maren

You and half these guys still have to win the other half over to the LONG-HAIR club: Here's someone doing his part to convince Jimmy Swaggart...

My thought exactly, even before I opened this thread!

Hope you like chocolate, B! Happy birthday!!

I guess I'm AWFULLY slow on the uptake -- but it's registering today, Moose! I, on the other hand, am number 6...

Larry, here's the Federal Trade Commission's identity theft site: http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/ Rainy Day is completely right -- contact Experian, TransUnion and/or Equifax. You may want to phone them rather than do this online. You can have them put a 6-month stop on opening up new accounts for your social security number, if you want. And as Rainy Day said, keep tabs on your credit report. (Sorry it happened to you, Rainy. Me too, about a year ago, and it took an awful lot of time and energy -- always in short supply! -- to unravel.) There's also this earlier Organissimo thread about ID theft -- I'm thinking there was even an earlier one, but maybe that was back at BNBB...

Awfully sorry to hear about this Jim. Very bad timing with baby on the way -- just "keep breathing" (as a friend at work always tells me when any kind of crunch hits) and know that YOU'RE DOING THE BEST YOU CAN and don't deserve any verbal abuse -- I know that's not always easy to arm yourself with when such abuse arrives out of the blue -- but that woman is an asshole. Do you have a family member or friend -- or two or three -- who can help you put the $850 together and get the state out of the picture? (Just as long as it's people who won't vibe you and can loan it without feeling too much of a pinch.) Otherwise (as you said) be proactive and (as Jim Sangrey implied) find a higher-up or at least NICER state tax person to contact and see if a payment plan can be made. In my experience (with credit card companies, for example -- YIKES) they're nicer if you contact THEM than if they feel they've had to track you down.

Happy birthday Shawn! Tell Ms. McGrew we miss her too!

Thanks for posting this, Clandy! That last paragraph was a good one! Keep an eye on THIS THREAD, too, in case Chris A. (Christiern) adds an anecdote.

Up for this NY Times Obit (pasted from clandy44's "Misc Music" thread here): BTW, Christiern -- did you know McHenry Boatwright? I'd thought of asking you this earlier in the week. When I was a freshman in college I sang in the chorus in a performance of Beethoven's 9th, conducted by Gunther Schuller (oops, I'm name-dropping), for which McHenry Boatwright was the baritone soloist -- beautiful voice.

couw beat me to the punch with Marilyn -- so here's ANOTHER salute to our "Commander in Chief":

Happy birthday(s)!

with love from couw & maren!

TOTALLY, Rachel! (My son was "only" 9 lbs 3 oz!)

Surely, you're not going to just leave us hanging with this ... Yeah, SURELY not! Who does this leave of either Ellington siblings or offspring? Nobody? Mercedes is Duke's granddaughter, right? Right, Mercedes is Mercer's daughter (Mercer died in 1996?), and her son Paul is currently leading the Ellington Orchestra, I think.

He's beautiful! Congratulations! (and >10 lbs -- whoa -- to mommy)

ABSOLUTELY an hommage, I have no doubt. Did you know that Georgia Hubley (YLT drummer-vocals) is the daughter of Faith and John Hubley, animated filmmakers whose works include: The Cosmic Eye (A film by Faith Hubley, music by Benny Carter & others, 71 min.) Voyage to Next (Music by Dizzy Gillespie, 10 min.) Of Men and Demons (Music by Quincy Jones, 10 min.) The Hole (Music by Quincy Jones, voices of Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews, 15 min.) The Tender Game (Music by Ella Fitzgerald and The Oscar Peterson Trio, 6 min.) Eggs (Music by Quincy Jones, 10 min.) Urbanissimo (Music by Benny Carter, 6 min.) Harlem Wednesday (Music by Benny Carter, 10 min.) The Adventures of * (Music by Benny Carter, Soloist: Lionel Hampton, 10 min.) Of Stars and Men (Music of Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Vivaldi, 53 min.) The Hat (Music and voices of Dizzy Gillespie and Dudley Moore, 18 min.) Dig (Music by Quincy Jones, 25 min.) Some of the above scores are on this CD (not that I've heard it): Benny Carter / Dizzy Gillespie / Quincy Jones: "Journey To Next" [Lightyear Entertainment]. Music from a number of films made by John and Faith Hubley including Carter's score for "Urbanissimo" which was shown at the Montreal World's Fair, Expo 67.

Do you mean rats, or doctors? (DrJ, AchtungDrFreudCalling...) Actually I meant moose, rat, human . . . notice I said at least . . . thinking about it there's also a muskrat, dogs, cats, a river rat (different species?--probably) and probably a whole managerie besides. We are truly an ark. I am the third rat person, I guess, though I see as well, but there's a bunch more doctors, some of whom might actually be doctors. --eric Okay, now I get it. I thought you meant "at least three representatives of this particular species."

circa 1935 (maybe Chris has more to share?):

Do you mean rats, or doctors? (DrJ, AchtungDrFreudCalling...)

and then when we got around to the cake & candles, the fire marshal almost ran us in, too:

Happy birthday! Sorry I couldn't make the party (was roughing it on train and bus trip to the sticks sans computer) -- but I love this place and all y'all!

Then God is a complete asshole. He sets up his plan so that Judas betrays Jesus, and then blames Judas for playing his part? Well to answer that question I would have to know how God judged Judas, and I don't know that. Jesus did say "forgive them for they know not what they do". I'm having a Bob Dylan moment here: "Through many a dark hour I been thinkin' 'bout this, How Jesus Christ was Betrayed by a kiss. But I can't think for you, You have to decide Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side."

I'm twelve years older than you. I'm starting to think that owning a vehicle might be kind of cool... As I said to my 20-year-old son the other day: "I'm 51 and I've never owned my own car!" He said "You're 51??!! I thought you were only 46!" Aww... guess maybe he's hoping flattery will inch the GPA up to the tipping point...

These are the charges that weren't dropped, and she was convicted of all of them: Also, apparently an SEC civil suit is still possible: But, as others have pointed out: (All these quotes are from AP online)