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Raven
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Username: Raven
Post Number: 661
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 9:01 am: |     |
Well I must be losing my mind, because I really don't remember those marches and I'm pretty sure we never missed a church social. I do remember the PA Dutch polka music at the annual rehab hospital festivals--those were some very happy memories. |
Raven
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Username: Raven
Post Number: 662
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 9:09 am: | |
"Living it up now"? - not hardly! I'm one of those boring accountant types! But thanks for the concern. |
Grace_alone
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Username: Grace_alone
Post Number: 341
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 9:24 am: | |
Raven, I wouldn't want you go crazy and get drunk and streak down the street or anything! Haha
I do hope you're enjoying some cheese now and then.
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Raven
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Username: Raven
Post Number: 663
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 11:55 am: | |
Ha! Yes I definitely do cheese. And in fact today for lunch I went to Panera Bread and had what is fast becoming a favorite - their chicken salad sandwich. Awesomely yummy! |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 5051
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 1:33 pm: | |
Raven, congratulations! I remember just a few months ago chicken was still a stretch for you, although you ate it sometimes. Chicken salad is awesomely yummy!
Colleen |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 189
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 2:38 pm: | |
I take it you will still pass up my possum and grits? |
Bigal
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Username: Bigal
Post Number: 53
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 2:49 pm: | |
This will be the last word on the "Grand March" lest you think I still am into this sort of thing. Here is a link to a Grand March website that describes what it is.
River, I'll pass on the possum, but take you up on the grits. Can't get over the fact that possum might be roadkill.
Now where is that take out pizza phone number so I can order a pepperoni pizza tonight.
Alan |
Flyinglady
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Username: Flyinglady
Post Number: 3123
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 2:55 pm: | |
River,
I have gotten adventurous in my older age, so I just may take you up on that possum. Make sure there is lots of gravy or catsup or mustard.
Diana |
Agapetos
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Username: Agapetos
Post Number: 626
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 5:52 pm: | |
Dancing, I think, has a long tradition of being declared sinful by Christians who focused on perfection or on law. I remembered reading just the other day on wikipedia that John Calvin had been against dancing, showing that it was an unholy social vice which always ended withthe wealthy oppressing the poor. |
Kathy23
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Username: Kathy23
Post Number: 17
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 5:55 pm: | |
I remember those marches from 7th and 8th grade. I had no idea it was an SDA thing. I thought it was just something my teacher liked to have us do. I had no idea where he learned it or that other SDAs did this. For a "special treat" my teacher would let us miss classes to march. He would also conduct the march for Pathfinders.
Kathy |
Agapetos
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Username: Agapetos
Post Number: 629
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 6:13 pm: | |
Marches... that reminds me of when I was at elementary school we had a barn party or something like that, and had square dancing, but we couldn't call it "dancing", so in the program it was called "square marching".
And when a headdress from "Dances With Wolves" was going around the conference, when they printed a photo of it in the Review, they wrote that it was from the film "Running With Wolves". *sigh*
Ooops, I've probably shared these things before. Sorry! |
Timmy
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Username: Timmy
Post Number: 154
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 6:45 pm: | |
Did somebody say "Rook?"
Earliar someone posted one of those "You know you were an Adventist if" things: One item said. "You know you were an Adventist if, Your friend had to teach you to play peaknuckle because you were never allowed real cards... then you beat his socks off because it was so much like Rook."
Last weekend my wife and I visited the Menno-Hoff museum in Shipshawanna, In. This museum has the history of the Mennonites and Amish from the dark ages clear through today. One little display caught my attention because it had a deck of Rook cards spread out in it. Above the cards was a note that said Amish are forbidden to play real cards, but they are experts at Rook.
It dawned on me when I left that museum that the Adventist are just one click away from the Amish. Rules, rules rules... |
Jdpascal
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Username: Jdpascal
Post Number: 25
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 11:00 pm: | |
Marches weren't just an east coast thing. The last saturday night march I can remember at the Canadian CUC must have been around 67 or 68. Was the closest you could get to a girl on campus. (not counting the "mushroom" in the entrance to the girls dorm) |
Loneviking
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Username: Loneviking
Post Number: 526
Registered: 7-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 7:18 am: | |
I've never seen a Grand March done at an SDA Academy. Maybe an east coast thing? The Grand March is the formal entrance or beginning to a formal ball. I'm a civil war re-enactor and we have several formal balls each year. These period dances are a lot of fun and very different from modern dance. |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 192
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 9:28 am: | |
Lone,
Are those mini-balls you have each year? |
4truth
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Username: 4truth
Post Number: 11
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 1:56 pm: | |
Small world! Loneviking,I am a civil war buff and have read many related books and visited a few battlefields. I am looking to buy a black powder revolver to play with soon. River,I am a big bluegass and traditional music fan and play guitar and a little banjo.(in my Lutheran church, too). Back to the subject at hand, Long ago and far away, I do remember grand marches in academy, and was on a drill team in "pathfinders". I'm not sure what the purpose of the drill team was, as military service was discouraged. More SDA contradictions, I guess. |
Loneviking
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Username: Loneviking
Post Number: 527
Registered: 7-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 2:13 pm: | |
Lone,
Are those mini-balls you have each year?
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River, you're command of the English language leaves me speechless........... |
River
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Username: River
Post Number: 196
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 4:59 pm: | |
4truth
quote:River,I am a big bluegrass and traditional music fan and play guitar and a little banjo.
My favorite tune is the dueling Banjo song done for the movie "Deliverance" I just met a strummer who goes to my church so maybe I can get together with him in the near future and see if he can back me on lead, neither one of us can read music so we ought to get along good.If we miss a lick we won't give a hoot.
Glad you play good music. The modern rock stinks I do like some of the 60's and early 70's stuff.
River |
