as pork chops or bacon. Let them have their
moment of fame. They'll never learn to fly or sing so you might as
well annoy them. So what, they're pigs.
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Old March 10th 05, 03:22 PM
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Zoot Katz wrote:
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:56:24 -0600, , Tom
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Once I found ten bucks!


Oh deer!


That's not a lot of doe.


Quit bucking for a laugh.

Austin
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Old March 10th 05, 03:38 PM
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Maggie wrote:

garmonboezia wrote:

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The Blackfeet have a trickster figure called "Old Man". Whenever
something goes missing they say "Old man has it."


When something goes missing in my house I say the same thing. Only I am
married to the "Old Man."


In my house, it's "Old Man lost it," and I uh, am the "Old Man."

Austin
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Old March 11th 05, 09:56 AM
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Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:55:00 -0800, Ryan Cousineau
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(Tom Keats) wrote:

Ryan Cousineau writes:

Sun-tzu said:

"There are roads that are not followed.


Wherever these roads are, they're sure not in Vancouver.
Or Burnaby. Even if there are "Detour" or "Road Closed"
signs up, nobody believes 'em.


I think it's a translation problem. In the book, it seems like the
meaning is "there are roads that should not be followed."

I have traversed a few "closed" roads in my time, but have faced at
least one that stuck me entirely.


I love it when you can pick up your bike, step over, under or around a
barrier and keep going.

Once a major diversion involved hoisting the bike over a fence to get
around the stabiliser pads of a working concrete pumper truck taking
most of the back lane and an officious labourer with a hard on for
bikes or something taking up the rest. I wan't going to turn around
and he wasn't going to let me through. So fukit dummy, I'm gone.
You're stuck holding that stupid sign.

One of my favourite "bike routes" is a sketchy single track through
the blackberry and scrub south of Home Depot on Terminal Av. Portage
the railway tracks, cross Great Northern Way and Broadway on Glen
Drive up to 10th. Head west, homeward.
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