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Stores Closing...use your gift cards now!
karen1129:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 06, 2009, 06:54:17 pm ---It's very sad to see this happen. Roughly a quarter of the stores inside our malls around here have either already closed up or are going out of business. Of the remaining three quarters of the mall stores, probably half of them are on very shaky ground. Many of the stores at the strip mall/shopping centers are closing as well. Many stores are also closing in the downtown shopping district. It's very scary. :(
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It really is David.
All the people that worked at these stores are now without jobs.
:'(
Front-Ranger:
I have mixed feelings about it. Now all those mall workers have no jobs, no shitty mall jobs that is. And our homes won't be so filled with all that stuff that we have to rent storage units to put it in. And 14 year old girls in China won't have factory jobs to make all that stuff, so they'll have to go to school instead. Hmmm, maybe it isn't so bad after all!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 06, 2009, 07:54:57 pm ---I have mixed feelings about it. Now all those mall workers have no jobs, no shitty mall jobs that is. And our homes won't be so filled with all that stuff that we have to rent storage units to put it in. And 14 year old girls in China won't have factory jobs to make all that stuff, so they'll have to go to school instead. Hmmm, maybe it isn't so bad after all!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Gifts
Simple Gifts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Simple Gifts" is an 1848 Shaker song by Elder Joseph Brackett.
It has endured many inaccurate descriptions. Though often classified as an anonymous Shaker hymn or as a work song, it is better classified as a "Dance Song" or a "Quick Dance." (That is apparent with such lines of the song as "turn, turn will be our delight" and "turning, turning we come round right". These are dance instructions.)
The lyrics
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gain'd,
To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come round right.
I'm conflicted myself. Sometimes I'd just like to stop all the "stuff" and become "simple." But then what happens when the economy really crashes?
And I really love my iPhone... ::)
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 06, 2009, 07:54:57 pm ---I have mixed feelings about it. Now all those mall workers have no jobs, no shitty mall jobs that is. And our homes won't be so filled with all that stuff that we have to rent storage units to put it in. And 14 year old girls in China won't have factory jobs to make all that stuff, so they'll have to go to school instead. Hmmm, maybe it isn't so bad after all!
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A shitty job is better than no job at all, Lee. Now as far as the 14 year olds working in factories, I couldn't agree with you more.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: jmmgallagher on January 06, 2009, 08:27:55 pm ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Gifts
Simple Gifts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Simple Gifts" is an 1848 Shaker song by Elder Joseph Brackett.
It has endured many inaccurate descriptions. Though often classified as an anonymous Shaker hymn or as a work song, it is better classified as a "Dance Song" or a "Quick Dance." (That is apparent with such lines of the song as "turn, turn will be our delight" and "turning, turning we come round right". These are dance instructions.)
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Which is why I found it peculiar that "Simple Gifts" is in the Episcopal hymnal. It's a religious dance song.
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