On or about: 03-31-08  11:42, Ardith Hinton did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: Senior Moments...  1.

 AH>  I can locate a word in a standard desk dictionary
 AH>  in eleven seconds... I had one of my students time
 AH>  me once... and I already knew the publication date
 AH>  of this book.  :-)
 
 JB>  ...But what if you didn't know the spelling? 

 AH> You got the first four letters right!  As I used to tell my
 AH> students, that's enough to locate a word in the dictionary. 
 AH> When one of them said it took too long I lent him my watch 
 AH> & asked him to choose a word at random.  Afterwards I 
 AH> smiled sweetly & reminded him I'd been practising longer 
 AH> than he had....  :-))
 
How quickly they forget, the first time spelling schizophrenic, or
Czechoslovakia, or psychology, or asphault, or... (Yes, I'll be leaning
*heavily* on the spell checker.)

Something I was wondering the other day, is why is every "q"
followed by a "u"? If it always is, why bother? ...To just 'up'
the letter count?

 
 JB>  a sneeze that plucked the sciatic, and my eyes are watering.

 AH> While sitting on (essentially) a small stool you had a
 AH> sneeze??   Yes, I reckon that could be problematic.  It's a reflex 
 AH> over which you have little or no control... the whole body 
 AH> tenses up... and you have to maintain your balance! Nora 
 AH> has had a few bumps & bruises to her left arm as a result 
 AH> of sneezing.  :-(
 
Almost right. When my endorphins wane, I sneeze like I am withdrawaling.
It's kinda encouraged, but it can be funny to position myself, for it *not*
to ring the nerve again.

 
 JB>  I'll try not to be disjointed.

 AH> (Pun alert!)  No problem... if you were, I 
 AH> didn't notice.  Dallas & I have other modem buddies who 
 AH> write in a stream-of-consciousness fashion....  :-)
 
I've spent too much time studying woodwork, and I had my
"jointer" on the brain. 

 
 JB>  "Onward and awkward!" P-|

 AH> Uh-huh.  That's my motto... [grin].

 I learn from the best!
 
 
 JB>  Dad was a rabblerouser, and two of his best buddies
 JB>  followed him into this endeavour, and my "Uncle" did
 JB>  so *exactly* two weeks short of dad's 'anniversary'.


 AH> Often people who are close seem to die within a 
 AH> short time.  A friend of ours died about two years ago... 
 AH> then both of his parents died just recently.
 
Dad expressed how a mom, died of a broken heart soon after her daughter
passed. There were other medical explanations, while clinically correct,
they might have missed that issue.

 
 JB>  two were trying to practice their "black" humour.

 AH> I hear you.  I've made comments like "You know 
 AH> your kid is really off treatment when you forget to take 
 AH> the fever thermometer on a camping trip & find you don't 
 AH> need it."  That actually happened to us.  Other oncology 
 AH> parents think such wisecracks are hilarious, probably 
 AH> because they've had similar experiences. The majority of 
 AH> folks give me strange looks & imagine I'm off my rocker.... 
 AH> :-)

I guess like George and I calling ourselves "cripples", those
that aint in it, can't appreciate the chuckle we get from shocking the
"average" citizen.
 
 
 JB>  My "Uncle" worked for the mortuary, sold memorial stones,
 JB>  and was trained in butchery and taxidermy. That shut the
 JB>  topic up in a hurry. 

 AH> So he lived in a small town?  They *are* related
 AH> occupations....  ;-)

"Yatzee!" I'm not sure how much embalming, if any was provided,
but he was quite a character. He had his own granite stone on display under
the memorials sign. Talk about, "Hanging out your shingle."


 JB>  At the end of the eulogy, what can we do but laugh at
 JB>  the good, and cry for the bad.

 AH> Yup....  :-)

It's when you cry for laughing so hard, that you're onto somethin'. 



... James

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