Tlw - Page 183

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:42 pm

tlw is a she?

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:43 pm

Yes indeed. she is. :-6

cars · Post by **cars** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:08 am

Greetings all! :-6

(TLW is a she when need be, a he when need be, & an it, when need be!)

:wah::p

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:56 am

cars;1099071 wrote: Greetings all! :-6

(TLW is a she when need be, a he when need be, & an it, when need be!)

:wah::p

Sounds like a worm. :yh_rotfl Morning Cars. :-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:55 pm

cars;1099071 wrote: Greetings all! :-6

(TLW is a she when need be, a he when need be, & an it, when need be!)

:wah::p

Sort of like a transvestite hermaphrodite eunuch! Um... er KINKY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:55 am

AussiePam;1099422 wrote: Sort of like a transvestite hermaphrodite eunuch! Um... er KINKY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D
OH OH, TLW is "kinky"????? Don't tell him, her, it!!! :p:D:wah:

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:34 am

Afternoon to everyone. TLW and I shall just sit over here a bit and see who wanders in.................................

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:56 pm

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:48 pm

Taking the last word!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:49 pm

No problem!!

:-6

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:31 pm

Lovely night.........................

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:05 am

Sure and it is that, indeed, Kindle, except it's not night here. Lovely though. :sneaky:

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:12 am

Hope you are enjoying your day then. I'm up late, but am just about to retire.

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:43 am

tlw~!

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:57 am

Morning Skittles :-6

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:16 pm

Monday!!! Morning all !!! tlw

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:17 pm

Whoa! You are in Monday already!!! How time flies by................ :yh_rotfl

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:30 pm

That's just what I was thinking, Kindle. And somehow it's 5 January. Or the day before Twelfth Night or is tomorrow the day before Twelfth Night?? When the Chrissie decorations are meant to come down and the world is allowed to go topsy turvy. :-3

cars · Post by **cars** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:59 pm

Took Crissy decos down yesterday, TLW was

!! (me too)

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:17 pm

AussiePam;1101390 wrote: That's just what I was thinking, Kindle. And somehow it's 5 January. Or the day before Twelfth Night or is tomorrow the day before Twelfth Night?? When the Chrissie decorations are meant to come down and the world is allowed to go topsy turvy. :-3

The 5th is the twelfth night as the 6th is Epiphany. My, how fast this Christmas season has gone by.

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:41 pm

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:06 pm

Omni_Skittles;1101820 wrote: tlw

sorry Skittles, I'm taking tlw while I run a marathon...:yh_rotfl

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:07 pm

Kathy Ellen;1101831 wrote: sorry Skittles, I'm taking tlw while I run a marathon...:yh_rotflOh but you wouldn't so, i'll go running for a while...

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:21 pm

Run, run as fast as you can while tlw and I wait for thee..............

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:22 pm

You're running a marathon, Kathy????!!! Golly gosh. I'm impressed. My red haired sister used to do that, but has given up now. I can walk the marathon but not run it. ...

I was just sorting some old photos and found some of one of my favourite Canberra Irish pubs.. Filthy McF......s!! Happy Days.

Hi Omni Skittles - how's things?

tlw

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:32 pm

Crying from sheer pain of my poorness!

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:50 pm

Wipe your tears. Tomorrow may bring a whole new situation into your life.

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:19 am

hahaha and me taking tlw

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:59 am

and me taking it back...... :yh_rotfl

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:14 am

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:17 am

When are you back in school?

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:53 am

I'm taking a mini now but the semester officially starts the 12 or something haha i just know i'm back on the 9th

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:20 am

Ah, then you are getting a nice break so that you'll be really refreshed upon your return to school.

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:30 am

Kindle;1102418 wrote: Ah, then you are getting a nice break so that you'll be really refreshed upon your return to school.
lol i don't think i'm taking a break because i'm in school now.

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:35 am

Omni_Skittles;1102436 wrote: lol i don't think i'm taking a break because i'm in school now.

What subjects do you have now?

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:37 am

Kindle;1102442 wrote: What subjects do you have now?I finished government in record time haha that's what the prof said but i am still struggling with history!!!

