JoeSatrini - love to your cat, hope she picks up.

Railton - happy birthday mate!!!! Rock hard.

GG2 - hang in there, keep postiive, think of the things you can be grateful for even if some shit is happening. Make a list, you may be surprised how long it gets.

why hello there! how is everyone?

there was no snow then i go to sleep and wake up the next morning to 3 freakin feet of snow... boy was that fun to shovel.

got stomach flu and an ear infection all at the same time... so im not to great.

hope all is well!

"Blimey"

Sticking Feathers Up Your Butt Does Not Make You a Chicken

Cheese - thanks TS. She's my furry friend. I appreciate the post. I hope the vets wrong and maybe I can have a christmas miracle

Anibur - thank you. She's a tabby, and she's lovely.

MIchelle - sorry, my cat thing really is quite insignificant in comparison to most things. (like you) I keep my major sh** off the board. My cat though is 'the straw that broke...' of 2008 I think. Is pops (in law) doing any better? Good wishes to you all

TuesdaysChild - hey V, thank you too. Think you've been a little quiet lately, hope all is well with you

SkippyGirl - thanks S, kind of you. I have fingers and everything else crossed

JustJoan - thanks for the email, I have replied

In an attempt to lighten the mood a little, here are some "funny" (in the main) vids I have been uploading:

Christmas Lights .... must have cheap electric : )

Console abuse ... from the BBC?

Secretary returns to work after a long time away

.... and finally!

maritime, I almost spit my breakfast reading yer last post. Whoever is coming to yer house is gonna have fun! I should plan menus like that! lol

Pip, I must have missed the post about yer cat. What's going on? Our animals are like our babies. True family members. I hope you do have a Christmas miracle with yer kitty. Hugs to ya.

chelle....mebbe u shudn't eat whilst at the puter? You might choke!!

LOL.....and now....off to cookie-kitchen-factory...munch-man is here and wants Christmas cookies =| I wuz hoping to avoid it this year.....

Joe Satrini--I hope your cat is restored to health. My friend's cat was in the hospital a few months back. He had to have surgery. I told my friend I wanted to visit him in the hospital. People enjoy company of friends and family while in hospital, so I figured a cat would like a visitor. He did. He wanted his face rubbed. The nurse opened the cage, helped me disinfect my hands and I got to pet Bailey. What a sweetie! He even purred and this was post-op!

Michelle--Your masculine side appears many times in this forum and you have verbally kicked my ass! You have also shown the humorous side of Barak Obama's diverse background with "There's no one as Irish as Barak Obama"! Thank you. ;-/

Slans--You are right about me. I need to see my endocrinologist ASAP.

SkippyGirl--Thank you for your encouragement. I will listen to the advice in Joe's song, "Just Look Up" I am enjoying every listen to ITLIS. Also, recently received Dire Straits "Making Movies" in the mail. My favorite song on that CD is "Solid Rock". Mark Knopfler says something that points to Joe and other great musicians, "I wanna live on solid rock, I'm gonna live on solid rock, I WANNA GIVE AND NOT BE BLOCKED, I wanna live on solid rock."

Thoroughly Golden Milli - Don't take ole Conch too much to heart, she's had a grouch at a few peeps (including myself) over the years but if she has any nasty bones in her body there aren't many. She might appear to have a hard shell (LOL, she is a shell!) but I reckon she has a nice soft centre. You can tell from these pages she's been a very good friend to Monterrey Trace (among others).

wanna go play in the cold?

Coldplay Admits Plagiarism By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 4th, 2005 • Category: News

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Coldplay front man Chris Martin has admitted to plagiarizing many, if not most, of the songs he wrote. Specifically, Chris said:

“We’re definitely good, but I don’t think you can say we’re that original,” he notes. “I regard us as being incredibly good plagiarists.”

In another article, the song “Fix You” was specifically mentioned as being a copy of Elbow’s “Grace Under Pressure”. To that, guitarist Jonny Buckland had this to say.

“We’ve never so directly stolen off anyone before. We’ve never paid for our plagiarism.”

