First Post (May 17, 2001)

[ Ed. note: This was the first post from the original email version of the SoOoApBoOoX. See the Archives for other earlier blurbs of interest! ]

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There's a rather Large TITANIC EXHIBIT coming   oOo oOo
oOo The presenters of an exhibit of artifacts recovered from the ocean liner Titanic say they are stressing the human side of the tragedy in their presentation. The Nashville Tennessean says that the major exhibit, to open at Opryland,
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will even have a tank of water [ WoOoW! what a Novel idea! ]
-- chilled to "iceberg waters" temperature -- to show people just how cold it was in the North Atlantic for the survivors. [ Anyone for a Dip? ]
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There's a ton of trivia connected with the ship, including:
The Titanic would cost about $400 million to construct today.
The entire movie "Titanic" cost half that. The original design for the ship was sketched on a napkin.
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At a time when wealthy passengers -- such as John Jacob Astor -- were paying$4,000 for their passage, the radio operator on Titanic was being paid $20 a month. Finally, two dogs survived the sinking, spirited into lifeboats by animal lovers.
oOo...gLUb...oOo [ I think there's another Reality-TV SURVIVOR CRUISE idea in here, if anyone wants to put it together... ] oOo
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 oOo oOo New Testament Verse for the Day:
1 John 5:14-15

" This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him. "

oOo oOo [ Therefore, Our Task is to ask,discover and seek to know God and HIS WILL, and to do it !(live it and practice it!). This means we will have (some kind of) a relationship with God, hopefully a living and interactive bond with him,
(by becoming a disciple)
~~a supernatural connection~~ not just a "spiritual" one.

oOo oOo And then we will know what we have from God--
a truly abundant life full of challenges, pitfalls, pain, trials and triumphs.
Just what you've been asking for all these years, right!?
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oOo oOo But there will also be great surprises,
second chances,
new beginnings,
security, promise, oOo oOo
love, vision,
growth and strength,
oOo oOo peace and purpose.
...and the list goes on... ] oOo oOo

So that,in the end--knowing that we've lived a
life well-spent, having served God and other people--
we will gain the victory over death that Christ has won,
that gives us an eternal communion with our Creator. oOo
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PUZZLER: Why are naïve rural people
sometimes called "country bumpkins?"
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oOo Well I suppose it might have something to do with the urban stereotype of people from the backwoods intermarrying a lot more than is healthy. That would make them bumpkins because wherever go they can't help colliding with a relative.   oOo oOo

But no, etymology is not usually that neat.
[RaTs! it sure fit MY definition. ]
oOo I'm afraid that for the truth of the matter,we will have to return to that perennial etymological scapegoat, the Dutch. Bumpkin is thought to have come from the Dutch word,"boomken", a small tree. It was originally applied to Dutchmen
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[ NatUraLLy... ] to suggest that Hollanders tended to be somewhat squat individuals with not very heightened perspectives. You know, bumpkins.
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oOo Mind you, that word was "squat." If it was
"squash," they could be country pumpkins. oOo


---End of SoapBox---Have a great Day, Ya'll!

JIM <><

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