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This is a double repost . These two features have been repeated  before , with text added. Whether the text adds value is a judgement question. For today’s entertainment, the added value text will be included. Historic pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Two features, posted two times each, is four. These two features are about rules for living, that come in groups of four. There is a symmetry about four. Four Beatles, Four seasons, for corners, four elements. This number is a homonym partner with for and fore. White people say fo wer, black people say fo. And so it goes.
When PG was a kid, his grandmother lived in a side apartment, in a house on Virginia Avenue. The owner of the house was Mrs. Stuckey. ( PG never learned her “real” name, and assumed that checks were made out to Mrs.) There was a framed piece of paper in Mrs. Stuckey’s hall. The top said “The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say or do” , and featured the logo of the Rotary Club. The four rules were simple, on the surface.  Is it the TRUTH?//Is it FAIR to all Concerned?//Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?//Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The four way test was written by Herbert J. Taylor. In 1932, Mr.Taylor took over the bankrupt Club Aluminum Company of Chicago. Trying to revive the company during the depression, Mr. Taylor wrote a code of ethics, that would be the basis for the company’s actions.
Many said that the four way test was not practical for the business world. The balancing of integrity and ambition can be daunting. It was said that “This emphasis on truth, fairness and consideration provide a moral diet so rich that it gives some people “ethical indigestion.”
PG maintains that fair is a baseball hit between first and third base. Sometimes, the umpire makes the wrong call. In the “real world”, the different points of view in a dispute make rendering a fair judgment a difficult task, if not an impossible one.
There is a story about the revival of Club Aluminum. ” One day, the sales manager announced a possible order for 50,000 utensils. Sales were low and the company was still struggling at the bankruptcy level. The senior managers certainly needed and wanted that sale, but there was a hitch. The sales manager learned that the potential customer intended to sell the products at cut-rate prices. “That wouldn’t be fair to our regular dealers who have been advertising and promoting our product consistently,” he said. In one of the toughest decisions the company made that year, the order was turned down. There was no question this transaction would have made a mockery out of The Four-Way Test the company professed to live by.”
How did the sales manager learn of the intentions of this buyer? Was he tipped off by one of the “regular customers” who feared competition? Was this “regular customer” lying? Many inspirational stories leave out crucial details.
As it turns out, Club Aluminum did sell enough product to emerge from bankruptcy. “By 1937, Club Aluminum’s indebtedness was paid off and during the next 15 years, the firm distributed more than $1 million in dividends to its stockholders. Its net worth climbed to more than $2 million.”
Club Aluminum cookware was cast, not spun. It is heavy, and is a prized collectors item today. As for the Club Aluminum company ” Standard International Corporation bought it in 1968. Regalware made and marketed Club Aluminum for a while, but went out of business in the mid-1980s. The brand name was eventually obtained by the Mirro Company.”
This is a repost. Philosophy and rules for living is always a crowd pleaser. Whether or not you practice what you preach is beside the point.
There is a story above. A company, facing bankruptcy, turned down a huge order because of concerns about how the product would be resold. Today, this seems quaint. Today, the moral thing to do would be to take the order, keep your factory busy, and not worry how it was going to be resold. While some pretend that moral rules are unchanging, the truth is that they do change with the times.
This reminds PG of a story from his days as a blueprinter. With ammonia developed prints, every print is fed by hand, and you have the option to adjust the speed of the machine. Slower prints mean less background, which to some is a higher quality print. ( This is not an issue with digital printing. Some change is indeed progress.)
The company PG worked for was affiliated with a small, family run company in a neighboring city. This company was run by an old fashioned lady, who insisted on adjusting every print to get the perfect background. This was different from the company PG worked for, which ran large jobs for the big city market. To his customers, quality meant getting an acceptable print, DELIVERED ON TIME. Who had the higher standards? Maybe that is a question for the customer to judge.

Today’s story is a double repost. Part is just as true today as two years ago. The other part is just as false. It is up to the reader to tell which is which.
These thoughts are for you to use. They were articulated by a man named Don Miguel Ruiz. They are called the Four Agreements. . HT to activecitizen54..
PG does not claim to live up to these ideals. Number two is especially tough for him. The main thing is to try, and to always do your best. This is not about what you believe or think, it is about what you do.
agreement 1–Be impeccable with your word – Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
agreement 2–Don’t take anything personally – Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
agreement 3–Don’t make assumptions – Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
agreement 4–Always do your best – Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end.
He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.
When the Director of Nursing became aware of Edna’s heroic act, she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell End the news she said,
“Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you’re being discharged. Since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.
The bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in his bathroom with the belt of his robe right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he’s dead.”
Edna replied; “He didn’t hang himself. I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?”

