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June

• June: 16 Fathers' Day
• 21 Midsummer's Eve
• 21 Summer Begins
• 24 Take Your Pet to Work
• 24 Full Moon Day
• 26 Beautician's Day (take your manicurist to lunch)

July

• 2 Canada
• 2 I Forgot Day (why am I writing this newsletter? I forgot.)
• 4 Independence Day, USA
• 4 Autty's Birthday (#autism)
• 5 Full Moon Day
• 7 Cherry Pit Spitting Contest
• 13 Friday the 13th (Friday the 13th came on Thursday in May!)
• 14 Bastille Day
• 14 Cow Appreciation Day (have an udderly good day!)
• 15 Ice Cream Cone Day
• 17 Wrong Way Corrigan Day (know where you are going)
• 20 Ugly Truck Contest Day

Belated birthday wishess - May 28 to DonnaF of #50&fantastic

• Symbol: The Twins
• Gemstone - Pearl
• Flowers, Rose, water lily
• Lucky Day: Monday
• Lucky Color: Silver
• Lucky Numbers: 8, 9

A person born under Gemini is a genius in social ability. Their minds are always in rapid speed mode. Gemini will excell at any task, under any conditions. These multi-talented people are the undisputed masters of communication.

Famous Geminis: Andy Griffith, Kathy Baker (Picket Fences), Helen Hunt (Mad About You)

AMAZING AND LESSER THINGS! by Amazing

I have a little group of friends,
As dear as they can be.
I love them all, but sad to say,
Most I'll never get to see.

The only claim I have is that
When I feel sad, alone or blue,
I get on line, Play wav's and chat.
And maybe find someone who feels it too.

They give love And support,
Opinions and such,
Which I can take or ponder much,
But...sometimes I round a bend
And Lo!! I'll make a brand new friend.

Feel bad, or sad?
Just plain sick?
Got an attitude or habit
You want to kick?

"Its ok", your friends will say,
"We've all been there before,
A time or two, just like you".

We know the ups, the downs,
The highs, the lows,
The "I-could-kill-that-so-n-so's".
The pain and strain,
Of getting through
The leave-takings without adieu.

We've seen it all, the been-theres done-thats,
We've worn all the different hats,
That makes us each uniquely "us",
And when we want to make a fuss,
We come online and find The equalizers,
The friends, who become our sympathizers,

Who know, And feel,
And wish, And pray,
When you both know
There is nothing more to say--
But an online friend
Will say it anyway.

Author Unknown

Roving Reporter Lois Lane’s recommendations for enjoyable chatting: Late Afternoon/Early Evening (depending on where you live): #Classics Late Evening/Early Morning (depending) #50&Fantastic

Willco is home safe and sound from his adventure to the northwest.

A short column of made-up facts and non-information brought to you by your friendly neighborhood arachnid

FOGWEB FOLLIES

Here we are nearly at the end of the girl months and still no winning lottery numbers. Oh wait, this isnt my channel, its a column. Speaking of MY channel, rumor has it that chiefy has been using it as a bulletin board on a nightly basis. So next time youre thru the list, scroll past and see what he's put up lately.

And SPEAKING of newbies, one of our newest, PaperTiger of #newstalkers managed to ban herself while playing with cstar. Normally, we reserve that stunt for chiefy, but we have an heir apparent it seems!!

Oh, and check the home pages for #newstalk and #newstalkers done by suzee .. pretty good stuff .. especially for somebody who's been doing web pages for almost a week now!

See you after the FIREWERX !!

NEW CHANNELS New Stars Linked by Treecat .. A warm welcome to this month's new channels and their owners. If you have a chance, do stop in and give these folks a friendly Hi!

• #Jesuslovesme - Rebekah
• #Courtship1 - VC #CSO-Board-Room - ShineThru
• #leftbehind - James1_12
• #50sWorldWide - ^Vulcan
• #JuBooms-Chat - boomer1
• #wtgo - rollick
• #tigger - BigDaddy
• #newstalkers - PaperTiger
• #fibromites - Numbers21
• #USS-Ascension - Wolfe
• #crochet - craftyd
• #trivia_by_smartalec - Nitetrain
• #spiritspace - Hanna
• #avenuek - Nan-C
• #A_Christian_Room_For_You - Artsy

This site is maintained by the Federal Trade Commission, and deals with ID Theft. You'll learn how to minimize your risk, what to do if you are a victim, how to file a complaint, state laws, and cases and scams. Material everyone should read for his own protection.

