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cwc · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 372

Check, check, 1, 2, 3, is this thing on? What happened to all the interesting comments? Is everybody working too much or what?

Cdaniels · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: Sick???

I have a cold that just won't go away. I'm afraid it might be a "walking pneumonia" 'cause its been a couple of weeks now.
I think there are other members who are sick too! Just don't blame me, I'm far away from all of you! Shocked

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

cwc · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 372

See? That wasn�t so hard. We�ve already had our first testing period. They call it a monthly. Nobody here can appreciate the fact that it is 5 weeks. I refuse to call it a monthly. I say test 1, 2, or 3. Really shakes up the powers that be. We had a mid-term at the end of January. Go figure! What is the wind chill in Mass.? Sorry about your illness.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Huh? Whuzzut? I was sleeping...

cwc · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 372

Guy, Reminds me of a kid in my class. He is extremely nice, sits up front and pays attention but he has a teflon brain. We all applauded when he learned the difference between a gerund and infinitive. BTW, does anybody have students that study? Has the custom of studying died?

snorklequeen · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: BORING

Joke:

You've heard of Deja Vu.

But have you ever heard of Deja Moo?

That's when you've heard all that bull before.

Queenie

cwc · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 372

SnorkelQueen, Wow, I like the joke and the light response better. Some threads have jokes and 1 even has a virtual eating contest. Good work, cwc

snorklequeen · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: Boring

Ice swimming in China may become more popular than watching the La Quebrada divers in Acapulco???

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March 8, 2006, 12:18AM
COLD COMFORT
Ice swimming is heating up in China
The winter sport for amateurs, mostly 50 to 70, unexpectedly soars in popularity

By AUDRA ANG
Associated Press

HARBIN, CHINA - It's so cold it hurts to breathe, but Wu Jing wears only a purple swimsuit and ruby-red high heels as she struts around a pool cut into river ice two feet thick.

In minutes, she will join a dozen other swimmers in the frigid Songhua River, part of a twice-daily show where performers ham it up on diving boards made of ice blocks covered in hemp sacks before splashing into an 80-foot by 30-foot hole cut in the ice.

Wu waves to warmly dressed people who paid the equivalent of $3.50 each to watch. It's zero degrees Fahrenheit under the morning sun.

"How are you today?" she calls, smiling and tossing her long black hair as the spectators snap photos. "Welcome!"

Wu, the 52-year-old "Queen of Ice Swimming," said the activity helped her get over a divorce and realize her lifelong dream of being in the spotlight.

Harbin is a hot destination when it's cold, drawing millions of tourists each year.

There's an ice carving competition, a Siberian tiger park, sledding and a restaurant made of ice, where customers cook meat and vegetables in boiling broth at the table.

Then there's ice swimming in the Songhua.

Winter swimming began in China in the late 1940s and has unexpectedly taken off, said Lin Senlin of the China National Swimming Association's Winter Swimming Committee. He said there are 200,000 registered amateur ice swimmers in China, mostly retirees.

"It's become more and more popular each year," Lin said.

Unquote.

Queenie

Cdaniels · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: Re: teflon brain

snorklequeen · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: Boring

Q

MELEE · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

This is a twin mom joke, but plays on language so maybe you'll like it.

Twins are given up for adoption at birth, one is adopted by a Spanish family and named Juan. The other is adopted by an Arab family and named Ahmal. When they are grown, Juan contacts his birth mother and sends her a photo. The birth mother says to her husband. "Now I wish I had a photo of Ahmal." Her husband says, "Their twins, you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

Laughing

M@tt · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 473 Location: here and there

that was physically painful

Cdaniels · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: No pneumonia

I liked it, MELEE! God help me!
Any jokes about how the Canadian baseball team trounced the US team?
How about: USA on the team jerseys stands for US Sucks Always?

It turns out I just had nasty long lasting cold that's going around- I'm pretty sure, anyways. I've avoided the doctor so far. The temp around Boston has reached 19 C, and I think Spring is here! but its cloudy and rain is predicted for the entire weekend. Rolling Eyes

Ya know, I'm kinda a 'city guy.' I might really like DF! I'm an occasional smoker too, so a little sulfuric haze won't bother me too much.

bryan_s · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 10

Cdaniels, you will like this one...

One atom says to the other atom, "I just lost an electron!"

The other atom asks, "Are you sure?"

The first atom says, "Yes, I'm positive."