Please Be Careful!!!

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Please Be Careful!!!
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Mon, 08-30-2004 - 2:59am
Ladies (& Gents, too),

Please be extra careful while shopping. A terrible thing happened this weekend while I was shopping at our local Kohl's. I had been in the store for about an hour looking for shirts to buy for work and was getting ready to check out, and was in the jewelry dept. when I (and several shoppers around me) heard somebody screaming. First just screaming in general and then "somebody stop him!!!" I looked up just in time to see a blur of a person racing out the front doors. Apparently, a man had taken a knife and slashed the purse right off of a lady's arm and ran out with it. I assume he had a get away car, because he wasn't caught. The lady wasn't injured (not by the knife anyway) but she was so shaken up by what had happened. So PLEASE be extra careful. I was a bit upset having just come from the very part of the store where it had happened. And I am thinking he had to have been stalking around watching for an easy target. I, for one, will now be more aware of my surroundings, and not just in the parking lot. This happened in the middle of the afternoon!

Elle

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Thu, 09-02-2004 - 8:28pm
I think a whompus is more closely related to a Snerdgerdle.

But I could be wrong about these thing.

I have a weasel ratchet under my sink, for emergencies.

Amy

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Thu, 09-02-2004 - 9:50pm
I think these all fall under the "thingiemabob" category.
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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 3:48am
Jeez Sharkie...

With all the crap in my purse, I could inflict some serious damage. When I was little, my mom carried this huge leather purse - not wimpy leather, mind you - the stuff they make saddles out of, and she always had it packed full of, well whatever she had it packed with. I remember it was heavy. When I used to ask her was she was lugging around in it, she'd smile and say "gold bricks!". Now that I think about, she may have been right!!

Elle

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 3:52am
Hey P. Puss...

I'm not exactly sure what a "dickens" is, but I've always been curious. I remember as a small child, my Great-Grandma used to call us kids "little dickens". I think it was usually when we were being mischevious. She was from St. Joseph, MO, so maybe it's a Midwestern thing! Any folks from the middle of the country have a say on this???

Elle

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 3:57am
Amy,

Would either of those be like a Stinkerdinkle or a Farkleface?? LOL

Weasel ratchet? Just which kind of emergencies? It must be a law enforcement thing!! Can you use it on felons?? =D They're weasels...

Elle

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 10:35am
This may explain it better...click on this and listen carefully to what the nice man has to say...

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=retro.wmv

I had to listen twice, and then cried laughing....

Amy

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 4:00pm
A "dickens" is another word for "devil"... like, "who the devil was that?" "who the dickens was that"... lol *shrug* No idea how it started though!

Oh wait, I found something:

dickens - (what the dickens, in dickens' name, hurts like the dickens, etc) - Dickens is another word for devil, and came to be used as an oath in the same way as God, Hell, Holy Mary, etc. Brewer (dictionary of phrase and fable 1870) explains that the 'dickens' oath, is a perversion (variation) of, and derived from 'Nick' and 'Old Nick'. The dickens expression appeared first probably during the 1600's. The etymology of 'nick' can be traced back a lot further - 'nicor' was Anglo-Saxon for monster. The devil-association is derived from ancient Scandinavian folklore: a Nick was mythological water-wraith or kelpie, found in the sea, rivers, lakes, even waterfalls - half-child or man, half-horse - that took delight when travellers drowned. Beginning several hundred years ago both protestant and catholic clergy commonly referred to these creatures, presumably because the image offered another scary device to persuade simple people to be ever god-fearing (".....or Old Nick will surely get you when you next go to the river...") which no doubt reinforced the Nick imagery and its devil association. So too did the notoriety of Italian statesman and theorist, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) - (who also gave rise to the expression 'machiavellian', meaning deviously wicked). 'Nick' Machiavelli became an image of devilment in the Elizabethan theatre because his ideas were thought to be so heinous. Shakespeare has Mistress Page using the 'what the dickens' expression in the Merry Wives of Windsor, c.1600, so the expression certainly didn't originate as a reference to Charles Dickens as many believe, who wasn't born until 1812. Charles Dickens' fame however (he was extremely famous in England while alive and writing as well as ever since) would certainly have further reinforced the popularity of the 'dickens' expression.

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God, like anyone is even going to read that, lol. (I did, but...)

"What is an 'Oprah'?" - Teal'c, SG-1

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 6:19pm
That's crazy scary. What is our world coming too. Thank goodness you're alright.

A couple of weeks ago my mom was walking down the street in Cheyenne, WY....WYOMING mind you...and 3 kids surrounded her, each with a menacing weapon in hand, and took her purse, her shoes and her jewlery, including her heirloom wedding band! The oldest of these kids was only 15! The youngest 12!

Thankfully my mom was unharmed and they found out who did it and minus some cash and a credit card she got everything back. You ladies have to watch your back. If it can happen in po-dunk WY...it can happen anywhere!

Take care ladies,

Critter

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 6:41pm
Wow! Im glad that your mom is ok too!

A while back there was a story on the Milwaukee news. Four teenagers killed a homeless man by beating him and all they got were his SHOES! I dont remember correctly, but I think they got the kids.

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Fri, 09-03-2004 - 7:09pm

OMG, I'd so be the person to get attacked or get my purse grabbed.