Still, there is one thing to be comforted with for those willing to see it. The Millennium has made an Ethiopian party out of EPRDF!! If the various Ethnic programs that's been getting wide coverage on Radio Ethiopia and TV aren't enough of a pointer, all the nationalistic songs we been watching on ETV (that the government used to treat with ultimate distaste in the past) should bear ample witness.

EPRDF, the party that jeered at anyone who dared call himself using the "E" word and freely considered him/her as something of an Anti-Christ, has been shamlessly Christened an Ethiopian party, complete with the Unified vision and mightiness of 3 thousand years [I know!!, it would have sound funny if it wasn't so tragic].

And come 5th of July 2008, a day henceforth would come to be known as "The Ethiopian Flag Day", we will all celebrate this Christening with style! Waving, according to Ethiopian Review, 600 thousand to 1 million "Bandiras" of which the sister hasn't managed to get hold of one. Not that this sister has ever been a "flag" person. The first time she went out flag-shopping is the morning in which her husband told her he's getting a truck to drive to work. She felt it her duty as an Ethiopian & a wife to have her American husband drive a car that has the green, yellow and red waving on it. Come to think of it, her husband has more traditional clothes and Ethiopian CD collections than she could ever get her hands on. Not to mention a fascination with her country & people she dismisses with the just boredom of a person who has yet to leave home to/and appreciate it.

Now, I know this change of heart on EPRDF's side may not be welcomed with the conviction & ecstasy it would have been 17, or even 7 years ago. There would be none of that patriotic jubilation with which our Prime Minister's heralding Eritrea's invasion was received. "Fool me once", my fellow abeshas may bitterly say, "shame on me! Fool me three times, you'll be the only audience to your own radio". A bitterness that would no doubt cast a shadow on the festive mood of a day that would have chocked Ethiopians up under normal circumstances.

I would like to see it as the first step in attempting to help heal those wounds the rulling party willingly inflicted upon these doubting parties, and feel it shows a readiness to explore other [new] ways to bring the country under one flag: the way many would have liked to see it - in time past! If only..

Still, better late than never! Right?!

Read more:

• Millennium festival secretariat finalizes preparations for Flag Day celebration
• MoE says Flag Day would consolidate mutual understanding, tolerance

“NAIDOC week” says Craig Greene, Leichhardt Council’s Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander project worker, “should be important to all Australians as it celebrates the people of the oldest living culture in the world - Aboriginal Australians! It acknowledges our survival and our continued connection to country, language and culture. It is also about Aboriginal people being proud as legitimate contributors to the nation as a whole”

A Gurindji man originally from the Northern Territory, Craig and his team have got together an inspiring programme of events in the Leichhardt area for NAIDOC week which runs from July 7-11, including a celebration of Indigenous film and story telling, a heritage walk in Callan Park and two events at Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Cooperative – you can download the full programme here: NAIDOC 2008 (PDF reader required)

More on the history of NAIDOC and its significance can be found at:

http://www.naidoc.org.au/history/default.aspx

IMAGE: Leichhardt Town Hall, 2006

Funny thing was, even after I left my parent's house as a married woman and had to take care of the shopping and buying of "asbeza", I've always been convinced the increase in the prices of goods and services was something that should be left for mothers to worry about. Coz mother's do, don't they?! It comes with the territory. I have no children, GeBriellin!! And aren't planning to have any. What's worse, I may not even be able to consider having any if food or oil prices are climbing the ladder this fast. However, "motherly" I have become: to my home economics! The motherly instincts can not help but surface under the pressure of the above three. It's as if my consumo-logical clock has finally kicked in, with a vengeance!

Every time I entered a supermarket (which I do not do as much as I used to; to avoid what i call the "Jean Valjean" complex), or felt like taking my lazy ass home in a "contract taxi", or desired a bite of Bilos Pastry's Tiramisu; I am bitterly reminded of how oil prices and inflation, global warming and world economy, Brazil and Biofuel production are affecting my every day need, by limiting it!. As I was telling a friend last night, 5 months ago 27 birr would have safely covered the price of a huge Cheese Burger (almost as huge as the ones that took care of Elvis Presley's heart -- for good) for two, a coca cola or "hulet tiQur Macchiato" with as much lumps of sugar as the heart desired to go with it, a waitress' tip and perhaps a taxi fare home at the best of cafés in Addis. Nowadays, what 27 birr buys you is agony. The agony of seeing less of what you love in a food that waters the mouth by the mere thought of it, and more of what you'd rather not have: tomatoe, lettuce & rude looks from a waitress that won't be running to the Manager any time soon with your complaints. Not that you'd stay long enough to locate the Manager, they'd start mopping the floor beneath your feet the minute you are done chewing. It's either their turn of the twice weekly going-without-electricity program and can't afford the candles or you need to leave the table to those customers coming in from the rain.

Never Say Never

I used to work in a travel agency a couple of years back. There, I had bachelor colleagues who held either Bachelors or Masters Degree from the Social Science Department of AAU. Boys from the country who end up training as tour guides to the various packages our organizations offered: bird watching, history, culture, wildlife and trekking. They were not only well paid, almost as well as our managers with perdiems, tips and what not; but saved like maniacs. Didn’t even eat three meals a day, these guys, and three meals were possible in those days. They ate twice (called it "5/11", first comes brunch then "mekses", that's it!), hardly changed their clothes, practiced an everybody-for-himself payment technique they referred to as “detuch system” that made many of us uncomfortable and called it "Nuro Bezede". When all the "zede" most of us needed a lecture on was how to make it to pay day without coming face to face with your credit (the "BaleSuq", the "BetEmebet", "KeEthiopian Airlines Libss yemitAwetAw lij")!!

So ofcourse we used to wonder at them, the young and naïve among us, carefree city bways and gals who ate their mother's enjera and drunk ElAid's Macchiato. We talked behind their backs about them: how stingy they were, how their mouth smells due to the emptiness of their stomach and how a toe must have died in their shoe making entering their office, and coming out alive, unthinkable! We decided they must have been through a lot while back in their respective 'yeGeter Qebeles' to have been made so blind to the joys of this world, and felt sorry for them and pretty superior to them.

Now, I'm wondering if they haven't got it right all along!

Oil prices, inflation and food shortage!

The three Musketeers!

The Triple Woes!

Look closer and you are sure to find a Father, a Son and an unholy Ghost.

Do you think they'd come up with some sort of Y2K solution before the strong among us have fallen off like flies?!

