Describe your personal cyberspace
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Yes, but by god when I'm finished with it, a book truly knows it has been read.
bevvyd said:
Yes, but by god when I'm finished with it, a book truly knows it has been read.My own personal cyberspace....hmm...do you want my work one (where I procrastinate from working by coming here) or my home one that I don't use often anymore...
We'll do work. Messy messy messy. Papers everywhere. On top of my monitor is a cute little elephant lying down, his trunk and front paws hook over the edge of the computer so he can stare at me all day, wondering why I'm not working. Next to him is a little aroma pot, that I picked up in Athens for 1 Euro. My office mate stuck his finger in it, so now it's all gooey. On the top of the monitor, I also have a photo of my good friends on the night of my wedding rehearsal dinner. We're all crowded around my first car...a 1979 silver Camaro Berlinetta. I loved that car.
On the bottom right corner is stuck a butterfly from a Kindersurprise, plus a business card for a "handyman" in peterborough. Actually,I can probably throw that away.
The tackboards on the walls are a multitude of stagnant information that really can be changed out. Also a small photo of the great pyramids with the phrase "You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determinations, and an endless supply of expendable labour". I also have a picture of my two dogs and my brother.
A mickey mouse coffee mug, neon post-its, and a year old candy cane round out my office space.
Really, how do I get anything done around here?
We'll do work. Messy messy messy. Papers everywhere. On top of my monitor is a cute little elephant lying down, his trunk and front paws hook over the edge of the computer so he can stare at me all day, wondering why I'm not working. Next to him is a little aroma pot, that I picked up in Athens for 1 Euro. My office mate stuck his finger in it, so now it's all gooey. On the top of the monitor, I also have a photo of my good friends on the night of my wedding rehearsal dinner. We're all crowded around my first car...a 1979 silver Camaro Berlinetta. I loved that car.
On the bottom right corner is stuck a butterfly from a Kindersurprise, plus a business card for a "handyman" in peterborough. Actually,I can probably throw that away.
The tackboards on the walls are a multitude of stagnant information that really can be changed out. Also a small photo of the great pyramids with the phrase "You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determinations, and an endless supply of expendable labour". I also have a picture of my two dogs and my brother.
A mickey mouse coffee mug, neon post-its, and a year old candy cane round out my office space.
Really, how do I get anything done around here?
... a Mickey Mouse coffee mug??? You need a new mug. No wonder you can't get any work done around there. The candy cane you can eat, the post-its you can scribble on, but man, the Mickey Mouse mug will make you think of Disney which will make you think of Bambi which can only make you sad which will make you feel like not working which will make you eat even more stale candy cane which will make you feel guilty which will make you reach for that Mickey Mouse mug again which will remind you of Disney again which... well, you can see what it is doing to you. Kill the mug, I say. Kill it and get a Doonesbury mug.
I have a Pooh mug. I have to keep it cause it's got a picture of Pooh on it. Everyone needs one, really. I mean who doesn't like Pooh?
pooh is wise little bear 8) ever read the tao of pooh? yes he is wise and cute! My coffee cup is...here goes...a big fat starbucks mug! holds lots of coffee...no wise cracks please :lol:
maybe you are right, lets check...canada is their for something...the bear maybe? thanks you gave me something to do.
Your are correct haggis, of course! but eh? there is some canadian in the mix.... 8)
Winnie the Pooh, Eh?
Winnie the Pooh was Canadian!
The character was based on a real bear. A.A. Milne, the man who wrote the Winnie the Pooh books, based his famous character on a black bear in the London Zoo.
The bear, called Winnie, had belonged to a Canadian soldier named Lieutenant Harry Colebourn. Back then, nobody saw anything wrong with taking an orphan bear cub as a pet. Now we know better, and it’s illegal in most provinces to keep wild animals without a permit.
It was 1914 at the beginning of World War I. Lieutenant Colebourn was travelling to Quebec from his home in Manitoba to join the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps.
Back then, horses were used in war to pull big guns and other equipment. Today armies have mechanics to repair the vehicles. Then they had veterinarians to look after the horses that got injured and sick. War was awful for animals as well as people.
Lieutenant Colebourn had to change trains in White River, Ontario. He saw a man on the station platform with a bear cub. He learned that the man was a trapper who had killed the cub’s mother. Feeling sorry for the cub, he bought her for $20.
He named her Winnie after his home town of Winnipeg. Winnie became the mascot of Lieutenant Colebourn’s Infantry Brigade.