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:41 am

Geography is a tough one. I just recently bought myself a large world map so that I could locate all the many places they talk about in the news. I remember locations better when I can see them.

As for the history, what part of history are you covering?

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:44 am

Kindle;1102452 wrote: Geography is a tough one. I just recently bought myself a large world map so that I could locate all the many places they talk about in the news. I remember locations better when I can see them.

As for the history, what part of history are you covering?right now it's weird i have to write a poem...

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:49 am

I'd say. Sounds like they are combining English and history together........

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:51 am

Kindle;1102456 wrote: I'd say. Sounds like they are combining English and history together........
not actually write a poem but explain a poem... that was written by Phyllis Wheatley... i'm pretty much not wanting to do it at all!

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:03 pm

Omni_Skittles;1102457 wrote: not actually write a poem but explain a poem... that was written by Phyllis Wheatley... i'm pretty much not wanting to do it at all!

I'm not familar with Phyllis Wheatley. How long is the poem?

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:17 pm

their are two poems... 20 lines abot

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:28 pm

First American black female poet... which poems?

tlw

Omni_Skittles · Post by **Omni_Skittles** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:30 pm

On the Death of Mr. Snider, Murder’d by Richardson (1770)

In heavens eternal court it was decreed

How the first martyr for the cause should bleed

To clear the country of the hated brood

He whet his courage for the common good

Long hid before, a vile infernal here

Prevents Achilles in his mid career

Where'er this fury darts his Pois'nous breath

All are endanger'd to the shafts of death

To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North America (1772)

HAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,

Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:

The northern clime beneath her genial ray,

Dartmouth, congratulates thy blissful sway:

Elate with hope her race no longer mourns,

Each soul expands, each grateful bosom burns,

While in thine hand with pleasure we behold

The silken reins, and Freedom's charms unfold.

Long lost to realms beneath the northern skies

She shines supreme, while hated faction dies:

Soon as appear'd the Goddess long desir'd,

Sick at the view, she languish'd and expir'd;

Thus from the splendors of the morning light

The owl in sadness seeks the caves of night.

No more, America, in mournful strain

Of wrongs, and grievance unredress'd complain,

No longer shalt thou dread the iron chain,

Which wanton Tyranny with lawless hand

Had made, and with it meant t' enslave the land.

Should you, my lord, while you peruse my song,

Wonder from whence my love of Freedom sprung,

Whence flow these wishes for the common good,

By feeling hearts alone best understood,

I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate

Was snatch'd from Afric's fancy'd happy seat:

What pangs excruciating must molest,

What sorrows labour in my parent's breast?

Steel'd was that soul and by no misery mov'd

That from a father seiz'd his babe belov'd:

Such, such my case. And can I then but pray

Others may never feel tyrannic sway?

The book cuts them both off and that's how she said for it to be... oh bleh

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:44 pm

Try these!

http://americanhistory.suite101.com/art ... s_wheatley

Phillis Wheatley: Biography from Answers.com

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:52 pm

Tlw! :d

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:37 pm

Skittles and Pam, I've learned a bit from this. I think I could like these poems, but they take a bit of work and mulling to really capture the meaning.

I'm really impressed with her talent and how she was educated. As both a black and a woman during this period, she was unbelievablly fortunate that her natural abilities were nurtured. What a loss it would have been otherwise.

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:38 pm

Cars! Where've you been? It's just not the same without you.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:44 pm

I'd never heard of her before, Kindle. And I'm glad to make her acquaintance. I like poetry and am fortunate to own a copy (found in a second hand bookshop in the States) of The New Oxford Book of American Verse. It's only got one poem by Phillis Wheatley - On Being Brought from Africa to America - which I think has to make rather interesting reading for us these days. Someone will no doubt take offense if I quote it - even for historical interest, so I'll just put in a hyperlink :-6

Poems of Phillis Wheatley

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:59 pm

That is cool, Pam, and I see why you think it might offend. I shall have to look through some of my books and see if I can find anything by or about her.

Thank you Skittles for the introduction to a new poet.