Well, atleast we know who won't be having headaches regarding oil prices, inflation and food shortage any time soon. Why, Christianio Ronaldo ofcourse! (Another "hot" news item that seems to touch the day-to-day lives of many of my fellow country men. And some females too!)

See how our hits party went! You can see pictures and send comments about it!

Lol, I just had to put this picture in... CLUB PENGUIN PUT UP FIREWORKS FOR US!! LOL!!

How did you think the party went? How much fun did you have? Let us know and send a comment!

1. Rockhopper has a number of favourite places including the Dock, Night Club, his ship of course (all levels) the Cove, Pizza Parlour, Plaza and the Iceberg. Why? Because these rooms can hold lots of penguins before they're full. Rockhopper will never go to HQ or other people's igloos, and because the town is so busy, he won't stop there either, but he may walk through. 
   
2. Rockhopper loves to go on full servers. Mammoth, Frozen, Mittens, lots of the full servers on the left side of American servers, and, for us Aussies - BIG SURF!! But this doesn't mean that Rockhopper won't be anywhere else - sometimes he surprises everyone by going on a less popular server!
   
3. Rockhopper can either be run by a moderator or a robot, so he could be on at different times on different countries. Try servers in other countries and different servers to your usual ones, because he might be anywhere, anytime! Also, lots of penguins seem to be on around 5:00pm Club Penguin Time, so Rockhopper likes to go on at that time. (This time is morning for Australians, probably around evening for Americans).
   
4. If a server is unusually full, there might be a good chance that Rockhopper is there. Have a look around.
   
5. When you think you might be on the server that Rockhopper is on, try the ship. This is where Rockhopper starts, and is the most common spot for him to be found. It's also where people go when they've heard about Rockhopper, so if you see lots of people in the rooms wondering where Rockhopper is, chances are Rockhopper was just there.
   
6. If a room's full, there might be a very good chance that Rockhopper is in there. Try to get in there a few times, but if it is absolutely hopeless, wait in one of the rooms or places beside it. Rockhopper usually walks from room to room, without using the map, so the penguin parades can keep up with him, so be on the look out if he comes out!
   
7. If, on your server, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE, literally!) is yelling "ROCKHOPPER!" it may mean that that cheeky pirate is on the server somewhere! But don't be tricked - penguins are always faking Rockhopper being there. Basically, if it's unusual, it could be it!
   
8. You know you've found Rockhopper in a room if there is a huge crowd of people, calling out ROCKHOPPER (duh!!). Also, Rockhopper is easier to find in the crowd because he is slightly bigger and wears the same hat and beard every time. (See below for a picture).
   
9. As you know, on Club Penguin there is a cheat to almost everything. And yep, you guessed it - there's a cheat to finding Rockhopper! In the normal log in box, type in Rockhopper and a 5 + digit password. If he's "banned" he isn't on, but if it is an "incorrect password", Rockhopper is online somewhere!
   
10. Just have a look around. Sometimes it's good if you can get a friend to help you search all the servers and places with you, so it takes up less time. Most of the time, though, finding Rockhopper is just luck - you could spend three hours searching for him, and keep missing him. So, come on at different times of day, different servers and countries and have a look around!

So, if you follow all this ideas, you will probably have a good chance of finding Rockhopper, but if you don't, don't give up - just keep trying!

1. New Player Cards! Easier to find the items that you're looking for, and much neater too! You've probably all seen the first design, as it was one of the first new features to be mentioned on the CPIP website, but now Club Penguin has designed an even better design!
   
   
   
2. Mail! I think we'd all agree that this is an area where Club Penguin really needs to change! The CPIP Project people say that soon mail will be able to be saved, deleted and sent to penguins not online! You will be able to click on the envelope at the top of your screen and open up your mail box!
3. Igloos with backgrounds! How cool is this? I don't know whether this is a feature just for members, or if non members can get it too! I'm sure that Club Penguin will invent a few different backgrounds too, for different seasons and events!!
   
4. This one's cool - Server Update! I think it means that it's easier to get to the servers where your buddies are, and much less messy! It looks like you will be able to have a quick view at your most-regularly visited servers!
   
5. This is all so exciting, and hopefully they'll come out veeeery soon!
6. If you would like to go to see all of the updates, go to: http://community.clubpenguin.com/cpip/
7. Also, feel free to send a comment here and let us know also what your favourite update is and what you think of everything!

For the first little while on your site, your number of hits will probably be quite low and not many people will visit it. But instead of giving up or just waiting, why don't you use the time to make your site better? Create your pages and start using more and more posts, so by the time that your site is up there with Mohd's, it's amazing! I suggest putting up a Blog Stats widget on your sidebar and you can sit and watch your site grow!

Ok, well for a start, you have to make it look good! Spend some time jazzing up your header, figure out your colour scheme and make it look impressive and "professional". People like colourful and interesting sites!

Make sure you keep your regular visitors updated with posts on all the new stuff. Also, people like cheats and secrets, so it'd be a good idea to write up posts or a page is great too with all your cheats and secrets. And if a new mission comes out, walkthroughs get lots of people looking at your site too!

Pictures say 1000 words. Instead of writing up a page that just blabs on and on in a million words about how to do the mission walkthrough, put in a picture! Seriously, not only is it alot easier to do and read, but it looks more colourful and interesting too!

Never, ever, ever copy people. There is absolutely no point in copying and pasting pictures or posts from another site straight onto yours. If people wanted that information, they'd go to the site you got it from, not yours! And the most boring thing in the world is when people copy of the Official Cp Blog - everyone looks at that. Either put it in your own words or forget it!

Make sure you  have things on your site that people can do! Put in polls, competitions, places to comment or ask questions and other things that allow visitors to get involved. Maybe you could have a Penguin of the Week or interview people - people like it when they feel "famous" and are mentioned on your site! Make sure that you add people with CP sites to your blogroll too!

Be original! For goodness sake, tons of sites have the catlogue on them and write about the Latest Newspaper. You don't NEED that stuff if other people have it! Look outside the box - find things from behind the scenes of Club Penguin - maybe the CPIP updates or the latest message on the Agent HQ board. No one wants to find the exact same information on every Club Penguin site that they look at!

The most annoying thing is when people use bad language or paste inappropriate pictures on their site. Don't you realize that Club Penguin users are kids from only 7 years old?! It puts people off when they look at a site that is offensive.
 <--- annoyed penguin!!!!

