All categories - 12 December 2007

2007-12-12 19:49:28 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-12 19:49:15 · 10 answers · asked by ToP aNsWeReR ('_')!!!! 2 in Gender Studies

i mean in the street, in real life... not on here?

or did you just struggle on and feel to embaressed to ask anyone.

my trousers split the other day cos i slipped on ice and my gusset opened right up and my tackle was exposed.......how do you ask a stranger to lend a hand to that?

2007-12-12 19:49:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

That is, what makes of different from other animals? In this journey of life, I'm constantly asking myself this question. I'll start with an answer of my own...

I believe we can choose who we love. Sure, people divorce, cheat, etc...but unlike animals, we can stop ourselves from having physical contact with another human being. When an animal is in heat...there's no choice there. With that said, what are some other qualities we as humans possess that differentiate us from other animals?

2007-12-12 19:49:03 · 8 answers · asked by AnimalLover<3 1 in Philosophy

2007-12-12 19:49:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

i wanna become a singer so can anyone recommend me a website where i can get some singing knowledge????i'll appreciate ur respond...tq

2007-12-12 19:49:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singing

My father used to recite it to me,
It is Christmas Day in the workhouse,
And the cold, bare walls are bright
With garlands of green and holly,
And the place is a pleasant sight;
For with clean-washed hands and faces,
In a long and hungry line
The paupers sit at the table,
For this is the hour they dine.
And the guardians and their ladies,
Although the wind is east,
Have come in their furs and wrappers,
To watch their charges feast;
To smile and be condescending,
Put pudding on pauper plates.
To be hosts at the workhouse banquet
They've paid for — with the rates.
Oh, the paupers are meek and lowly
With their "Thank'ee kindly, mum's!'"
So long as they fill their stomachs,
What matter it whence it comes!
But one of the old men mutters,
And pushes his plate aside:
"Great God!" he cries, "but it chokes me!
For this is the day she died!"
The guardians gazed in horror,
The master's face went white;
"Did a pauper refuse the pudding?"
"Could their ears believe aright?"
Then the ladies clutched their husbands,
Thinking the man would die,
Struck by a bolt, or something,
By the outraged One on high.
But the pauper sat for a moment,
Then rose 'mid silence grim,
For the others had ceased to chatter
And trembled in every limb.
He looked at the guardians' ladies,
Then, eyeing their lords, he said,
"I eat not the food of villains
Whose hands are foul and red:
"Whose victims cry for vengeance
From their dark, unhallowed graves."
"He's drunk!" said the workhouse master,
"Or else he's mad and raves."
"Not drunk or mad," cried the pauper,
"But only a haunted beast,
Who, torn by the hounds and mangled,
Declines the vulture's feast.
"I care not a curse for the guardians,
And I won't be dragged away;
Just let me have the fit out,
It's only on Christmas Day
That the black past comes to goad me,
And prey on my burning brain;
I'll tell you the rest in a whisper —
I swear I won't shout again.
"Keep your hands off me, curse you!
Hear me right out to the end.
You come here to see how paupers
The season of Christmas spend;.
You come here to watch us feeding,
As they watched the captured beast.
Here's why a penniless pauper
Spits on your paltry feast.
"Do you think I will take your bounty,
And let you smile and think
You're doing a noble action
With the parish's meat and drink?
Where is my wife, you traitors —
The poor old wife you slew?
Yes, by the God above me,
My Nance was killed by you!
'Last winter my wife lay dying,
Starved in a filthy den;
I had never been to the parish —
I came to the parish then.
I swallowed my pride in coming,
For ere the ruin came,
I held up my head as a trader,
And I bore a spotless name.
"I came to the parish, craving
Bread for a starving wife,
Bread for the woman who'd loved me
Through fifty years of life;
And what do you think they told me,
Mocking my awful grief,
That 'the House' was open to us,
But they wouldn't give 'out relief'.
"I slunk to the filthy alley —
'Twas a cold, raw Christmas Eve —
And the bakers' shops were open,
Tempting a man to thieve;
But I clenched my fists together,
Holding my head awry,
So I came to her empty-handed
And mournfully told her why.
"Then I told her the house was open;
She had heard of the ways of that,
For her bloodless cheeks went crimson,
and up in her rags she sat,
Crying, 'Bide the Christmas here, John,
We've never had one apart;
I think I can bear the hunger —
The other would break my heart.'
"All through that eve I watched her,
Holding her hand in mine,
Praying the Lord and weeping,
Till my lips were salt as brine;
I asked her once if she hungered,
And as she answered 'No' ,
T'he moon shone in at the window,
Set in a wreath of snow.
"Then the room was bathed in glory,
And I saw in my darling's eyes
The faraway look of wonder
That comes when the spirit flies;
And her lips were parched and parted,
And her reason came and went.
For she raved of our home in Devon,
Where our happiest years were spent.
"And the accents, long forgotten,
Came back to the tongue once more.
For she talked like the country lassie
I woo'd by the Devon shore;
Then she rose to her feet and trembled,
And fell on the rags and moaned,
And, 'Give me a crust — I'm famished —
For the love of God!' she groaned.
"I rushed from the room like a madman
And flew to the workhouse gate,
Crying, 'Food for a dying woman!'
And the answer came, 'Too late.'
They drove me away with curses;
Then I fought with a dog in the street
And tore from the mongrel's clutches
A crust he was trying to eat.
"Back through the filthy byways!
Back through the trampled slush!
Up to the crazy garret,
Wrapped in an awful hush;
My heart sank down at the threshold,
And I paused with a sudden thrill.
For there, in the silv'ry moonlight,
My Nance lay, cold and still.
"Up to the blackened ceiling,
The sunken eyes were cast —
I knew on those lips, all bloodless,
My name had been the last;
She called for her absent husband —
O God! had I but known! —
Had called in vain, and, in anguish,
Had died in that den — alone.
"Yes, there, in a land of plenty,
Lay a loving woman dead,
Cruelly starved and murdered
for a loaf of the parish bread;
At yonder gate, last Christmas,
I craved for a human life,
You, who would feed us paupers,
What of my murdered wife!"
'There, get ye gone to your dinners,
Don't mind me in the least,
Think of the happy paupers
Eating your Christmas feast;
And when you recount their blessings
In your smug parochial way,
Say what you did for me, too,
Only last Christmas Day."

