venting

[Tim]

... in response to Our Anniversary - VICKY, posted by The Walker on Aug 31, 2002

Congratulations on your anniversary. Always nice to hear from you, Vicky.

Tim

[The Walker]

... in response to Re: Our Anniversary - VICKY, posted by Tim on Aug 31, 2002


Hello Tim it is nice to hear from you too, tell Wendy I said hello.

You said some very wise things about finding a woman close to your own age. You were mature when you sought her out. You missed the flighty girl stage thank heaven. I think that is what causes most of the trouble in mature-man very-young-wife marriages. If you had a sister remember what she was like when she was nineteen or twenty and you get my meaning. More mature people usaually want peace in their homes and lives. They are more stable and quieter in their habits *usually*.

You and Wendy are a very good match. You are both mature and intelligent, although Wendy still looks very young for her age and I still think you look like a younger Clint Eastwood. You are a very beautiful couple. You are mature yet you both seem to have a zeal for life. This is good as it keeps you young.

I do not think my darling will every really grow up and I think I like that. He is mature yet a lot of fun, too. I think you and Wendy are like that too.

VICKY

[Tim]

... in response to Re: Re: Our Anniversary - VICKY, posted by The Walker on Aug 31, 2002

Thanks for the kind words. But my maturity is a rather recent product of my life experiences. I was a bit wild from 1995 to 1998, the period after my last divorce. This period was a time of healing, experimenting, and understanding for me. It gave me time to understand myself better, and finally figure out what I wanted in life and in a woman. One result of this was the realization that I  had a much better chance for success by finding a woman close to my own age. Another realization was that I had a much better chance to find the right woman by looking overseas.

To be honest, I think there is something more important than finding a person with maturity. I think it's more important for a person to take the time to understand themself, and change things (if necessary), before plowing headlong into another relationship. Those who fail to do this are doomed to repeat the same mistakes of their prior failed relationships, in a never-ending vicious cycle. The problem is, most people won't take the time to do this, or don't know how.

You are right about my wife. She turns 40 in 2 weeks and most people think she still looks in her 20s. Perhaps her youthful look is a reflection of the kindness and beauty that is inside her. She is a pearl beyond price, and I still shake my head at times, wondering how I ever wound up with her as my wife.

Regards, Tim

[Ray]

... in response to Thanks, posted by Tim on Sep 1, 2002

:-)

[Willy]

... in response to Our Anniversary - VICKY, posted by The Walker on Aug 31, 2002

Get a cheap phone card from the internet. We have one that is about 13 cents a minute..

[The Walker]

... in response to Gee, Vicky...., posted by Willy on Aug 31, 2002


We do not pay that much for a minute I think. We get a discount because of the time we use and we have a discount plan. But when I call mother we can talk for two hours easily. If there is good family news of gossip it can go for three hours or better. We talk at least twice a week, I am sorry of I confused you. Sometimes more often. When mother calls we talk about twenty or thirty minutes. If it is especially good I call her back and we go on and on. I often find my darling asleep on the leather sofa in his den when I anm through. On Saturdays we keep it shorter as I have to get up for church in the morning (Don does not attend only about once a month and special times). He will not go to bed if I do not, so we have to be sure we are happy when we go to bed because if we fought neither of us would sleep well.

VICKY

[Peaches]

... in response to venting, posted by kevin on Sep 7, 2002

 Anak: Dear Itay, padalhan mo ako ng pera kasi ang mga damit ko

 pinagkakain ng mga daga.

 Itay: Dear Anak, wala akong pera. Kung gusto mo, meron dito pusa.

 

 ************

 Isang babae bumili ng asukal. Inabot ng tindera, pero sabi ng babae,

 "Miss, asin itong binigay mo sa akin."

 Tindera: Hindi, asukal yan. Minarkahan lang naming "Asin" para

 hindi langgamin.

 

 ************

 Ngongo dictionary:

 CATTLE - dun nakatira ang printeta at printipe

 MELT - yun ang sinusuot sa mewang

 EFFORT - dun nag-la-land ang efflane

 STATUE - ikaw ba yan?

 

 ************

 WIFE: Hudas ka! Lagi kang umuuwing lasing! Naaasar na tuloy

 ako sa mukha mo!

 HUSBAND: Pero mahal, kung hindi ako lasing, ako naman ang maaasar

 sa mukha mo!

 

 ************

 ANAK: 'Tay, anong pagkakaiba ng Supper at Dinner?

 ITAY: Anak, pagkumain tayo sa labas, Dinner 'yun.

 Pag dito tayo kakain ng luto ng Mommy mo, Suffer yon!!

