Divvi, in spanish the word for 'the divine one' is la divina...second husband named the 'yacht' Divvi as a gift for a birthday, ... funny, the crew wore shirts, caps, everything with DIVVI on it...awww.. i still have a cap in my closet i took with me when i left that marriage. lots of memories attached to that cap! Divvi
I got the name Shoegirl from an episode of Sex and the City. Carrie Bradshaw was very inept technically and emailed Aidan (her former boyfriend) and signed it shoegirl. He thought it was spam.
I have had a lifelong love affair with shoes....have tons of them...always want more! That is something that AD can't take away from me.
Not at all original. First and last initial. Thought I was being wildly creative using lower case and dropping the periods. lol. I use the screenname chasearubbia other places. Combo of dogs name and a Phillipino friends last name. cs
We're CLEMSON TIGER FANS!!! Totally!... Wildly!!! Our dog is named Tigger... DH is Alumni... Clemson SC has a population of about about 11,000 people...and the football stadium there seats about 82,000!!!!! Can you imagine that small town on a football day!!! I loved the excitement, the local people, the fans, and the energy in the air when we lived there. (Was that me?)
mary75 is the first part of my student password at university where I'm in the last half of my third year, majoring in English Literature. I didn't go last semester because I needed the time to put my husband's manuscript together for the publisher. I'm hoping we can get the major job of editing done before next semester starts. I will register for the semester starting in September for Shakespeare and the Renaissence - the prof. is excellent. It will help keep my sanity - what's left of it. Now I'm 79, but I can't be bothered changing my name. Maybe when I'm eighty, in Feb.
Devi, the Divine Female, revered by all, as is revered a mother, is better and universally known as the Mother Goddess. http://www.exoticindiaart.com/article/mother/
Wow Terry!I think i have been spelling my name wrong! haha.can i be a Devi instead of a Divvi,??????? naw... guess i'll stay as is! D...just signing off as "D"..
The situation has been resolved. For now. That poster has been banned from using this website due to violations of website policy outlined in the guidelines.
Last evening a new poster appeared on this thread and made some nasty and uncalled for remarks. I seen it within minutes and e-mailed Joan and some other friends. Thank goodness she was available and got it removed a short time later.
Thanks, Lois. I'm amazed that this hasn't happened more. One of the boards I managed in the past (which didn't really get any takers, including the people who'd agitated for it) got hit by spammers. Dozens of them! ANd I couldn't figure out why my space allotment on my web server was filling up up up! Finally someone clued me in and I just trashed the whole thing!!!
I have been impressed by this sitebecause of the lack of spammers, and the coments made were very heartfelt,and none have been obnoxious. There are quality people on this site, and I am surprised that it has escaped the attention of malicious people. I guess we must keep a watchful eye, so it will never become a place where we fear to log in...Thanks again Joan for the great job monitoring your family.
Obviously, that was someone who registered for the sole purpose of causing trouble. If that ever happens again, please IGNORE the post. If you answer and defend whomever or whatever they attacked, it serves their purpose and encourages them to continue. I will, of course, continue to ban such people, but ignoring them is the best way to discourage them.
Lois, bless you for your vigilance. If you want to dream up an appropriate faux name for this individual, I nominate him/her for the slapfest. Kerfluffles among our cyber family members are one thing, but this sounds like just plain meanness from someone from "off." Better no one mess with Texas or with us. (-:
Half the girls in school were Betty, Beverly, Mary or Sue. When someone called out to 'Betty,' seven girls would turn around. So I am "this Betty over here"--don't know where the others may be at the moment. Speaking of Lanz clothes--in another lifetime, in the 1950's Los Angeles, my BIL manufactured Lanz clothes. I was the exact same size as the model they used to fit the clothes to and I got all the fitting samples just for the material cost. I loved those clothes, but then I had babies, now I'm Grammy and the clothes, the samples and the body are long gone. It was worth it tho, love my children & g'sons more than clothes. My birth name is Elizabeth Lee. I was called Betty Boop a lot, but ordinary Betty it will always be--except my DH called me Betty Lee. I liked that.