Don't get mixed up between Club Penguin and the real world. It's annoying when people search your site for updates on rockhopper or the latest catalogue and they find photos of your favourite band or pictures of you! Make sure that if you have a Club Penguin site, it's all about Club Penguin.

Everyone loves a Club Penguin Pics page. Seriously, if you want to entertain people, make up some funny pictures or capture a funny moment on CP!

So I hope that gave you a few ideas to fix up your site, or maybe even encouraged you to start your own! If you follow these tips, you might just find yourself with a few more hits!

Almeida's revelation removes the last legitimate reason for keeping any of the JFK files secret. Even though their release was required by the 1992 JFK Act -- passed unanimously by Congress, due to the efforts of Senators like John Kerry and Christopher Dodd -- "well over a million CIA records" about the assassination remain secret until 2017. The Secret Service admitted destroying key records in 1995, three years after the law was passed, an incident that has never been investigated by Congress. And in late September 2006, a federal judge ignored the JFK Act when he threw out a lawsuit by a Washington Post reporter seeking files about Oswald, which the CIA had lied about withholding from the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations (which included then-Congressman Dodd).

Recently declassified files show that in addition to protecting Almeida, agencies from the CIA to the FBI to Naval Intelligence also withheld information to hide their own intelligence failures and domestic surveillance operations, as well as to protect the reputations of their own agencies and key officials. Santayana said, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." That is certainly true in this case since, as the following examples show, that is true in this case since all the secrecy has impacted US domestic and foreign policy for decades, and continues to do so.

• The JFK-Almeida coup plan (codenamed AMWORLD by the CIA) came about because of the failure to resolved the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. As JFK's Secretary of State Dean Rusk revealed to us -- and files later confirmed -- JFK's pledge not to invade Cuba never took effect because of Fidel's refusal to allow "UN inspections" for "weapons of mass destruction" that were part of JFK's deal with the Soviets to end the crisis. JFK, not Bush, was the first president to use those terms -- and to suffer tragic consequences because problems with such inspections led to an attempt to overthrow a foreign dictator.

• The JFK-Almeida coup failed because it was infiltrated by three Mafia bosses targeted for prosecution by Attorney General Robert Kennedy (who played the leading role in managing the coup plan for his brother). The Mafia chiefs -- banned by the Kennedys from the coup plan, and from reopening their casinos in Cuba -- infiltrated the CIA's portion of the coup plan, and used parts of it to kill JFK in Dallas. This forced key US officials -- RFK, LBJ, and J. Edgar Hoover -- into a cover-up to protect Almeida and prevent a possible nuclear confrontation with the Soviets, a cover-up which continued for decades.

• The Mafia bosses infiltrated the JFK-Almeida coup plan using contacts established during Richard Nixon's first "October Surprise," in 1960. The CIA admits it was working with the Mafia chiefs at that time, in an attempt to assassinate Fidel just before the 1960 election between Nixon and JFK. Unknown to JFK, the CIA continued using the Mafia bosses in their own anti-Castro operations into October and November of 1963, giving the mobsters a way to infiltrate JFK's coup plan with Almeida.

• Robert Kennedy knew who killed his brother, and even told associates about the leading role of New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello. But RFK couldn't tell the Warren Commission or the public -- or even allow a thorough investigation -- without endangering Almeida and risking World War III. The FBI finally got a detailed confession from Marcello in 1985 when he was in prison, thanks to a trusted FBI informant deemed credible by a Federal judge. But the FBI and the Reagan-Bush Justice Department withheld it from the public. They also refused to prosecute Marcello for numerous crimes the godfather confessed to on hundreds of hours of tapes generated by a court-authorized bug in his prison cell. This allowed Marcello to go free, after he was released from prison on a technicality. All of those 1985 tapes are still being withheld more than a decade after the godfather's death.

• The JFK-Almeida coup plan -- and the Mafia's infiltration of it -- was withheld from the Warren Commission and at least six Congressional Committees, and some of those involved are still active in politics. Current Senator Arlen Specter was the Warren Commission attorney who dealt with two JFK aides who said they were pressured to alter their testimony about seeing shots from the grassy knoll "for the good of the country."

• A dozen veterans of the JFK-Almeida coup plan -- and the Mafia's infiltration of it -- were involved in Watergate, though it was withheld from Congress and Justice Department prosecutors (including Ben-Veniste, later a member of the 9-11 Commission). At that time, Robert Bennett -- now a Senator from Utah -- had employed one of those veterans and was feeding information to Bob Woodward to protect the CIA.

• Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were key officials in the Ford Administration -- and George H. W. Bush was CIA Director -- when information about the Mafia's infiltration of the JFK-Almeida coup plan was withheld from the Senate Church Committee (including Gary Hart and Walter Mondale) and Congress's Pike Committee.

• Several veterans of the JFK-Almeida coup plan later surfaced in Iran-Contra, during the Reagan-Bush Administration. Some were involved with then-US Ambassador John Negroponte, currently the National Intelligence Director. But relevant information about the JFK-Almeida coup plan and the Mafia's infiltration of it was withheld from the Iran-Contra Committee (co-chaired by Lee Hamilton, later a member of the 9-11 Commission), and Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Narcotics.

• Even after Kerry and Dodd helped to spearhead the 1992 JFK Act, the CIA and other agencies continued to withhold key information. US military and CIA veterans of the JFK-Almeida coup plan began a new outreach to high Cuban military officials in the mid-1990s. While those in the US military seemed sincere, this outreach would also allow the CIA to claim the 1963 files couldn't be released because the same people were still involved in the same type of active, ongoing operation.

• In the 1990s, numerous US coup attempts against Saddam failed for the same basic reason the JFK-Almeida coup plan failed (and one even resulted in an assassination attempt against President George H. W. Bush). Likewise, several of the key intelligence failures by the Bush Administration, the CIA, and the FBI in the months before 9-11 mirror those in declassified files about the 1963 intelligence failures that preceded JFK's assassination. But because of all the secrecy, those failures were never exposed. The lessons of history couldn't be learned, so the same agencies kept making the same mistakes -- and history kept repeating itself.

That will continue to be the tragic case, unless the public demands that Congress no longer allow the agencies and the courts to ignore the 1992 JFK Act. It's not just a partisan issue. Rep. Christopher Shays was the first member of Congress to acknowledge the files that are still being withheld, in the March 14, 2006 hearings of his National Security Subcommittee. Now that the US government has declassified Commander Almeida's secret work for JFK, there is no legitimate reason to withhold the "well over a million CIA records" and not to investigate the files the Secret Service and other agencies admit destroying.