There comes a time when famous people streak in public. The crowd at the parade hears what the little boy says about the emperors fashion statement. Often, it happens bit by bit, like a striptease, until the public knows the truth. This reporter gets the sense that Mitt Romney just pulled off his garter belt, and is about to go for the full monty.
The video embedded in this post is tough to look at. A young man, who cannot tolerate chemical marijuana substitutes, asks Mr. Romney if he will be arrested. The candidate refuses to answer the question, and walks away, to smile for another camera.
On June 9, 1954, Joe McCarthy was set to fall. On March 9, 1954, Edward Murrow broadcast a show highly critical of the Senator. On June 9, the Senate was holding a televised hearing, discussing communism in the U.S. Army. Senator McCarthy was denouncing a young lawyer, and was interrupted by Joseph_N._Welch , an attorney working for the Army. “ You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” Senator McCarthy was seen as a worthless bully, and was soon out of power.
PG remembers the day he saw the real Jesus. A co worker was an aggressive Jesus worshiper. He humiliated PG with a sermon one afternoon. A few minutes later, the co worker answered the phone, and was heard screaming “I never felt better in my life”.
The video seen here may not be the fatal blow to Mitt Romney. He faces weak opposition in the Republican party, and BHO is beatable. On the other hand, the primary season is just getting started. Many more pieces of straw are going to fall on the camel’s back.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress

PG notices details, sometimes. One thing is the time on clocks and watches in ads. The time is 10:09:36. Sometimes, it is 01:51:25. There are occasional exceptions, but 10:09:36 seems to be an industry standard. This is a repost.
It focuses attention on the top part of the watch, and makes the bottom part visible. Typically, the logo of the manufacturer is framed by the hands. The manufacturer wants the logo to be visible in the ads.
The hands lifted upward make a welcoming gesture. If you hold your arms out at the 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock positions, it will look like you are about to hug someone. This shape also looks like a smile.
After this, we get into the myths. At this particular time (10:09:36) US deployed the atom bomb on Japan. This particular time is used to remind people of the US dominance. A bit of research into pre atom bomb advertising might disprove that, but PG thinks that is too much work.
Another hypothesis is that Abraham Lincoln was shot at 10:15 pm on April 14, 1865, and died at 7:22 the next day. How this translates into 10:09:36 is anyone’s guess. It should also be noted that standard time was not used in the United States until 1883. Thus, the precise “time” of Mr. Lincolns retirement is not known.
Someone wrote the Timex company about this issue.
A: WE CALLED TIMEX FOR YOUR ANSWER AND IT SAYS THE HANDS ON A CLOCK ARE PLACED AT TEN-TEN BECAUSE IT’S A CREATIVE STANDARD INDUSTRY. TIMEX SAYS THE HANDS ON TIMEPIECES ARE PLACED AT TEN-TEN SO THE COMPANY LOGO ON THE FACE WILL BE FRAMED AND NOT BLOCKED BY THE HANDS.
TIMEX SAYS THE INDUSTRY STANDARD USED TO BE EIGHT-TWENTY BUT THAT LOOKED TOO MUCH LIKE A FROWN AND CREATED AN UNHAPPY LOOK. TIMEX SAYS IN ITS ADS, THE CLOCK HANDS ARE PLACED AT TEN-NINE AND THIRTY SIX SECONDS, EXACTLY.”
Another source discusses this issue when the “creative standard industry” was 8:20. At that time people still said it was the time that Abe Lincoln was shot and or died.
Yet another source, the poetically named stupidquestion.net, has a few more tidbits. It seems like in the 1880’s, pocket watches became popular. In ads, the case was shown more than the face. The omega watchmaker established the 10:08:35 standard in 1915, and the industry followed suit. This would also seem to contradict the atom bomb theory given above.
PG has always wondered something else. Are all photographs for watch ads shot at 10:09:36? If not, then the ads are a lie. According to StupidQuestions, watchmakers send out non functioning dummy watches that are frozen at a certain time. PG ( who does not wear a watch, but uses wall clocks) says this makes him question the honesty of the ad.

