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jokuhl on January 1, 2009 - 11:30am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I didn't get the impression that Leanan recieved any pix of Audacious lighting displays, either. Though I'm sure they are out there. The wind has gone out of a lot of sails, right now.

We have a real tree from the woods, not purchased, and it's kind of a Charlie Brown tree. I'm fairly sure that the ornaments weigh more than the wood.

Maybe I'm in a pollyana phase, but I think people are going to be in a state of rediscovering the essentials in events like Christmas, paring away all sorts of extras.

On our freecycle list this year, a lot of people were shedding off their oversized Artificial Xmas trees.

Best hopes for a real Rebirth,
and Happy New Year!

Bob

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BMW on January 1, 2009 - 11:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Pollyanna phase, no doubt. Don't overestimate people response. Imagine the worst, the reality will be probably even a bit worse than that.

That does not apply if you are as pessimistic as memmel, but for the rest of us it is a safe rule.

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jokuhl on January 1, 2009 - 12:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Deep in my soul, I have a Pollyana wolf and a Doomer wolf, and they are in a lifelong struggle. Both are powerful, and each dog has their good days and bad.

Actually, as I look closer, it seems that the pollyana is a toy poodle, but boy, can she run! (and she fights dirty, by undermining the Doomer-wolf's will to fight, distracting him with dumb jokes, sentimental songs- and showing up with heaping plates of food. What's a pessimist to do when there's food on the table?)

Bob

Someday we'll find it
The rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me

La la la le la la loo
La la la la le la la loo

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Ron Broberg on January 1, 2009 - 1:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Actually, as I look closer, it seems that the pollyana is a toy poodle, but boy, can she run! (and she fights dirty, by undermining the Doomer-wolf's will to fight, distracting him with dumb jokes, sentimental songs- and showing up with heaping plates of food. What's a pessimist to do when there's food on the table?)

That's Coyote - not a toy poodle. While not exactly evil, Coyote can't be trusted either. But Coyote might have a bit of soft-heart towards humans, being involved one or another with their creation.
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore47.html

BTW, I'm pretty sure that its Coyote's farts that cause Global Warming.

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jokuhl on January 1, 2009 - 2:05pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Poodle might be a trickster, Like Coyote or Crow.. but I don't think the fit is very good.

Nice Snark, though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(mythology)

Homologues

Coyote has been compared to both the Scandinavian Loki, and also Prometheus, who shared with Coyote the trick of having stolen fire from the gods as a gift for mankind. Similarities can also be drawn with another trickster, the Polynesian demigod Māui, who also stole fire for mankind and introduced death to the world.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist proposed a structuralist theory that suggests that Coyote and Crow obtained mythic status because they are mediator animals between life and death.[8]

Bob

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jokuhl on January 1, 2009 - 2:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Actually, I don't know how I missed it.

My Pollyana dog-god might actually be a Beagle.. considering the origin of my TOD Handle.

Not always the most literal or practical, but Snoopy is a survivor, despite all the prognostications of defeat. Happiness is still a warm puppy..

as the old saying goes.. 'Everything is character'

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