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This is a multipart message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_04DB_01DB7878.8EF4D420 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Each month in 2025, we repeat the Grif Net email/blog posts for an entire week from 25 years ago (February 2000).] I joined a health club last year and spent about 400 dollars but haven’t lost…

This is a multipart message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_01C0_01DB77B2.830B1FF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Each month in 2025, we wander unsupervised down memory lane, repeating the Grif Net email/blog posts for an entire week from 25 years ago (February 2000).] DEFINITIONS IN MARRIAGE BY GENDER THINGY (thing-ee) n. female: Any…

This is a multipart message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_0034_01DB76E6.92A0A9C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″ Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Each month in 2025, we wander unsupervised down memory lane, repeating the= Grif Net email/blog posts for an entire week from 25 years ago (February 2000).] A Dozen Rules for Writers 1. Verbs has to agree…

[Each month in 2025, we ‘wander’ unsupervised do= wn memory lane, repeating the Grif Net email/blog posts for an entire week = from 25 years ago (that’s from February 2000 for those mathematically= challenged.) I found out my attempt at humor has NOT gotten better in pass= ing years, but…

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.&q= uot; ~ Dr. Seuss   “It’s not what you do= once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the differ= ence.” ~ Jenny Craig=   “There is no sub= stitute for good decisions at…

[Some jokes are not completely useless. They can always be used= as bad examples.]   My friend got me an elephant for my room. I said, “Thank= s.” She said, “Don’t mention it.”=   As I get older, I reme= mber all the people I lost along the way. Maybe…

[Dinner-table faire for the younger set that missed the grown-u= p quiz] Q: What type of sandals do frogs wear? A: Open-toad!   Q: What do computers eat for a snack?= A: Microchips!   Q: Why couldn’t the leopard play hide and seek? A: Because he was always sp= otted.…

This is a multipart message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_0451_01DB7231.1BE94D00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Weekly quizzes have had a lot of wrong answers of late, so I made this one not quite so tough. Not “easy”, but figure most can get at least half correct. Please ANSWER ONLY ONE publicly…

The baby ant was confused because all his uncles were ants.   I asked a= Frenchman if he played video games, and he said, ‘Wii’.   To the guy w= ho invented zero, thanks for nothing. &= nbsp; Geology rocks, but Geography is where it’s = at.   Sm= all…

[At the request of no one and interest of even fewer, here is a= report from my doctor appointment] &nb= sp; I=E2=80=99m still smiling. 😊 Could n= ot believe my doctor=E2=80=99s words. =E2=80=9CBob, you=E2=80=99re a beast!= =E2=80=9D   Wow. I=E2=80=99m thinking that is a cool thing to say. Haven=E2=80=99t =…

This is a multipart message in MIME format. ——=_NextPart_000_02CB_01DB6F0C.65AC1A30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the midst of winter, I often dream of spring. In my mind’s eye I see the days lengthening with the sun rising earlier each day in the pink morning sky, bathing the world in its…

[As best I can recall, during this pas year I have chatted with= various of my fifteen grandchildren about many subjects:]   About memory “I = have a photographic memory, but I keep forgetting to develop it.”= About life: “I used to have a handle on life, but then it…

My daughter and I were proud of our family lineage. She trac= ed it back in one line to two generations before Charlemagne in France. Ano= ther line was among the early immigrants to America, fleeing the English Ci= vil War in the 1640’s. Our ancestors included soldiers, settlers, sen=…