OT Rant about posts

Being a relative newie I haven't been blessed/cursed by the "Christmas joke" yet - I await with eager anticipation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And on grocery lists - why do I rememebr everything I need to buy, remember to write it on my list and then forget to take the list with me!

:( i apologize for sending one joke last week. i dont usually send or read the jokes. there is one person who sends so many jokes to my yahoo addy i now just delete without even paying attention to whether its a 'joke' or a nice thing, i see 'forwarded' on the subject and delete it immediately. most jokes arent really funny if its deragatory to you, your family, your heritage. i make jokes with friends, sometimes they are funny, often probably not but my friends laugh or giggle. laughter is good medicine. hurt is not. do we make jokes to cover up for our own inadequecys? i'll be doing a lot more thinking this week as to my own weaknesses that make me make jokes about people. please forgive me for any bad jokes i've made over the yrs here. i'm sure i'm not alone but i will accept responsibility for my own bad behaviour. forgive me my bad language. i'm prone to use bad language when i get ticked off about some injustice or when things are all going wrong and i cant fix them quick enough. life sucks a big lemon sometimes. )))=((( long ago, that people censored themselves. Things said in public were kept

I like his sense of humor!

Wasn't it once said that "discretion was the better part of valour"??? Or am I getting in a pre-vacation muddle?

Prude! But a nice one. And I'm prudey too!

Don Knotts, Red Skelton.

I am with you Cheryl....Now I can't wait to read Polly's joke. It will bug me till then.

Mary

You know, it seems like somebody topped mine last year. I don't remember her Christmas joke but I'm hoping she did and will chime it. Polly

Bill Cosby. His monologues are clean and hilarious. I particularly enjoy the ones about parenthood and family life, but that's probably because those are the ones I relate to the most, being the wife and mother type. Who needs to listen to foulmouths like Lewis Black, who peppers his monologues with the F-bomb, when you can listen to Cosby, who doesn't need to?

My DH went to the same high school as Don Knotts. :-D

Exactly. I cringe when I think about it, but when a person I respected as a teenager (he didn't deserve it) told me that I needed to live a little, I felt ashamed that my principles kept me from being a more "fun" person. I'm so glad I'm not a teenager anymore, but adults have more a problem with peer pressure than we like to admit.

Cool! Does he let you touch his yearbook? ;)

shwoopa shwoopa shwoopa *ding* "NOAH" "It's the Lord, Noah"...that one always gets me....and I haven't heard it in years, but Dad can recite almost the entire thing to me :-)

and the one about chocolate cake for dinner....now that i have 2 little ones, that strikes me as completely hilarious..especially since DD clasps her hands in front of her, makes her eyes ad big as she can and says, "chockwit....pweeze mommy....chockwit"

Tina, I have always been told that I am too sensitive too. I used to be the doormat because I didn't want to offend anyone by saying no or voicing my opinions. When I did voice my opinions I was too sensitive. Then about 4 years ago I got involved in "support" group that taught me a valuable lesson. It's called The Circle of Control. Here's what it is and when I use the word "you" I mean it in the general sense and not directed at a specific person.

Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Inside that paper write down all the things that YOU have control over. Then on the outside list all the things that you don't have control over. You will find basically two things listed inside the circle. You have control over YOUR actions/reactions and YOUR feelings/emotions and that pretty much covers life.

When it finally sank in what that meant, it really helped me to overcome being "too sensitive" in the negative way and helped me turn it into a positive thing. I still have moments of it but now I choose how I react to what other people say or do. At the same time it has helped me to realize that even though I don't control how another person feels or acts, I may contribute to it. Therefore I can choose to do or say something that I know might be offensive to another person or I can not do it. It all depends on what my goal is. Anyone who knows me knows that I will not deliberately hurt another person. It's just not in me. Being human, I know that on occasion I will do or say something that will offend or hurt someone. But they choose how they will deal with those feelings. It is ultimately each individuals choice how they feel or act.

There is nothing at all wrong with sensitivity. It all depends on how you deal with it.

Oh, it's definitely a blessing! And I am *so* relieved to hear that someone else has done that - I got