This site will give you background on Canada Day, well-known Canadians, many things Canadian. The site is old...needs to be updated, but it interesting reading

See the Bug of the Day for this month, which gives information on the latest bugs, such as the June 10th IE bug, for which a patch has been released.

Other Random but Fun Events: #WTGO (All sorts of stuffs) #Just4Fun (OUTBURST); #Sunshine_Again ( MADGABS)

Amazing reminds us that there may be other folks hurting, so take the time to think of them.

A) The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

B) On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

C) The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

D) The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.

E) Conclusion: Eat & drink what you like. It seems it's speaking English that kills you.

A is for arthritis,
B is for bad back,
C is for the chest pains. Corned beef? Cardiac?
D is for dental decay and decline,
E is for eyesight--can't read that top line.
F is for fissures and fluid retention
G is for gas (which I'd rather not mention and not to forget other gastrointestinal glitches)
H is high blood pressure
I is for itches, and lots of incisions J is for joints, that now fail to flex
L is for libido--what happened to sex? Wait! I forgot about K!
K is for my knees that crack all the time (But forgive me, I get a few lapses in my
M-memory from time to time)
N is for nerve (pinched) and neck (stiff) and neurosis
O is for osteo-for all the bones that crack
P is for prescriptions, that cost a small fortune
Q is for queasiness. Fatal or just the flu? Give me another pill and I'll be good as new!
R is for reflux--one meal turns into two
S is for sleepless nights, counting my fears on how to pay my increasing medical bills!
T is for tinnitus--I hear bells in my ears and the word "terminal" also rings too near
U is for urinary and the difficulties that flow (or not)
V is for vertigo, as life spins by
W is worry, for pains yet found
X is for X ray--and what one might find
Y is for year (another one I'm still alive) so
Z is for zest For surviving the symptoms my body's deployed, and keeping 26 doctors gainfully employed.

It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they played an old news video of Lt. Col.Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by some senator;

"Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied,"Yes, I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience,
"Isn't that just a little excessive?"
"No, sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir"
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied. At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued.
"Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator. "
Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.

A blind man enters a Women's Bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a drink.
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?"
The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, you should know five things .....
1 - The bartender is a blonde girl.
2 - The bouncer is a blonde gal.
3 - I'm a 6 feet tall, 200 pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate
4 - The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weightlifter.
5 - The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?

The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and declares, "Nah....not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times

A father is a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic. He growls when he feels good and laughs very loud when he is scared half-to-death.

A father never feels entirely worthy of the worship in a child's eyes. He is never quite the hero his daughter thinks. Never quite the man his son believes him to be. And this worries him sometimes. (So he works too hard to try to smooth the rough places in the road of those of his own who will follow him.)

A father is a person who goes to war sometimes ... and would run the other way except that war is part of his only important job in his life, (which is making the world better for his child than it has been for him).

Fathers grow older faster than people, because they, in other wars, have to stand at the train station and wave goodbye to the uniform that climbs on board.

And, while mothers cry where it shows, fathers stand and beam -- outside -- and die inside.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men, who aren't nearly good enough, so that they can have children that are smarter than anybody's.

Fathers fight dragons almost daily. They hurry away from the breakfast table, off to the arena which is sometimes called an office or a workshop. There, with callused hands, they tackle the dragon with three heads; Weariness, Works, and Monotony. And they never quite win the fight, but they never give up.

Knights in shining armor; fathers in shiny trousers. There's little difference as they march away each workday.

I don't know where a father goes when he dies, but I've an idea that, after a good rest, wherever it is, he won't just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl he's loved and the children she bore. He'll be busy there too -- repairing the stars, oiling the gates, improving the streets, smoothing the way.

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