The War Room: January 16-22, 2005

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: Is everyone ready for another short week? Monday will be a holiday for many of us. I hope everyone takes advantage of the day off to spend time with loved ones, & get a little extra rest.


http://freeconservatives.com/smilies/read.gif This week's celebrity birthdays:
January 16:
Kate Moss
Sade

January 17:
Muhammad Ali
Jim Carrey
Andy Kaufman
Betty White

January 18:
Kevin Costner
Bobby Goldsboro

January 19:
Stefan Edberg
Shelley Fabares
http://www.planetout.com/images/popcornq/movienews/deep_inside/dolly.jpg
Katey Sagal
Jean Stapleton
Shawn Wayans

January 20:
Arte Johnson
Lorenzo Lamas
Bill Maher

January 21:

Robbie Benson
Geena Davis
Mac Davis
Jill Elkenberry


January 22:
Linda Blair
Ann Sothern


:idea: This week's questions:
1. What musical instruments do you play?
2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
7. What image do you use for your desktop?

[Melz]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
hahahahahahaha is all i have to say to that. musical? hahahahaha


2. What did you want to be when you grew up?

Secretary of the Treasury (although as I was in 5th grade when I decided this, I called it "Treasurer of the United States" when people asked me)
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Gulf Coast


4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
My lasagna is world famous


5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
Islands in the Stream (can't think of many off the top of my head but there were many jokes about that one LOL)


6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
one of my favorite "stupid" things is the incredible amounts of crazy laws out there. I laugh histerically..even if they are not enforced, just the fact that they were even put into law at any time! :

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7474/ohlaws.html

7. What image do you use for your desktop?

Webshots (all nature scenes)

[UnkHiram]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
I play a mean Stereo

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?

Tall, another fantasy that never came true

3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

East Texas

4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?

I am a fairly good cook, I th ink the best thing I have cooked lately was the Pecan Pie at Christmas time. My First Pecan Pie, turned out great.

5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
Jolene

6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).

Paying $50,000 for a "CLONED" kitten.

7. What image do you use for your desktop?
Passage to Mutiny http://www.mcbooks.com/Historical/ArtPrintPage/artprint.html

[Riverboat]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
Guitar, saxophone, clarinet, flute, domra.
2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
astronaut - I grew up in the shadow of NASA in the 60s
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
central Mexico in the mountains
4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
I heat up the best store-bought chicken pot pies around. Martha Stewart would choke on my cooking. That's a GOOD thing, right? ;)
5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
Coat of Many Colors
6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
7. What image do you use for your desktop?
I'm gay. Really! Some of my students said so on the way to the assistant principal's office, so it must be true, right?

[Longhorn_Platinum]

7. What image do you use for your desktop?
I'm gay. Really! Some of my students said so on the way to the assistant principal's office, so it must be true, right?


:moo: I'm not sure what that has to do with your desktop, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one that gets that. In fact, I'll bet assistant principals hear all sorts of bizarre tales about their teachers, from students who walk in with referrals.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?


East Texas



:D Let me know when you're ready to join us.

[UnkHiram]

Longhorn

I live in East Texas, just not as East as you do.

[Conserv_Atticus]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
Bass Guitar, Guitar, and piano, my voice.

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A pilot in the Airforce, and as a matter of fact, i'm still working for it!

3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Ireland, anyday!


4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
mac and cheese i guess?

5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
Don't really care for her.

6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
Bush is spendind more money on his ingauration party then on the Tsunamai aid... i laughed really hard at that one.

7. What image do you use for your desktop?
I made this for our upcoming play using Adobe Photoshop
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/106/tshirtforcruc5fs.jpg
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[Beowulf]

:idea: This week's questions:
1. What musical instruments do you play?
Trumpet and saxophone (been a looooong time though)
2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Police Officer
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Swiss Alps doing some serious mogul skiing.
4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
Ham, cheese and onion omelette.
5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
9 to 5
6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
My sister-in-law getting caught for driving w/o a license........again.
7. What image do you use for your desktop?
Windows XP Azul (the tropical island w/ 2 trees in crystal clear blue water, sunshine and the passing boat). It makes me stop thinking about the miseries of winter.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
piano, voice, and cd/cassette/record players


2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
an Animationist, and I wanted to work for Disney


3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Doesn't really matter, as long as I'm living with my Bubba-man!


4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
My best dish is country-fried steak -- but the best thing I ever cooked was for Bubba and me when we were sharing a romantic evening together, pork chops, corn on the cob, biscuits, green salad and strawberries and cream for dessert! What a NIGHT!