 

 ************

 Maganda daw mapangasawa CANADIAN, kasi pwede mong sabihin:

 Maglaba CANADIAN!

 Magsaing CANADIAN!

 Hubad CANADIAN!

 Tuwad CANADIAN!

 Ano, okay CANADIAN?

 

 ************

 M'AM: Inday, sa susunod, ayokong pinakikialaman mo ang condom

 namin ng sir mo!

 INDAY: M'am, hwag kayong magbibintang! Di kami sanay ni Sir

 gumamit niyan!

 Sobra kayo!

 

 ************

 

 MRS: Lolokohin ko mister ko. Magpapanggap akong pick-up girl ako.

 Pagkita kay Mister: Hi Pogi! AVAILABLE ako ngayon....

 MR: Ayoko sa yo!! Kamukha mo misis ko!!

[Jimbo]

... in response to pinoy jokes, posted by Peaches on Aug 30, 2002

I like those CANADIAN one, really makes me laugh out loud. )

Sally

[Dave H]

... in response to venting, posted by kevin on Sep 7, 2002

"Young Expat's Name Forces Him To Leave Japan in Shame"

"Gary G. Ketts was always proud of his name - or at least he was until he came to Japan.  After arriving in Japan and starting a job teaching English, Mr. Ketts learned that his name translates into Japanese as "buttful of diarrhea and hemorrhoids."  Mr. Ketts was unable to be taken seriously by any of his students and co-workers, who would often laugh long and loud when they learned his name.  "I eventually got wise and began calling myself Clark Kent, which nobody had any problem with, but I still had difficulties when I had to sign my name on anything since I had to use the old Ketts name, 'Clark Kent' isn't exactly legally binding.  I got suicidal once, but now I think it's just a matter of leaving Japan.  Goodbye Japan, I hardly knew you.  The funny thing is that just now as I'm leaving Japan I'm meeting all of these people who have the same problems as I do.  There's Ben P. Dasai, whose name means 'constipated hick,' and Beth Nuhaff, whose name means 'ugly transvestite,' Deb Heather's name means 'fat and ugly,' Hannah Gee could mean 'nose bleed' in Japanese, and Hannah Misou means 'snot.'  Michelle D'Amay got off easy, since 'damay' just means 'don't,' but my Chinese-American colleague Dai A-ho has to suffer with a name that means 'big jerk.'  Sully O'Tuck has a name that means 'pickpocket freak'; Uta Hetta is a German girl whose name means 'can't sing a note,' or 'tone deaf,' while John Chiquan's name means 'pervert dog.'  Wow, what a rough country this is!"  In a response to the name crisis, Japanese officials have planned an education campaign teaching the people of Japan to be tolerant of funny-looking foreigners with funny names.  Conversely, the right-wing party has taken a more hostile approach by drafting a proposition that foreigners with funny names should be barred from entering Japan and disturbing the peace."

From Head Cheese, www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~hoflich/headcheese3.html

Dave H.

[Bob S]

... in response to Teaching English In Japan..for Bob...:oD, posted by Dave H on Aug 29, 2002

"Young Expat's Name Forces Him To Leave Japan in Shame"

A small number of people have asked me what my name means (in Japan, most names of common people refer to the village where their ancestors came from).  I explained that my family name is an old English name that came from a thousand years ago when my Saxon ancestors herded swine for their feudal lord.  It's a good thing I wasn't born in Japan because that less-than-kosher background would make me a discriminated-against burakumin which in Japan is worse than being a hairy barbarian gaijin.
See http://www.culturalbridge.com/jpa.htm

[Dave H]

... in response to Funky Names, posted by Bob S on Aug 30, 2002

Hi Bob,

Ahh yes...one of the "unclean trades." I guess it doesn't matter how many thousands of years ago the practice occured. It might be best to give a new meaning to your name. LOL My surname is from a crooked hill in England...perhaps your swine passed over it. )))

Dave H.

[kevin]

... in response to Too Funny!, posted by Dave H on Aug 30, 2002


Hence, the "ham" in Hamilton.

- Kevin

[Dave H]

... in response to Re: Too Funny!, posted by kevin on Aug 30, 2002

N/T

[Jay]

... in response to Teaching English In Japan..for Bob...:oD, posted by Dave H on Aug 29, 2002

Hi Dave,

ROTFLMAO! I thought Dia A-Ho was already the name of a Japanese phone sex line! LOL

Jay

[Bel]

... in response to Re: Teaching English In Japan..for Bob....., posted by Jay on Aug 30, 2002

n/t