Posts by Jackie Clark
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a! Like how my tattooist t'other night said (with a wonderful qizzical look on his face) "your friend's interesting Sof. On perusing the deck, I knew he was talkin' 'bout you girl.
Yes, well. Hmmm. What can I say? I did rub the belly of the young man with him, so my work was done. Several times over.
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I'm a 19. But I faked it till I made it. I am horribly socially inept, or used to be.I was never shy, I was always just saying completely the wrong thing. I still do sometimes. But I just practised and now everyone thinks I like people. I don't really, except the ones I do.
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See, David, the problem with writing so beautifully is it makes one want to clasp you to one's very matronly bosom and pat your head. And there is, quite frankly, nothing more terrifying. I understand that. Doesn't mean I don't still want to do it. And anyway, I would have said that if you really are as socially retarded as you think you are, or were, you would never have captured the heart of such a beautiful woman.
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Welcome, welcome Jacqui - and as for age, you would be surprised at how aged some of our regular posters are. Intelligence is ageless, n'est ce pas?
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Well, if we are talking about the commonality of one's names, I don't believe that you can get more common than Jackie and Clark in the white western world. The name Jackie peaked, of course, because of Jackie Kennedy, whom I was not named after. My namesake was the aforementioned great aunt who died of breast cancer. She was a Cherry Jacqueline. As for Clark, it's so common it's laughable.
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Much as I regard anonyms, or whatever they are called, with much disdain being used outside texting, that was LOL, Gio.
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more reason to love you, Jack Recodari - and more reason for you to be at the PAS Blend very soon so that we can tell you how much we love your name
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Generational, maybe? I love the name, always have. Though I have only ever known one Jack, that I taught, and only peoples' grandads, or dads otherwise.
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Anyway, back to grandparents. I came across some old photos I have downloaded onto iphoto for posterity, and I saw all these ones of my grandad there. Who was also Jack. And as I said, also born in 1911, in Bolton though. He was the loveliest man, and I know very little about his early life. My aunt has all that info. When I knew him, he was always active. Building, gardening, looking after others. My grandmother, however, I know of in depth. She was one of two girls, and when her father left, her mother remarried. Grandma's parents had a boy together, and when the boy was five, his father gassed both himself and his child. Too sad. My great grandmother went on to open what became Bethany, where I was born, incidentally, I believe. And when my grandma's sister was quite young - in her 30's I think, she died of breast cancer, leaving a very young boy, who my grandma brought up with her three kids. Grandma suffered from manic depression, and hypochondria, and in her later years, spent all of her time lying on the couch with her ashtray beside her, and Grandad running around after her. Grandad always seemed to me to be this really, really incredible man. He loved me - I was the first grandchild - so much, and I spent alot of time with him. Including after my grandmother died, at 64. He was to go away to spend time with my Aunt and Uncle in Singapore, and I was relegated to be with him. I don't remember for how long. I was 16 (a pretty miffed 16, she died on my birthday) and I was sad about my grandmother, but he carried on as if she were still there. He tried to get me to take her clothes, and her perfume (not in a creepy way) and I could hear him at night talking to her. Broke my heart. He lived for another 5 years, and then he just fell down, in the shed at the back of his house, and wasn't found for a few days. We were all completely devastated. And here we are 25 years later. Made better by knowing him, by loving him, benefiting from his will with enough money to travel to the country of his birth, and to not appreciate it, then. But I do now.
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I do not believe that Bruce was wanting to comment on the general health and wellbeing of the PAS viewers nor do an indepth health analysis of our society, Peter.