I am 30, grew up watching Peter Jennings.
Posted By: MI MT on 2005-08-08
In Reply to: Anyone else saddened by the loss of Mr. Peter Jennings? - sm
 This was really sad for ME because I have seen him on the TV since I can remember watching TV. The time I remember him the most of course is 9/11. He was there nonstop. I will never forget.
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Peter Jennings
Peter was very eloquent in presenting the news. His charming and winnings ways will be missed.
Peter Jennings
Amen, so sad. He was like the "only" newscaster on TV while growing up and beyond. He is home now!!
Anyone else saddened by the loss of Mr. Peter Jennings?
I am.
Yes it is very sad. Not a ffan of network news, but Jennings did the 2000 New Years broadcast
where they showed different New Years celebrations in different countries and he handled it so well getting us all through the 2000 scare. Too bad about the lung cancer. It's an ugly but for the most part preventable disease. They say he was a heavy smoker. All the sadder.
I like Peter Best. nm
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I grew up in
Hey, neighbor...Wonder if we know each other? I'm in Douglasville now...whatta small world it is! 
LOL!!! There's the Peter Principle, for sure!
Good one! You remember the Peter Principle, don't you? Someone will be promoted to the level of their incompetence! It's too true, too much of the time!
No, I wish. I actually grew up in Noble. sm
but I worked at the hospital in Norman for years. I wish I was still in that area. I loved it.
Peter Lorre was scary looking to me...n/m
RIP Lou! most of us grew up hearing/feeling him..nm
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I grew up in so cal, but the Spanish dictators are the sm
hardest for me. The Japanese and Korean ones are the best. Seems like the enunciate more clearly or something.
Hi, I used to be so scared of Ops, grew to LOVE THEM.....SM
Have you gone to the MTDaily website? On the homepage, they have a link to loads and loads of samples of all kinds of operations and procedures, or you could go to MTDesk, samples there also that you can print out. I also think there may be samples at MTBot.com, but sure, though, many links there...hopes this helps, good luck, you'll learn fast!
Nick Nolte or Peter Strauss
LOL Yes they were both handsome, and it was such a good show - but who would you choose NOW ? 
Um, what? I grew up very poor and made it through college and now
I am working FT and so is DH.
If I grew up into an adult blaming the govt for my poor mistakes and irresponsibility (bringing children into the world when you can't even take care of yourself) then that would not be a good thing.
It is NOT the govts fault that people are poor or that they can't feed their kids. Give me a break.
In fact, I am living proof, and so are millions of other people, that no matter where you grew up in life or where you've been, if you are determined to make it, then you will. Just ask Judge Mathis.
Quit blaming others for your life situation. Start taking control and action and responsibility!
yep, she grew up poor... born 1935, so I'm sure sm
the economy wasn't exactly booming then, and they were certainly poor. My dad born in 1923, and HE would wash old bread wrappers to use as lunch bags, and then wash em again and use them till they fell apart. Why buy plastic bags when they come free on the bread?
I grew up in FL, and my black teachers used a lot of these phrases...sm
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet because every northerner I know has asked me about this..."I'm fixin'to" as in, "Get your shoes on, we're fixin' to go to church." 2 of my 5 elementary teachers were black, and they both used this phrase all the time, so it was perfectly normal to us. Those teachers weren't any less educated, they were just native southerners raised in segregated communities. My hometown was still segregated well into the '80s.
It's funny, half the phrases people are naming on here I wouldn't have thought were southern-specific, they're that common to me.
distant trains for me, grew up with 'em. NM
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I'm only 39, but Cary Grant was pretty hot too, Peter Lawford too.
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Considering Peter Preziosi (PP) is going to India to do some serious butt kissing...
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A lot of people who grew up without privilege ended up skanks too
Money or lack of money has nothing to do with it. It's whether the person has any value system, lines they will not cross, and standards set for themselves regardless of financial status.
My respect for Busy grew by leaps and bounds TY! nm
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Office Space is hilarious! It's an older movie, but sooo funny! The attitude Peter
has (the main character) reminds me of me! Gotta see if you haven't already. I watch it over and over and I still laugh.
My favorite lines:
"Can't you just zonk me out so that I don't know that I'm at work, in here? Can't I just come home and think that I've been fishing all day or something?"
"I don't really like my job and I'm not gonna go anymore."
That old time movie star Peter Lorie. There's just somethin about his eyes, so dern fascinating!!
After watching this
I'd have to say I now know why I had no idea this was going on. If more people knew about this, how their meat was being "harvested" and what they do to these animals, they wouldn't be in existance at all and thats what they are afraid of. These images should be shown to schools all over the U.S. to teach at a young impressionable age that this is what is going on and it needs to change. I myself know that I need meat in my diet, we all need it, I don't eat a lot of it because too much can be bad for you, but how am I going to eat after watching this?? It sickens and hurts me and I can't believe people can work a full day treating a living thing like this. Imagine their lives, born into complete suffering and agony, you can HEAR it. I'm just completely blown away. There is a better way to do this. Why are they being hurt alive? We have enough technology to take away their pain at the very least not to mention the living conditions. I'm completely hurt and I think more people should be.
watching less and less
Seems like half of the year is reruns and alot cable stations are reruns from regular tv. Getting sick of the same shows day after. Cut it off for awhile see how you like it.
Okay, I'm watching CNN now and (sm)
They are showing the expressway where people are trying to evacuate... total gridlock. It's like a 6 to 8-lane interstate, but they don't have the other direction open... what I'm trying to say is they can open up the other side to let more people evacuate, even though they would be going down the highway in the wrong direction. No one is even on the other side..
