LoL  --  What if children today were taught to follow these 'rules for children' from the 1950's?   Oh, they are definitely rules that I was taught!     - Lietta

Considering that these were standard expectations just 50 years ago, it's a reminder of how fast things can change.

1. Always greet the members of your family when you enter and always bid them goodbye when you leave.
2. Always rise to a standing position when visitors enter, and greet them after your elders.
3. Never address a visitor until he has started the conversation unless he is a person of your own age or younger.
4. Never interrupt a conversation. Wait until the party talking has finished.
5. Always rise when your visitor or your elders stand.
6. Never let your mother or your father bring you a chair or get one for themselves. Wait on them instead of being waited on.
7. If you leave or cross the room you should say "Excuse me."
8. If a visitor should say, "I am glad to have seen you," you should say, "Thank you."
9. Never run up and down the stairs or across the room.
10. Talk in a low, even voice. It denotes refinement.
11. Always give way to the younger child. It is your duty to look after them instead of fretting them.
12. Never retire without bidding the members of your family good night.

Follow these suggestions and you will assist in making the members of your family happy as well as in benefiting them in many other ways.

Posted SwanDeer Project at 9:29 AM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 17 August 2008 9:32 AM PDT

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I did not know that you can grow oysters on a mud flap. 

A Portland TV station (Koin 6) reported yesterday that

"Crews say the people were out on the mud flaps trying to catch oysters when their boat washed out to sea, leaving them stranded in a rising tide.

Coast Guard crews rescued them and towed the vessel back to port."

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Posted SwanDeer Project at 7:07 AM PST

Updated: Friday, 29 February 2008 8:44 AM PST

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The following are the requirements for newcomers who move to Willapa Country. Of particular concern are newcomers from out of state.

Training is offered once every six months at the Elk Snout Tavern Universal  Acceptance Retreat Yard (E. S. T. U. A. R. Y.) in Bay Center.

The training lasts Ten days and includes role play and modeling.

Courses (Instructors TBA)

Kitchen Detail
Remedial Kitchen Cleanup Class
Intra-Tavern Harmony Class
Respect for Natives
What Happens When You Laugh at Natives Class
Basic PUD Disconnect Avoidance Class
Respect for Female Supervisors
Gossip and Rumor Control Class
Beginning Male Bonding Class
Walking and Gum Chewing Skills
Blending in at Local Tavern Class
Reading and Understanding Small Town Newspapers
Local Dialect Differentiation Class
Local Brewery Detection (formerly known as Moonshine Management
Rural Values and Perspectives
Where to pass on Highway 101
You Might Be A Redneck If ... Class
Hangover Management
Placing that One Phone Call From Jail Class
Win Place or Show at the County Fair
When to Say Hallelujah During Church Services

Extra Credit: Spitoon Recognition and Where You Better Not Spit 

Posted SwanDeer Project at 9:47 PM PST

Updated: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 6:10 AM PST

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Did you know that if you look in a bible reference for the word "humor", you won't find it?

No dice with "comedy" either. 

You can find deprecating references to "mirth" and dire threats against laughers, but that's about it.

After that lack of success mining the Bible for humor. I then decided to check out "sober" since that seems to be the automatic stance of most of the Christian celebrities who publicly tell God what to do and the people how to behave.

With a broken heart, contrite spirit, real intent and serious mien I went a-seeking (using my LDS King James Version cause it has this very very COOL Topical Guide that is combination concordance and commentary).

After all, isn't that what Mitt Romney would do?

In addition, the Topical Guide doesn't self-destruct if an apostate like me opens it up for usage. I know, I know ... the Topical Guide has of course been dogma-fied to conform to LDS orthodoxy and myth, but ... well ... to each his own.

A good reference book is a good reference book whether Mitt uses it or Bob Jones burns it, right.

Anyway, using the LDS Topical Guide while chasing sobriety, I ran into this one:

"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind."

1Peter Chapter 1 verse 13.

Brethren, Cialis!!

Omigosh!!!       That's it!

I have struck gold on Superstition Mountain!!

THAT is how and why America's Fundamentalist Literalist Christianity slipped on a scriptural banana peel in the 19^th century. That's why literalists have taken themselves way too seriously.

They are overworking their loins!

Their tender loins ...

their hot loins ...

their aroused loins ...

all kinds of loins that they've been commanded to gird now for 2000 years

... all them loins

... all girded up

... until all they can think about are girded loins

... Catholic and Protestant fundamentalists adoring Jehovah who seems to be the ultimate loin girder

... no wonder Old Wrathful and the Literalists are obsessed with human sexuality.

It's girding the hell out of them.

Posted SwanDeer Project at 7:04 AM PDT

Updated: Friday, 10 August 2007 7:32 AM PDT

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 myconfinedspace.com 

Posted SwanDeer Project at 9:07 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, 27 July 2007 10:27 PM PDT

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 Home dictionary wasn't available. It's on the child's chair in the kitchen so she can sit at the table.

Posted SwanDeer Project at 9:15 AM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 22 July 2007 11:40 AM PDT

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From Crooks and Liars Sunday Morning 

On this morning’s “Fox NEWS Sunday” Department of Homeland Security Advisor, Fran Townsend, defends the DHS decision to once again allow airline passengers to carry cigarette lighters. Chris Wallace actually makes a few good points, referring to Michael Chertoff’s gut, the fact that passengers still can’t take a bottle of water on board and then asks Townsned point blank if she really thinks that a lighter on board a plane isn’t dangerous.

Posted SwanDeer Project at 12:01 AM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 22 July 2007 11:37 AM PDT

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click on the link and go read the whole thing

Of all of the evils secularization has wrought upon our culture, I believe the change in our attitudes toward sex is the most destructive. Ask random people on the street what purpose sex serves, and they'll most likely tell you that it's either for enjoyment or for the expression of love. In other words, it's all about personal gratification.

Very few will mention procreation, the lesser of the only two purposes acceptable to true Christians. Fewer yet, if any, will mention the other, more important, purpose, the one that allows us to continue having sex after our not-men become barren: that is sex as a form of worship.

Dr. Dobson describes it this way:

"The sacred act symbolizes the spiritual union that will occur between Christ and His bride the Church upon his return to Earth."

As an important form of worship, it should be just as much a part of our daily life as prayer or flagellation, but far too often, we let that part of our spiritual life slip as we get older.  

 

Posted SwanDeer Project at 9:59 PM PDT

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