From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

Twinkle ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.10.08.15.03.17164">thoughts on fading time.</a> was excellent. The way you used words/ideas that didn't seem to go together, but do, was inspiring. I especially liked "you know me. / who i was is written on your soil and in the / old november months; / i am shattered in your backroads / broken in your arms".  I also very much liked, "your dropping years fall in the small things i have forgotten so easily".<BR>
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Bravo<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

Okay......can I just vent here????  Today's technology allows each and every one of us the ability to quickly and easily CHECK OUR SPELLING. Gone are the days of hard labor looking things up in a dictionary of real paper. We no longer have to risk a paper cut or a strained back from lifting Webster off the shelf. No, folks...these days all we have to do is press a button on the keyboard and our hard drive whirrs into action. In less than three minutes our amazing new machines alert us to our errors and fixes them FOR US!!<BR>
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So tell me, WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE TO READ WORKS HERE THAT SOUND LIKE THEY CAME FROM A SECOND GRADE CLASSROOM'S WRITING-PROMPT HOUR?!?!?!?!?!?!<BR>
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Yeah. Even Kirk Kahuna has provided a "CHECK YOUR WORK" stop-gap to the Blender. Obviously some people whiz right by THAT little courtesy. I can understand a grammatical or spelling error here and there, but !REALLY! an entire piece of writing???...MULTIPLE times?? Makes me ashamed to be a part of the human race and the public school system that unleashes such uneducated dolts onto innocent citizens!!<BR>
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WHEW!  Now I feel a *little* better. Thankyouverymuch.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

His Little Fullback ~ I read <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.10.07.07.20.5600">One Heart, Two Homes</a> the other day and really enjoyed it. I didn't tell you that then. So I'm telling you now. Good job.<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

Geez Teej, and you're not even a Virgo...are you? :-P
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

Nope. I'm an Aries. Maybe my planet (Mars...the planet of !WAR!) is rising or is in it's seventh cycle of it's rotation or is gonna blow up or somesuch thing....(okay, i don't know much 'bout astrology). But DAMNNIT! spelling is IMPORTANT!!!<BR>
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(lol)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=452">twinkle</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

TJ - <BR>
Thank you. The kind words are appreciated!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=739">His Little Fullback</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

TJ~<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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H~L~F
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

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TJ, sometimes we have foreign writers and sometimes words are made to be mis-spelt for a reason. Some people don't know what spell check is. Walk softly and carry a big stick honey child. Content is where it's at. For the rest we have EDITORS and CRITICS..ha (You must be PMSing too huh)<BR>
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bk<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">CryingShame58</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

TEEJ,<BR>
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<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.10.08.18.10.31659">huh?</a> ...... too funny!  Humor was a good way to end my manic monday... <BR>
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BK and scqueen... you two helped brighten my day with your comments...<BR>
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Hope everyone has a terrific tuesday!<BR>
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CryingShame<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

Teej ~ My sister is an Aries, and we were on vacation this summer and we planned a surprise birthday celebration for my dad. My job was to get him out of the beach house for an afternoon, and my sister was in charge of baking the cake. She did a fine job, until she had to take the cake and hide in the bathroom to frost it...it came out "HAPPY BITHDAY PAPA!" When I pointed out that she'd left out the 'r' in birthday she was extremely upset. God forbid, her intelligence be insulted :-) And we have pictures of it too :-)))))
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

Yup. Sounds like a 'me' moment. Intelligence, and the proof of, is important to me. I am not too familiar with the characteristics of the Zodiac signs, but your sister's reaction might be mine in the same circumstance. And (B.K.) I do know that we have some people of other cultures here, as well as deliberately misspelled words for artistic effect, but there are frequent atrocities of work that most likely aren't attributed to those spelling 'mistakes'. There are ways of recognizing cause. <BR>
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Anyway, I wanted to vent, and I did. Glad of it. Ahhhhh.....who said relief was spelled R-O-L-A-I-D-S? I think it's R-A-N-T. <BR>
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-Teej (ranting and panting)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 8 October 2002<P>

When my son was in Elementary School and would come home with misspellings all over his page, there were never any red marks across the paper.  I think our kids are missing red marks!  When I asked the teachers about it, they told me those papers were not from spelling class.  Those handwritten papers were geography, or history, or whatever.  It was most important for the child to be creative and not be hindered with spelling corrections, they would say.  Ummm... aren't their little brains just ripe to learn it all at the same time when they're young?  Duh.  When I was working in adoption a few years ago, I remember working on a Homestudy for a woman who was an English teacher in grade school _and_ had a Master's.  Her spelling was unbelievably atrocious.  Who's teaching the teachers?  (hey, no offense to all you very intelligent teachers from a different county than I'm in, I must be in Dumbpodunksville, Tx).  Before I sent this note, I hit Tools/Spelling at the top of my page.  I'd misspelled misspellings.  ha.  Really.<BR>

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