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Brigid

Brigid's Journal
Brigid's Journal
June 26, 2014

Quick chuckle from "Law and Order":

Priest: You can't make someone confess.

Lenny Briscoe: Wanna bet?

June 24, 2014

Fellow Hoosiers in Central IN: Take Cover!

Tornado and flash flood warnings all over the area. We're the big news story on the Weather Channel right now. It's raining heavily here in Indy. Stay safe and don't forget your pets!

June 17, 2014

A George Clooney movie and a Magnum ice cream bar.

Ah, the single life.

June 17, 2014

I am severely tempted to go out and get a Magnum ice cream bar.

Help me out here Lounge! Do you have any idea the fat and calories in those things?

June 14, 2014

Man Cuts Open His Truck to Save Kitten

I would too! Just look at that adorable little face at the link!

http://us.cnn.com/2014/06/13/living/man-cuts-truck-kitten-irpt/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

June 13, 2014

"Though you grind a fool in a mortar . . .

Grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them." -- Proverbs 27:22 (NIV)

"You can't fix stupid." -- Ron White

June 11, 2014

A little excerpt from my history book for a Tuesday evening:

About the opening of women's colleges like Vassar, Smith, and Wellsley in the latter part of the nineteenth century:

Some doctors warned that these institutions were dangerous. Intensive brain work, they said, would unsex young women and drain energy from their ovaries, leading them to bear weak babies later in life.


June 9, 2014

OK, so I'm taking a history class this summer and . . .

The instructor has never heard of The Battle of Blair Mountain. This for a class on American history from the end of the Civil War to the present. Nor is it mentioned in the textbook. Boy is he in for a surprise when I hand in my term paper.

June 8, 2014

Watching "The Wolf of Wall Street."

Only 20 minutes into it, and all I can say is

I'm already rooting for Jordan Belfort to go to the slammer.

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