5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?
I Will Always Love You -- sung by Dolly, NOT Whitney Houston


6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
Bill Clinton, the President of the United States of America


7. What image do you use for your desktop?
Looks like the desert with the moon in a red sky --- haven't figured out how to put a new one on yet, other than the ones provided with my computer when I got it.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

1. What musical instruments do you play?

:moo: The computer. Oh, & I used to play the cornet in school.

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?

:moo: Either a teacher or a train engineer.

3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

:moo: The Texas panhandle.

4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?

:moo: Pancakes.

5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?

:moo: "Sweet Summer Lovin'".

6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid.

:unsmile: Some guy in Odessa, Texas who tried to beat a train across the tracks, & was so far from winning, that he actually broadsided the fifth car of the train.

7. What image do you use for your desktop?

:moo: Home...

http://www.somewherewest.com/WesternPacific/KeddieYBNmix.jpg

:moo: Work...

http://www.somewherewest.com/Route66/Winslow-Williams/winslowdawn.jpg

[Large_Al]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
Blues harp

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Police Officer

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3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Somewhere on the on Atlantic Ocean


4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?

I made a French dinner one time that turned out to be the best meal I've ever cooked. The three couples we had over also said it was one of the finest dinning experiences they had ever had.<O:p</O:p

<O:p</O:p
It was Chicken Bouden with a Watercress Sabayon sauce.<O:p</O:p

Basically it's Boneless Chicken Breasts pureed in a food processor with cream, brandy, eggs. This mixture is steamed into a loaf with Veggies in the center then it is put in the center of Brioche Bread dough and baked till done. You cut this loaf and drizzle the Sabayon sauce on the slices. For a Veggie we had asparagus in a sweet <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com /><st1:City w:st=Dijon</st1:City> mustard sauce. And for desert I made Grand Mariner Crème Brulee. This Meal used about 2 Quarts of cream and tons of Butter. We did shots of Lipitor after.<O:p</O:p

5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?

That's hard one I'll go with Coat of Many Colors. Dolly is really an amazing woman. <O:p</O:p


6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).
That there are people out there that don't want me as a parent to know when my teenage Daughter is going to have an abortion. Huh??? Hello!

<O:p</O:p
7. What image do you use for your desktop?<O:p</O:p

My deck top at home has my Golden laying on her back covering her eyes with her paws.<O:p</O:p

My Work CPU has my backyard with my deck and waterfall and pond I put in by myself.

My Laptop has a picture of a monument of the great Baseball Player Micky Vernon seven-time all-star, 2 time American League batting champ U.S. Navy Vet.. And as the Monument says Role Model..<st1:City w:st="on">Mentor</ST1:place</st1:City>...Great Guy... A Gentleman's Gentleman<O:p</O:p

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[Faithful_Servant]

1. What musical instruments do you play?
I'm a sound-man at my church, so I play all of them.

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A scientist.
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
I'm here already. I've had job offers that paid twice what I was making at the time that I turned down so I could stay here.

4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?
Baked chicken breasts. Marinate in Italian dressing overnight, bread with a mixture of crumbs and Lipton's Garlic and Herb soup mix and bake till done.

7. What image do you use for your desktop?
The Tadpole Galaxy.

[DesertFox]

1. What musical instruments do you play?

I strum a guitar and pretend to sing.

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?

A major league baseball player.

3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Kamchatka Peninsula. I'd want to be rich enough to build my own town and populate it with people congenial to me.

4. What was the best thing you ever cooked or baked?

I'm pretty good with frozen tv dinners.

5. What is your favorite Dolly Parton song?

"I Will Always Love You"

6. Tell us about something you heard about that was truly stupid (besides 59,000,000 people voting for sKerry).

"It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

7. What image do you use for your desktop?

The Crab Nebula.

[Riverboat]

:moo: I'm not sure what that has to do with your desktop, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one that gets that. In fact, I'll bet assistant principals hear all sorts of bizarre tales about their teachers, from students who walk in with referrals.
Oops! I was trying to respond to "Tell us something you heard about that was truly stupid." It was something I had heard about ME.

My desktop at home has polar bears. The one in my classroom usually has this little firecracker:

http://charlottechurch.net/images2005/TsunamiAidConcert22Jan05/TAC22Jan05Daily_.jpg

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:D You're still "gay".

[Riverboat]

:D You're still "gay".
Yeah, yeah. I refer you to the wallpaper I use. There's more where that came from, too. Just ask, and I'll send along the link.