Holidays For The Blind

Believe it or not- these are actual headlines. I don't know where they are from though.

Where were the editors?
Grandmother of eight makes hole-in-one
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
Iraqi head seeks arms

Grammeer a bitt of a problem here......
Eye drops off shelf
Sqaud helps dog bite victim (Not sure if I get this one..)
Dealers will hear car talk at noon
Miners refuse to work after death
Two Soviet ships collide- One dies

State the obvious!!!
If strike isn't settled quickly, it could last a while
War dims hope for peace
Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency
Cold wave linked to temperature
Child's death ruins couples holiday
Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
Man is fatally slain
Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say

i don't think so unless you give the source to prove but it happens sometimes

2008-03-03 00:11:10 by Speckenator

John Castillo, Andrew Park and Anton Sviridenko - students of Perkins School for the Blind, MA Fragment of WinterLights Performance at Prudential ...

Some are just slips of the tongue


Grandmother of eight makes hole in one
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
House passes gas tax onto senate
Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan
Two convicts evade noose, jury hung
William Kelly was fed secretary
Milk drinkers are turning to powder
Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted
Quarter of a million Chinese live on water
Farmer bill dies in house
Iraqi head seeks arms


Some become unintentionally suggestive


Queen Mary having bottom scraped
Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
Prostitutes appeal to Pope
Panda mating fails - veterinarian takes over
NJ judge to rule on nude beach
Child's stool great for use in garden
Dr. Ruth to talk about sex with newspaper editors
Soviet virgin lands short of goal again
Organ festival ends in smashing climax


Grammar often botches other headlines


Eye drops off shelf
7 hours ago - 3 days left to answer.
Additional Details
7 hours ago

Squad helps dog bite victim
Dealers will hear car talk at noon
Enraged cow injures farmer with ax
Lawmen from Mexico barbecue guests
Miners refuse to work after death
Two Soviet ships collide - one dies
Two sisters reunite after eighteen years at checkout counter


Once in a while, a botched headline takes on a meaning opposite from the one intended:

Never withhold herpes from loved one
Nicaragua sets goal to wipe out literacy
Drunk drivers paid $1,000 in 1984
Autos killing 110 a day, let's resolve to do better


Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious


If strike isn't settled quickly it may last a while
War dims hope for peace
Smokers are productive, but death cuts efficiency
Cold wave linked to temperatures
Child's death ruins couple's holiday
Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years
Man is fatally slain
Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
Death causes loneliness, feeling of isolation
oh and that stuff in the middle about the 7 hours left and the additional details, that was a mistake.

Hehe I've been sick all day and you cheered me up! Thank you!

2008-04-20 08:33:04 by JM

Price: $33.98 $33.98

I am looking for locations near the sea that are pretty but don't have many hills and/or cobbled streets to take my 86 year-old partially blind mother on holiday. She cannot cope with hills or steps

Westward Ho! in North Devon isn't bad, only very slight hill to hotels, level to holiday camps. Also most places have parking available.
I assume you will want to be near shops. If not, Widemouth Bay or Pentewan Sands, both in Cornwall.
Dartmouth has been suggested. That isn't too bad, although reasonably-priced accommodation is scarce, and parking horrendous. Barnstaple isn't on the coast as such, just a tidal river, but the town itself is nice. Brend Hotels often do special offers, and they have virtually the hotel monopoly for the area. See http://www.brendhotels.co.uk . I have used their hotels myself, and can recommend the hospitality.
I think my suggestion would be Falmouth in Cornwall. There is a lot to do there. You could also think about Looe, also in Cornwall. There may be the odd step down onto the beach, but that happens everywhere. There are steep hills, but you should be able to find accommodation that is on the level.

2009-08-24 01:06:56 by bluecheekyeyes

Price: $21.99 $21.99

For blind persons, adequate transportation is a necessity. Many cities have little or inadequate public transportation. The best city would include a public transportation infrastructure that includes routes that run frequently to eliminate long waits and hours of operation that include night time, weekend, and holidays.

New York has excellent mass transit. You can get anywhere in the city by getting on any train through transfers. Busses fill in the gaps and all are set up for handicaps of all kinds. Also just about every public sign/elevator/etc. has some brail on it. Also, medical and care facilities for blind people are many in NYC.

That said, I was impressed with DC transit on a recent trip there. I am not sure about the amenities.

I suggest NYC, but prices there are high for everything.

Good luck.

2006-07-07 19:17:45 by Peace Pup

you see on here so many times how the Christians stole all the holiday's from the pagans.


Do you really think that pagans never stole (acquired is the true term) any holidays from others?

Considering it was what conquering armies did for 1000's of Years. move in take over make people worship the new gods and new holidays even though the fell on the same days?

Ever Notice the similarities of greek and roman? Egyptian and Sumerian? And so on and So on?
Are you really so blind you don't see this?

I don't really buy the "Christians adopted all their holidays from Pagans" argument.I mean when it is made, it is don't so very inconsistently. For example, Easter is ripe with inconsistencies. People argue that Easter is the celebration of the Germanic goddess Eoster. But in reality, Easter is named after the month that the Germans named after the goddess. And Easter is only an English and Germanic word, in Greek, Latin, and all the other Romance languages, Easter is called Pascha, which obviously has no relation to the Pagan goddess Eoster.

People also argue that the use of rabbits in Easter celebrations is Pagan, but the idea of the Easter Bunny didn't come around till the 17th century. Christianity lasted 1600 years BEFORE the notion of the Easter Bunny.

The bottom line, is that with hundreds of Pagan faiths and thousands of rituals and holidays, there is bound to be similarities. I wont argue that Christians didn't adopt pagan beliefs, but they did so in a much more profound way than simple holidays. Greek philosophy, for example, is used heavily in the New Testament. To me, when someone talks about Christians adopting pagan holidays, I cant help but realize how little these people know about pagan beliefs.

2009-05-11 13:32:57 by Impossible?