The internet product sensation of the day is a video, “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus“. When this reaction was written, it had 3,256,538 views, with 52,544 comments. PG is not impressed.
1- It is not what you say, it is how you say it. This video is one man speaking. He clearly enjoys the sound of his voice. He speaks fast and strong, with growing intensity. He spits out thought after thought after thought, in machine gun fashion. The listener does not have a chance to think about what is being said. The listener does not have a chance to consider if what he just heard is the truth. It is a speech by a demagogue. If you enjoy being moved by a speaker like this, then you might enjoy this.
2- He denounces religion, but repeats the same talking points of religion. He makes the word religion to be the bad guy in his diatribe. The leaders of “religion” are onto this. They know that people do not like “religion”. ( I am spiritual but not religious.) In many discussions today, the word “faith” is used as a substitute for religion. People will soon say the same things about faith that they do about religion.
3- The lecturer, Jefferson Bethke, has the same obsession with life after death as Christianity. The religion has devolved into a scheme for life after death. This attitude has warped Christianity.
4- Hate is hate. It is a powerful emotion, and can do great damage. When you hate something like religion, or sin, you are going to wind up hating people as part of the bargain.
5- PG sees Jesus in the words and deeds of those who believe in him. This speech does not make Jesus look good.
6- There are probably more things that could be said about this speech. However, the thought of listening to it a second time is too horrible.
7- Many of the people who are cheering this video are the ones the speaker is talking about.
8- Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.

Good Morning G-d. Please give me the slack I need to make it through this life. Please give me less pain, both above and below the neck. Thank you for letting me get this far. Thank you for the gift of sobriety, and the memory of inebrience. The gift of moderation would have been appreciated. Help me to overcome the body chemistry that tells me to be unhappy.
Please tell the Jesus Worshipers to shut up. They make too much noise. Help me to forgive them. Give Jesus Worshipers a bit more humility. Help Jesus Worshipers to get over their confusion, and quit hating gay people. Let people know that G-d does not write books. Let men know that A REAL MAN KEEPS CONTROL OF HIS TEMPER. Please tell the proud people praying today that it is better to listen than to talk.
Please find a happy medium for Atlanta water. Let us have neither drought nor flood. It would help if the developers would move to North Carolina, and the politicians would grow a conscience. This may be asking too much.
G-d, Please try to get along better with Allah. This is important. Maybe if you and her got along better, then all those religious crazies would hate each other less. Help white people and black people get along better. Please be good to the people who have already lived, and are now deceased. Please understand that I am not in a hurry to join the deceased.
Help Mr. Obama with the mess this country is in. Help Israel get along with her neighbors, and live within her borders. Help the world solve the carbon dioxide problem.
Thank you for the birds that sing. I will listen to them, and not an electronic device. Thank you for dogs, and dog owners who clean up. Thank you for earth, air, fire, and water. Thank you for incomplete lists. Namaste, amen, all my relations, Good Bye.
This prayer was written for the National Day of Prayer in 2009. Not much has changed. Atlanta has gotten some rain, and the legislature has done very little to solve the long term water crisis. The custom of prayer has gotten attention, through the actions of a show off quarterback. People continue to talk too much, both to other people and to G-d. Almost no one questions this separation of G-d and Man. BHO has been a  disappointment. The inept opposition may help him to a second term. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress .

There is a graphic moving around facebook at the moment. You might know one of the 21,629 people who share this. The graphic (which must be retyped) says:
Salary of retired US Presidents…..$450,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate members …..$174,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of Speaker of the House……$223,500 FOR LIFE
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders…..$193,400 FOR LIFE
Average salary of a soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN……$38,000
Average income for seniors on SOCIAL SECURITY……$12,000
I think we found where the cuts should be made! If you agree .. Pass it on!
PG made a comment …. I know where the cuts should be made.
BRING THE SOLDIER DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN HOME TODAY!
The money paid to unpopular politicians is an easy target for rabble rousers. What they don’t tell you is the profits being produced by killing women and children in Afghanistan. It is estimated that it takes $1,000,000 per soldier per year to fight a war. Where does that $962,000 go?
Before we go any further with this, it should be noted that most statistics are lies. PG does not know where the originator of this graphic got the numbers. The $1,000,000 per soldier per year number is also suspect. Creative accounting is an art form in Washington, and the truth is we just don’t know how much those crooks are taking home.
The pensions paid to former government officials are puny, compared to the money they make in crooked deals. Newt Gingrich is a one man profit center. ” Gingrich defended his actions by stating that his lobbying is not technically lobbying because it “benefits the country at large.” (PG was chatting with a friend once. She was self employed, by entertaining gentlemen callers. She called it consulting.)
Since leaving the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton have made truckloads of money. Hillary tried to buy her own term in the White House. After she lost to ace fundraiser BHO, Hillary wrote off $13,200,000 she loaned her campaign. “The senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, released income tax returns during her presidential campaign that showed the couple earned $109 million in eight years. Their annual income rose to $20.4 million in 2007 from $420,000 in 1999. Almost half the Clintons’ income during those years, $51.9 million, came from the former president’s speeches.”
Pictures for this feature are from The Library of Congress

Chamblee54 is not too proud to recycle posts , often more than once . This one is about ugly. If you are looking for beauty, and her mouthy stepsister truth, then look elsewhere.
Beauty is skin deep. Ugly is to the bone.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Ugly uses all five senses.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: I don’t want to see you people, you are all too ugly.
Stevie Wonder: All I see are beautiful people.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: You know, Stevie Wonder wants to make a lot of money, so he can have an operation and see.
Ray Charles: It’s crying time again.
She is so ugly, she could make a freight train take a dirt road.
He is so ugly, when he was born the doctor slapped his mother.
Is that your face, or did your neck throw up?
French for ugly is : laid m., laide f . Can we say irony?
There are some Jesus Worship blogs that PG likes to read. One of them recently made the lighthearted suggestion that ugly people were not welcome at the church of the other one. The recipient of this comment found this to be “the deeply offensive false accusation he keeps leveling at me.”
FromTheMorning is the one standing up for the pulchritude challenged. (Regrettably, From the Morning is no longer published.)
Pyromaniacs is the aggrieved party here. They say that ugly people “are not only welcome at my church; many of us actually participate in the ministry there”. PG believes you.
Ugly has another meaning. In fact, this is the first meaning PG heard for the U word, years before he connected it to people with unpleasant faces. It is about ugly behavior. People that are mean and cruel to each other. That is ugly.

Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties & local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink by any woman. Many females use a date-rape-drug on the market called ‘Beer ‘.
The drug is found in liquid form and is available anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, from taps, and in large kegs. ‘Beer ‘ is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and sleep with them.
A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of ‘Beer’ and then simply ask him home for no-strings-attached sex. Men are rendered helpless against this approach. After several applications of ‘Beer’, men will often succumb to the desires to sleep with women to whom they would never normally be attracted. Men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that ‘something bad’ occurred.
At other times these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life’s savings, in a familiar scam known as ‘a relationship’ . In extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer-term form of servitude and punishment referred to as ‘marriage’. Men are much more susceptible to this scam after ‘Beer ‘ is administered and sex is offered by the predatory females.
If you fall victim to this ‘Beer ‘ scam and the women administering it, there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter with similarly victimized men. For the support group nearest you, just look up ‘Golf Courses’ in the phone book.

