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Thursday, October 31, 2013

* * * SAMHUINN MHATH ! ! ! * * *

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

"WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU, MAKES YOU STRANGER."

Each of the costumed kiddies in these photographs is sitting in a - - - WHEELCHAIR!!!

For a larger view,
please click on the photographs.
This collection of photographs was furnished through the generous courtesy of Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., who is the author of the "HOPE 'N' CHANGE" comic strip and the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which are published on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Thank you. 

John Robert Mallernee 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 
Gulfport, Mississippi  39507

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Here is your Halloween edition of the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., posted on this day, Wednesday 30 October 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

The "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which is drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., appears on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Please be sure and visit the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site in order to enjoy reading the assorted amusing comments posted by fans and/or detractors.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

TODAY'S EXCELLENT MERRIAM-WEBSTER CRYPTOGRAM ! ! !

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space: 

On this day, Thursday 24 October 2013, the puzzles at the MERRIAM-WEBSTER web site are unusually good.

In particular, the "UNIVERSAL CRYPTOGRAM" puzzle was grrrr-REAT, and a real intellectual challenger, for it took me at least a half dozen frustrating, mind boggling attempts before I finally solved it.
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For a larger view,
please click on the screen shot.
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Normally, that "UNIVERSAL CRYPTOGRAM" is so easy, that I solve it within about a minute or two, and with only one attempt.

The MERRIAM-WEBSTER web site archives the "UNIVERSAL CRYPTOGRAM" puzzles, so you can go do today's puzzle anytime.

But, the MERRIAM-WEBSTER web site does NOT archive the "DICTIONARY DEVIL" puzzle, which is my most FAVORITE puzzle of all, so if you want to solve today's puzzle, you must go to the MERRIAM WEBSTER web site TODAY, right NOW, this very minute, and click on the "QUIZZES AND GAMES" menu, located at the top of the screen.
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For a larger view,
please click on the screen shot.
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I usually solve the "DICTIONARY DEVIL" puzzle on my first attempt.

BUT - - - ,

There have been a few times when it took me a couple of attempts before I solved it, and ONCE, it actually outsmarted me, for on that particular occasion, I actually was unable to solve it at all!

Can you believe it?

Have fun, y'all!

Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 
Gulfport, Mississippi  39507

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

"THE SARATOV APPROACH"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

For the best effect, please be sure and watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this automated series of video recordings of a brand spanking new, independent motion picture production, "THE SARATOV APPROACH", which, by the way, happens to be a TRUE story, now showing in selected AMC Theatres.


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On what seemed like any other day during their two-year full-time proselytizing missions for The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to meet a friend.

But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - - - , kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom for nearly a week, on the other side of the world in Saratov, Russia.

While their family, friends and the world pray for their safe return, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally and most of all, spiritually.

But in abducting the missionaries, Nikolai unwittingly sets in motion a course of events that draws him and them closer to each other and to God in ways never expected.

Through the harrowing experience, they each discover the universal truth that there is a greater plan, a different way, a different approach to life, "The Saratov Approach".

Inspired by actual events, "THE SARATOV APPROACH" is the extraordinary, untold story of Elders Travis Tuttle and Andrew Propst and their week-long abduction in Saratov, Russia.

Through this harrowing experience, these men of God and their abductors alike discover a different approach to life, i.e., "The Saratov Approach".
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To view a larger, easier to read version,
please click on the photograph of the movie poster.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, but I have just GOT to see this movie when it becomes available to purchase on DVD!

Thank you.

John Robert Mallernee 
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 
Gulfport, Mississippi  39507

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Monday, October 21, 2013

COMING TO AMERICA?

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:
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An explosion on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd that killed six (06) people was caused by a female suicide bomber, investigators told the INTERFAX news agency.

Russian officials have opened a formal terror probe.
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For the best effect, please be sure to watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this video recording of a news report from the Russian Federation.



I saw this posted at the FREE NORTH CAROLINA web site, and it originated at THE VOICE OF RUSSIA web site, where you can read more details of this incident.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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PROBLEM SOLVED - - - SCIENTIFICALLY ! ! !

