aw, I don't know how to make it smaller.

I just love those widdle kitties. I laugh every time I see them. I'm sorry I don't have any cookies for the kitties. All we have here is glueten free dog food.

sounds like something a guy would say, lol, see if you can copy this one.

Thanks, JRyan! I am at my sister's, but when I get back to MD,I will save it to my computer and try it!

I hope you don't mind Cluck but I copied both kitty pics to put on my desktop at work - I love them. (And I want to give them both a cookie )

My bands new video ... enjoy buddies!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...ideoid=28384285

Doesn't have to be God either. Lots of deities are like that.

Wow, that had a lot of energy!!!
Well done!! Looked like you put some attention inot making the video, the gig looked like fun.

Cloggs

So, last night my little sister's friend faked his death, just to play a trick on my sister--so my sister was bailing for 3 hours and i get home from work, and im like whats wrong.
and she says, "my friend Tyler died"
and i'm like WHAT?!
so i look and "Tylers Friend" was talking to her on "Tylers Screen Name" on AIM.
and i figured out it was fake, and apparently two of my sisters other friends were in on it too.
and this kid is 15 almost 16, and my sister is 13.
I'm like what kind of sick F*** does that to a little girl.

That kind of thing seems to be rampant since the INTERNET, TEXT MESSAGING, CAMERA PHONES, etc have come into being. There seems to be no bottom level to the stuff kids will do to each other these days. The fact that little or nothing is done to them (by the LAW or their parents) or that their friends THINK this kind of stuff is FUNNY is what scares me.

sure! enjoy the little critters!

That is really messed up! Why would you do that to someone? Its not funny.

I found these photos on a French forum, but please do not throw stones at me !

Yeah, i'm going to talk to one of the parents tomorrow, cause that's just out of control. Death isn't a joke.



I know, i was completely shocked. Specially since one of the little girls i know really well, and i would've never expected that from her.

Valley sorry to hear about your little sister's friend. What a messed up world this is.

Cluck, I have to comment on your signature. It is so adorable, especially now that you added Bobby to it and his comment about the cats. I love it and as I type this my son saw it and he is sitting here going "awww" so you get complimented also from my son.

Has nobody learned from that poor young girl's suicide -- the one who was being bullied over the internet by her friend's parents? The same thing could have happened to Valley's sister........

Valley -- I hope those kids' parents took away their computers, AND cell phones AND pda's....anything they could use. If those were my kids that had pulled that stunt, they'd be grounded beyond the Second Coming.......

I'm so sorry you had to go through this, but Praise God you were able to figure things out so quickly and be there for your sister. She's so blessed to have a sister like you!

JaneEmily --PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE tell us the fat kid with the curly hair is NOT VDO.....but methinks it is......

Thanks Cluck -

Valley - I hope your sister is OK - that is really a rotten thing to do. Anyone who would do such a thing isn't really a 'friend'.



I agree OG - it's frightening what's happening anymore (not like when we were kids at all) and the fact that parents chose to protect their children from the consequences rather then hold them accountable for their actions only adds to the problem.

I'm glad my kitties are causing smiles! Maybe a kitty personality will show up on the boards and pal around with Chimera Pug and gang!

Well my son watched me go thru some pages of thread and reading and he saw some other signatures with cats and he wanted me to comment on those too. I told him I didn't have time. I barely have time to go thru what I want to go thru much less to comment on everyone's cats. That's kids for ya, I guess.

So for anyone else with cats in their signature, I know my son loved Janxangel's and Jc's but I don't remember the others. He loved them all. You all get commented on a job well done.

HOLY SH**!
OH, MY GOD. Could it be? I agree with Flashy Mom. I T..H..I..N..K I..T I..S!
Hard to type that.

I don't want to be right.....I don't want to be right.......I don't want to be right....

Forcing myself to look again, if it is, the sisters really look like his dauughter Leila. I always thought she was as pretty as her mom, but she looks like her Aunts. Same hair.

thanks flashymom.
It just worried me cause my sister is at an extremely impressionable age so i didnt want it to scar her.

