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| ==Time I stopped being a curmudgeon about signs of appreciation== | |||
| Everybody has to grow up some time, I guess. I've had many barn stars, but this one touched my heart. It made me feel all fluffy and new. The official video of Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is just a first order approximation of how it affected me. The trouser flares should be much wider, the Afro should be about the size of the moon. The beat should merit a notation in your medical records with implications for any future cardio-thoracic exploration. | |||
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| ==How to contact me== | |||
| ''The lack of threaded discussion is a feature, not a bug --]'' | |||
| Leave a message ] or email me at tonysidaway@gmail.com | |||
| My name is Tony Sidaway. | |||
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| I've been adding odd bits and bobs of local history of ], where I spent most of my life until 1993 when I moved to ]. | |||
| Why no Facebook? Because I don't do it. | |||
| There is a fair amount to be proud of, I suppose, though as with most history it doesn't really foster pride if you look beneath the surface. The ], for instance, is a source of pride in my region, but only because at the time my people were so enslaved to their masters that they could be discarded like old boots--and they were. The march was really just a way of saying to Parliament "we are human, you cannot let them treat us like this." It didn't directly achieve any improvement in the lot of the people of Jarrow. So was it a failure? No, I don't think it was. It makes people like me feel a pride--perhaps irrational--in the spirit of the people of my region. They were downtrodden, but some of them decided to do something about it. | |||
| From Misplaced Pages, I found that ] was inspired in his Alice books when he was staying in Whitburn village, where I spent more than one third of my forty-eight years. I knew already that he was no stranger to the Sunderland area. Why do I cling to such connections? I don't know. I suppose I'm looking for something to make me part of something. Which Whitburn village, for the most part, is not. | |||
| And no, I don't receive an excessive amount of unwanted email just because I publish my email address. Seriously, how could I expect people to communicate with me if they didn't know where to send the messages? Shame on you if you conceal your email address. Yes, I mean it. | |||
| I'm finding the ] discussion amusing. Is it really so controversial for articles in encyclopedias to be illustrated? In 2004? | |||
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Latest revision as of 01:29, 28 April 2017
Time I stopped being a curmudgeon about signs of appreciation
Everybody has to grow up some time, I guess. I've had many barn stars, but this one touched my heart. It made me feel all fluffy and new. The official video of Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" is just a first order approximation of how it affected me. The trouser flares should be much wider, the Afro should be about the size of the moon. The beat should merit a notation in your medical records with implications for any future cardio-thoracic exploration.
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| For all your work cutting down the size of the Gamergate controversy article and resolving talk page disputes. Bosstopher (talk) 17:22, 17 January 2015 (UTC) |
How to contact me
The lack of threaded discussion is a feature, not a bug --Guerillero
Leave a message here or email me at tonysidaway@gmail.com
Why no Facebook? Because I don't do it.
And no, I don't receive an excessive amount of unwanted email just because I publish my email address. Seriously, how could I expect people to communicate with me if they didn't know where to send the messages? Shame on you if you conceal your email address. Yes, I mean it.