Sum Dum Gai
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Aug 15, 2012 17:23:33 GMT -5
I vaguely remember reading that. Doesn't one of the hunting guides shoot him in the end?
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 15, 2012 17:23:47 GMT -5
Ah - that is the story that the Simpsons reference in one of the Treehouse of Horrors episodes. I love that one!
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Post by Loopdilou on Aug 15, 2012 17:28:19 GMT -5
The "butterfly effect" is based on a short story by Ray Bradbury that I used to teach. It doesn't share the plot, though. There is an election in the short story, and the good guy wins. This rich guy goes back in time to hunt dinosaurs and is warned not to step off the path. He panicks when he sees the dinosaur and does step off. Everything seems normal except he stepped on a butterfly. When he gets back, the bad guy won the election. I just thought of the name of the story: "The Sound of Thunder" or something like that. Yep, that's it. One of my favorites
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Post by snapdragon on Aug 15, 2012 18:13:21 GMT -5
I was on I-90 headed to western Washington after visiting my brother when a deer jumped the highway and crushed the front of my car. I was on the outer lane and I felt the ridges before you slam into the safety railing. The only problem was that I was on the up-climb of one of the mountains. Somehow ( I still have no idea how this happened) I ended up nose down, parallel to the mountain instead of crashing into it, or going over the side of the highway into a gorge.
Or the time I confronted one of my brother's "friends" and told him he had to leave and he was not living at my house anymore. He got pissed and shoved a shotgun in my face trying to change my mind... like having a gun shoved in my face would help me see the light. He still ended up leaving that night.
There are others but, well there is still lots of time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2012 19:06:20 GMT -5
Yep. This is supposed to be one of the top anthologized short stories ever. My students used to love it. We created travel brochures for this company.
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Cookies Galore
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Post by Cookies Galore on Aug 15, 2012 20:49:57 GMT -5
Ah - that is the story that the Simpsons reference in one of the Treehouse of Horrors episodes. I love that one! That's what I thought of!
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Post by midjd on Aug 15, 2012 21:20:15 GMT -5
Karma and welcome, blooms. And I'm so, so sorry. No child should EVER have to go through that.
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Post by taz157 on Aug 15, 2012 21:47:09 GMT -5
Karma and welcome, blooms. And I'm so, so sorry. No child should EVER have to go through that.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Aug 15, 2012 21:50:38 GMT -5
Karma to you. No child should ever be molested and I'm sure it did change your life.
Mine is somehow knowing that I need to move away from my parents to achieve adulthood. When it came time for graduate school, I chose the University of Colorado. I was so homesick at first that I wanted to leave every day. I had a calendar and marked off the days. My parents had made me promise to stay for the entire school year before making a decision.
We had 5 weeks off for Christmas break. I went back after 4 weeks. Iowa was no longer home. Colorado was home and I was never homesick for my family or Iowa again.
Psychologically that was the best decision I have ever made in my life--and goes along with many poor ones.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 5:50:23 GMT -5
I was married to a man who was verbally abusive, an alcoholic and an irresponsible spender. Oh, yeah- he was unemployed, too. Shortly after I was downsized from my job and had just started another, I went off to a meeting of my professional society at a California resort. By some fluke I'd been given a 2-room suite with a balcony on the Pacific Ocean.
Two days into the meeting, I woke up in that suite next to another member of the society- and actually felt happy. He was married, too. I went home and filed for divorce- not because I wanted to run off with the other guy but because I realized that what I had at home was no way to live. The friendship with the other guy continued and was one of the things that sustained me even though our contacts were mostly e-mail.
Not one of the most moral things I've ever done, but it was the beginning of my taking my life back.
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Post by Jaguar on Aug 16, 2012 5:59:26 GMT -5
Where do I begin. I was born with a hare lip & cleft palate. My first year of life was spent half in the hospital. I had numerous surgeries and whatnot. Then just before my 6th birthday I was rushed to the hospital. It took them two years to diagnose Diamond Blackfan Syndrome. Diamond Blackfan Syndrome is a very rare blood disorder. 49 years later I'm still here and I'm still kicking ass.
I've had a lot of dealings with specialists, doctors and hospitals. Basically I grew up in the hospital. But I think it's different for me cause I know no other life.
So basically my whole life has been on a life changing course since the get go.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2012 6:15:38 GMT -5
Yes. I was listening to a message in church about dry bones from the book of Ezekiel from the Bible, and thought the person speaking had lost it.. Their mind. So, I pulled my Bible out after I got home that same night, dusted it off, and for the very first time in all my Christian life, I read the Bible (the chapter he spoke from over and over again).. Changed my entire life..
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