Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

So sorry, Daphne. So much to deal with having the whole family having medical problems at the same time. I'm sure you're worried to death about all of them. Take care of yourself as this much stress could cause you to get sick, too.

Prayer, good thoughts and hugs for your whole family. :hug:  :hug:  :hug:  :hug:

Great tip, Sue Ann. My hands get so sore when jointing so I'll give that a try.

Ania...love Goldie and your avatar.

I love seeing and reading about everyone's collections.    

Shelli: Lordy Lady, do you know what you're asking? I'd have to clear the clutter and dust before I could take any pictures...let me give that some thought.        I love your birdhouses. I only have one birdhouse that my best friend's husband made and painted for me. It's up on a high shelf and I don't always see it, but I'll try to remember to get it down.

Catherine:  I bought two of the original cloth Cabbage Patch Kids signed by Xavier Roberts back about 1975/76 for my daughter...Belinda Dale and Hector York. She left them when she went to college and I love them. A friend of mine had a gift shop and she carried the originals. Another friend that I went to high school with must have bought about 30 of them and they were for her. She bought clothes for them and changed their clothes regularly and for holidays.

Thanks so much to everyone for sharing their pictures. I love them.

Oh, Daphne, you're worrying for nothing. How could she not love this little face. That picture  makes me tear up every time I look at it. That's an amazing ability to touch people like that. I can look at your bears and see a little soul behind those eyes. Others on TT have that special touch, too, and I hope to develop it as I make more bears.

If his new mama doesn't like him he can certainly have a home with me        and I promise to send you a picture every Christmas.

Thanks DebbieD, Sue Ann and Raggey Rat. I'm happy that you're enjoying your history lessons. And thank you for noticing my avatar.

Continued from yesterday...

In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. During this time, people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures. Another story was about William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance.

The government of England was a limited mockery. From the womb of Henry VIII Protestantism was born. He found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee.

Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removeable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

The greatest writter of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.

In one of Shakespeare's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. His mind is filled with the filth of incestuous sheets which he pours over everytime he sees his mother. In another play, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood.  The clown in As you Like It was named Touchdown, and Romeo and Juliet are an example of a herioc couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

I'm sure this is alot for you to absorb in one lesson, so we'll continue tomorrow...

I haven't heard about little Madeleine abduction either. I pray for her and her parents. What a scary thing for a parent to go through and what a helpless feeling it must give them.
:pray:  :pray:  :pray:

Oh, he looks so sad waving goodbye to you. He's so sweet and must be even sweeter in person for him to reach a collecter before he's even finished. Have you every had that happen before.

Claudia, moving is a huge task. I hope everything goes smoothly for you and you're able to settle in comfortably and happily.

:hug:  :hug:

Congratulations on both events!  :dance:  :dance:  :dance:
We'd like pictures of babies and bears!     

Sue Ann, you noticed! Thank you so much.  :hug:  :hug:

Oh, Teresa, I absolutely love this little kitty. She's so cute...what a face. Very cute and I bet everyone will like her. This pattern is another winner.

What an adorable picture. You were a little cutie.

Whoa...maybe he meant $2.50...or maybe his wife is making him sell off his collection and this way he scares people off before they bid.

Daphne, I love, love, love dishes...I never thought about them being a collection; I always thought they were necessary. I also love glassware...crystal glasses, glass glasses, fancy glasses, plain glasses...

Let's see, I have my original wedding china, Christmas dishes, Franciscan Desert Rose, which I love, and my everyday Fiestaware in all colors, and lots of glasses.

I have a few bears, lots of Scottie stuff, but it's scattered around the house, yards and yards of quilting fabric, probably no more than 8 or 9 yards of mohair, beads, beads, beads, books, books, books, books, books.

All of which I consider necessities of life...

Oh, Kathy, they are adorable.

I've got to remember to check Miniatures and Needlefelting more often. I'm missing things!

Very sweet.

:crackup:  :crackup:  :crackup:  :crackup:
Wonderful, loved every one.

I've never seen a duckie collection, either. Are these rubber duckies, ceramic...or just anything and everything that is duckie! Very cute.

Continuing our history lesson from yesterday...

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

In Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.

Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus." Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

Rome came to have too many luxuries and baths. At Roman banquets the guests wore garlics in their hair. They took two baths in two days and that's the cause of the fall of Rome. Rome was invaded by ballbearings and is full of fallen arches today.

Then came the Middle Ages, where everyone was middle aged. King Alfred conquered the Dames. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery with brave knights on prancing horses and beautiful women. King Harold mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. And victims of the bluebonnet plague grew boobs on their necks. Finally, Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

To be continued...can you hardly wait to see what happens next!!!

Beautiful Mom and Son.

Oh, he's definitely a rat, not your normal rat, though, and he's cute as can be.

Sandra's post about the funny things kids write in school reminded me of something my daughter brought home from her english class years ago. It was published in the May 1, 1993, issue of the National Review. Written by Richard Lederer, an english teacher at St. Paul's School, who the author of Anguished English, from which this piece is excerpted. At that time he lived in NH.

Some of these are the same as the link Melissa posted, but this is written as a complete story and does contain some things not on the website.

All spelling and punctuation is as written by the students:

Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. Early Egyptian women often wore a garment called a calasiris. It was a sheer dress which started beneath the breasts which hung to the floor.

The pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of triangular cubes.

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"

God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his 12 sons to be patriarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.

Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David's sons, had three hundred wifes and seven hundred porcupines.

Later came Job, who had one trouble after another. Eventually, he lost all his cattle and all his children and had to go live alone with his wife in the desert.

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in The Illiad, by Homer. Homer also wrote The Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

But that's not the end of the story...I'll post the second part tomorrow. I hope you all enjoy it.

Melissa: I found my copy and it's from the March 1, 1993 issue of the National Review. It was written by Richard Lederer, an English teacher, who, at least at that time, lived in NH. It's titled "Unofficial History...56 BC and All That," and he states "I have pasted together a history of the world from genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eighth grade through college level. Read carefully and you will learn alot."

It's a two page "essay" on the history of civilization and reads as a story. The website doesn't have the complete story and it is much funnier reading them all as one story. I'll start another thread and give you the first few paragraphs and see if everyone wants to continue.

Yes, yes, yes, Melissa...that's the one...so I paraphrased a little and got the composer wrong, but you knew what I meant. I giggled all the way through them. I didn't know they were online. Thanks, I will revisit them. :crackup:  :crackup:

I just went to the link and I remember they were all funny, but I'd forgotten just how hiliarious they are...here are a couple other favorites.

"Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere."

"The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet."

Thanks, Melissa, I shall go to this site when I need to really laugh.

Very cute and sweet little girl.