As for Almeida, both RFK and the CIA were certain he was sincere in 1963 and not a double agent, and the evidence backs that up. Fidel only learned about Almeida's work for JFK in 1990, after which Almeida disappeared for several years. Fidel allowed him to rejoin the Cuban government because now -- as in 1963 -- he is one of the highest Black officials in Cuba, an important consideration in a country where some estimate that seventy percent of the population is of African descent. Almeida's family is safe because after RFK and the CIA helped them leave Cuba on a pretext in the fall of 1963, they never returned to Cuba to live.

Because Almeida's family and his work for JFK have been officially declassified, we can now tell the full story of the JFK-Almeida coup -- and its penetration by Marcello -- in the new, updated trade paperback edition of our book Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK. As it details, there was not a large conspiracy that killed JFK -- none of those named in this article were involved, except Marcello -- but there was a big effort to protect Almeida and to cover-up information that could harm the reputations of agencies and key officials.

With the publicity surrounding the release of the JFK-Almeida coup plan, this may be America's last chance to get the files JFK released before the year 2017 (when all the files are supposed to be released). With every member of Congress -- and a third of the Senate -- up for re-election, is there any reason to vote for a candidate who doesn't want to see the law enforced and all the JFK files released?

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Gyandotccom

8 year old daughter of Zimbabwe's President Mugabe, Ophelia Robertta Mugabe, saved the day.

According to our reporter in Harare, Mugabe had a change of heart when his daughter asked an important question the night before his country's second round presidential election.

Waddling in her little Mini-Mouse slippers to where her "baba" is, to give him a kiss before it's time for her "kurara" (meaning "sleep" in Shona, the national language), the little girl notices the worried look on her ole man's face.

"What's the matter, baba?!" asked Ophelia, fluent in the English language, as all her classmates at the S.E.S.P. (Sandford English School for the Privileged).

"Oh, nothing daughter" Mugabe replied taking his eye-glasses off, rubbing his tired eyes, and putting them on.

Ophelia waved her tiny arms in a spoiled attempt to show she needed lifting up. She was put on her dada's ancient knees accordingly.

"What are you doing?!" she asked, sifting through the notepad her father was pouring over, on which the words "gun" and "pen" were written across and down as if for some kind of class punishment.

"Remember those farmers whose land I took?" her father asked.

"Y..e…s" said Ophelia in a sing-along voice "The White Zimbabweans?"

"Yeah right!!", exploded Mugabe before realizing who his audience was and a pact he made when she was born. That this Zimbabwean won't be like none other! He tried to pass his hand through her kinky hair "Well, their friends are saying I should leave this palace"

"Oh daddy!", whined a distressed daughter "What's to become of us? Are we going to move? Is mommy coming with us? Am I going to leave S.E.S.P. and all my friends? Oh daddy.."

"No chile! No!" Mugabe smiled, his eyes twinkling from within his eyeglasses "we are going to fight! I AM going to fight. You know I won't let nothing happen to you and your amai"

"But..", Ophelia hesitated looking at the receding lines of her father's hair, his worried eyes and wrinkled face..

"Y..e..s?!" it was Mugabe's turn to sing-along

"But..?"

"Now now, Ophi" the stern father demanded "You know you can tell me anything, I promise I won't be mad at you!"

"But.. baba, aren't you too old for it?!"

Thirty minutes before the second round election was to start this morning, Africa's Desk of BBC World Service (instead of Al-Jazeera slash English's) received a call from the Zimbabwe President. Robert Gabriel Mugabe requested a live interview in which he apologized for the problems his country has been going through for the last few years, promised to return the land to the white "Zimbabwean" farmers, to make amends with and do the biddings of the Western World and that "the Pen" should rule the day.

"Who would have thought?!" said Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader, from his hiding at the Dutch Embassy upon hearing the news "siring a child at 75!! And such a child too! Maybe the ole man should have her DNA checked. If he's heard of it!"

A joke, according to our source, Mugabe didn't find funny.

First municipal elections for newly formed Annandale Council following secession from Leichhardt Council, Annandale, 1894.

Date:

Saturday 26 July

Time:

10 am for 10.30 am to 4.45 PM

Venue:

Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street Wing foyer

Cost:

$48, $42 (Friends), $38 (Oral History Association of Australia members), includes lunch; morning or afternoon sessions $18 each ($30 with lunch)
Bookings telephone: 02 9273 1414

Anna Jarrett, professional — and travelling — storyteller, takes a fresh look at oral history philosophy and practice. This presentation gives insights into the sensitivities of working with stories at every stage of oral history production from research to final representation. Discover the roles of listeners, story custodians, community cultural workers, media producers — and friends! In the afternoon Rosemary Block, the State Library’s Curator of Oral History, will conduct a practical seminar on oral history practice.

What, and, which territory he brought back I didn't know. Didn't ask! Didn't care! But I asked this morning and explain my friend did, what/why and how, to the last drop! I am not a huge fan of politics. Am worse when it comes to world affairs. My history knowledge, however, is more or less non-existent. I only know names and with what to associate them.

• "The French Revolution" I associate with a spoilt princess, "Best of times, worst of times", Charles Dickens, and Le Guillotine
• "Watergate" I associate with Nixon, 'I'm not a crook" and an ABBA's song made for Waterloo
• Which I associate with Napoleon & Josephine

That's all I needed to appear learned, informed. And with it I either convinced them, or confused them. This day of our Lord, 26th day of the year 2008 though, I asked all the questions. The what, the why, the who and the how. Then I went to Google to read on it. And baptised I was, with love! For "ArBegna AmdeTsion, MeLaLash YeWossen".

It's a sick feeling, coming across accusations you "beDabesa" know can't be blamed on our government 100% (like Somalia and Ogaden), as I came across this morning. What am I missing, I ask myself, that I don't seem to know how to get through to these people that Ethiopia NEED to hold onto her guns if she has to survive as a nation?!. That many were our ill wishers, and powerful are those who take care of them, for us to lie on our bed at nights and dream of "England", so to say?! That we would have to keep our guns by our bedside at all times, have them lie on our knees when we are preparing each "gursha" to throw into our mouth; that we can't afford to, don't have the freedom of mind for, the eating of our enjera, and lapping of our water unawares – like dogs?!

