Daily Archives: 27/01/2012

Words You Don’t Hear Anymore

Posted on 27/01/2012 | Leave a comment

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  1. Be sure to refill the ice trays, we’re going to have company. [I say this because my ice maker is always broken!]
  2. Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter to Willie in the mail today.
  3. Quit slamming the screen door when you go out!
  4. Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a shower is coming up. [I say this.]
  5. Don’t forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.
  6. Wash your feet before you go to bed, you’ve been playing outside all day barefooted.
  7. Why can’t you remember to roll up your britches legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.
  8. You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.
  9. Don’t you go outside with your school clothes on! [I say this since here in Louisiana schools they wear uniforms.]
  10. Go comb your hair, it looks like the rats have nested in it all night.
  11. Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle.
  12. Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won’t have to pay a deposit on another one.
  13. Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won’t get on it. [I put a dish towel over the cakes when they come out the oven because my mother always did that. LOL, now I know why she did it!]
  14. Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don’t quit! [I sometimes say this.]
  15. Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him.
  16. You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off.  [LOL]
  17. There’s a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town.[LOL]
  18. Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is getting hot. [I say this when we have a hurricane and the lights go out for weeks.]
  19. You can walk to the store; it won’t hurt you to get some exercise. [I say this since we have 2 small little stores in walking distance.]
  20. Sit closer to the radio, don’t turn it up so loud.
  21. Don’t lose that button; I won’t be able to sew it back on.
  22. Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there. [I tell them just to go wash the dirt off if they come in dirty.]
  23. Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread!
  24. Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we don’t have to do that tonight in the dark. [I say this when we have a hurricane and the lights go out for weeks.]
  25. Here, take this old Sears and Roebuck catalog to the toilet with you when you go, we are almost out of paper out there. [LOL]
  26. Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water so I can wash dishes. [LOL] 
  27. Don’t turn the radio on now, I want the battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.
  28. No! I don’t have 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think money grows on trees? [LOL]
  29. Eat those turnips, they’ll make you big and strong like your daddy. [My  mother use to say this! LOL]
  30. That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don’t care how cold it is out there, dogs don’t stay in the house. [No, a lot of people treat their dogs better than they treat their children these days or just as well as they treat their children.]
  31. Sit still! I’m trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is all messed up.
  32. Hush your mouth! I don’t want to hear words like Dad Gummit! I’ll wash your mouth out with soap! [LOL]
  33. It is time for your system to be cleaned out. I am going to give you a dose of castor oil tonight. [Oh! memories of childhood.]
  34. Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way! [LOL]
  35. Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that bad cut won’t get infected.
  36. When you take your driving test, don’t forget to signal each turn. Left arm straight out the window for a left turn; left arm bent up at the elbow for a right turn; and straight down to the side of the door when you are going to stop. [LOL]
  37. It’s: Yes Ma’am! and No Ma’am! to me, young man, and don’t you forget it! [Here in Louisiana, schools are trying to bring this one back.]
  38. Hurry up and finish drying the dishes so we can go ketch sum lightnin bugs and pit ‘em in a jar.
  39. Y’all come back now, ya hear. [Down here, we still say this. Only it’s Y’all come back, now. or Don’t be strangers.]

I truly regret some of you [who] are [so ] young enough that you missed out on most of these great memories.

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History Lesson On Your SS Card

Posted on 27/01/2012 | 1 Comment

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[My SS card was issued in 1969 and, indeed, the Not for Identification is not on it. Neither does it appear on my children’s, but there is something strange.

The information provided on the back of my card exactly as it’s written: Contact any social security office immediately if you: lose your card—to get a duplicate card.; change your name—to get a card in your new name.; are unable to work because of a severe disability expected to last a year or more.; are 62 or older—to ask about retirement checks.; are within 2 or 3 months of age 65, even if you don’t plan to retire—to sign up for Medicare. [Then at the very bottom] Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration Form OA-702 (5-80)

Here’s what’s on my children’s, again exactly as it’s written: (Date: 1995) This card is the official verification of your Social Security number. Please sign it right away. Keep it in a safe place. Improper use of this card or number by anyone is punishable by fine, imprisonment or both. This card belongs to the Social Security Administration and you must return it if we ask for it. If you find a card that isn’t yours, please return it to: Social Security Administration, P.O. Box 17087, Baltimore, MD 21235. For any other Social Security business/information, contact your local Social Security office. If you write to the above address for any business other than returning a found card, it will take longer for us to answer your letter. [At the bottom] Social Security Administration Form SSA—3000 (4-95)

On my youngest: (Date: 2000) All is the same except: The address is P. O .Box 33008, Baltimore, MD 21290-3008, and the form is Form SSA—3000 (6-99)

I find that the information on my children’s cards is more authoritative sounding than on mine. It’s almost like more control is being put into play. Of course, that could be just me. Read the following. It’s very interesting.]

I checked my SS Card and it says “Not For Identification”! Of course it’s 43 years old and still the original one I was issued!

Just in case some of you didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security [SS] Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

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An old Social Security card with the “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION” message.

Our Social Security: Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

  1. Participation in the program would be completely voluntary.
    No longer voluntary.
  2. Participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the program.
    Now 7.65%, on the first $90,000.
  3. The money the participants elected to put into the program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year.
    No longer tax deductible.
  4. The money the participants put into the independent Trust Fund rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other government program.
    Under Johnson, the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent.
  5. The annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
    Under Clinton & Gore: Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed.

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month, [we] find that we are being taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government.

You may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent Trust Fund and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it? 
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the tie-breaking deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US.

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!

The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it! Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! And, the worst part about it is… uninformed citizens believe it!

The most recent tax break that the puppet administration is pushing is, in fact, a reduction in the FICA tax that workers pay, which goes to pay Social Security, which is unfunded.  Why not cut some other tax rather than the FICA tax?

IF enough people SEE this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve.

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Need Your Take

Posted on 27/01/2012 | 2 Comments

Explanation to questions I’ve asked below: I’m working on a series of novels, in the 3rd book one of my main characters falls in love with a married man. His marriage is on the rocks, but he’s still married. I have no experience in this department, so I’m hoping to get responses that would aid in my research. My questions are not about judging people, they’re about finding out what people think. Yes, the questions are a bit blunt, and may go against your beliefs but in my writing, I like to be as realistic as possible. Your responses will help that be reality. You may know someone who was in this situation. I don’t want names! I just want your take on the specific questions. More than a one word response would be greatly appreciated. You can answer them here or go to http://www.facebook.com/keleger. I will be posting more questions in the coming months on facebook, so if you’re interested in helping me with my research, please go there. Thanks, k

1.  If you had the chance to do something that you strongly desired to do, without thinking about the repercussions, would you do it?

2.  Does size matter (referring to the privates of a man) PLEASE, keep it clean?

3.  What in the hell is “on-line” dating?!!!!

4.  Had dinner with a bunch of twenty- somethings, and wondered while I shot the BS with them, what happens to the forty-somethings? We use to be that…and then??? What changes us? Marriage? Children? or it is just not being free and screwing around? Do we just get boring or do we just get bored, and what happens when we get bored? To further my curiosity, why are forty-somethings not welling to admit their bored, or even to talk about it? We were the twenty-somethings. We were free and we screwed around. So what happened? Why the hypocrisy? You either can admit it and do something about it or you covet it and live stale.

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