Delirium Country

Thursday, February 27, 2003
Posted 02:24 by Del C

same sort of spam as in the entry immediately prior to this one, with same image. still odd. 163.net is also a Chinese site. help! i'm getting spammed by the Chinese! or should it be: "i'm getting Ma Ling from the Chinese!" one of my other addies is also getting a lot of .jp spam.

From: "Nevins Bennatt"
Subject: It works l
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 02:15:38 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from oqkrb ([61.159.235.36]) by mc10-f21.bay6.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:51:58 -0800
X-Message-Info: dHZMQeBBv44lPE7o4B5bAg==
Message-Id:
Return-Path: Lynnap@163.net
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2003 05:52:01.0414 (UTC) FILETIME=[AF680260:01C2DAFF]

"Do you think the company would be willing to lower my pay?"
`So had the stairs.'

Saturday, February 22, 2003
Posted 02:06 by Del C

???
is it just me or is spam getting odder everyday?

From: "Abby Bodkin"
Subject: It works q
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:45:42 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from llsabm ([216.43.97.77]) by mc7-f22.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:22:16 -0800
X-Message-Info: dHZMQeBBv44lPE7o4B5bAg==
Message-Id:
Return-Path: Norbertqf@sina.com
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Feb 2003 05:22:16.0617 (UTC) FILETIME=[32C21990:01C2D969]

Say good bye? show me
Candidate said he never finished high school because he was kidnapped and kept in a closet in Mexico.
`You ask a glass of water.'"

sina.com is a Chinese site though, which may explain the quaint oddness of this message.

Friday, February 21, 2003
Posted 06:31 by Del C

fw from Teena, an essay originally by Lee Pitts which was read by national radio commentator Paul Harvey on his radio program in 1997 and published in Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul in 2000:

"These things I wish for you"

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.

I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.

And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy/girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.

Send this to all of your friends. We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.

incidentally, if this has been forwarded to you with the attached riddle:

When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Send this to 10 people and then press shift and you will get the answer.

P.S. You won't believe this, but this really does give you the answer!!!

do not believe it for a second, absolutely NOTHING will happen. but if you're savvy, you'd know that already.

Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Posted 19:18 by Del C

oh, good � Black Dragon's managed to do a blog update.

Sunday, February 09, 2003
Posted 05:50 by Del C

forwarded by deej:

The Rules by Men

LADIES, TAKE NOTE! THESE ARE GOOD!

We always hear "the rules" from the female side. Now, here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules. Please note these are all numbered #1 ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us bitching about you leaving it down.

1. Sometimes we are not thinking about you. Live with it.

1. Saturday = sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Don't cut your hair. Ever. Long hair is always more attractive than short hair. One of the big reasons guys fear getting married is that married women always cut their hair.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it.

1. We don't remember dates. Mark birthdays and anniversaries on a calendar. Remind us frequently beforehand.

1. Most guys own three pairs of shoes - tops. What makes you think that we'd be any good at choosing which pair, out of thirty, would look good with your dress?

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. Check your oil! Please.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

1. Let us ogle. We are going to look anyway; it's genetic.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. We are not mind readers and we never will be. Our lack of mind-reading ability is not proof of how little we care about you.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want to know the answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine. Really.

1. Don't ask us what we are thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as navel lint, the shotgun formation or monster trucks.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. No, NO, you really do have too many shoes.

1. It is neither in your best interest or ours to take the quiz together. No, it doesn't matter which quiz.

1. BEER is as exciting for us as handbags are for you.

1. I'm in shape! ROUND is a shape.

Thank you for reading this; Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight, but did you know that we really don't mind that, it's like camping

Saturday, February 08, 2003
Posted 02:39 by Del C

just found out Dave Barry has a blog too. kewl.

Posted 01:20 by Del C

Subject : Fwd: Meaningful... [from Maril]

Cos I'm waiting for tonight
Then waiting for tomorrow
And I'm somewhere in between
What is real, and just a dream

----- Original Message -----
From: ounnie
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:42 AM

u only live once. ...be sure to identify your rocks, pebbles n sand too!

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 2" diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them in to the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed. He asked his students again if the jar was full? They agreed that yes, it was.

The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.

The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, house, or car.

The sand is everything else, the small stuff. If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for the things that are truly most important.

***** Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. *****

Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.

***** Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. *****

Set your priorities, the rest is just pebbles and sand."

May there always be work for your hands to do; may your purse always hold a coin or two; may the sun always shine on your windowpane; may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; may the hand of a friend always be near you; may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. (An Irish Blessing)

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