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05-03-2010, 06:14 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by Westernskies
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Yeah, that's the problem! They are still after me! 
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05-03-2010, 06:16 PM
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#102
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
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Nice to see y'all. I´m the squinting tourist on the right.
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05-03-2010, 06:22 PM
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#103
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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Here's a group pic/film of us as we discuss touchy subjects on the forum....
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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05-03-2010, 06:29 PM
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#104
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
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^ "Pay off mortgage!" --- ^ "Invest!"
^ "Rent!" ----------------- ^ "Buy!"
And I'm not touching the political stuff... 
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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05-03-2010, 06:30 PM
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#105
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Kicked back in a park in Durango.
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05-03-2010, 06:45 PM
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#106
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Instead of the body measurements like what's included in girlie calendars, we will have portfolio size, AA, and pension amount?
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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05-03-2010, 07:15 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Maybe we could do a calendar like the Rystone & District Womens Institute in Yorkshire did to raise money for Leukaemia Research.
In their calendar, women in their 50's posed "nude" but had various objects such as plants, watering cans, baked goods etc hiding the naughty bits.
The men could have MF prospectuses, Stock certificates, Financial magazines, Estate Plans etc to hide their embarrassment.
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When the ladies of Rystone did it they hoped to sell enough calendars to raise a few hundred dollars to buy a sofa or 2 at the local hospital and ended up making hundreds of thousands. If you haven't seen the movie that was made in 2003, I highly recommend it Calendar Girls
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05-03-2010, 07:18 PM
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#108
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
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Sounds like baseball's Triple Crown for FIREd folks and those on the Quest for FIRE...
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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05-03-2010, 07:46 PM
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#109
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Maybe we could do a calendar like the Rystone & District Womens Institute in Yorkshire did to raise money for Leukaemia Research.
In their calendar, women in their 50's posed "nude" but had various objects such as plants, watering cans, baked goods etc hiding the naughty bits.
The men could have MF prospectuses, Stock certificates, Financial magazines, Estate Plans etc to hide their embarrassment.
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When the ladies of Rystone did it they hoped to sell enough calendars to raise a few hundred dollars to buy a sofa or 2 at the local hospital and ended up making hundreds of thousands. If you haven't seen the movie that was made in 2003, I highly recommend it Calendar Girls |
We did see that movie and enjoyed it.
Now, talk about hiding embarassment... 
Wait! I am still not in.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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05-03-2010, 07:52 PM
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#110
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern California
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Thanks W2R...for showing us how to post photos! Well, here we go...I finally got white sage to grow!
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05-03-2010, 07:56 PM
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#111
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Maybe we could do a calendar like the Rystone & District Womens Institute in Yorkshire did to raise money for Leukaemia Research.
In their calendar, women in their 50's posed "nude" but had various objects such as plants, watering cans, baked goods etc hiding the naughty bits.
The men could have MF prospectuses, Stock certificates, Financial magazines, Estate Plans etc to hide their embarrassment.
PS
When the ladies of Rystone did it they hoped to sell enough calendars to raise a few hundred dollars to buy a sofa or 2 at the local hospital and ended up making hundreds of thousands. If you haven't seen the movie that was made in 2003, I highly recommend it Calendar Girls |
A really great movie, that.
This is the young wife and me in the hills over Lake Maggiore in Italy (Summer 2007)
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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05-03-2010, 08:12 PM
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#112
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,596
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Westernskies
What the heck, here is "the rest of the story"
this one has been in a couple of industry magazines, anyway...  |
You have a great smile! I seem to remember bumping into you at a party circa 1978. It was either you or Robert Redford. Hard to tell you apart
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05-03-2010, 08:30 PM
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#113
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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OK, I'm a little camera shy and do worry about posting photos on the net, but here goes. This is a picture of me helping with the set up a fund raising event for the animal shelter. We raised about $6000 that night.
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05-03-2010, 08:34 PM
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#114
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Purron
We raised about $6000 that night.
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Nice sum of money, but still not as much as the ladies of Rystone did...
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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05-03-2010, 08:37 PM
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Location: New Orleans
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More photos! Antmary, Gumby, and Purron, thanks! There you are. You all look terrific. 
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05-03-2010, 08:46 PM
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#116
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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The Ladies of the Animal Shelter might do that if we could raise a couple mill for the shelter
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05-03-2010, 08:46 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern California
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Yes, it is good to put a face to the posters. 
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05-03-2010, 09:04 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: San Francisco
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Most have you have seen my mug from meet-up pics, so I'll spare you. But I am impressed at the genuinely happy demeanor of all of us. A few matched my mental image but most were quite different from what I expected.
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San Francisco Area
ESR'd March 2010. FIRE'd January 2011.
As if you didn't know..If the above message contains medical content, it's NOT intended as advice, and may not be accurate, applicable or sufficient. Don't rely on it for any purpose. Consult your own doctor for all medical advice.
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05-03-2010, 09:15 PM
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#119
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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I'll donate a pic of me holding a birdie....and make a donation...
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05-03-2010, 09:34 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa
Most have you have seen my mug from meet-up pics, so I'll spare you. But I am impressed at the genuinely happy demeanor of all of us. A few matched my mental image but most were quite different from what I expected.
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The happy mood of the thread comes through very strongly. When I got back in this evening after a day out I was several pages behind on the thread and have really enjoyed browsing through and seeing all the photos and comments.
Thanks everyone 
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