I knew all these - beDabesa!! But couldn't explain it to neither Dr. Ethiopia (over by Abesha Bunna Bet) nor his pacifist friends for I knew not what I was really talking about. A female soldier minus her "Qeleha", the undersigned had become for a moment there, ill-prepared to fight the holy war (our "holy war" this time, the war for survival as a nation & individuals who won't have it no other way) becoming an easy target for both friends and foe.

But history lesson I had on lunch time. The very best! So I'm in love now, in love with Amdetsion and know why this East African country needs to have the biggest military power in all of Africa, inspite of being the poorest, inspite of famine and food aids. Our guns are our means of survival, as has been for thousands of years. And they should continue to be as long as there is breath in an Ethiopian's body, those whose eyes turn red at the sight of one and the river Nile!

Now, I'm not sure how to make this crystal clear to you, how Somalia & Ogaden (and all those ensuing places of our war of survival Al-Jazeera would be telling it the way it hasn't happened against us) are above religion and beyond heaven, without being politically incorrect. Perhaps you should try to meet with my friend and discuss it with him. He knows how to tell it, the way it's been and is happening. And I am in love, en-chanted, in-toxicated by one AmdeTsion, Emperor of Ethiopia. And, yes, Meles, I'm with you on this one!

God speed!

An intimate friend of mine, a friend who first told me the expression "Never say 'never'" said "Never" three times! And then lied about it. Yeah, like Peter - the Apostle!!

She has a sister my age, right down to the post meridiem, as she told me a thousand times. But the minute I got married, she cut about 2 years from her sister's age and told me her sister has infact grown younger. (If she wasn't a wife always grieving over the fact that her husband tries to make his sister sound younger to her, creating an unholy rift in the bedroom, I won't even have paid the deceit much attention). I know a girl can't afford to climb freely up the age ladder if she ain't married after a certain age. If you can't cut it, keep it where it is! But why lie to me? (The friend who is in on the greasy details of the bedroom. Mostly unwillingly but.. still..)

Second time, she told me this same sister was expecting a baby. Shocked, I asked "has she never heard of condoms?!". "No!", my friend said casually, "you know [name], she loves kids!". I didn't! As a matter of fact, she's impressed me as the type who associated babies with stretch marks!. And certainly not the type to get knocked up before saying "I do". Born in an Ethiopian family whose members remind one of those black and white photos of royalties, I found it hard to imagine her loving kids so much that she went out and got herself a sperm -- and made a baby! Being the younger kin of the friend who been telling me how disgusting it was "these [desperate] women these days getting pregnant to keep guys" too.

Third time, she told me how her sister was moving in with the guy she wasn't married to. "Erm…?", I asked unable to find a polite way to put this. "Nah", my friend said reading my thoughts, "she doesn't want it! Never has!". Lib belu. This is a girl who hardly leaves the house without a make up, is gorgeous and rolls with fellow gorgeous people who do counting calorie for a living. What's she going to tell me next? That her sister doesn't like wedding dresses?!

"Atleast, tell her to have something on paper" I pleaded, wishing in my heart of hearts to scream at my fiend to "Stop it, Woman! It's not your choice! You don't have to cover up for her!". But I didn't dare. I just "ooohhh" and "aaaah" and put a zipper to it.

All that would have been quite ok if it wasn't brought to my attention a few days later that the man in question used to be a boyfriend to a colleague of my friends', was known to have threatened the girl with murder upon her breaking up with him, was notoriously known for sleeping around and is still not the type to want to get hitched. From our closeness and the fact that I try not to judge the actions females take under pressing circumstances like discussed above, I should have been the first person my friend would come with her anxities to. (I also moonlight as a relationship advisor to worried elder sisters). But nope! She kept lying out of her ass and the fact that she expected me to buy into it all (Am I missing something here?! Do I even have to?!) was more bothersome than what's to become of pretty prego over there.

No doubt it's a confusing question! You see your younger kins in the best possible light and you want others to see them that way. But from time to time they sneak out of the light, go to the dark, or simply show their true colors. Those colors won't be neither ugly nor evil, or above what others their age do, unless you spent all your life trying to make them sound like one. You don't want to eat your words, nor wash your dirty laundry in public. Even though it really isn't your dirty laundry to wash and there are limits to what a sister can do (trust me I know, I am an elder sister myself!). Faced with the question of facing the truth or protecting your younger siblings from evil-mouthing bloggers like myself, what do you do? Do you say "Aynen ginbar yargew" and lie out right? Do you make excuses and try to paint a prettier picture (like my friend did)? Or would you be man enough to admit they are human beings after all and you'd be there for them [anyway]?

I don't know what you'd do. I don't know what I would do, God help me. But please please please please Never say never! You never know when what goes around comes knocking around. Or to whom!

Having trouble figuring out the mission? Well here's a walkthrough for you!

1. Talk to G, then head out to investigate at the Dock. You'll bump into Herbert and Klutzy. Scary isn't he?
   
2. Make sure you pick up Klutzy's lamp when they go underground, then follow them into the tunnel that has been made with their giant drill.
   
3. Have a look around the tunnel (you might need to turn on Klutzy's lamp to help you see in the darker tunnels.
   
4. Then go back up to where you started in the tunnel and head out to the Town. You'll see the pieces of map flying all over the place. Follow them, clicking on them each time they land!!
   
5. Follow the map until you reach the Plaza. The map will land on a penguin's newspaper. Chat to the penguin, and you'll see that he would like a pizza, but he doesn't want to lose his spot in the line for the stage.
   
6. Of course, this will mean you'll have to get him a pizza if you want the map! Talk to the chef and order a double meat and grey fish pizza. Hopefully you already had the common sense to do that.
   
7. Give the penguin lining up the pizza, and ask for the newspaper in return. Take the piece of map out of it and stick the two items in your inventory.
   
8. You'll find that when you put the piece of map in your inventory, it will appear at the top of your screen, next to the map. Whenever you click on it, the words will pop up on the screen.
   
9. Head over the the beach, and grab a piece of net from next to the lighthouse. Then go inside the lighthouse and pick up a box of balloons from the penguin on the stage. Finally, ask the penguin with the barrels of cream soda if you could take one, and add that to your inventory too. Watch it doesnt blow! You'll need to get another one if it does.
   