There is a tumblr site, Hot and Busted . It is mug shots of young, white males, that appeal to the blog owner. They are gathered from the various places that post mug shots. Many of these gentlemen are in Florida, Texas and Alabama. As the blog owner (BO) says, “I generally find them on mugshot aggregate and sheriff’s department websites. While the process can be tedious at times, I certainly enjoy it.”
The names of juveniles have always been left out of crime stories. Evidently, the rules for mug shot websites are different. Many of these people are clearly minors.
The BO has a few words about the concept of his tumblrama. “Regarding my inspiration for the blog, getting arrested introduced me to the booking process and the entire experience of incarceration. I realized that mugshots weren’t just photographs — rather, they served as the quintessential visual symbol of one’s whole arrest and time behind bars. Furthermore, the mugshot provides an incredibly vivid portrait of one’s face and shoulders at their most vulnerable moment. The beauty of the human face and the cruelty of the criminal justice system collide in these curious images. Not to mention, of course, that “bad boys” possess a certain allure, and mugshots capture these alleged criminals at their most sinister.”
The images here are “head shots” i.e. pictures taken above the neck. As a practical matter, this is how mug shots are done. This comment dialog goes into this. Anonymous asked: It makes me sad that “headshots” are taken literally. For some of these hot guys being arrested while shirtless, they should really be photographed from the waist up. BO Hahaha, although I understand your sentiment, there would be no practical purpose for photographing the entire upper body of an arrestee, unless they were covered with tattoos or other identifying marks. I would love to see that, though. Maybe nudes as well? 124-456 said: They really should take full body photos. We need to see all possible identifying marks or the absence thereof. For instance, exactly how much body hair, where, and what texture/color? Cut or uncut? Also, any info about body odor?
Most people who visit HAB notice quickly the skin color of the models. They are all white, and appear to speak english as their primary tongue. To the BO, it is a statement about white privilege. “I have answered this question before, but I suppose I should clarify once more. Hot and Busted only profiles white men because I choose not to advance the pernicious stereotype of nonwhite criminality, specifically when it comes to African Americans. As a white person, I recognize that some whites tend to envision their “race” as superior to others; this seems most apparent when considering the fact of white privilege. To wit, white people are never asked to defend or “speak for” their race, whereas this notion of a “racial representative” frequently arises among African Americans or Latinos. By posting only mugshots of white men, I hope to dispel the myth that only racial and ethnic minorities get arrested. Of course, blacks and Latinos hold higher rates of incarceration per capita, and racial profiling by police certainly occurs. Nonetheless, it is critical to understand the enormous problems that beleaguer our justice system from the macro level first — i.e., recidivism, unjust drug laws, etc. — before addressing the disparate treatment of racial and ethnic minorities. On the whole, I wish white people would view themselves through the eyes of other historically stigmatized races and realize the perquisites of whiteness. “
This comment dialog goes a bit further. Anonymous asked: oh please, dont tell me your tumblr is some kind of social tool that’s goal is to change white minds. the fact is you are only attracted to white guys. plain and simple. young ones at that. if your pseudo retarded social justice thesis were the case, itd be called ‘white and busted’. be real kid. be real, and people will respect it more. what you are doing is more detrimental to whatever lame ideas you have because its once again only showcasing whiteness, and attractive whites at that. be real. BO I appreciate your incoherent response, but the fact remains that you cannot know my personal tastes. Of course I am attracted to men of all phenotypes, but I don’t feel the need to prove that to a derelict like yourself. In no way do I force you to accept my “social justice thesis.” Nonetheless, the sole reason I do not post the mugshots of nonwhites on this blog is because I cannot stand the kinds of racial assumptions that would arise from it. Even within the white normative LGBT community, for instance, we see whites gravitating to African American and Latino men because they satisfy some “thuggish” impulse. I will not stand for this arcane and atavistic behavior. Furthermore, I will not stand for your deplorable syntax and poorly formulated ideas. In summation, go fuck yourself and then read a book.”
Many of the comments are supportive. They are not as much fun as these exchanges. Anonymous asked: making young girls glorify criminals because they’re “hot”? this is just fucking fantastic… BO Are you a socially conservative Republican? Are you excited that Rick Santorum might emerge victorious in the Iowa Caucus? internetcoffeephone said: Girls? You must be new here. … Anonymous asked: the way you present yourself and word things doesn’t make you seem smarter, it makes you seem like a pretentious asshole. just saying. BO Maybe I am a pretentious asshole? Either way, go fuck yourself.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These are Union soldiers from the War Between the States. It is unlikely that any of them were in trouble for possesion of controlled substances, or driving under the influence. While their crimes may have been minor, their punishment was much worse than anything the Hot and Busted bois will face.

