Comments on: Pull Up A Chair… http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: secularhumanizinevoluter http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1200212 secularhumanizinevoluter Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:55:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1200212 <p>Get to work breakin and fusin baby!</p> Get to work breakin and fusin baby!

]]> By: CarolynU http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1200132 CarolynU Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:11:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1200132 <p>I’ll add mine. One of the things I really wanted to do when I was young was to be a spy. It was kind of all mixed in with wanting to work at the FBI and wanting to be in foreign lands exchanging microfiche with my contact in a dangerouly public setting. Too much Secret Agent and Mission Impossible as a kid, I guess.</p> <p>I studied the criminals of the past, Baby Face Nelson and Rick Derringer, and revered Elliot Ness. I even went to my Postmaster to ask him for any left over Wanted posters, so I could study the faces of criminals, in case one was lurking around my neighborhood. I had my bedroom walls papered with wanted posters.</p> <p>I spent after school hours in a raincoat lurking outside neighbor’s houses and writing down their movements in a small notebook.</p> <p>When I was about 11, this would have been 1970, I wrote to J. Edgar Hoover, telling him I wanted to be an FBI agent when I grew up, and what should I do in the meantime to prepare? </p> <p>I got a letter back from him, personally signed (I did an authentic signature test with wet finger). He said, thanks for your interest in the FBI. We do not allow females to be FBI agents. But when you grow up you could be a secretary here if you like.</p> <p>No joke. Needless to say, I crossed the FBI off my list. And damn, I wish I still had that letter.</p> I’ll add mine. One of the things I really wanted to do when I was young was to be a spy. It was kind of all mixed in with wanting to work at the FBI and wanting to be in foreign lands exchanging microfiche with my contact in a dangerouly public setting. Too much Secret Agent and Mission Impossible as a kid, I guess.

I studied the criminals of the past, Baby Face Nelson and Rick Derringer, and revered Elliot Ness. I even went to my Postmaster to ask him for any left over Wanted posters, so I could study the faces of criminals, in case one was lurking around my neighborhood. I had my bedroom walls papered with wanted posters.

I spent after school hours in a raincoat lurking outside neighbor’s houses and writing down their movements in a small notebook.

When I was about 11, this would have been 1970, I wrote to J. Edgar Hoover, telling him I wanted to be an FBI agent when I grew up, and what should I do in the meantime to prepare?

I got a letter back from him, personally signed (I did an authentic signature test with wet finger). He said, thanks for your interest in the FBI. We do not allow females to be FBI agents. But when you grow up you could be a secretary here if you like.

No joke. Needless to say, I crossed the FBI off my list. And damn, I wish I still had that letter.

]]> By: CarolynU http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1200122 CarolynU Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:05:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1200122 <p>Reading this wonderful thread at the end of the day. Some wonderful stories, some amazing tales of survival.</p> <p>Wavpeac, yours is an amazing story. How inspiring for you to turn your experiences into positive life’s work.</p> <p>Whitebeard, good for you for making it through to the other side.</p> <p>Tobyweller - re: encouraging your children. I completely agree. Lately my son is determined to be a professional skateboarder. I’m saying “Terrific!” but that’s not really what I’m thinking.</p> <p>LS - great story. Good for you. Enjoy.</p> Reading this wonderful thread at the end of the day. Some wonderful stories, some amazing tales of survival.

Wavpeac, yours is an amazing story. How inspiring for you to turn your experiences into positive life’s work.

Whitebeard, good for you for making it through to the other side.

Tobyweller – re: encouraging your children. I completely agree. Lately my son is determined to be a professional skateboarder. I’m saying “Terrific!” but that’s not really what I’m thinking.

LS – great story. Good for you. Enjoy.

]]> By: plainbrown1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199936 plainbrown1 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:48:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199936 <p>I had never seen (or heard of) that video. I LOVE it! Thanks for passing it along.</p> I had never seen (or heard of) that video. I LOVE it! Thanks for passing it along.

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199875 Laura Doty Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:08:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199875 <p><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/120006820469.htm" rel="nofollow">Snow in Baghdad</a></p> Snow in Baghdad

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199865 Adie Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:03:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199865 <p>High temps here in n.e. OH broke a 101 year record just a few days ago. Kid next door been runnin’ around without a shirt all week. </p> <p>No global warming here. Nosirree. Yes. I know it has more to do with weather patterns than with every little neighborhood’s 24/7 temperatures.</p> <p>Guess I’ll just go grab my beach towel & think positive.</p> High temps here in n.e. OH broke a 101 year record just a few days ago. Kid next door been runnin’ around without a shirt all week.

No global warming here. Nosirree. Yes. I know it has more to do with weather patterns than with every little neighborhood’s 24/7 temperatures.

Guess I’ll just go grab my beach towel & think positive.

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199858 Adie Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:57:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199858 <p>RayDuray. Under the heading, go figure!?!</p> <p>Our former landlords moved to Bend OR 30+ yrs ago. Serious wingers. Bragged in national trade mag how they turned their hoss bidness around to 100% Christian. I kid u not. The hosses? They were Polish Arabians.<br /> No. Really.</p> RayDuray. Under the heading, go figure!?!

Our former landlords moved to Bend OR 30+ yrs ago. Serious wingers. Bragged in national trade mag how they turned their hoss bidness around to 100% Christian. I kid u not. The hosses? They were Polish Arabians.
No. Really.

]]> By: Starbuck http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199828 Starbuck Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:38:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199828 <p>If money and time were no object, I would be doing exactly what I am doing now, posting this! </p> If money and time were no object, I would be doing exactly what I am doing now, posting this!

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199818 Laura Doty Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:32:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199818 <p>Please tell your daughter that this psych PhD definitely recommends a JD along with, particularly if she’s interested in doing forensic work. It’s such a plus. (I didn’t get one, my best work buddy did, and I so appreciate his help/support/input/mentoring on the forensic side of my practice.</p> Please tell your daughter that this psych PhD definitely recommends a JD along with, particularly if she’s interested in doing forensic work. It’s such a plus. (I didn’t get one, my best work buddy did, and I so appreciate his help/support/input/mentoring on the forensic side of my practice.

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199807 Laura Doty Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:29:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/12/pull-up-a-chair-81/#comment-1199807 <p>We’re definitely kindred spirits. Bachelard figured very heavily in my master’s thesis (I studied psychoanalysis with a psychoanalytic phenomenologist). Let’s talk!</p> We’re definitely kindred spirits. Bachelard figured very heavily in my master’s thesis (I studied psychoanalysis with a psychoanalytic phenomenologist). Let’s talk!

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