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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://sheilaschoonmaker.com/2008/02/18/birthday-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-24</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I too am quite happy to be out on a dull and rainy day. I enjoy &#039;sensing&#039; the elements, wind, rain. Within reason.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I too am quite happy to be out on a dull and rainy day. I enjoy &#8216;sensing&#8217; the elements, wind, rain. Within reason.</p>
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		<title>By: Sheila</title>
		<link>http://sheilaschoonmaker.com/2008/02/18/birthday-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-23</link>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I try not to get depressed about my poor ability to remember.  I&#039;m not sure what it was that I read about John Cleese.  My best guess is that it was a post on WrongPlanet.net  saying he&#039;s another aspie?  I do remember &#039;Fawlty Towers,&#039; but only vaguely.  Just a few days ago was the first time I heard an advertisement for the British Broadcast Channel on cable.  That would explain why I don&#039;t see shows like &#039;Fawlty Towers&#039; or &#039;Mr. Bean&#039; anymore.  I&#039;d love to get rid of cable television because I can&#039;t stand what it&#039;s becoming (trash!). I&#039;d rather buy the DVDs of what I like (the volume would be minimal) or borrow them from the library.

I enjoyed the youtube clip of &#039;Fawlty Towers&#039; more than what I did when watching it on television!  I think that&#039;s because of the added effect of the music and it being done is short clips. Or maybe because I haven&#039;t seen it in a long time?  Anyhow, thanks for the uplift of humor on this dim and rainy day here (which actually are my favorite days to go on walks in the woods!).

PS --- I forgot to add why I periodically use scientific names and/or &#039;professional&#039; terms.  I do it to simply spice up my writing since I usually try to make what I&#039;m saying understandable to everyone but yet I also don&#039;t want people to think that&#039;s the level of where my mental abilities are.  In other words, I still have somewhat of a habit of trying to to please everybody all the time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I try not to get depressed about my poor ability to remember.  I&#8217;m not sure what it was that I read about John Cleese.  My best guess is that it was a post on WrongPlanet.net  saying he&#8217;s another aspie?  I do remember &#8216;Fawlty Towers,&#8217; but only vaguely.  Just a few days ago was the first time I heard an advertisement for the British Broadcast Channel on cable.  That would explain why I don&#8217;t see shows like &#8216;Fawlty Towers&#8217; or &#8216;Mr. Bean&#8217; anymore.  I&#8217;d love to get rid of cable television because I can&#8217;t stand what it&#8217;s becoming (trash!). I&#8217;d rather buy the DVDs of what I like (the volume would be minimal) or borrow them from the library.</p>
<p>I enjoyed the youtube clip of &#8216;Fawlty Towers&#8217; more than what I did when watching it on television!  I think that&#8217;s because of the added effect of the music and it being done is short clips. Or maybe because I haven&#8217;t seen it in a long time?  Anyhow, thanks for the uplift of humor on this dim and rainy day here (which actually are my favorite days to go on walks in the woods!).</p>
<p>PS &#8212; I forgot to add why I periodically use scientific names and/or &#8216;professional&#8217; terms.  I do it to simply spice up my writing since I usually try to make what I&#8217;m saying understandable to everyone but yet I also don&#8217;t want people to think that&#8217;s the level of where my mental abilities are.  In other words, I still have somewhat of a habit of trying to to please everybody all the time.</p>
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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://sheilaschoonmaker.com/2008/02/18/birthday-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-22</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John Cleese in M.Python is a well known depressive - did you know? Highly inventive. Do you get to see &#039;Fawlty Towers&#039; in the States? ......I&#039;ve just looked on youtube and the small clips don&#039;t seem so funny anymore, tho here is an amusing hotchpotch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBP4ahXQ2g</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Cleese in M.Python is a well known depressive &#8211; did you know? Highly inventive. Do you get to see &#8216;Fawlty Towers&#8217; in the States? &#8230;&#8230;I&#8217;ve just looked on youtube and the small clips don&#8217;t seem so funny anymore, tho here is an amusing hotchpotch:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBP4ahXQ2g" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBP4ahXQ2g</a></p>
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		<title>By: Sheila</title>
		<link>http://sheilaschoonmaker.com/2008/02/18/birthday-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-21</link>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RE: ps --- Please don&#039;t think I &#039;know&#039; the scientific name for birds, plants, and animals.  To &#039;know&#039; things, names, and/or people, means to be able to recall them.  I can &#039;call&#039; them, but I can&#039;t &#039;re-call&#039; them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RE: ps &#8212; Please don&#8217;t think I &#8216;know&#8217; the scientific name for birds, plants, and animals.  To &#8216;know&#8217; things, names, and/or people, means to be able to recall them.  I can &#8216;call&#8217; them, but I can&#8217;t &#8216;re-call&#8217; them.</p>
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		<title>By: Sheila</title>
		<link>http://sheilaschoonmaker.com/2008/02/18/birthday-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-26</link>
		<dc:creator>Sheila</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I never thought of my growing up years in life as being posh because of hearing my parents complain about how poor we were.  My father was always saying he didn&#039;t earn much money whenever I asked him about it.  I think the depression era kept my parents believing they were still poor even though now I know that wasn&#039;t the reality. Plus, they compared themselves against the neighbors we had who were very wealthy and in the high class of society.