Back to empathy for a minute. The word always takes PG back to an auditorium in Clarkston GA in 1971. PG was in his first quarter at Dekalb College. Today,the institution is known as Georgia Perimeter College. One of the selling points of college has always been the outside speakers that were brought to campus. This day, the subject was abortion.
A note on set and setting is appropriate. In 1971, New York state had legalized the abortion procedure. Roe vs. Wade was in the pipeline that would lead to the Supreme Court. That ruling would not be issued for another fifteen months. In the meantime, abortion was illegal in 49 states, including Georgia. The debate about abortions was not as politicized as today. The nomenclature of pro-choice, and pro-life, had not entered the vocabulary.
The Vietnam war was still being fought, although with fewer Americans in combat. The withdrawal of US forces took most of the steam out of the anti war movement. The modern spectacle of a person supporting a war, while claiming to be pro life, did not happen.
PG walked into the auditorium and found a seat. The lady began her presentation. After a few minutes of talk, she said something about a woman who was artificially inseminated, with masturbated semen. The house lights were dimmed. A black and white film of an abortion was shown. It was noted when the fetus went into the vacuum cleaner attachment. The house lights were brought back up. They should have remained dim, as the woman was not kind on the eyes.
The closing part of her presentation was a song she wrote. She sang acapella. The song was written out of empathy with the not to be born baby. The song was titled “My mother My grave”.
PG left the auditorium, and went to world history class.

It started when PG found a picture of Toco Hill shopping center in 1961. He sent a copy to a friend who lives near there, and she replied “Amazing photo. North Druid Hills Rd. looks like the outer reaches of suburbia. Times sure have changed.”
PG (who has too much free time) re-replied “Toco Hills was suburbia, though maybe not the outer reaches. Mom and Dad got married in 1951. They got an apartment on Skyland Drive, near Buford hiway and Clairmont road. At the time, Buford hiway was a two lane road. (The widening took place in the early seventies, after I got my license and got to suffer.) Mom had choir practice at her church on Peachtree and Fourth. (The phrase Midtown was not heard until the eighties.) Dad would go get her, and bring her home. Their was a farmer who would go to the restaurants, and pick up leftovers to feed to his pigs. Dad’s car was usually stuck behind him. In the summer this was not pleasant.”
This got PG to wondering about Toco Hills, specifically, why do they call that area “Toco Hills”. (The shopping center uses the singular.)A visit to Google City showed something called Toco Hills NORC . It says, regarding the area, “Toco Hills is what we call a NORC, an acronym for Naturally Occurring Retirement Community. Toco Hills is a community where the majority of older adults have decided to remain in their homes as long as possible”.
PG then found a neighborhood organization called the Toco Hills Alliance , located in a church. He made a phone call, and talked to a lady working there. She did not know the origin of the name Toco Hills. She did know that her children had gone to elementary school across the street from shopping center. The neighbors had fought the plans to build a shopping center across the street from a school.
The lady at the THA recommended a construction company, and PG gave them a call. It turns out an old timer at the company knew the story. It seems like a man was in Brazil, doing construction projects during World War Two. He had a housekeeper, who was a Brazilian Indian. Whenever he would put in a bid on a job, the housekeeper would say “toco”. It seems that toco is a Brazilian Indian word for “more luck than you can imagine.”
This is a repost
Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.

The crew at DangerousMinds had a festive feature, Think you need an exorcism? Take the Demon Test®! It was the handiwork of a professional exorcist named Bob Larson . (If you are late with payment, you might get re possessed.) DM refused to link to his site.
The Demon Test® is not free. Paying for anything like this is against PG’s core beliefs. A decision was made to  look at the other google results.
OK Cupid has “The Angel or Demon Test”. It is a series of multiple choice questions. PG usually has to choose the least bad answer to these. Number twenty is typical. Sucking… A cute baby breastfeeding. Awww… – Being a total jerk. – Yummy… sex… – A night creature drinking human blood. You have to sign up for a dating service to get the results.
Selectsmart chimes in with How DEMONIC are you? . This is another multiple choice, with questions like 8. Which name comes to mind quickest? Hittler Jason (Friday 13th) An evil demon named Billy-Bob Bo-Jangles George W. Bush Undecided. The undecided option is nice, as is the chance to rate how important this question is. The results: (100%) Evil Goth (85%) Demonic Bloodbath Killer (71%) Neutral (62%) Bloody-Gothic-Vampire (28%) Angelic (26%) Heavenly Jesus Freak.
HellOQuizzy (who might be Irish) has another version of “The Demon Test”. The Answer is Phenex, Visionary Muse. A site called Nerdtests required proof of age, and set off a virus alert. This was followed by a tasteful notice that a bug had been spotted in the works. At this point, curiosity about demons is no longer a priority.

Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life. – Brooke Shields
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. – Dan Quayle
So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? — Christina Aguilera
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. – Ivana Trump
I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism. – Milos Forman .
When I’m a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they’ll believe me because they weren’t listening to me. – Kylie Bax, Model/Actress.
The internet is a great way to get on the net. – Bob Dole
You guys, line up alphabetically by height. – Bill Peterson, football coach
I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada. – Britney Spears
I think war is a dangerous place. – George W. Bush
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. – Greg Norman, Golfer
It’s nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he’ll bring a drill or something. – Brooke Shields
Rotarians, be patriotic! Learn to shoot yourself. – Gyrator, Chicago Rotary Club journal
These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.
Chuck Person, NBA Basketball player
I’m so smart now. Everyone’s always like ‘take your top off’. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I’m not stupid. – Paris Hilton
I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. – Mariah Carey,
Predictions are difficult. Especially about the future. – Yogi Berra
My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.
Chuck Nevitt, basketball player
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century. – Dan Quayle
And now the sequence of events in no particular order. – Dan Rather
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. – George W Bush
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. – Dizzy Dean
I was in a no-win situation, so I’m glad that I won rather than lost. – Frank Bruno, Boxer
I have opinions of my own –strong opinions– but I don’t always agree with them. – George Bush
I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. –
George Rogers, NFL RB
I do not like this word “bomb.” It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador
The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. – Joe Theisman
Half this game is ninety percent mental. – Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it.
Mike Smith, Baseball pitcher, ordering a salad at a restaurant.
If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn’t own anything. My wife’s a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven’t sold them. – Ted Turner
They misunderestimated me. – George W Bush
I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to. – Linda Evangelista, Supermodel
Facts are stupid things. – Ronald Reagan
What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
That’s just the tip of the ice cube. – Neil Hamilton, BBC2
A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man. – Samuel Goldwyn
I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid. – Terry Bradshaw, Former football player/announcer
It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment, it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. – Dan Quayle
I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. –
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush. – Sylvestor Stallone
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur. – Dan Quayle
Will the highways on the internet become more few? – George W Bush
Traditionally, most of Australia’s imports come from overseas.
Keppel Enderbery, Former Australian cabinet minister
There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964. – Roger Daltrey
We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees. – Jason Kidd
I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa. — Britney Spears
Pitching is 80% of the game. The other half is hitting and fielding. – Mickey Rivers, baseball player
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. – Dan Quayle
Put the ‘off’ button on. – George W. Bush
So Carol, you’re a housewife and mother. And have you got any children? -Michael Barrymore
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. – Fran Lebowitz, US writer
We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? – Lee Iacocca
For NASA, space is still a high priority. – Dan Quayle
He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer
If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight. – George Gobel
If only faces could talk… – Pat Summerall
Every minute was more exciting than the next. – Linda Evans, actress
I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me. — Jessica Simpson
This collection of quotes was originally published by 2Spare , a digital facility that advertises “Endless entertainment to spare”. PG does not know where 2Spare got this content. The accuracy, and context, of these entertaining quotes is not known. Even though most of the quotes originated in English, the possibility of translation errors exists. The original title was “60 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes”. The use of the superlative is questionable, as is the celebrity status of Dan Quayle. Pictures for this waste of bandwidth are from The Library of Congress .

This is not going to end well. There is a facebook app, “who is just like me?”. PG does not do fb apps. When he went to see Mr.Google about an alternative, there was a Charles Addams drawing of the Addams Family in place of the G word. Does Mr. Google think that Morticia Addams is just like PG?
The top result is a video by Jamie Foxx, seen 11,571,569 times. PG does not like it.
The next non Foxx result is a study, Just Like Me: Online Training Helpers More Effective When They Resemble Students. “It is important that the people who design online training programs understand that one size does not fit all,” says Dr. Lori Foster Thompson, an associate professor of psychology at NC State and co-author of the study.” The reader goes on to learn that the animated paper clip from MS word is named “clippy”. Woe unto anyone who is just like clippy.
There is a book, Children Just Like Me: A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World. . Different Just Like Me was “as seen on Oprah”. PG was about to give up on this feature, but went to page two, and hit the jackpot.
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At the bottom of the ad, there is a link, Attention Spans Have Dropped from 12 Minutes to 5 Minutes — How Social Media is Ruining Our Minds . Pictures are from The Library of Congress.