This is an absolutely lovely picture, ski1939
- and I think it looks exactly as you will look 15 years from now
- and I do hope to be on the safe side of infliction
- I better make it 16 years , tho
Is it a Norman Rockwell?
It could be.
This one must be just about the most warming for all of you Americans
Merry Christmas to you and yours, ski1939

- there was a special at Guggenheim ten years ago
- his art really makes you sentimental

GIBA, todo o tempo que óculos de sol risonho me faz sorrir
Isso eu disse que quando eu um dia explodiu em sua Escola de Samba
Tomei a traduzir com Google Translate, mas não estou certo de que é preciso sobre o que eu quero dizer
- Porque eu não sei Português , por isso não posso verificar a tradução
Eu sei que você às vezes obter resultados engraçado
- Uma senhora traduzido do Inglês para o dinamarquês e queria dizer que ela "está marcada em seus vizinhos"
- Mas na tradução foi torcido em sua dizendo que ela "controlada seus vizinhos"
he-he espero Google Translate faz um bom trabalho para nós, GIBA
Pena de me repetir - uma prerrogativa para oldies gosta de mim - mas eu amo essa música
- Ela me faz sorrir e me traz de bom humor - e eu amo o futebol
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GIBA, all the time you sunglass smiley makes me smile .
This I told you when I one day burst into your Samba School .
I have taken to translate with Google Translate, but I'm not sure it is accurate about what I want to say
- because I don't know Portuguese , so I cannot check the translation
I know you sometimes get funny results
- one lady translated from English into Danish and wanted to say she "checked on her neighbours"
- but in translation it was twisted into her saying that she "controlled her neighbours"
he-he I hope Google Translate does a good job for us, GIBA
Sorry for repeating myself - a prerogative for oldies like me - but I love this song
- it makes me smile and brings me in a good mood - and I love football
Brasil ♥ Brazil

My Christmas was good, thank you:
Christmas 2011
A little different from the traditional stuff, and very enjoyable for the two of us
I hope yours is, too. Are you having turkey with all the trimmings as I write?

Thank you, GeraldRube - I'm all of the above
from your synonyme shop,
- except for young!

But I make up for that by being a b***h at times
Once I read something along the lines of
Getting angry
at the right dose, for the right reason, with the right person, at the right time is an art form.
I'm still practising that

I read your link about the SEAL. No matter where you turn, there are sorrow, pain and tragedies.
Noone deserves that.

I read your other link as well. I think you meant it as a viewpoint in your ongoing political debates,
and posted it here by mistake, which I certainly don't see as an infliction.
I hope noone takes my comment as such either.
For the books: Prostitution is legal in Denmark.
You have to register with the IRS, keep books, pay income tax and VAT (+ 25%).
We have volunteer organisations who help the women who want out.
We have a surprisingly high illegal import of women.
We have many male tourists from Sweden, I think.

You would like to meet some of your cruncher friends. I can recommend it.
I had the good fortune meeting three of our Team Edwardian crunchers last September:
Edwardian, Guitar Man and Scribe - what a treat
I don't have tools, GeraldRube, but I travel
Sometime in the spring: Potsdam/Berlin, Germany,
to hike and laugh with Kati, whose lover broke up with her just as I met her on Facebook.
I reckognised her pain from my own experience, so we cried a lot backstage there.
In July it will be Norway.
On the 22th it will be one year since a man I regard as a psychopath, wrecked havoc
by exploding a fertilizer bomb in the Government district of the capitol there, Oslo, killing eight persons instantly,
and then went on to Utøya - a tiny island in the Oslo Fjord - executing 69
mainly young people attending a political summer meeting.
Bruce Springsteen had alredey scheduled concerts in Oslo on 21, 23 and 24 July.
Rumour has it he can be persuaded into doing one on that date: July 22 in that place: Utøya.
That event shall probably be for the survivors and those who loved the victims, so
I have a ticket for July 23, and I shall meet Norwegian Gunn,
the founder of a 2,650 people support group that refuses to die.
And come autumn, German Kati will come here and we'll walk along the beach,
and Guitar Man and his wife Sue will visit me.
Oh, I almost forgot!
In a few days upstairs Yvonne and I go New York and will be at
Times Square on New Years at 0500 UTC

It was there, when I clicked
- and I don't mind the slightest, GeraldRube
I think it's interesting that the viewpoint was made that
prohibition and criminalising prostitution takes it away
argueing that Sweden has less imported women that Finland
- which also happens to share borders with Sweden as Denmark does.
And that the author wanted somehow link it to something with guns.
I don't believe in prohibition of firearms either, but I sure would like to know
how we learn to avoid them being used the way that man
with his incomplete brain did that day in Norway ....
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
grieving her stepbrother - a police officer - who was among those killed.

What are you eating today, GeraldRube
Are you in Virginia or in Texas?

Thank you, John C MacAlister with the handsome name

- I will

Well, I never expected this overwhelming kindness
How about the complaints
- there gotta be some
Let's bicker