I don&#039;t mean to be putting down my parents by being honest, but I do realize now that they were the kind of people who cared way too much about what other people thought of them in regards to appearances.  That would explain why I was always forced to dress up as a child whenever guests came over or when we went visiting.  Thank God that wasn&#039;t often because I couldn&#039;t stand it and I&#039;ve got plenty of pictures which show how obvious that was!  I absolutely hated wearing dresses because of how uncomfortable they were, but even more than that, I hated having to have shoes on!  I could tolerate sneakers.  Being barefoot in the summer was my ideal.

The only one I want to praise is God.  If it wasn&#039;t for Him, I wouldn&#039;t even be here in this world anymore.

As to Monty Python?  How can I say anything about it when I can barely remember more than the fact that it&#039;s British Comedy.  You really like a lot of things that relate to the Chinese culture, huh?

I&#039;ve got to go watch &quot;Monk&quot; right now.  Adrian Monk . . . another under-appreciated aspie guy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never thought of my growing up years in life as being posh because of hearing my parents complain about how poor we were.  My father was always saying he didn&#8217;t earn much money whenever I asked him about it.  I think the depression era kept my parents believing they were still poor even though now I know that wasn&#8217;t the reality. Plus, they compared themselves against the neighbors we had who were very wealthy and in the high class of society.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t mean to be putting down my parents by being honest, but I do realize now that they were the kind of people who cared way too much about what other people thought of them in regards to appearances.  That would explain why I was always forced to dress up as a child whenever guests came over or when we went visiting.  Thank God that wasn&#8217;t often because I couldn&#8217;t stand it and I&#8217;ve got plenty of pictures which show how obvious that was!  I absolutely hated wearing dresses because of how uncomfortable they were, but even more than that, I hated having to have shoes on!  I could tolerate sneakers.  Being barefoot in the summer was my ideal.</p>
<p>The only one I want to praise is God.  If it wasn&#8217;t for Him, I wouldn&#8217;t even be here in this world anymore.</p>
<p>As to Monty Python?  How can I say anything about it when I can barely remember more than the fact that it&#8217;s British Comedy.  You really like a lot of things that relate to the Chinese culture, huh?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got to go watch &#8220;Monk&#8221; right now.  Adrian Monk . . . another under-appreciated aspie guy.</p>
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		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://sheilaschoonmaker.com/2008/02/18/birthday-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-25</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are a nit! You read too much into these expressions. Here you are being true to yourself, you should echo some praise to yourself down those years. Goodness you were posh, when I was young we never had furniture, or doors we had it tough! We thought it luck if we had a cardboard box! Shades of Monty Python - and please as an American never say at least in these words, &#039;I love your Monty Python&#039; all statesiders do!!

Zaijian.

ps Where/when did you pick up my habit of knowing the scientific name for birds, plants, animals?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are a nit! You read too much into these expressions. Here you are being true to yourself, you should echo some praise to yourself down those years. Goodness you were posh, when I was young we never had furniture, or doors we had it tough! We thought it luck if we had a cardboard box! Shades of Monty Python &#8211; and please as an American never say at least in these words, &#8216;I love your Monty Python&#8217; all statesiders do!!</p>
<p>Zaijian.</p>
<p>ps Where/when did you pick up my habit of knowing the scientific name for birds, plants, animals?</p>
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