That is a toughie. I can see both sides of the fight really. While I don't think that it's fair for students to get to shop around at schools (especially if they are on scholarship) I also feel for them if things to not crack up to be what they expcected at the school to which they were recruited.

It seems to me a mtter that would have to be settled on a case by case basis, and students should get a finite amount of transfers that can be waived. However I also think that in a case where a student is recruited to play under a certain coach and things do not shape up how they thought (as in the coach gets fired before the student gets to pllay for him/her being the only real reason), they should be able to get out of it with few questions asked.

What the heck? That's ignorant. Who would do that?



What the heck? Who are they?

omg! That's VDO, isn't it. Look at all that hair!

I wondered if that was vdo.

it definitely looks like him--he has the face of when he was in Full Metal Jacket.

I did not realize how old VDO was until this moment. Granted, he is still four years youger than my mom. That means that he must have graduated high school during the bicentennial (1976 for those who don't know what I'm referring to).

As a young(er) person I find this weird.

Granted I just had the revelation tonight that the 90s were almost 20 years ago. That scares me. I don't like it. Not one bit.

Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth.

Wow. The bottom one looks like Florida. Couldn't say about the top one, but the palm tree in the second one lends me that feel.

Dang... That looks like pictures I saw from when I was little of people my parents knew. Mostly the hair, clothes and car, no the people themselves. I am wondering though if this picture is old enough to be him. It looks more 70's not 60's and VDO was graduating high school round about '77. The boy in the picture looks more like 15 than 18 or better. The car looks 60's... but the people not so much.

Who knows? Someone call Vault, she'll know (or be able to find out).

I seem to remember many moons ago that these pictures were up at the Reel and were possibly shared by Vincent's sister but they were copied else where and she removed them (Elizabeth)...i could be mistaken...*please don't shoot me either, just making an observation*

Veering slightly away, i have two kids. My eldest is a boy with autism. He's 14, very tall and his behaviour is odd. He is on the autistic spectrum, so he has some of the symptoms but not all of them, for example he talks, he's sociable and he's loving but he has profound and life long learning difficulties. You can imagine that I am extremely protective of him. At the moment we have puberty as well as autism to contend with, not a nice combination, so he has double the confusion.

I have a not quite seven year old and for the longest time i worried about her. She has a very open, loving personality. She will talk to anyone who gives her the time of day (child that is, she's very aware of stranger danger) and she has a 'friend of the world' personality and she sees the good in everyone. Before Christmas, a lot of kids seemed to take advantage of this trait that she has and pushed her around a bit, she wouldn't stand up for herself because she thought if she did, a, she'd get into trouble and b, no one would like her. I was so worried about her, i couldn't sleep because of it.
The pressures to be liked, to be accepted start from such an early age.

Now she's much more at peace with herself, while the standing up for herself is still a work in progress, she cut out the people who made her unhappy (one, who professed to be her best friend would tell her if she didn't do what he wanted her to do, he would never speak to her again and my little softheart believed it and got into trouble because of him...she doesn't play with him now) and she has a new group of friends who like her and get along with her and she's much happier (and so is mom )

Kids can be cruel, i've seen it first hand but that...telling a girl that her friend is dead, that just goes beyond the pale...

VDO is the same age as me. I graduated from high school in 1977, but maybe I was held back once and no one in the family wanted to tell me.

That means my high school class had their 30-year reunion last year. Yipes!


spook

It's not jsut kids that can be cruel. My supposed best friend at Uni told me I was deserting and abandoning her when I got offered the chance to go study abroad for a year. I did not even think much of it when she said it to me as I was a very easy going sometimes non-commital kind of person in general ... just one of those things that people say I thought. When I got talking to someone about that remark (when I was abroad and having lots of fun) I finaly got it and realised that she did not have the right to tell me I was deserting her, making me feel guilty and that it was my choice to make and nothing to do with her. This was when I was about 21 so I feel that it is never to late to start teaching kids to stand up for themselves and that they should trust their own feelings.
Needless to say this person is no longer in my life.