10. The next thing to do is to go to the Sports Shop, and pick up the box of pegs from next to the tent.
    
11. Lol, this isn't important but I bought myself an extra pizza!! lol! (mm delicious wigwams)
    
12. Then go to the town and to the coffee shop. Offer to help the waiter clean up the biscuits.
    
13. Click on one of the biscuits, and you'll zoom in to help him put them in the jar. As a thankyou, he'll give you a biscuit! (Dont eat this one, maybe save one for eating later)
    
14. Then head over and talk to G. There will be another earthquake, and he'll send you to investigate.
15. Head out to the town, and you'll find the other half of the map stuck on the Nightclub sign.
    
16. You might need to use the flying puffle to help you get it down. Give it a cookie to make it do things for you. The puffle wont reach high enough so you'll need a better hat for him. Go to the Gadget Room and grab the "something" hat... i dunno what it is... anyway the picture will help.
17. Add the hat to your inventory, then go to the town and put the hat on the green puffle. Now feed it a cookie. (Dont worry, if you used up your other cookie you can go into the Coffee Shop and get another one.) The puffle will then give you the other piece of map. (YAY now we have 2 pieces!)
18. Go to the Beach and grab the net.
19. Grab the wooden hammer next to the spanner from the Gadget Room. Dont get confused with the one next to it. This will be used for hauling the gift shop back up!!
20. Go to the Dock, and back under the tunnel. Now, using the pieces of map you found, follow the instructions from left to right on it to reach Herberts Hideout. You read the map like this -
21. Once you reach Herberts Hideout use your spanner in your spyphone to remove the pipe from the gift shop door.
22. Ok guys, here is where the barrel comes in handy. After you've taken away the pipe, take the barrel out and shake it. Once you've shaken it for a few seconds, and it is ALMOST shaken up, put the barrel down below the gift shop by clicking with it on the ground. Then it will explode and push the gift shop up. On my opinion, this step is not important, as you can use the helium balloon to pull up the gift shop anyway, but you can use the barrel instead of the balloon if you would like to. If that is the case, you will need to have done the next two steps before this one.
23. Go to the Gadget Room and click on the helium tank. Go to G and ask if you can use the helium for your balloons. Grab the helium tank and combine it with the balloons to create a big blown up helium balloon ready to rescue the gift shop.
24. Rightio, here comes the big bit. Go to the town and place the helium balloon on the side of the shop. Very quickly, place the net under it, put in the tent pegs in on the corners and hammer then down with the hammer. The Gift Shop should fall back into place. If the balloon bursts just use another one.
25. You'll get a call from G to go and find Herbert and Klutzy. Once youre finished talking go back into the hole and find your way to the hideout using the map instructions again. The big drill is sitting there. You can get the wrench out of your spyphone and take the clog thingo wheel out of it, and you can give it to G when you finish the mission (it was stolen from the clock, remember?!)
26. You'll see that theres a new tunnel. Go through that to the Boiler Room and thats where you'll find Herbert and Klutzy.
27. Talk with him and you'll find that hes ruined the boiler. You'll get a call from G saying that the boilers got something wrong with it. Fix the boiler by playing a weird game where you have to join the pipes all the way down from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.
28. Once you have finished that, you'll get a call from G saying that the boilers now fixed. (no thanks to him) and he wants to meet you at the HQ. Go there to finish off the mission and collect your medal.

A friend of mine sent me two "quotable quotes" this morning. One from what actress Kristin Davis said, and the other from a "The Sopranos" script he found on Ethiopundit . blogspot . com used "to whip Meles Zenawi's stand on the conflicted land issue around Gondar-Sudan region". I liked one of them, I hated the other. Here below is my reply. Would appreciate your take on them!

Thank you for the "TiQsis". Your Kristin Davis' quote ("If I had one wish for myself, it would be to fall in love. That's asking for trouble, but that's the truth.") sounds pretty shallow. Maybe because I find the concept of "falling in love" freaking funny. So does Chris. We used to laugh about it all the time: one of rolling on the bed saying "oh... oh.. I've fallen in love.. It's all over me.. !" (in a very much Carrie-in-a-wedding-dress way) while the other chuckles delightedly. I know it's silly. But so is the concept, were you to see it from where I saw it.

Here is how I believe "love" happens:
You see a person, you want them! That's the reality. Everything else is sugar coating it and we're both too old for that. If you started dating them, then you are maneuvering them to bed. If the sex is great, you wanna have more of it. And you'd pay whatever it takes to keep it. That's what they call a "relationship". While in this relationship, you get used to the person and his/her ways. Some good, Some bad. You develop a resistance to it, or you don't. You either stay, or leave. When you stay and they aren't around, you'll miss them. Miss their corky ways that don't look so bad when they are away. And you think you must be in love. The truth is: You are just used to them. And you need them. They been filling gaps in your life that needed feeling and, without them, you find yourself pretty see-through-ish as if with some yeTalyan gize "chichi". Cold and lonely, that's where they came from. And you find out that you guys were [have become] perfect for each other, inspite of all the imperfections you know you can live with and will perfect in this waltz we call "relationship" eventually. That's where the expression "Gabichana chama midelaw siyarej new" came from. It's your leg, your individuality/whatever you been walking through life with, that shrunk to fit the new shoe or got used to the discomfort. Nothing to do with the shoe!.

So.. I ask you, where does the "falling" come in?

True, Kristin Davis ain't exactly wishing it on me and a person can wish for whatever they see fit. But I won't be running to list it under my "fav quotes" section any time soon. So, I guess you can say I haven't found the Kristin Davis stuff so hot although she's pretty neat herself. "A Shiksa goodess", Harry Goldenblatt called her character on one of the "Sex and the City" episodes. Which indeed she is. Sticking to doing what you do best, that's the bitch!.

Loved the Sopranos one ("Buy land AJ, cause God ain't making any more of it"-Tony Soprano to his son). Can I use it for my post? Can I?

Persecution Lust, on the other hand, is the feverish desire to be singled out & mistreated exhibited by (eteQsalehu): fresh "Pentes" (otherwise known as "new born-again Protestant Christians"), supporters of an up & coming [charismatic] "teQawami" party and members of an ethnic group whose Liberation front just popped the question of self-determination.

Symptoms of mania, or "persecution mania" as I would from henceforth call it, include: rapid speech, racing thoughts, decreased need for sleep, hypersexuality, euphoria, impulsiveness, grandiosity, and increased interest in goal-directed activities.

