Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 96 Comments • 10 years ago
Dear NT members,To those of you who are friends or friendenemiesof Flame, Flame has found himself in some trouble. He had gone to pick up his belongings and on the way home, his car broke down....
Towns With Numbers for Names
Via: ttga • Other • 2 Comments • 10 years ago
Interesting how some towns ended up with numbers for their names. If you know of any others, feel free to add them in comments along with any stories about how the names came about....
From Where the Next Daniel Schorr?
Via: broliver-thesquirrel-stagnasty • Other • 9 Comments • 10 years ago
For years he was on my radar screen as the Senior News Analyst for NPR, but his experience as a reporter from Eisenhower on eclipses that insufficient title. Daniel Schorr died July 23, 2010 three...
Morality and Legality: Something is Wrong With Money....
Via: broliver-thesquirrel-stagnasty • Other • 66 Comments • 10 years ago
Or maybe something is wrong with man.A few days ago I was reading an article about morality and legality, and I had one of those Dammit I am pissed off moments.Here is the comment I made:"This...
The NewsTalkers Survey Live and Working!
Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 70 Comments • 10 years ago
In an effort to try and understand our membership due to the large influx of new members, please take this survey to make this site a better place. The survey is totally private and only the...
Posting videos - Help?
Via: summer • Other • 9 Comments • 10 years ago
Ok, I've seen people post videos. I've been given instruction on how to do it - but, I still can never get it to work. Can anyone help me figure this out? ThanksI click on the "Media" above - it...
The Results of the Survey
Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 164 Comments • 10 years ago
As per NT transparency agreement to our community, here are the results of the survey. Completion rate 100% Complete responses 121 Average time taken - Estimated time 2:00...
Problems with the group "Tree Hole"
Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 34 Comments • 10 years ago
It seems that we have an unexplained problem with the tree hole. This is what we know.Neetu has closed her NT account. I have no information for this. If anyone knows something please email me.The...
Wow! I love the new "thiny" at the very top of the page!
Via: dowser • Other • 22 Comments • 10 years ago
Wow! I love the new "thingy" at the top of each page, where you can go and view your profile, your friends, etc.! The colors are beautiful! I know that Perrie is still diddling with the site to...
Happy Birthday to Our Uptown Gril
Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 40 Comments • 10 years ago
Uptown girl We've been living in her NT world I bet she's IMing with an NT guy Because it's fun to socialize that's why This is for our uptown girl It's her birthday in this great big...
LOUSY, LOUSY WEEKEND!
Via: leotie • Other • 44 Comments • 10 years ago
I haven't been here for awhile. I did not run away, just the weekend of the 16th, I took a long, weekend walk through hell.As some of you know, I have some health problems, neuropathy in the feet...
MEET MY FRIEND NANCY
Via: leotie • Other • 19 Comments • 10 years ago
I wrote about Nancy on NV, I used the name "Joy" for her, now I am using her real name. She is in the room with me and I do have her permission; I would never do this otherwise.When I first met...
Amazing!!!
Via: stephi-cantley • Other • 7 Comments • 10 years ago
I really really loved working in the yard yesterday, clearing away the leaves from fall and winter to uncover the pretty little green miracles popping up!!!! Spring is so amazing!
Is Victoria’s Secret targeting teens?
Via: z • Other • 4 Comments • 10 years ago
Victorias Secret is coming under attack for its new Bright Young Things campaign advertising a Spring Break-themed line featuring undies emblazoned with slogans like dare you, wild, feeling lucky...
With Heartfelt Apology to Perrie and All My Friends
Via: neetu2 • Other • 47 Comments • 10 years ago
Not sure how to explain what happened, but I left NT for a short while, quite without an explanation to those who deserved one. One fine day, I just left - not realizing the consequences of my...
What Painting Would You Love to Have
Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Other • 71 Comments • 10 years ago
What Painting Would You Love to Have? While going through all the articles I wrote and posted on Newsvine, I discovered this one. It was a poll, but here I hope to see your choice and...
WORK, JOBS, AND LIFE pt2
Via: leotie • Other • 1 Comments • 10 years ago
Before I left the other town I lived in. I went to Hardee's one day to get something to eat, had been barefoot in the garden, so I wasn't very clean. I gave the man my order, and told him I wanted...
ODD STRANGE JOBS AND LIFE #4
Via: leotie • Other • 3 Comments • 10 years ago
I called a friend in Atlanta and asked him to get me a plane ticket back to Atlanta from Vegas, packed my clothes in airline boxes and waited. I found out it hurts like hell flying with broken...
ODD, STRANGE JOBS AND THE WORKING LIFE, part 3
Via: leotie • Other • 8 Comments • 10 years ago
One of my jobs in Atlanta offered the chance to move to Arizona, so I jumped on that one in a hurry. We drove out there the three of us. It was me, a blinded veteran, a dwarf named Mickey and the...
TAXI TALES FROM THE BIG CITY
Via: leotie • Other • 2 Comments • 10 years ago
As I said in Part 3 of Odd Strange Jobs Working Life, I quit all office jobs in NY and stayed behind the wheel of a taxi for about 7 years. Taxi driving in NY is not for the faint of heart or smart...
Would Anyone Like to Read "The Birds", by Daphne du Maurier?
Via: dowser • Other • 31 Comments • 10 years ago
We've all seen the movie, but what many of us don't know is that the book is even more chilling... The Birds was a novelette, or a long short-story, written by Daphne du Maurier in the...
META MADNESS: Heated Discussions, Reward System, Incident Reporting & The Moderators
Via: perrie-halpern • Other • 200 Comments • 10 years ago
Heated Discussions , the Roman Colosseum and Thunderdome tied up into one neat group for those of you who don't want to abide by the CoC and don't want moderation. It's my group and in the past...
Things are getting real :/
Via: summer • Other • 17 Comments • 10 years ago
So, as many of you know, I am a 3rd year medical student. Well, this month is my second to last rotation of 3rd year. This means that things are starting to get real serious, real fast.This month I...
1-way Mars trip starts accepting astronaut applications
Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Other • 7 Comments • 10 years ago
1-way Mars trip starts accepting astronaut applications By CBC News, cbc.ca - 23 Apr 2013 Want to spend the rest of your life on Mars? You can apply to do so now. Mars One, a...
Lung Shui, the House Dragon
Via: dowser • Other • 9 Comments • 10 years ago
Almost four years ago, my husband, (Magnum), and I took our son, Peep, to Disney World. We had a wonderful camping trip in the highest rated campground in the US, and managed to visit four...