Soon the troops were sent to France to fight in the war. On the way through London, England, Lieutenant Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo. He didn’t think it would be fair to take her into the battlefields of France.
Winnie lived at the London Zoo until she died in 1934. That’s where A.A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin met her.
Everyone knows Winnie the Pooh from A.A. Milne‘s stories. But not many people know what you do – that Winnie was a real Canadian bear who wasn’t at all like the story-book Winnie the Pooh.
Winnie the Pooh, Eh?
Winnie the Pooh was Canadian!
The character was based on a real bear. A.A. Milne, the man who wrote the Winnie the Pooh books, based his famous character on a black bear in the London Zoo.
The bear, called Winnie, had belonged to a Canadian soldier named Lieutenant Harry Colebourn. Back then, nobody saw anything wrong with taking an orphan bear cub as a pet. Now we know better, and it’s illegal in most provinces to keep wild animals without a permit.
It was 1914 at the beginning of World War I. Lieutenant Colebourn was travelling to Quebec from his home in Manitoba to join the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps.
Back then, horses were used in war to pull big guns and other equipment. Today armies have mechanics to repair the vehicles. Then they had veterinarians to look after the horses that got injured and sick. War was awful for animals as well as people.
Lieutenant Colebourn had to change trains in White River, Ontario. He saw a man on the station platform with a bear cub. He learned that the man was a trapper who had killed the cub’s mother. Feeling sorry for the cub, he bought her for $20.
He named her Winnie after his home town of Winnipeg. Winnie became the mascot of Lieutenant Colebourn’s Infantry Brigade.
Soon the troops were sent to France to fight in the war. On the way through London, England, Lieutenant Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo. He didn’t think it would be fair to take her into the battlefields of France.
Winnie lived at the London Zoo until she died in 1934. That’s where A.A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin met her.
Everyone knows Winnie the Pooh from A.A. Milne‘s stories. But not many people know what you do – that Winnie was a real Canadian bear who wasn’t at all like the story-book Winnie the Pooh.
He was so like the story books. And nothing you can say will change my mind. He's cute, polite, caring, loving just like the real Winnie.
Bev, I don't want to be the one to break the news to you, but I have heard that Pooh had certain interests outside of honey... I think he was known as Mr. Studly Bear-Man in certain circles. Winner the Sinner, Sado-Pooh, you name it, he's been it....
Well my duties as you put it...I prefer to call it a day at the playground...do not start until 9....and then nothing much actually changes from the way it is right now....I stay caught up so I can endulge in sort of deep thinking. I wanna sad goat tee-shirt...Hey haggis have you read the canada must read pick....Guy Vanderhaeghe the last crossing...
Hey bevvy don't worry about it...you keep your dream about pooh...I have a few myself! Like I know there is not santa claus!!!
But when after a big rainstorm you were to go out in the forest and check under big mushrooms for fairys that are trying to stay dry...I would understand...I still think there is something to that...I still have a peek...especially after a down pour...worst of all friend....I really do! 8)
But when after a big rainstorm you were to go out in the forest and check under big mushrooms for fairys that are trying to stay dry...I would understand...I still think there is something to that...I still have a peek...especially after a down pour...worst of all friend....I really do! 8)
Which must-read pick list, Pea? CBC or Globe and Mail or... The Pea List of Mighty Fine Books? The Canadian Content Kick-Ass List O' Books? Friendly Billy-Bob's Book-O-Rama?
The CBC... they had quite a few books choosen..a panel that would talk about each book...the last crossing won out...Looks like I will actually have some things to do this morning....one of my favorite things is when a residents family member comes along...like this one coming this morning...yes she is a piece of work...I should be heavily medicated to have to even speak to the cow...I have such contempt for her....ok ok be nice....put on the mask!!!! She is a only child....spoiled rotten I would say...her mother is the sweetest, kindest little old lady you could ever meet. She is in her 90's now...need extra help...like maybe have somebody do her laundry...tidy up for her......she wants her daughter...she is a private women...and worships her only daughter...who I might add is retired! and lives 6 blocks from here, sitting on her ass all day. She wants her daughter to do these little chores for her....but oh no! she is to busy watching her ass get bigger! She will not do it! and it time mama went to a care faculity, even if she does not need it! AH! get on the list sister..you will be waiting awhile...now get in there and help your mother.....ya I wish I could say that..
Hey, that sounds like a sad situation, Pea. I wish the same thing, by the way. Oh, do I ever. Can this woman just get a home care person to come in and do these things?