As it turns out, the story has appeared in a number of websites, such as here (edited) and here (complete).
Don't always know if I'm an Easter person, but I'm definitely a Lenten person.
ROG
What retired people do
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MY PRIMARY BLOG
My Blog List
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The return - I started this blog as an unofficial vehicle for interesting statistical information. When I retired, I let it lie fallow. I'm going to post here period...7 months ago
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Gender Wage Gap By State - Census Bureau - If you need a reason to start a business, the gender wage gap may be a factor. The Census has created a new visualization of the disparity between male ...2 years ago
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It takes a lot of practice - A friend asked: “If you had the chance to ask three different people (living or dead, famous or not) ONE question… who and what would you ask?” The one req...3 years ago
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Faded road markings cause concern - Q: Can someone at New York state tell me why the DOT doesn’t use a better reflective paint when the lines are painted? It appears the paint used has no ref...4 years ago
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Goodbye but NOT farewell - Using the words which Roger used in his intro for the last post of round 20--- Z *With joy, we'll dream away each sorrow, With love we'll live for each...
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Library Worker Defends Patron’s Free Speech, Is Brutally Arrested in Library Where He Works - From BORDC: “For someone to be assaulted and then arrested for asking a question, in a public library of all places, is abhorrent. The library should be ...
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Alan Moore's Twilight Proposal - Introduction by Alan David Doane: Honestly I didn't intend the irony, but this week's FMF, looking at Alan Moore's never-published Twilight proposal, also ...
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People I Know
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Empowered Minds: Celebrating Women in Research - SUNY Researchers Making an Impact Here at SUNY, we have no shortage of women who have made a mark on our world. Throughout Women’s History Month, we’ve had...1 week ago
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Concert Review: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba at UPH 2/16/24 - When Bassekou Kouyate asked “Are you happy?” at Universal Preservation Hall Friday, he knew the answer. Everybody was, both in the audience and onstage. ...2 months ago
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The Best Films of 2023 - Martin Scorsese, left, Lily Gladstone, and Robert DeNiro all received Oscar nods for *Killers of the Flower Moon*. Some say Leo DiCaprio, right, was snubbe...2 months ago
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Getting Ready To Die - Getting Ready To DieNo, as far as I know, it’s not imminent, but you never know. An awful lot of people are checking out in the seventh decade that I just ...6 months ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!3 years ago
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Petitioning season cut short - Political "petitioning season" for U.S. Congress, NYS Assembly, NYS Senate, and a host of other positions, was cut short. Like all the other things that...4 years ago
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Freezing Cold March For Dr. King - Plus the politicized Census, police hiring shortfalls, ornamental apple trees and the mayor’s image cloaking device4 years ago
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Eagle Scout Project - Rutherford neighbor Krish Soni is getting started on his Eagle Scout project on Saturday, October 26. He will be labeling storm drains in the neighborhood ...4 years ago
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Kellyanne Conway named UAlbany graduation commencement speaker - Kellyanne Conway, the pollster who organized the election campaign of President Donald Trump, has been named by the University at Albany to be its keynote ...7 years ago
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We’re Off On An Adventure! - Just now, Marge and I are doing a bit of adventuring. The next adventure will include a whole new online reality and presence for me and my work… See you i...8 years ago
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It Changes - Living with Lupus and Fibro and Asthma is often not so much 'one day at a time.' It is much more like one fifteen minute segment of time - at at time. This...10 years ago
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Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye… - Well, kids, this is it. I’m leaving first thing tomorrow morning. My visits home will be few and far between, and when they happen, they’ll be exclusive...11 years ago
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Spring is here? - As far as the pro peloton goes, it’s on! I watched the Tour of Flanders today, and it was one of the best races I’ve ever seen. “Looking back, you get a b...13 years ago
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Modern Types-Ronald Searle,Geoffrey Gorer - With the recent attention given to Ronald Searle's 90th birthday and new interview,I decided to look at one of his books. The book is titled Modern Ty...14 years ago
