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Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/26/12

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Ginger, I think you did the smart thing by keeping that handy in your classroom.  I know someone who's a frequent traveler, and he carries Clorox Wipes to wipe down every surface around him on a plane.  I'll bet he smells up the place, but not as badly as some fliers do!

Ginger Hearn Email
02/26/12

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bleach kills anything.... Could carry a small container of spray..Lysol. I knew a school secretary that left a bottle of alcohol by the toilet.. I haven't explored whether alcohol kills everything or not.. I'd go in after something 'expensive' too.. Hands can be washed, you know. Teach kindergarten for several years.  Live in a classroom with 15-30 kids with snotty noses and 'everything else'... Kept diluted Lysol Spray and a bottle of bleach in my classroom at all times. One time, we had an outbreak of Hepatitis, in our school. They gave everybody a bottle of disinfectant..in the school..except me. I asked them 'why'. They said you keep that in your classroom all the time.. That was when I had 500 + kids going through my classroom every 3 days.. You bet I kept that stuff in my classroom..!

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/25/12

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Hey, JS, I followed the five-second rule.

Guess this means you don't want to borrow my sunglasses either. 

John Southworth 
02/25/12

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Note to Self: don't be shakin' hands with Lynell.

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/25/12

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You all have reminded me of the time I dropped a new pair of expensive prescription sunglasses into the toilet at Mama's Daughters Diner on Irving Blvd.  No gloves, nothing but a bare hand.  Yes, I went in after them!  And I washed both my glasses and my hands at the sink for a good 20 minutes! 
 

charlotte anders s 
02/24/12

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John, that is just too great!  At least it was in a fold and not in the  poop!  haaaa!
 
I just saw that there is a show called "Basketball Wives" and it is going into it's 4th season.puleeeeez..I've never heard of that show...but what is next?  Oh yeah..I forgot about the Dallas Show about rich and rabbid Texas women...sigh!  No wonder I never watch regular channels...just news channel, sports and cable movies for me.

John Southworth 
02/23/12

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There is a Houston-based organization that helps folks find their lost jewelry by hooking them up with volunteer metal detectorists.
 
Today I got a report from them on a unique "find" where a lost diamond ring turned up in a baby's diaper! Here is a link to the messy story which unfolded this week in Crosby, Texas:
 
http://www.lostmystuff.net/success_stories.php

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/23/12

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Our bank has never e-mailed us, but  AT&T emails daily to ask for our password.  A couple of times, our fave banker has e-mailed to send photos of her dogs.

The Internet continues to be a scary place.


charlotte anders s 
02/23/12

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I receive offers from my bank for special activities etc via emails from time to time.  But these stoopid ones imploring me to click the link and refile my info are ridiculous...I wonder how many people fall victim?  I always report them.

Bill Akins 
02/23/12

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I have received several of these over the past few months and have forwarded them to my bank's fraud unit (I'm guessing that every bank has one these days). I did get a response that they had tracked the sender of one of them down and the police had arrested them.

kathleen Burrow Pulte 
02/23/12

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Charlotte, I have received emails from my bank many times. When I contacted the bank, I was told that customers are never notified by email. The emails had the bank's emblem stamped on them and they looked official, but they aren't

charlotte anders s Email
02/23/12

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THINK not THING

charlotte anders s 
02/23/12

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I just received a suspicious email appearing to be from my bank....BEWARE!  I forwarded to the bank's abuse address.  How anyone could read the full paragraph and thing the bank would use the  phrase " implore you" and follow the link is beyond me. 

Charlotte anders s 
02/21/12

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]Larry, you are a brave soul!!!!!

Phyllis Laura Isaacs Email
02/21/12

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Thanks for mentioning our Bishop Arts Mardi Gras Parade, Larry!  I'm ensconced in beads as we speak.  I liked it better when it came right down my street -- Bishop -- and we could stand in the front yard and troll for beads, but it's more "urban" now, going down Davis, and it's still righteous. 

BArry Gibbs 
02/21/12

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Larry:

Do you need a ride home? Just call JS and he will come get you.

Larry Burdine 
02/20/12

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I can't believe that my old classmates don't know about the Mardi Gras happenings in good old Oak Cliff.  Spent yesterday afternoon down on Bishop Ave. with about 20K of my closest friends jumping to catch beads and drinking some adult beverages.  The parade had everything from Church members, to Boy Scouts, to traditional New Orleans-style floats.  It lasted two hours which means lots of people celebrating this event - both in the parade and out on the sidewalks.  Bands, crawfish boils, beer, and more beer !!  Ya'll need to wake up out there.

