caroljane

Careful, Peter. Your associate membership in the Fraternal Order of the Sacred Igloo is not irrevocable. Did I mention that the rabbit legs/ears protrude from the top of the tuque where the pompom usually is? It truly is a Hat of Wonder

My guess would be a pregnancy in the twenty-fourt(24th) week maybe?About two thirds completed of the pregnancy is my guess as well. You're correct, Jan 19 is the scheduled arrival date. Gives me time to stock up on leggings. Jamie age 2 5/6 seems a bit dubious about the whole enterprise. When asked "Where's your brother?" he points to his mother and says, "In the belly." Then he changes the subject. My impression is, he is not convinced, and definitely not eager that any brother is coming out of there.

Masterly, Baas. Got the chips, want anything else? Poutine is on special

Where did Pross come from here? In my garbage pile excavations, I heard of him for the first time. I was affronted that he claimed to be a "celebrity in Toronto" where he wasn't one, and I had heard that Ghs was impressed by him, and that he "lit out for the territories" and lived off women later on, but the Molyneux connection is out of left field. I know this sounds disrespectful but what I know of him does not incline me to respect him

Carol, I shall do like I have done and how I shall continue to do. I accept your compliments as pleasantly stated facts to which I am entitled. Michael Brother dear , you sure are, as you know.

Like you I had never dabbled in Molyneux I heard the criicisism. Believe it

Phil, thank you for your complimentary explication Many OLer's seem constitutionally incapable of receiving a compliment, and often they are most deserving of them. Throwing compliments around would just clutter up OL but sometimes they are spontaneous and unavoidable. OK, I'm sorry. Only, your normal crystal clarity was missing. Confusing. Haven't you noticed, there're some (many) Objectivists who are terribly, wondrously, innocent in dealing with folks, and cause extra complications for themselves. (I mean, look at Phil - look at me. Hang in, Phil, never lose it. I sure as hell won't, at this stage.) Ta, ever so, Your Royal Highness. You don't get out of it that easy, Mr Commonwealth Esquire You have received a compliment, take it like a man We know evasiveness when we see it Cordially, HRH

WonderfulThe year our men's team lost and our women's team won, there was a great cartoon of the the Leafs desperate (what else) coach exhorting his team to get out on the ice and "play like girls!" My son's current girfiriend is the right winger on his hockey team. She is a part time model, semipro hockey player and has two jobs Eat your hearts out Americans.

Phil, thank you for your complimentary explication Many OLer's seem constitutionally incapable of receiving a compliment, and often they are most deserving of them. Throwing compliments around would just clutter up OL but sometimes they are spontaneous and unavoidable. One of the many great things about OL is, the compliments are implied and unspoken yet picked up and felt When I give you an explicit compliment everybody, please do not feel you have to writhe around and try to give the credit to somebody else, or explain the tortuous history of the specific accomplishment or point out that others are as cool as you are. You are individualists for crying out loud! Don't worry about response etiquette. Just a simple "Thank you, Your Majesty" will be sufficient as acknowledgment

Good heavens, so I did. How remiss of me. Be assured that the entire Canadian Parliament will be apprised of it as soon as their aides explain to them what basketball is.

As Baal recently reminded us, the worst are also full of passionate intensity. "That world" I think WSS meant to be your friends. They will not misguide you intentionally. I have not read Zinsser or any communication books, but I have read Rand in this area, and I think she has misguided many good writers

I have completed my Christmas by gathering with the whole immediate family (2 sons, 2 2/3 grandsons, daughter in law) yesterday. Contrary to the dictum that the journey not the arrival matters, the day was wonderful and the journey , if not unimportant, definitely uncomfortable. Not the fault of the bus company whose vehicles are nice and warm. It was my own disorganization. I wore my Xmas outfit, or elder son Stu might feel slighted, minus the fur jacket which was too impractical and could not really be said to fit me. I wish I had brought it however, it would have kept my legs warm while waiting for and changing buses in the Great Outdoors. I did not have any clean legwear and mistakenly expected to have time to grab a pair of tights on the way, didn't happen. If you are not a student of geography, Barrie, though not far from Toronto, is the North Pole. Barelegged in my LBD I felt like poor Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind, marching without his boots when "the snow was deep in Virginia."After hugging Stu on arrival the first thing I asked him was did he keep a spare pair of socks in his car. The real extremities wear subject here, is however Stu's wonderful tuque (I prefer that spelling though there is a heated debate about it and toque). It has two protrusions that look like little rabbit legs when they are flopping down, but can be restyled in infinite ways and they are all wonderful. I suggested that it could be braided, but that would require Extensions and thus profane the purity of the design so he rejected the idea. His wife Leigh professes to be embarrassed by his hat and looks impatient when he demonstrates its beauties. I think she is just being playful, but maybe she really hates the tuque. My younger son Andy being single has sometimes opined that married men all seem to be henpecked, since they seem to agree with their wives on most major decisions. I have explained to him he will not understand until he is married himself, may the day come soon. Now he has seen the reality for himself (he loves the tuque too of course). It may irritate the wife every time she sees it. It may delight the husband whenever he wears it and all who see it. They'll work it out.