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Eclectic Folks
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The Examined: Cultivating Meaningful Connections for a Balanced Life - Relationships are the bedrock of our existence, whether they involve our romantic partners, relatives, or work colleagues. Fostering healthy relationships […]15 hours ago
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Have nice things. Or not. - People have opinions about everything possible. Of course they do: It seems to be a large part of being a modern human. Even so, it’s amazing how people s...1 day ago
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March Photo Challenge: Eleven - Welp, I missed last month’s photo challenge due to our winter vacation from February 22-March 2, and came down with the flu in record time on March 3rd, wh...3 weeks ago
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1, 2, 3, 4: You Can Count On It - Up the stairs, count the steps1, 2, 3, 41, 2, 3, 41, 2, 3…Crap, it didn’t come out even, it’s eleven But 1-2-3-4-1/ 2 /3-4-1-2-3 will have to do; the middl...1 month ago
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AmeriNZ 412 – Returning to normal mode - This week I’ve been starting to get back to regular life after my holiday. February is already shaping up to be a busy month. I start today with updates to...2 months ago
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Here we are at 21. - Happy 21st birthday, Johnny Bacardi Show! Probably won't begin writing here again anytime soon, but hey, if you like my stuff I have a Substack now and...6 months ago
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Check me out! - Over the years I have collected a range of recipes to help me lose weight. I attend Slimming World and achieved my target weight in November 2022. Read...6 months ago
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This is The End (a follow-up) - I wrote yesterday about my possibly retiring this space in favor of migrating all of my blogging to ForgottenStars.net, because of Reasons. I am now pul...2 years ago
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A Dumb God - People who believe in God but don’t believe that creation is teleologically imbued essentially believe in a dumb God, likely a God who merely exists to ser...2 years ago
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18 and life, you got it - It's the 18th of April, and that means it's the anniversary of Mia's accident - 18 (!!!!) years ago today, we were in the crash that damaged her brain ir...3 years ago
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Sunday Round-up - Wash your mouth out In these ultra-hygienic days, Russian artist Yulia Popova has come into her own by making models of foodstuffs out of soap. What makes y...3 years ago
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I believe ..Religion - Written by the Rev.Jeannette van der Veen-Bosgra I believe in a world where all people can live in happiness, and that I too have a duty to create such a wo...5 years ago
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Tough Day - A few weeks ago, I turned 38, and I am still under the scrutiny of strangers in public. One would think that once you're out of grade school, middle school...5 years ago
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Retro Y'all! - Still jumping. In place, mostly. Someone should do one of these rap battle style brags about being a junker. Seriously. Big sale at the Peddlers Mall today.5 years ago
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X is for XMAS - *MERRY CHRISTMAS (XMAS) EVERYONE!* I thought I'd put a link to the top 100 Xmas songs for 2017 so you could click on it and play anything your heart d...6 years ago
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The Myth Memers - One of those little questionnaires just to dip a toe back into blogging. Took this from Chris Hull's Facebook. 1. Do you make your bed? No. 2. The first c...6 years ago
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Now available in paperback! - *Sharp: A Memoir*. William Morrow & Co, 2012. Print. We lost 4 members of the Guilford High School Class of 84: David Ciardello, Richard Eaton, Ronnie Burn...7 years ago
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ABC Wednesday: The Importance of Being Bored - When I was growing up, you being bored was your problem that you were responsible to rectify. As children we learned never to be bored- or at least not t...7 years ago
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Superheroes I Love #10: Deathlok - Every red-blooded boy loves cyborgs. Half-man, half-robot, what’s not to love? The Marvel Comics character Deathlok is a bit on the obscure side, but debut...12 years ago
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Sunday, March 02, 2008
Lent
Somebody pointed out to me recently that all that Easter/spring parallel stuff is terribly Northern Hemispherist, and of course, he was right; Easter in the Southern Hemisphere is in the autumn. Anyway, my sister sent me an e-mail last month:
As it turns out, the story has appeared in a number of websites, such as here (edited) and here (complete).
Don't always know if I'm an Easter person, but I'm definitely a Lenten person.
ROG
As it turns out, the story has appeared in a number of websites, such as here (edited) and here (complete).
Don't always know if I'm an Easter person, but I'm definitely a Lenten person.
ROG
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