To the saucy ladies of the boards...

[Barefoot2Dream]

It's BEAUTIFUL WOMAN MONTH and YOU are beautiful!!

Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrotewhen asked to share her "beauty tips." It was read at her funeral years later....

For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes,
seekout the good in people.

For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair,
let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise,
walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things,
have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
never throw out anyone.

Remember,
if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older,
you will discover that you have two hands;
one for helping yourself,
and the other for helping others.


You are all beautiful. Smooches!smileys/smiley27.gif

[tinkerlion]

awwwsmileys/smiley9.gif you to chickie!

[Rensul]

that is quite lovely- thanks!

[the duke]

Thanks dude, that's fabulous smileys/smiley17.gif


There's nothing I wouldn't change about being a chic...wouldn't trade it for anything http://www.philadelphonic.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif

[Monica*]

I've never seen that befor. I just printed it out and put it on my fridge for the ladies in my house. thanx.

[swaytosway]

that is nice, but i have to voice my objection to all the months and weeks delegated to this and that.

Where's honey pot bellied ladies that like beer week?
I'm in.

[tinkerlion]

we should start our own days of celebration. i'm in for fake red heads day!

[swaytosway]

that sounds good to me, but then we need a '30's something lady resigned to growing old gracefully because her head swelled up to the size of a small watermelon and oozed crusty scabs-last time she ever tried to dye her hair DAY'

[tinkerlion]

smileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gifsmileys/smiley4.gif that's cool. how about a 'my hair is in a pny tail because the bed is so much nicer than work is day.'

[swaytosway]

how about a week to recognize the evolution of white trash. (once relegated to only trailer parks, the ones that make it big move on up to the double wide, BUT with the widening middle class it has spread to the suburbs, and the pinnacle abode here is none other than the "double high")

Double high is a term coined by a little known cultural anthropologist named Lola Sway. It does not refer to the actual physical design of the home, but of the occupants mindset. There is total disregard for asthetics of the yard, even maintenance- in favor of pursuits of leisure, fun, and on the low down... gettin high.

[tinkerlion]

i'm guessing having a wooden fence that has a noticable "hump" on one side and a section that is completely gone across from it would qualify me in that catigory. if not that, then the fact that we had a broken hot water heater outside of our house for just under a yearsmileys/smiley9.gif would do the trick.

[swaytosway]

Oh yeah, we have a river boat in our front yard, the start of plans to have a boat/fountain/mermaid sculpture thing in our front yard. Neighbors love us. The leaves we raked last fall from the 2 maples in the front yard never got wheelbarrowed away, now we've killed the grass.
There is a half decomposed mouse rat creature half hidden in the hedge, but half not, it protects the house from unsolicited door to door religion peddlers, they feel the dark side from beneath it's grisly fur, or maybe it's the sign I got my kids to make with their crayons and construction paper "Fuck off and start by helping yourself"

[tinkerlion]

or maybe it's the sign I got my kids to make with their crayons and construction paper "Fuck off and start by helping yourself"
that's fantastic! depending on my mood of awakeness i like to screw with them a little bit. luckily we don't get that many. i'm sure that was in part due to the over grown hedges that made our front door mostly unapproachable. of course, as of a few weeks ago my dad and i tore them all out. now we have flower beds that are a mix of rocks and dirt with large holes in them. a few stumps are left also i think. it's not that we don't care about our house. we just don't care to do the work ourselves, but can't afford to pay someone else to do it. i'm sure the neighbor across the way is plotting our demise. he is truly ocd aobut his yard. he cuts his grass at least twice a week. we've seen him run outside when we hear thunder and start vigourously mowing the lawn, with frantic glances thrown at the sky, begging the rain to hold off just a little longer. i wonder how high our lawn would have to get before he would come over and mow it for us?

[swaytosway]

I don't really get my kids to swear with their crayons.

Our grass is flooded with dandelions. All the other houses seems to have lush green weed free lawns. Aerating, liming, weed and feed, turf builder. I just can't see spending $100 or whatever, when we could go camping for a few nights, buy a 40 of vodka, get the kids new kites, or whatever for the same amount. I guess it just comes down to priorities, which the 'establishment neighbors' would find synonymous with "They have no respect for established neighborhood traditions" So the neighbors seethe just below the surface because our weedy lawn infects theirs, it hasn't been said, but I see it.(was that a cop? get it? paranoid)