Cloggs

The people in the pics look 70's to me, and I would guess that he is no more than 15 in the pic. Probably more like 13. Maybe even 12 (since he's so tall, he would have had to have been tall for his age). Which would put this pic at about '71-'75.

I think that he is about 15 in the top pic and probably 13 in the bottom one.

I say it is him and he is around late 13, early 14. Must boys grow out before they sprout up. He is so tall now, so as he hit his growth spurt, the weight peeled off.

My son looks at his pictures from 7th grade and thinks he looks chubby. He is now 15, 5'10" and this as a rail.

I cannot believe that those parents would not do something about that!! That is totally uncalled for and just plain cruel! I would take their computer and never let them have it back...I hope her sister can get past the experience..

RRR, your daughter sounds like how I was as a little girl...unfortunately I learned the hard way NOT to trust people...I am glad she has found some new friends who respect her more.

Kimberly I did too. When i was just about my son's age...and it scarred me. I am so shy and introverted that it sometimes comes across as anti social...i like my own company, even though i'm married to a great guy with two wonderful children. I only come out of my shell if its a matter concerning my family. With my daughter, it's tough watching this all unfold, knowing that she has to make decisions for herself, to see people for who they are for herself when i want to swoop in there and protect her. It's a natural instinct. She's seven next week and there have been times that i have had to bite my lip really hard. That's a tough part of being a mom. It doesn't help that with our daughter, we're parenting a what is classed as a 'neuro-typical' child (ie...'normal') and it may sound weird but it's like being a first time parent. With our son and his disabilities, it's been the opposite because he just doesn't understand.

Oh and my son is in a growing phase right now, don't i know it!!...he's eating and eating, shooting up and is so skinny (he always has been thin because he's borderline ADD and burns off a lot of energy). He has enormous feet and these long, long legs...he's currently about (at a guess, 5ft 8") and there's no fillin' him...it all goes into those hollow legs of his!!

Yeah my brother was a bit chubby when he was younger. When he went to 7th or 8th grade, he sprouted like a weed. He's 6' now and been thin as a rail ever since. Oh and he does wear size 13 shoes. Mom and I both remember tripping over those boats in the foyer.

.. i have had a terrible day ... my dad who i had thought was a recovering alcoholic lost his licences ... what the hell? ... everytime things are lookings up they get pushed back down ............

Sorry you had a rotten day, tasha. Hope it gets a little better.

Trust me. I TOTALLY know how that goes. I started managing to save some money last year, then all of a sudden I have to go to the hospital and have my gall bladder taken out... Ch-Ching! $24k in debt.

My son doesn't have big feet, and he isn't that tall yet, but sounds a lot like yours -- eats like crazy and skinny as a flagpole! I'm so jealous of his metabolism.....

yea it seems that life is just that way ... i guess the bad days make the good days seem that much better

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Ok I had to respond and/or quote someone to do this.

Does anyone have any idea why the above is happening? It started doing this yesterday. Any idea on how to fix it? I would appreciate any help I can get. I really don't like it. It looks weird.

I tend to be a bit introverted myself. I am getting a bit better, but being alone is my normal comfort zone. I think that is what first attracted me to the Goren character. His little quirks...reminded me of myself a bit. The library was my refuge as a child...my haven.
I am married as well, but we do not have children. I was always afraid I would "mess up" kids. I am a little over protective when it comes to children...I thought that would not be a good environment for a child to grow up in. Bullys drive me nuts..and to hear of those poeple who hassle children, plus now on the internet, really burns me up!
I saw an interview with Vincent where he said that his fans were not nuts over him, but just his "Goren" character. I think the attraction for me was to Vincent and the way he brings his characters life, even before he became Detective Goren.

It sounds like you are a great, caring mom...

Ooooo, gall bladder. Been there, had that taken out. In 1991. Don't remember the bill, but it was big.


spook

Sorry guys. Whoever said life isn't fair knew what they were talking about. With luck the good usually outweighs the bad but I and probably everyone else here know that sometimes it's hard to look at things that way. I really am sorry that you are having a rough time.