Lorelei

I wasn't going to post anything seeing as how this is not an American forum. But I wanted to share this commercial I saw. It gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.



I still remember damn near every detail about where I was and what I was doing when I found out. Where I was, who I was with, what they were wearing, where everyone was around me..... everything down to the weather. Which has been the same every September ...

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... but it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

What disease did cured ham actually have?

How is it that ...

Everyone's heard the phrase "Life is short", and those of us in the fire department are all too familiar with how true this can be sometimes. But it doesn't *truly* sink in until it's one of your own that's taken well before their time. And when this happens, everyone echoes something along the lines of "It's always the good ones".

In my career as a firefighter, I've had the displeasure to experience many firefighter and police officer deaths, Line Of Duty and ...

So I was doing some research trying to figure out what generation I'm considered and I've discovered that after the 1960's, the Generation lines tend to blur a bit depending on who you ask.

There are a few sites that say Generation X ranges from 1961 to 1979 and Generation Y ranges from 1990 to present. ((I guess those who were born between 1980 and 1989 are free-floaters according to these people.))

Wikipedia has Generation X ranging from 1961 to roughly 1981 and Generation ...

Well, I've decided that the internet, though very useful and entertaining, does strange things to people. Unless the only people I encounter are strange. Which is entirely possible.

I believe this phenomenon occurs, and I'm sure everyone can agree (or at least understand), because there is no inflection or emotion infused in the words that are written. This causes most people to take what is written as a serious comment because they cannot hear the tone in which is ...