Since I don’t listen to the bands involved and can’t say if this is true plagiarism or just a case of them being “hevaily inspired by”, I can’t really pass any judgment. However, despite that and this not being a case of Internet plagiarism, it’s worth noting for several reasons.

First is that it could indicate a shift in the views on plagiarism in the artistic community. Despite this very open admission and some very wide exposure regarding it, Coldplay has seen no backlash from its fans, from the bands that it “stole” from or the media.

Second is that it might become a justification in other plagiarists minds. Personally, I wonder if the “Coldplay excuse” will become common, no matter how irrational or legally unfounded it might be.

Finally, it shows just how deep plagiarism has worked its way into our artistic society when even the number one band admits to engaging in it. Those of us with original content and wish to protect it against misuse are facing something far more pervasive than previously imagined.

After all, if Coldplay does, who else does?

THIS COMES FROM THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2005/07/04/coldplay-admits-plagiarism/

Coldplay Admits Plagiarism By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 4th, 2005 • Category: News

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Coldplay front man Chris Martin has admitted to plagiarizing many, if not most, of the songs he wrote. Specifically, Chris said:

“We’re definitely good, but I don’t think you can say we’re that original,” he notes. “I regard us as being incredibly good plagiarists.”

In another article, the song “Fix You” was specifically mentioned as being a copy of Elbow’s “Grace Under Pressure”. To that, guitarist Jonny Buckland had this to say.

“We’ve never so directly stolen off anyone before. We’ve never paid for our plagiarism.”

Since I don’t listen to the bands involved and can’t say if this is true plagiarism or just a case of them being “hevaily inspired by”, I can’t really pass any judgment. However, despite that and this not being a case of Internet plagiarism, it’s worth noting for several reasons.

First is that it could indicate a shift in the views on plagiarism in the artistic community. Despite this very open admission and some very wide exposure regarding it, Coldplay has seen no backlash from its fans, from the bands that it “stole” from or the media.

Second is that it might become a justification in other plagiarists minds. Personally, I wonder if the “Coldplay excuse” will become common, no matter how irrational or legally unfounded it might be.

Finally, it shows just how deep plagiarism has worked its way into our artistic society when even the number one band admits to engaging in it. Those of us with original content and wish to protect it against misuse are facing something far more pervasive than previously imagined.

First of all: Coldplaylover....GET THE F*CK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE, and why does Joe disgust you? Coldplay copied the song it's not Joe's fault, it's like someone robs a bank(coldplay) and the police (mr Joe) catches them, the robber disgusts me and the cop is just doing his job.

negative 10 degrees here, negative 30 windchill with VERY strong winds. FRICKEN COLD

I just got back from my family christmas party, on the way there we saw three cars roll over from going to fast then stopping and sliding off the road and flipping upside down. then on the way back we saw another rollover. FREAKING SLOW DOWN....YOU DON'T NEED TO GO 10 OVER THE SPEED LIMIT IN A CONSTRUCTION ZONE FULL OF ICE AND SNOW. and not to mention 4 foot high snow drifts pulling cars off the road like crazy snow monsters.

Little cousins can be really annoying, we slept over last night and this morning my 4 year old cousin used his new Indiana Jones sound effects WHIP to wake me up....most painful alarm clock in the world. then the snooze alarm was a Nerf dart gun to the back of the head at point-blank range....OW...

over all the party was fun, there is never a dull moment in a family get-together. it's fun having a big family. my mom had 2 sisters and three brothers, each one brings their spouse/girl/boyfriend and almost all of them have kids, so there are like 20 people in the house each one giving me presents, I made over $100 so thats nice.

all for now, I might think of something later so L8R >.< ^_^

MERRY CHRISTMAS OR WHATEVER YOU CELEBRATE ^_^

Rollingstone .com oct 2007

Martin loves technology as much as Kip Dynamite — he and the band have spent hours on their computers referencing their favorite works, for their own sordid purposes.

Chris Martin .. “We can be working on something and go, ‘We should steal this from My Bloody Valentine and this from Rammstein and this from Jay-Z’s first album, and then listen to this classical piece by Holst,’ ” he says.