Peggy Burke

Hi I lived in Germany for 16 years and here is a translation, although not sure of the actual context. The pages aren't bad, but faaaaaaaaar too far away. I'm showing it better here, it's very handy in front of the front door. I'm assuming the word 'seiten' is meant to be a noun but it has no capital letter which is normal in German. If not a noun it would mean since which in this context just does not make sense. Hope this helps a bit. PS Who are you going to shoot Argyll It's Tschues (cheerio) Normally written with an umlaut over the 'u' but progam won't accept it so have had to add an 'e' after the 'u'

You think that's a joke. If you've never been to the Royal Opera House ------Antwerp you haven't lived. There, singing along to the favourite arias is de rigeur - you just haven't had a good night unless you do. Everything there is sung in Flemish (Dutch) and I remember seeing Madame Butterfly with Butterfly taken by a Japanese singer who sang in Japanese whilst Pinkerton proclaimed undying love in Dutch. The March of the Hebrew Slaves is another one that sticks in the memory - the sound of 100s of Belgique voices raised in chorus!!!! Try that at Convent Garden and I think you might be thrown out Peggy

How to maintain a healthy level of insanity 1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down. 2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice. 3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that. 4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label it "In." 5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso. 6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds". 7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy." 8. Don t use any punctuation 9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk. 10. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat with a serious face. 11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go." 12. Sing Along At The Opera. 13. Go To A Poetry Recital! And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme. 14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day. 15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood. 16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom. 17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!" 18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!" 19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go." Peggy

Got all six. Must be a genius! I wish

Bore Da Newt Thanks for that piece of useful? info. Or as they say in Wales Diolch in Fawr!

BLONDE LOGIC Two blondes living in Oklahoma were sitting on a bench talking........and one blonde says to the other,Which do you think is farther away Florida or the moon?" The other blonde turns and says "Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida..?????" CAR TROUBLE A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly. She says, "What's the story?" He replies, "Just crap in the carburettor" She asks, "How often do I have to do that?" SPEEDING TICKET A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license. She replied in a huff, "I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you take away my license and then today you expect me to show it to you!" RIVER WALK There's this blonde out for a walk. She comes to a river and sees another blonde on the opposite bank. "Yoo-hoo!" she shouts, "How can I get to the other side?" The second blonde looks up the river then down the river and shouts back, "You ARE on the other side." AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it. "Impossible!" says the doctor. "Show me." The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left breast and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed in even more. She pushed her knee and screamed; ikewise she pushed her ankle and screamed. Everywhere she touched made her scream. The doctor said, "You're not really a redhead, are you?" "Well, no" she said, "I'm actually a blonde." "I thought so," the doctor said. "Your finger is broken." KNITTING A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde behind the wheel was knitting! Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, "PULL OVER!" "NO!" the blonde yelled back, "IT'S A SCARF!" BLONDE ON THE SUN A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day. The Russian said, "We were the first in space!" The American said, "We were the first on the moon!" The Blonde said, "So what? We're going to be the first on the sun!" The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their heads. "You can't land on the sun, you idiot! You'll burn up!" said the Russian. To which the Blonde replied, "We're not stupid, you know. We're going at night!" IN A VACUUM A blonde was playing Trivial Pursuit one night. It was her turn. She rolled the dice and she landed on Science Nature. Her question was, "If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it?" She thought for a time and then asked, "Is it on or off?" FINALLY, THE BLONDE JOKE TO END ALL BLONDE JOKES! A girl was visiting her blonde friend, who had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one was named Rolex and one was named Timex. Her friend said, "Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?" "HELLLOOOOOOO......," answered the blond. "They're watch dogs!" [ 17. October 2005, 10:36 AM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

I was sent this by a friend - thought it might amuse although possibly some of you have already seen it. If so my apologies. http://www.lemonzoo.com/funny_videos/261/l...dy_sitters.html [ 17. October 2005, 10:15 AM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

Hi Emz I get mine from acpackaging www.acpackaging.co.uk A large 750mmx100m roll of bubble wrap is just £13.50 which compares very favourably with Staples prices. There is however VAT and carriage to be added on to that, so unless you're buying other things as I do then you'd probably be best to go to Staples. They charge I think about £17+ for a large roll. Hope this helps

This has appeared on a couple of forums that I belong to. If it is a hoax it's a pretty sick one. Peggy

I wouldn't expect high volume sellers to send out loads of personal e-mails - obviously if they're running a business they don't have time. I also don't expect immediate delivery although I have to say that generally delivery times are excellent, especially from business sellers. A simple automated positive feedback showing satisfaction would be fine. However I would expect a response if I've made a polite query about something.