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

As mentioned in a previous e-mail message, one of my favorite things to eat is a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

But, I always have to step out on my balcony to eat it, because the honey invariably drips from the side(s) of the sandwich.

Well, last night, I finally figured out what it was that I was doing incorrectly, and how to solve the problem.

Since the solution is based on scientific principles which I eventually figured out, I reckon that makes me a scientific genius, huh?

I remember way back, mucho many years ago, when I was a young'un growing up in Spring Lake, North Carolina, before Santa Claus gave me a Gilbert Chemistry Set for Christmas, doing an original scientific chemistry experiment on the kitchen stove, i.e., mixing peanut butter with a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup.

That experiment was unsuccessful, as it was more or less inedible. 

And, by the way, that Gilbert Chemistry Set turned out to be a bit of a disappointment, as I never was able to fulfill my boyish mad scientist dreams of creating explosion(s), concocting deadly poison(s), and/or cold bloodedly killing any innocent living creature(s).

The best I could do was stink up the house with burning sulfur, so I did as much of that as I could, until I ran out of sulfur.

Anyway, what I was doing wrong when making my peanut butter and honey sandwiches was slathering on a thick coating of peanut butter on BOTH slices of bread, and then putting honey in between.

Well, bread is porous, while peanut butter is nonporous.

Thus, peanut butter will NOT absorb the honey, causing it to leak out from the side(s) of the sandwich, getting the carpet and furniture all sticky, and attracting a small army of marching ants, along with their uncles and assorted cousins, all of whom will express their antly gratitude by stinging and/or biting the unscientific hand that so carelessly feeds them.

So, now I make my peanut butter and honey sandwich(es) by putting the peanut butter on only one slice of bread, leaving the other slice of bread, which is porous, able to absorb the honey, thus keeping it from dripping on the carpet, which of course, the ants find disappointing.

Them there ants are just going to have to look elsewhere for their free handouts, because I'm hogging ALL the honey for myself!

Nifty, huh? 

So, folks, go make yourself a nice, delicious peanut butter and honey sandwich. 

But, if you want to enjoy that sandwich while sitting on your living room sofa and watching television, then be sure to remember to put the peanut butter ONLY on one slice of bread.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Here is the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., for today, Monday 21 October 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

The "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which is drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., appears on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Please be sure and visit the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site in order to enjoy reading the assorted amusing comments posted by fans and/or detractors.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

"SUO GAN"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Late last night (actually, during the wee hours of this morning, Sunday 20 October 2013), in response to one of my homemade amateur video recordings posted at the YOU TUBE web site, I received a very nice comment from an anonymous Internet user, located somewhere in the World, to wit:
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"This song, you singing .... I would purchase on itunes....hint hint!!mamajumbojr
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Interesting comment, huh?

For the best effect, please be sure to enjoy watching, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, my homemade amateur video recording of ME (!), performing, "SUO GAN", a traditional Welsh lullaby, as I accompany myself by strumming simple chords on my Yamaha G-130A classical guitar.


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"SUO GAN"
(WELSH LULLABY) 


VERSE # 01:
Hush, my dear one.
Sleep serenely.
Now, my lovely,
Slumber deep.
Mother rocks you,
Humming lowly.
Close your eyes now.
Go to sleep.
Angels hover
Ever near you,
Looking on your
Smiling face.
I will hold you,
Close enfold you. 


VERSE # 02:
Lovely darling,
I will guard you,
Keep you from
All woe and harm.
Softly, gently,
I will rock you,
Resting sweetly
On my arm.
May you slumber
E'er so softly,
Dream of visions
Wondrous fair.
I will hold you,
Close enfold you.
Close your eyes, baby.
Go to sleep.

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The Welsh language version of "SUO GAN" was featured in the Hollywood 1987 major motion picture production, "EMPIRE OF THE SUN", which I personally consider to be one of the finest war movies ever made, a real emotional tear jerker which I very highly recommend.


I've always dreamed of marketing my talent, and becoming a "star", but I don't know how to go about it.

Also, if the awful truth be told, I lack the self confidence to properly promote myself before the public.

I reckon it's because I find it incredible that anyone would PAY to hear me sing my songs.