2007-12-12 19:48:05 · 5 answers · asked by Lord Percy Fawcette-Smythe. 7 in Senior Citizens

ive heard that its good to start even before teeth have come through, is this true??

2007-12-12 19:47:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Newborn & Baby

i have the engine i just want to know how much labor is gonna cost me?

2007-12-12 19:47:55 · 2 answers · asked by curiousadult 6 in Mitsubishi

I have a dog but she's looking kinda diffrent lately.

2007-12-12 19:46:41 · 8 answers · asked by pel 1 in Dogs

2007-12-12 19:46:23 · 5 answers · asked by Derrick Q 2 in Polls & Surveys

okay you are on a werid Island then you find that there has been some native spying on you since you arrived and has been bugging you alot. The native gives you a chocie to either marry the naitive marry the native or marry the native and does not give you any other opition or else you will have to marry the native
So it is clear that the native likes you now would You marry the native or let this native punish you in what ever ways natives do or you don't take the native seriously

pleez respond how you would if this happened to you what would you think and so forth

2007-12-12 19:46:19 · 28 answers · asked by lemonlime fresh 1 in Polls & Surveys

is there any specific reasons for this

2007-12-12 19:46:18 · 20 answers · asked by nani 2 in Marriage & Divorce

My computer is a Dell XPS 400 with Windows XP direct X9.
I want to get 4 GBs of RAM and a 8800 series Nvidia card. How will I know which 1 can and can't buy? What is SLI?

2007-12-12 19:46:07 · 4 answers · asked by Star-Scream 2 in Desktops

2007-12-12 19:45:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-12 19:45:48 · 5 answers · asked by grandmom 1 in Ethnic Cuisine

Indians, bad guys, good guys, leading guys, Greeks, hitman, lover, leading man, bit actor, etc. than anyone else you can think of in the entire world of movies and TV?

2007-12-12 19:45:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-12-12 19:45:09 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

For the last few years I'll go through a period of time when I just break out in weird skin rashes/hives through out the day. Its totally random, out of no where i'll break out in huge pink rash on random parts of my skin. They rarely itch but its embassing having big rashes swell all of a sudden. Could I be allergic to something or what?

2007-12-12 19:45:04 · 4 answers · asked by sunkissed02 4 in Skin Conditions

2007-12-12 19:44:58 · 13 answers · asked by Steve 1 in Cancer

i was gonna buy a gun the other day and i thought you can get the permit at the store buy my cousin told me you cant so were exactly do i go get a permit and no i don't have a criminal record and i was either gonna get a 9mm or a 45 automatic which one do you recomend

2007-12-12 19:44:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hunting

Chef said that we were all uneccesarily giving you guys a hard time?

Can we apologize. Yeh, were sorry. Me too.

2007-12-12 19:44:20 · 5 answers · asked by I'M NOT DEAD YET 2 in Polls & Surveys

why does french have 2 words tha mean the same thing?

2007-12-12 19:44:11 · 4 answers · asked by Mili 1 in Languages

2007-12-12 19:43:53 · 25 answers · asked by Dr. VanNostrand 4 in Polls & Surveys

Good night!

2007-12-12 19:43:33 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

It just so happens my birthday falls on New Years Eve. I live an hour an a half away from my hometown but i'm going up there for my birthday. Anyways, I have this friend who doesn't like ANY of my other friends (close friends) for unknown reasons? She really doesn't have any reason's she just doesn't like them. She is one of my bestfriends I love her dearly & we have a lot of fun plans 4 new years that include's just random friends that we've partied/hung out with before. Her personality has some kind of controlling issue to it. I feel as if i'm one of those people she's trying to control. She named off people she didn't want to see on my birthday/new years eve cause she doesnt like them. Well she named off all my other close friends. She won't compromise with me at all. She says "I know its your b-day but it's MY new yrs eve" I feel as if she's being a little selfish and maybe me too. What do you think?!

2007-12-12 19:42:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

im in CO now mostly fresh water
but ill be in FL later mostly salt water
but i prolly do more fresh water fishin
in yer opinion what fishin pole do you like best
no problems, tough, durable?????

2007-12-12 19:42:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fishing

2007-12-12 19:41:38 · 9 answers · asked by P K 3 in Desktops

Level 6..........HMM!! I think I can almost smell it!!!!!! LOL!!!!!

2007-12-12 19:41:32 · 10 answers · asked by Lori F 6 in Polls & Surveys