Fair comment. However I just get fed up with sellers, particularly those with feedback in 4 figures, who complete sales with no comms at all, no thank you for your payment and no feed back. I recently bought a continental plug adaptor, no e-e-mails received acknowledging payment and no feedback either. However have been chased for feedback from me. I'm afraid he can wait, particularly as his postage costs turned out to be over 3 times the actual amount which I feel is excessive even allowing for packing time and a jiffy bag. I've queried this twice with him and have had no response.

This was sent to me by an Australian friend. Whilst George W. Bush features in this version please feel free to substitute your own 'favourite' politician. A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are all those clocks?" St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move." "Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?" "That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie." "Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?" St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life." "Where's President Bush's clock?" asked the man. "Bush's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan." [ 01. October 2005, 06:47 PM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

I think the idea of making people complete a tutorial before leaving negative or neutral feed back is good. Will make sure that people understand the rules. Unfortunately some people at present don't. I think it should also be set up so that you can't receive feedback for something you've sold until you've left feedback for the buyer.

What a sweetie, Elton, and fantastic pics too.

Glad you liked it Alan. I'm sending it to my Oz friends too. [ 24. September 2005, 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

Ten year old Billy was at school in the outback when the teacher asked all the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came out, Fireman, Policeman, Salesman, Carpenter, Shopkeeper etc, but Billy was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him directly about his father. "Well," Billy said hesitantly, "it's a bit embarrassing." "Come, come, Billy," remonstrated the teacher. "You are among friends here." "Okay," said the boy. "My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. They pay him by putting money in his underwear." The teacher quickly set the other children some work and took little Billy aside to ask him if that was really true. "No" said Billy, "He plays cricket for Australia but I was just too embarrassed to say." [ 24. September 2005, 08:09 AM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

Thanks for posting those Newt. I've directed a friend of mine who teaches A Level Geography to them and she's going to use them with her students. Plus the one's you post pre-hurricane. There are also some brilliant satellite images of the whole hurricane area which can be see at www.wwltv.com http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM Very interesting discussion going on at present on BBC News24 Cheers Peggy

Having lived in Germany for 16 years I can sympathise with the writer. However there are now 'normal' loos to be found in many places. Peggy [ 30. August 2005, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

Let's hope you're right Wolf! Thanks Leon for the TV link have been watching the unfolding news and have saved it to Favourites. Will keep up-to-date as the news unfolds. Keeping fingers crossed for everyone there. Peggy

It's now on Ceefax and I've just been watching the report on BBC News 24. It's now beginning to impact on the British news. I think we just hadn't appreciated the dangers of Katrina. Keeping everyone in our thoughts Peggy [ 28. August 2005, 09:38 AM: Message edited by: Peggy Burke ]

Here's something for anyone who's feeling down in the dumps at the moment. John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood."Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life. "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life." I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live." "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. He continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. "She asked if I was allergic to anything.' Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'." Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. You have two choices now: 01. Delete this. 02. Forward it to the people you care about. You know the choice I made. God Bless, and smile, it could be contagious

The last one of these I think may well have been posted before. The others may raise a smile or two. GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. 2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair. 3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person. 4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato. 5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food. 6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair. 7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time. 8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. 9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. 10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED: 1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree. 2) Wrinkles don't hurt. 3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts. 4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. 5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. 6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fibre, not the toy GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD 1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. 3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there. 4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. 5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. 6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. 7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus. SUCCESS: At age 4 success is . . . not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . having friends. At age 17 success is . . . having a drivers licence. At age 20 success is . . . going all the way. At age 35 success is . . . having money. At age 50 success is . . . having money. At age 60 success is . . . going all the way. At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers licence. At age 75 success is . . . having friends. At age 80 success is . . . not peeing in your pants. Pass this on to someone who could use a laugh.

The info on the link I gave says that its accessible both ways but narrowed lanes so I think you should probably be OK. If you go on to Google and type in Kennedy Tunnel there are quite a few links about the roadworks which should help. Good luck Peggy

Hi there I used to live in Antwerp and know what a nightmare it is to drive through. Used to go on the ringroad every day on my way to school and saw some horrendous pileups. The info you want can be found here http://www.antwerptraffic.be/hinder/datum.aspx#anker4 Best wishes Peggy

If you want to make your own business cards you can buy ready made blank cards on sheets of 10 from Decadry. You can then download programs from their site to design your card in Word. If you go to their site www.decadry.com Obviously it costs more than free cards but on the other hand you don't have any ads however subtle, and you can make them as soon as you need them. Peggy