Also, in order to succeed in show business or the music industry, there's a lot of hard work required, and I'm basically just your average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill lazy bum.

Now, it's probably too late for me to do something like that, because of my health.

I'm in constant pain, with difficulty standing and/or walking, which physically exhausts and emotionally discourages me, and the side effects of the prescribed medication I take to counter the pain (which doesn't really work very well) only increases my physical inability while suppressing any self motivation.

I used to always carry my guitar with me, wherever I went, including scheduled medical appointments at the local Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System in Biloxi, Mississippi, but now, I'm too weak to be able to do that, unless I want to start using the wheelchair that the doctor gave me.

Due to the pain and the accompanying depression, about the only way I can even force myself merely to continue rehearsing, let alone actually compose new material, would be if someone were present to give me encouragement, be my audience, and boost my lagging morale.

I'm very pleasantly surprised to see all the sudden interest in my own personal web site, "OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE", which, as I'm typing this message, has received 189,447 visitors from every country in the World.

My web site was averaging around a hundred or so visitors daily, but now it's more like about a thousand visitors each day, and you should SEE all the different countries that are represented!

Nifty, huh?

And, yet, I'm just a nobody, who's never done anything that anyone should take notice of.

I'm a fat old man, having little formal education, living all alone in an old folks home, in failing health, owning no property, with no family or posterity, and existing from month to month on a meagre fixed income.

Mox nix.

Xin loi.

But, I'm happy, and consider myself to be exceptionally blessed.

My goodness gracious, ain't that something else? 

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Friday, October 18, 2013

"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Here is the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., for today, Friday 18 October 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip.
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

The "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which is drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., appears on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Please be sure and visit the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site in order to enjoy reading the assorted amusing comments posted by fans and/or detractors.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

WANTED BY THE STATE OF OHIO

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Forty-five (45) year old JOSEPH STEWARD, also known as, JOSEPH EARL STEWARD, and/or CHARLES STEWARD, is wanted in the state of Ohio, by police in the towns of Grove City and Columbus, and by the sheriff in Madison County, for impersonating a police officer and fraudulently soliciting funds for the Wounded Warrior Project.

For a larger view, that's easier to read,
please click on the wanted poster.
That wanted poster was provided through the generous courtesy of the web site, THIS AIN'T HELL, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT FROM HERE.


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"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Here is the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., for today, Wednesday 16 October 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip.
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

The "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which is drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., appears on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Please be sure and visit the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site in order to enjoy reading the assorted amusing comments posted by fans and/or detractors.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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CAPTAIN WILLIAM D. SWENSON, MEDAL OF HONOR

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The Medal of Honor
Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

For the best effect, please be sure and watch, in "FULL SCREEN" mode, this official video recording from the White House, of William D. Swenson, Captain, United States Army, being awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday 15 October 2013.



Doesn't he kind of remind you of Fess Parker?

Fess Parker
I wonder if Hollywood will grab him up, and sign him to a contract, the way they did Audie Murphy?

Audie Murphy
When watching that video recording, I was pleasantly surprised to see that, at these solemnly dignified ceremonies of state, the government of our own beloved United States of America still has a military chaplain piously offering prayers.

Thank you.

1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 
10th Mountain Division
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Monday, October 14, 2013

"JOHNNY OPTIMISM"

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Greetings and Salutations to All my Kith and Kin and All the Ships in Outer Space:

Here is the hilarious "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, created by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., for today, Monday 14 October 2013 - - - ,

For a larger view that's easier to read, 
please click on the comic strip.
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MY COMMENT (Posted at the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site):

"The rhine in spine styes mine-lee on the plyne."

"In 'artford, 'ereford, and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly hever 'appen." 

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. 

"Why can't a woman be more like a man?"

"Why can't a woman be like - - - ME?" 
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"What doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

The "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" comic strip, which is drawn by Stilton Jarlsberg, M.D., appears on the computer Internet each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Please be sure and visit the "JOHNNY OPTIMISM" web site in order to enjoy reading the assorted amusing comments posted by fans and/or detractors.

Thank you.
1800 Beach Drive, Unit 311 

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