Symptoms of persecution lust include, but are not restricted to: singing loudly in the street, trying to sneak religion or politics into whatever conversation members chance to find themselves in (sometimes at a parliamentary meeting on national television) and a thundering "GETA YIMESEGEN"/"Min Yihe Mengist Eyale.."/Etc. as a response to your greeting in a way that makes you wonder if they weren't trying to scare the devil/the"NeFtegna"/the"Mengist Degafi" out of you. ["Hey…!"]

If you are wondering why these people seem so eager to cost their parents a burial ground, their country men and women their precious lives, and the calm and collected side of your brain; join me as the receiver of a [religious] sermon I was a part of almost a decade ago.

This is how it goes, atleast to the Protestant Christians: The minute you received the lord, you become enemy to the flesh, the secular world and Satan. By default! And try they would, to destroy your faith: through loved ones, hated ones, neighbors & colleagues. They won't leave no stone unturned (these three) to cut your journey to heaven short. Your road would be paved with the brambles and thorns of temptation and there won't be a weapon that won't be used against you, however innocent it may look. You'd be buffeted all around by thorns, until you grow faint and weary, and pray to the Lord to remove it, and the Lord says unto you "My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness". Like he did with the Apostle Paul.

So they thirst after persecution! And how could they not?! It's their guarantee to a life with the Lord! An assurance to spending an eternity at the right hand seat of the "Son of his love"! And to having been lost and found by the Good Shepherd who would neither leave them nor desert them. "Lost and Found", imagine! An irresistable title to those quite souls whose most further journey away from home is a trip to the nearest Pharmacy!! So, yes, Satan, "the world" and "the flesh" are as crucial to [Protestant] Christianity as the bible, prayer and faith were said to be. In them they put their trust, to prove their right-eous-ness.

You may wonder how I knew all this. Well, my friends, My name is abesheet, and I used to be a Persecution Lust-er! This was back in the days when "Karate" films were referred to as "Kincha"s, when boys sent postcards of Indian movie stars as a gift to the girl of their choice and being a "pente" was something that can have you kicked out of the house. I went to a church, I stood up, I received the Lord (an experience I still vividly remember), and went back home ready to pack my bag at a moment's notice of trouble from the parents.

When, however, neither Satan nor the world would react to my Christianity in the anticipated [preferably violent] way, and when everybody around seems to be happy that I have found something to keep my wanderlust soul fascinated with, I figured why Satan haven't found me a threat to his kingdom was because he was in on something: That the lord didn't want me!! That I was that rare specimen of the animal kingdom - a person whom God rejected! After all, hasn't Jesus himself said "Many are called, but few are chosen"?! And that the word shall come to pass if nothing else does?!

True! There was a joy in the realization, a certain freedom! A license to do what I will for what am I but a clay in the hands of this master craftsman we call God or fate?! But there was sadness too, a heart break, especially in times of depression. So my wanderlust soul went her journey feeling Godless & unloved; full of self-pity; loudly proclaiming independence yet secretly wishing there was someone to say of her, "This is my beloved.. with whom I am well pleased" and bring her "home". But then times changed! "Karate" films were rightfully left to teenagers with stinking feet, postcards started accompaning actual gifts and folks get to hear [and stay] Lily's "mezmurs" in indiscriminant taxis and minibuses all over Addis. The cool got cold. Just like that!

That doesn't mean humans won't be humans and they won't manage to find something to be persecuted for. I still see & recognize my kindred spirits, or fellow victims of over-powering feelings of mediocrity, every time I come across them - on or offline. Online, you can tell them apart by the cold silence with which they treat you when you ask them to explain themselves/group/religion/quest for self-determination. Or why. In real life, you can tell them by the measured steps they walk around with - scouting the horizon for "brothers and sisters" in the faith/of the ethnic group/party, the radiant look of a rebel [a defier of traditions and breaker of laws] you see in their eyes when their sole interest in life is given due attention or the restlessness and righteous destaste with which they treat all other subjects when conversations refuse to drift that way.

They neither have to know what they have gotten themselves into, the rules of games with which to play or who and what they are drawing, so long as there is a special interest group they can become a member of, and another stronger group who persecute it (atleast theoretically), they are happy as a lark and more committed to the cause than "those who bore the heat of the day"!

Which is why you can never reason with these people! If they allow you to talk and you managed to convince them, they'd lose this special place they assigned for themselves as individuals and groups. And back they would go to being their un-special, insignificant, rejected self. So if they don't jump at you the minute you started giving them your polite version of "please get a life" – i.e. please to take things easy, they would ask you to skip it ["agreeing to disagree"] or avoid talking to you altogether. All the while feeling a holy pity for you and the dark cloak you are wearing on your eyes which they know is tailored by [who else] "Satan", "the world" or "the flesh". Or whoever they see as the personification of the Prince of Darkness.

Heaven help them!

Her favorite childhood memories are book-related as well. She fondly remembers those kids of 14-16 years old (most of them killed at the Iihapa time), who poured over their Marxist/Lennist volumes every night next to a "permuz" full of tea and a bundle of "chaat". She fears that's when Ethiopia lost all her intellectuals, her "golden kids" so to say. Which is why nothing anybody says or does these days surprises her. At 41, she's become one of those pessimistic ole timers who do nothing but talk about the good days in which students thurst after knowledge, and teachers swapped books.

When I read about the new government-proposed education policy, and it's implications, on Addis Neger's previous 2 publications, it's her sadness that came to my mind. Her sadness and mine every time i entered a taxi and hear heated arguments of soccer fans (or "men and women whose mind has turned into mush due to being repeatedly hit on the head by a foot ball", as I like to put it! It's more poetic in amharic). And the heart-break I feel for those unfortunate kids at government schools every time my high-school-teacher university classmates opened their mouth to speak.

"70/30", as the policy is being referred to nowadays, is easier to understand than it looks. With it, the government has proposed higher education institutions receive, starting 2001 E.C., 70% of their students for Natural Science studies and 30% of them for Social Science studies. The idea, atleast on paper, is to produce more scientists and engineers who would be of help in the "Millennium development goal". The real agenda however, according to the responses of the various interviews Addis Neger conducted with the parties concerned (parties the government refused to consult with and is said to demand they shut up and do what they are told) is punishing the many politically active university lecturers of the past 17 years and creating a generation of students that would never ask questions. More "ArAt Kilo" instead of "Sidist Kilo" [university], so to say.

