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[size/HUGE] fixed [/size];715722 said:
I remember you crying for months about rep and bullying. Like, really crying. It isn't a stretch to say you care.
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Like when you cried about Spazz and decided to terminate "NAOS"???
 
PearlWatson said:
She is definitely more beautiful and I love the accent but she just didn't have the heart behind it.
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yah, I've been thinking about that all day.

For her age, I'd say she did look like she could care about somebody. . . . but he'd have to be hot, too. It's only the rough-and-tumble of the years that can really fill out our compassion. I'd hate to just have her snicker at me if I said "hi" to her, like a lot of younger girls might do. On the other hand, I have some friends in their sixties who I know do care as much as that old guy could.

you are absolutely right. It's something we develop with experience and need. By the time we've buried some of our best friends, the ones who are left are looked at in an entirely new light.
 
The Farmer Style gangnam parody is great, the best parody of that song, in my opinion.
 
PearlWatson said:
Why must it be of great price?...why can't it be Pearl of relative value? Why not Pearl of Infinite Worth? Pearl that ain't worth much to most people? Priceless Pearl?
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well. . . .

Mormonspeak trends to "Pearl of Great Price". Incidentally, the LDS honchos are rolling out a revised Pearl of Great Price with a header that says, more or less, "Maybe Old Joe dreamed this up while sleeping at his translation table, but it's still as good as the Bible".

Definitely a step up from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, anyway.
 
PearlWatson said:
Why must it be of great price?...why can't it be Pearl of relative value? Why not Pearl of Infinite Worth? Pearl that ain't worth much to most people? Priceless Pearl?
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This is worth another whole reply.

girls like pearls, I'm told. And even soldiers in the Hopewell civilization, living in Ohio or thereabouts, got into a sort of one-upsmanship thing about embedding pearls into their helmets, breastplates, and other wartime gear, not too long before the buffalo-hunting Lamanites came in the do a mass genocide party. Mound-diggers were finding stuff like that when Solomon Spaulding was spinning his yarns.
 
PearlWatson said:
Why must it be of great price?...why can't it be Pearl of relative value? Why not Pearl of Infinite Worth? Pearl that ain't worth much to most people? Priceless Pearl?
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Alright, I'll finally face it. Pearls are expensive but nice. Sometimes worth it.

People can be like pearls, too. I'm sure I could think of examples where each of these possibilities could be an appropriate assessment. . . .

So which one was the inspiration for your handle in here????

I like the little story about the velveteen bunny that became real. I hope I get real someday. true value isn't necessarily pricey.
 
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I haven't been in this thread for a while now, also the general discussions forum. Apparently there are lots of things to catch up with, I will try to read some babe posts next days, I missed them, and there are very interesting topics in the general forum too, I hope I will have some time this weekend to read them as well.
 
babe said:
Alright, I'll finally face it. Pearls are expensive but nice. Sometimes worth it.

People can be like pearls, too. I'm sure I could think of examples where each of these possibilities could be an appropriate assessment. . . .

So which one was the inspiration for your handle in here????

I like the little story about the velveteen bunny that became real. I hope I get real someday. true value isn't necessarily pricey.
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That's just creepy. I just read that book.

I think of the name Pearl as more of old lady with curlers in her hair type of name...but Pearl is just a play on the name Earl which is rather rednecky.

I didn't expect 3 separate tangents to the Pearl questions, but that was a nice surprise.

Where did you get this information? Is it just a tidbit rolling around in that big brain of yours?:

And even soldiers in the Hopewell civilization, living in Ohio or thereabouts, got into a sort of one-upsmanship thing about embedding pearls into their helmets, breastplates, and other wartime gear, not too long before the buffalo-hunting Lamanites came in the do a mass genocide party. Mound-diggers were finding stuff like that when Solomon Spaulding was spinning his yarns.​

I learned a little more about black pearls:

What Makes a Black Pearl Black?

Black pearls are formed when that piece of sand gets stuck in the body of a very specific type of oyster, the Tahitian black-lipped Pinctada margaritifera. The interior shell, called the nacre, of most oysters is usually a glossy white or silver but the Tahitian black-lipped oyster features a thick band of black. If the pearl forms near that band, it will suck up that coloring.

Tahitian black-lipped pearls can be darker if they develop closer to the lips, and can also be a silvery gray color if they get wedged in a lighter portion of the oyster. If an oyster that typically produces white pearls has an unusual black coloring in its nacre, it too can create a blackish pearl. This, however, is rare; it occurs in only one in 10,000 pearls.

The price of a black pearl depends on its size, shape, luster, color and surface quality, which is graded on a scale from A to D. A perfectly round, AAA quality, 10 mm-sized Tahitian black pearl goes for $140, according to pearlparadise.com, while a round, AAA, 10 mm white freshwater pearl costs about $15, according to youpearl.com​
 
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