Dear Sirs, My staff have drawn this interesting discussion to my attention because it concerns issues of deep concern to me and all Canadians. I was immediately impressed by your collective commitment to fitness and the part sport has to play in this. Too many of my constituents never get off their couches except when basic survival needs drive them outdoors. They fulfill these needs, cash their paycheques and fling themselves down on their couches again, oblivious to their own self-interest. One such person, known around my office as It's Her Again, does seem to have introduced the sport of hockey in your area , indeed shoved it in everywhere she gets an opening, and if she becomes too obnoxious about it, please contact our nearest consulate and we will deal with her. We're used to it. Sorry, but I must raise the fact that CSIS reports one member of your organization has said that hockey players are less smart than other sports professionals, and the boss has said that I'm the one who has to protest that, so I am protesting. Sorry. Yours most sincerely, The Hon. Kenneth Dryden MP BA, LLB Olympic Gold Medal (Hockey), Stanley Cup winner Author good father and husband,son, grandson, brother, uncle and cousin, kind to animals

Yes, it does!

Hmm - whew - I'm sure there's a back-handed compliment in there, somewhere... if I could only see it. I will take some childish pleasure in being mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Boydstun - not sure how grateful he'd be, though! The metaphor of a grass-hopper, to an eagle, comes to mind. My impression is that he has plenty of respect for Objectivism, and deep knowledge of it, but takes a scholarly over-view which transcends any particular philosophy. I see the start of my post is unclear, it should read "As a non-O etc" meaning myself, the nominator. I will go back and fix it.No backhanding was intended.

Speaking of notable fun, I came across an item about a football player somewhere whose first name is, wait for it, LaMichael. No, not LeMichael, LaMichael. I cannot begin to imagine the torment he must have endured from classmates and teammates who happened to have taken French.

Yes, the headline does say something about God's design and the unsuitability of the human body for football. A few paragraphs down, however, God says that he did create a special class of superhumans specifically for that purpose: the Nimble Fearless Loverboys. And to protect their superior brains, He insisted that they eject players for bad-tempered misbehavior. lol. DH be Notably Funny Losangeleno.

Yes, the headline does say something about God's design and the unsuitability of the human body for football. A few paragraphs down, however, God says that he did create a special class of superhumans specifically for that purpose: the Nimble Fearless Loverboys. And to protect their superior brains, He insisted that they eject players for bad-tempered misbehavior. After God created the NFL, the story continues, He realized there would be less gray matter to go around. Because He is a Loving God, he was concerned that certain other “humans” (using the term loosely) would be left out. But then He figured that would be just fine, since they could always play hockey. (Ice hockey, as all civilized people know, is the only professional sport in North America that condones bashing an opposing player’s brains out.) Seriously, Daunce. A sharp woman like you should know better than to just read the headlines. I did read the whole story. Obviously the hockey part was excised from the Canadian edition under Ministry of Censorship guidelines. The concussion tragedy (it is too important to term an "issue") is a dreadful stain on hockey and the Jurassic decision makers of the NHL are increasingly having to pay attention to it. Everyone has opinions on how to reduce the risk but some of them, such as rink size, would cost serious money even if everybody could agree, so I am not hopeful anything effective will take place soon.

No, I didn't listen, sorry. Ill take your word that SP has nothing to do with it and maybe not even have heard of it. I/ll still say though, that an extra burst of attention and appreciation won't do her any harm, will it?

I guess her new reality show deal did not work out. Or her negotiations to co-fire with Trump on the Apprentice.

OK, we now have two certified Large Minds. Peter because he his demonstrated his mind can contain the imponderables of psychology and over-ponder sports at the same time, and Phil because he told us so and it's his thread. Seriously, as a non and occasional even anti-Objectivist, I would nominate two others here, Stephen Boydstun and Tony (WHYnot) - two of the most Rand-committed participants here. How imponderable is that?

I still see guys wearing their pants around their knees in LA all the time. It looks like utter insanity to me. It would be hysterical if it were not so pathetic. Well, climate could be a factor here. LA is warm. Canadian males may not just not be willing to freeze their butts literally off in the name of fashion.

Haven't we all? 8-) Ghs I was assuming you were using the royal "we" there, George, but I have been advised that when Ghs says We in the present perfect tense, he is merely being accurate.

The reason that I didn't preemptively insult Bill is because I think that he is one of the few people here on OL who are intellectually qualified to fetch my chips, soda and dry cleaning. He's my own personal Stephen Boydstun. J Everyone should have one. A chicken in every pot, etc. I definitely agree. My multitalented chip fetchers can also produce delicious coq au vin.

Oh, the frailty of man. Just make sure the weird booth with the funky screens is the one in the church.