Neither Addis Neger, nor the above mentioned parties, are against the policy per ce. Would have been acceptable, they've said, if it was given enough time to work its way through the existing education system (a system that enrolls 60% of it's students into the Social Science Department and 40% to the Natural Science Department) with as little damage to all as possible. The existence of little or no market for Natural Science Graduates; the need to create an environment in which the very technical-by-nature Natural Science could be implemented, not to mention all the teachers/instructors of Social Science studies who would be laid off if change should take pre-maturely are given as major hindrances for a quick shift from the present education policy into the proposed new. According to these sources, it's taken Korea more than 30 years to adopt the 70/30 education system fully. The same Korea our government has said it's copying the policy from! But using a method, they complained, very much like taking the "soil" with the "plant" & is doomed to fail!

Vengeance may or may not be the agenda behind the proposed new education policy (I'd like to think not, for I can't imagine a more successful way to drag the country decades back than "Dergue" has done), but you don't have to be a genius, or involved in Education, to know what a total mess this is going to be. And to "woe" the generation that would have to pay for it!

Is it possible that St. Mark was referring to us when he wrote on 4:25 of his gospel: "For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."?! Seems to be the reality for so many areas of our lives after "Mircha 97".

Heaven help us! More importantly, Heaven help our kids!

LOL - Yellow Ducky Club!!

A weird penguin??!!!!

Interview - What do you think of Rockhopper?

Pink Kitten8: he is cool.

Geallie: he's cool

0 Zada 0: He's not very good.

B U R G E R: He's over rated, and I don't like his beard. (lol i added B U R G E R, they sounded funny!! :D)

jazyjasmine7: Who's that?

  <-- lol look at a few of the people i interviewed!

Doubles!! Matching Penguins that I saw around Club Penguin!

World's Weirdest Penguins!

Interviews: What do you think of the new stage play?

Sabryna97: uuuh I think it's cool

mjbanez: i don't know.

1mr Nice96: it's cool

Plum Pie2: i like the time box it's fun!

Nicolas987: cool as

lol lol...

Interviews: Do you like Herbert? (scary question)

Limepixe7: who are they?

Nillibee: no way!

Tuckerspooky: yeah (zeb: lol)

Wigwams: for sure, hes the one that causes all these missions! we need some hard work sometime with this site ;)

Mmm Pie!

looks like i caught the pie thiefs red handed… i just hope they wont tease me with pie again…

Say it with an Igloo

i happened to pop into mike92s igloo one day…

some people use their igloos to say worse things lol… but seriously, you have to give this guy some credit. lol, hes like “forget it”. gawd i look funny in that old outfit from cp.

Jibberjabble

most people on CP used to use this hacking talk to get rude words through… can you work out what he’s saying?

he’s saying “email CP support unban rancidkraut” weird huh…?

- zeb/skipperjay

Brilliant Moonwalk Hacking

heres just a few pictures of mike92s big moonwalk event (rofl.) -

wow. lol… he sure must know his hacking stuff

theres a few people doing that “weird talk” in this picture but i wont ask what theyre saying…

- zeb/skipperjay

Random Clones

Every time you go on Club Penguin you’re always bound to see something random an unexpected. Here in Mammoth a bunch of “clones” are saying “chicken nuggets”… not exactly what i was expecting…

thanks to kustom/acezboy for letting me know these people were here rofl.

- zeb/skipperjay

Completed Igloo

this person was obviously waiting and waiting to tell billybob her new design of igloo. her comment i bet probably scared billybob more though - “i love my new iglo its like a house and its even got a toilet!!!” well, theres a place to go when you need to go!

- zeb/skipperjay

I hope my igloo wins!

rofl, this is a comment posted a week after the winning igloos were announced: ” now i hope my igloo wins” a bit late for that…

- zeb/skipperjay

Odd one out

On the clubpenguin blog I was doing a bit of searching when i decided to look at some comments. on a post completely about the igloo contest and a new background i saw the following comment: “i cant wait til the bathing suits come out”… how random! that was certainly the odd comment…

- zeb/skipperjay

Hyped Up

wow, on the post about the igloo competition there was a comment saying “bring the heat cause i am ready for some healthy competition. LETS DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” gawd, are they that sure that they’ll even get a 1% chance at winning? no wonder they wanted to stay anonymous…

- zeb/skipperjay

A bit behind time

LOL - Rain chased the connection away!!

This is hilarious!! A girl said, “My connection got lost!!” which was funny enough, but someone answered it too. They said, “It must be because it is raining!!” LOL. - wigz

Disguised Waitress

Ok, I was really bored one day, and I felt like seeing if I could find a new buddy. Someone who was funny (like zeb). So I sat down at a table, and talked to this random person sitting there. They didn’t say much.

Then a waitress came round to our table and offered us a pizza. I think I ordered one - maybe a squid pizza with anchovies or something like that. The waitress’ name was hidden under the chat bar thing.

Then suddenly the waitress said “lol” and I clicked on them to find it was Skipperjay! I’m worried about what other disguises zeb will use to spy on you without you actually knowing it!!!

Wigs

It’s OVER!

rofl, this is from 1 Weasel 1. She normally dresses up in black clothes on clubpenguin and once a little pink penguin came up to her and did a heart. when weasel said that she was a girl the little pink penguin just said “its OVER now!”. she said “whats over?”. - Zeb

Common Mistake, I’m surprised they make a mistake, they write it all the time!

I see people all the time say “are you a Gril or Boy?” it really cracks me up.

- zeb/skipperjay

Tour Guide Mistake:

Due to boredem, I was taking a tour (lol!) and my tour guide led me to the Lodge. She said:

This is the Lodge Attic. Here you can play Mancala.

I looked around the Lodge and was laughing as I saw the Find Fours.

Wigs

P.S. If you find any other phrases that you’d like me to put on this page, send a comment and let me know what you saw!!

I heart the heart emoticons!!

On the Official CP Blog, under “Heart Emoticon is back” here are a couple of comments:

“I am so glad that the heart emote is coming back I was so sad when you took it away. I normailly used it when my siter and brother or friends were on to show how much I cared for them.”

“Thanks I used to show it to my pets.”

LOL.

Wigs

If you can't read it, it says:

Attention Agent:

Picture has been analyzed and is confirmed to be Suspect at Large #2, alias, "Klutzy", known accomplice of Herbert P. Bear.

Reason for presence in the Mine is unknown. The PSA is investigating.

Please stay on alert.

Sincerely, G.