OT: How lucky you were to have all the Lanz clothes. Remember the little heart shaped buttons??? and the cute print fabrics. ANOTHER time, indeed! I remember wearing my 3" wide belts cinched up trying to get my 22-23" waist even smaller! It was "the look"... Elastic cinch belts, full skirts, petticoats... I still think that is a cute look. But not for a size 14.
And!...I am also "GRAMMY". i STILL Love to hear the voice on the phone say, "Hi Grammy"...sooooooo sweet. Even with the 30 year old grandchldren. I love being a grammy.
Nancy - When the g'sons were little & would phone, I'd always ask something like, "Is this Mickey Mouse?" They'd just giggle and giggle, but can't do that anymore--they're adults now, 25 & 22. Fabulous young men.
Yes, I was lucky w/the Lanz clothes. Couldn't have afforded them in the stores. I well remember my 22" waist, just don't know exactly where it's gone--I do have pictures tho. I remember the full petticoats, I liked our clothes. Recently wrote a story about high school, the boys combing their ducktails, lettermen sweaters, who they went out with & what they did. And we girls, in our dirndle skirts, eyelet peasant blouses & ballet slippers, sitting on the grass eating baloney sandwiches on white bread for lunch.
A few years ago I was asked to get a copy of our class picture for a reunion. I took it to the store & told the young man what I wanted. I was rolling it back up when he stopped me & looking at the picture began to stare at the girls. He said, "You all look so clean, I think I'm in love." Bottom line, I think boys like girls to be girls--at least clean--that's who the'll eventually marry. And, I still like boys to be boys--even the old geezers among us.
Bettyhere--I still have a Lanz nightgown (apparently they are still made) that's flannel and it's great for cold weather. Not sexy, but warm! We were in Vienna a few years ago and I think I remember seeing a Lanz store in the downtown area.
Does anyone still eat baloney on white bread? I think it's gone the way of the horse and buggy.
Barbara Walter's autobiography "Audition" was an interesting read ..for me. In it, she admits she adores balogna from a deli in New York and eats it often. After reading the book, I had to go to the market and bought some Boar's Head Beef Balogna w/garlic, put it on soft white bread with some mayo, and I'll admit, it was quite good. I rarely eat any sandwich meat - but it brought back memories and tastes of the past!!!
Here in Los Angeles, N.Y., Chicago, big cities you get a big choice of breads--only dweebs would ask for soft white bread. Years ago DH & I drove up to the Dakotas, Idaho, WY, etc. We'd order sandwiches & they always came on white bread, no questions & w/mayo. I ate my way thru that whole part of America, happy, satisfied & no feelings of guilt. Lucky you guys who live there. My Lanz flannel nightgown is also long gone, don't know where Lanz is sold now. Vienna's a bit far.
I am from England and I don't think I would eat Bologna if I were starving! My DH loves it so I get it for him. By the way it was really tough coming up with my screen name....Jean is my name and 21 is the date of my birth!!!!!
I think companies like Boar's Head don't put bad stuff in their bologna...especially the one that is advertised as "pure beef". I doubt I'd buy the plain ole bologna in the blister packs. Too many "unknows are ground up in them". I have a girlfriend from England that thinks eating corn on the cob is the worst thing she has ever heard of...She said corn on the cob should only be fed to hogs. haha.
Nancy B, your girlfriend is right about corn on the cob at least according to the Brits. I like it myself, better than just the kernels. I have no idea what would make it different I only know what I like!
I am a big Vermont Country store client, didn't notice Lanz, but they are getting a bit sexy--it's OK by me. The French think corn on the cob is only for animals also. Visiting here I offered it to them at a bbq & they were game enough to try, but I'm not sure they enjoyed it like we do. They won't eat p-nut butter either or drink root beer, it makes them gag. I always have to warn them that root beer is not 'biere' that it's sweet. On the other hand, I have yet to eat my first snail. Nor can I eat most of their 'lunch meats' or whatever they're called. Just looking at them takes away my appetite, but they seem to thrive on it.
I have added an "e" to brook, a spring of water. The word reminds me to appreciate the serenity and beauty just outside my door and away from the ravages of illness.
Trisinger...then you are YORK, right? A male spouse? So hard for me to keep all the screen names straight and remembering who is a man and who is a woman when the names are initials, and or composites of names.