Miss Miscellaneous

Miss Miscellaneous

"Adjective: of items or people gathered or considered together. Of various types or from different sources. 2. of a collection or group. Composed of members or elements of different kinds: "a miscellaneous collection". Synonyms various, mixed, varied, diverse, manifold, different." If it's of interest to you and you're not sure where to post it, it's welcome here. ~Miss M

(June 5, 2014) "Just after midnight on this day in 1968, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant. Kennedy had just won California's Democratic presidential primary, and he was exiting through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Juan Romero, a 17-year-old busboy, was shaking his hand when Sirhan began firing. Several of the men with him tackled Sirhan, including writer George Plimpton, Olympic athlete Rafer Johnson, and football star Rosey Grier. Romero knelt by Kennedy, and put a rosary in his hand.

His brother Edward "Ted" Kennedy delivered the eulogy: "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'" http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/06/05

"It ain't over 'til it's over"; "Never answer an anonymous letter"; " I usually take a two hour nap from one to four"; "It's deja vu all over again"; "When you come to a fork in the road....Take it"; "I didn't really say everything I said"; Yogi on the 1969 NY Mets..... "overwhelming underdogs"; When asked what time is was......" you mean now?"

"I want to thank you for making this day necessary" ......... Yogi Berra day in St Louis 1947; On why NY lost the 1960 series to Pittsburgh " We made too many wrong mistakes"; Future; "You can observe a lot by watching"; "The future ain't what it used to be"; "It gets late early out here"; "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be". (Yogi Berra)

http://www.yogiberra.com/yogi-isms.html

Number of Threads Active on June 7, 2014

General Forum: 21 (Thanks in part to Ponderable's routine resuscitations)
Spirituality Forum: 15
Debates Forum: 8

Number of Threads Active
On June 7 and 8, 2014

General Forum:..... 21.. 22
Spirituality Forum: 15...10
Debates Forum: .... 8.....7

"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." -Adlai E. Stevenson
"I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story
that I'm excited about, I'm in." -Katherine Heigl

Number of Threads Active
On June 7-9, 2014

General Forum:..... 21.. 22...12 = 55
Spirituality Forum: 15...10... 14 = 39
Debates Forum: .... 8.....7......8 = 23

Number of Threads Active
On June 7-10, 2014

General Forum:..... 21.. 22...12...15 = 70
Spirituality Forum: 15...10... 14...16 = 55
Debates Forum: .... 8.....7......8.....6 = 29

"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals." -Joshua Lederberg

Number of Threads Active
On June 7-11, 2014

General Forum:......21...22...12...15...13 = 83
Spirituality Forum: 15...10... 14...16...15 = 70
Debates Forum:......8.....7......8.....6....8 = 37
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"Astronaut John Glenn, 92, has heart procedure"

"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former astronaut and U.S. senator John Glenn has had a heart valve replacement as he approaches his 93rd birthday. Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was recuperating, a spokesman at Ohio State University said Wednesday. Glenn is strong and healthy ahead of his birthday on July 18, John Glenn School of Public Affairs spokesman Hank Wilson said. Glenn had a minimally invasive version of the valve replacement procedure at the Cleveland Clinic in May and is recovering well, Wilson said. "It was fine, and he's fine," Wilson said. "I just talked to him today. He's strong and healthy. … It really wasn't that big of a deal in that regard."

In 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth as a member of the Mercury 7 program. "Godspeed, John Glenn," fellow astronaut Scott Carpenter radioed just before Glenn thundered off a launch pad in an Atlas rocket. With the all-business phrase, "Roger, the clock is operating, we're underway," Glenn radioed to Earth as he started his nearly 5 hours in space. Later he uttered a phrase he has repeated throughout life: "Zero G, and I feel fine." Glenn, a Democrat, later spent more than two decades as a U.S. senator and returned to space at age 77 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Before he orbited the world, he fought in two wars as a fighter pilot and set a transcontinental speed record as a test pilot." (14.06.11)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/11/john-glenn-heart-procedure/10351671/

Number of Threads Active
On June 7-12, 2014

Day of Week:..........S.....S....M.....T....W.....T....Total
General Forum:......21...22...12...15...13....18 = 101
Spirituality Forum:. 15...10...14...16...15....15 = 85
Debates Forum:.......8.....7.....8....6.....8.....11 = 48

Word Association Game 2 Original post by Standard member Rapidfyre, 01 Jul '08

Sticky Thread Game Original post by Standard member Ice Cold, 19 Jul '09

Last Word Sentences Original post by Subscriber Kewpie, 01 Feb '14

Linked Words Game/2014 Original post by Subscriber Grampy Bobby, 31 Mar '14

To what extent have these four game/word threads received the highest volume of posts because 1) Their reply formats are specified (strict with three and loose with one); 2) They offer an opportunity to contribute without criticism; 3) Other?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Linked Words Game/2014 Original post by Subscriber Grampy Bobby, 31 Mar '14[/b]

More self-applause, Bobby? Linked Words wouldn't be on your list without
the constant manipulation by two incessant posters, caissad4 and yourself.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
More self-applause, Bobby? Linked Words wouldn't be on your list without
the constant manipulation by two incessant posters, caissad4 and yourself.

"If it's of interest to you and you're not sure where to post it, it's welcome here." ~Miss M (OP) Thanks, Andy, for being the second person to contribute to Miss M's thread. If negatively criticizing the intent of other Red Hot Pawn Members is "of interest to you... it's welcome here." I'm quite sure that you, too, are pleased this forum's activity levels have improved.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"If it's of interest to you and you're not sure where to post it, it's welcome here." ~Miss M (OP) Thanks, Andy, for being the second person to contribute to Miss M's thread. If negatively criticizing the intent of other Red Hot Pawn Members is "of interest to you... it's welcome here." I'm quite sure that you, too, are pleased this forum's activity levels have improved.

Honesty is of interest to me.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Honesty is of interest to me.

And to Miss M and me, too; glad we're in agreement. Please stop by any time.

Number of Threads Active
On June 7-13, 2014: Week One

Day of Week:..........S.....S....M.....T....W.....T.....F.....Total...*100+
General Forum:......21...22...12...15...13....18...11 = 112.........7
Spirituality Forum:. 15...10...14...16...15....15...15 = 100........15
Debates Forum:.......8.....7.....8....6.....8.....11....4 = 52...........4

*Page One Threads with 100+ Posts.