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/20/12

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Are we having an early Spring??? 

Ginger Hearn Email
02/19/12

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Ash Wednesday...is good.. Kind of different after all those years in the old Baptist World.. Speaking of Ash Wednesday and Elizabeth Taylor's movie..she wore this fantastic white fur hat in one scene. I found one in Nashville, years ago..I like that hat real well, and still wear it...but it doesn't make me look a bit like Elizabeth Taylor..(sigh)
    Claudia Jones Swain is on FB..Send her a message and ask her how the classes are..ceramic and otherwise at Cliff Temple.

          She's a former teacher in Dallas and Dallas Baptist, I believe...

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/19/12

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I looked at Cliff Temple's website, too, and note they offer a ceramics class.  I think that's interesting. 

charlotte anders s 
02/19/12

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Uh huh....I grew up in Cliff Temple (Southern) Baptist Church....Our baccalaureate church and I just went to the Cliff Temple Baptist Church web site and it ask me to choose a language..English or Spanish...sigh!  Oh yeah...they have ASH WEDNESDAY~  sigh!

Ginger Hearn Email
02/18/12

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Claudia Jones Swain... is a member and very active at Cliff Temple.. Her father was the Music Director at Grace Temple Baptist Church.. years and years ago. He has passed. His wife, 97, and Claudia came to my mother's funeral in October. Claudia's trying to talk me into coming to Cliff Temple when I come  back to Texas. At some point, I might visit. It depends on where I settle, as to whether I would attend on a regular basis.
    The selling point is Cliff Temple is out of the SBC.. They have seen the light...!  One of the first groups of Baptists that 'disagreed' with the SBC and their 'fundamentalist ways', was formed in Texas. You just never know...??

charlotte anders s 
02/18/12

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Ginger...who is your friend still at Cliff Temple? 

It is raining down here in South Texas and I am so thankful!  Our ranch ponds are filling up and the cows are happily ensconced in Green Pastures!!  Maybe we will get some hay cuttings this spring...Maybe.


Ginger Hearn Email
02/18/12

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Well, that was 'annoying', using 'too'..so many times..!

   I've also wanted to say that it would be nice if we could 'Like' some of these remarks on here...like we do on FB.. Lynell....fix it......

Ginger Hearn Email
02/18/12

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Lent is coming..After Fat Tuesday...is Ash Wednesday.. For years the only thing I knew about Ash Wednesday..was Elizabeth Taylor's movie. Being a Methodist instead of a Southern Baptist, changes that.. Many people give up 'something' after Fat Tuesday, for Lent.  I like the 'ashes' thing on Wednesday. It's just a reminder of the season that's coming to us..
  First Baptist Memphis...does Ash Wednesday..here. I've heard they have added 'washing the ashes off'. to their ritual. First Baptist is also in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist World Alliance.
   I have a friend at Cliff Temple, in Dallas. Cliff Temple is in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, too. No more Southern Baptist Convention for them, too. They probably do an Ash Wednesday, thing, too. All that partying, started out with the Catholics..down there in New Orleans.. Wouldn't mind seeing the Mardis Gras, first hand. Never done that.

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/18/12

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The closest thing to Mardi Gras in Dallas that I know about is the St. Patrick's Day parade on Greenville Ave.  (Of course, I'm not exactly connected with the young rowdy crowd, so there may be a real Mardi Gras event somewhere.)  The parade used to be great fun -- marching Irish setters and their owners, the lawn chair men's drill team, and various homemade floats.  Occasionally somebody would toss beads toward the crowd.  The crowds have grown to huge proportions, and I don't consider 18-wheeler Budweiser trucks all that interesting to see up close.  It's not exactly family friendly anymore, and this year they needed $50,000 to cover the costs.  Mark Cuban came to the rescue, so we'll see how it goes!

charlotte anders s 
02/17/12

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WOW...what a fire hazard your eldest had.  Haaaa! 
 
I have friends that attend Mardi gras Balls and ride floats every year.  I don't get it, but I am neither a Catholic, a Cajun or a party animal...and they are!  I guess all starts on Tuesday.  Galveston has parades too.  I've been down there once....woo hoo! It is just a rowdy as N O just not as large.

phil pelch 
02/16/12

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 My daughter just took her real Christmas tree down last weekend. My eldest went to one of the 'Balls' last year and rode on a float in New Orleans Mardi Gras last year. Does that count?

charlotte anders s 
02/16/12

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I suppose it's time to take down the Christmas decorations and put up Mardi Gras.
 
Does anyone out there go to Mardi Gras?

Lynell Garrett Smith 
02/14/12

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Happy Valentine's Day!

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