All these poor people in their cars, just moving like turtle and this thing is coming... I just don't get it.
you must not have been watching the same...sm
YOU must not have been watching the same show and even today - they showed clips all over the TV and HIS BICEPS AND TRICEPS are in TREMENDOUS GOOD SHAPE for anybody 62.....
Obviously your upper arms are batwings.......if you think his upper arms were in bad shape. You should only look so good in the upper arm area.......
Have you tried watching
Desperate Housewives or Greys Anatomy? I think they're both entertaining shows, although Desperate Housewives was better last year.
If you like watching
made for TV movies, try the Lifetime channel. Once in a while I can find a good movie there. Good luck
still watching ER
It is not quite as good as it once was but still head and shoulders above much of the other stuff on TV. I still watch and like the newer characters. Neila is interesting right now as is the situation with Kovac and Abby.
When you are watching something like CNN
when there is a big news story (like the miners in WV) and you're hearing this stuff supposedly live and then you hear someone like Wolff Blitzer repeat the information and say something totally different than what someone said just 3 minutes ago. Not the same subject, but it also drives me totally insane when they ask someone who has lost a loved one in a horrific manner - how do you feel. HOW DO YOU THINK THEY FEEL? And why do they feel like they need to get up in the face of someone who is burying a loved one - is nothing sacred anymore.
Yes, I have been watching
It's keeping my interest enough to keep watching and actually it better than I thought it would be.
I'm watching sm
Although I missed the last episode. I'll catch it next week before the next episode hopefully. Don't know who will win.
I'm watching.
It's nice that you can see one episode right after the other. So easy to get involved that way. I wanted to see more of Tym's work also, but I think David is going to win. Alice is the brunette, right? I'm glad the young blond got kicked off. She was dizzy if you ask me!
So very sad watching this
Sitting here watching Animal Channel and the tribute to Steve Irwin. My heart is still crying. His wife, Terri, looks so grief stricken. What a loss.
I've been watching the news but
haven't heard if anyone is claiming responsibility? On a different note, I was just telling a friend yesterday that before 9-11 I heard that the biggest thing on the news was shark attacks. Hoped it wasn't an omen.
But maybe she does not like watching MTs look stupid
ranting about something that isn't even true? I know I don't.
Well, I cried while watching them all
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Watching the news
My heart goes out to those who are homeless, jobless, lost everything in their lives, many including loved ones. I have come to appreciate my family, job and home so much in the last few days. I stopped to get gas today, only needed 1/2 tank and it ended up costing $25, went up 35 cents since yesterday. Somehow this is very scary, nearly everything we have comes through the trucking industry. The ramifications of this will be far reaching, everything will go up......well, everything but an MTs pay, but hey, I have a job and I don't need to get in my car to do it.
watching you like a hawk?
What really happened?
No, there's nothing on TV that's worth watching anyways.
I do listen to my CDs, though. Music makes my type faster.
They are definitely watching. See post below about my
experience with Verizon long distance any my $2500 bill in one month. I only call 2 numbers long distance and they are my hospital accounts so they knew what I was doing.
And you keeping watching, don't you?
Why anyone would watch that show is beyond me, but to each his own. All 3 of those judges are nutty in their own way. If Simon had a Brookly accent instead of a British accent, no one would find him charming. Paula has always been a little looney - remember when she was married to Emilio Estevez?
All this friction between Simon and Paula is just a publicity stunt.
Three that I never tire of watching are:
The American President (Michael Douglas and Annette Benning)
The Jazz Singer (Laurence Olivier and Neil Diamond....ohhh, I ADORE Neil Diamond)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Nia Vardalos and John Corbett)
I believe it is, since they are watching your children & (sm)
in the event of an emergency such as an allergy, should you not disclose something it would not benefit anyone. Especially your child. I do ER transcription and have had kids come in to the ER with new onset diabetes, and the nurse knew to check since it was in the family history, so that is something to think about.
No, you said to prove that as you were watching,
That is exactly how it happens. But people can do this type of work from home as well as on-site. I am a member of another transcription board and there are several ladies there that do this. They are always posting jobs on the job board there for this type of work. Why is it so hard to believe that they can do this from home? What would be any different if they were sitting in an office transcribing?
But believe what you want, since you are always right anyway. ;)
we're watching out pay go down -
I personally went from 70K a year to 40K. And I am doing nothing different. Oh, but then, I am working 3 extra hours daily. So, yes, I/we get ticked off at this industry - perhaps the stress of its creators is settling in.
I am glad I have a job...so glad it hurts.
Still tearing up after watching it over and over
Animals have always been a big part of my life. I just love them and they never cease to amaze me. This is an unbelievable story. I just went and ordered the VHS documentary of Christian the Lion on Ebay! I have to see more of this. Thanks SO MUCH for posting this.
I don't enjoy watching my pay go
from a living wage in the 80s/90s with decent line counts and fairly decent dictators to horrendous ESLs, "creative" line counts to gyp the MT, and pay so low you can make more at McDonald's.
I do enjoy transcribing & editing. Preaching to the choir here, as we all know MT isn't something anyone without training and skill can do. The pay should be commensurate with knowledgel, but sadly it isn't. That is why I only do MT on weekends now and have a FT job in a completely different field. I simply can't afford to be an MT anymore.
When enough skilled transcriptionists leave the MT industry and US hospitals are fed up with offshore quality or get sued enough times and the message finally hits home, maybe there will be a demand again for MT, but I doubt it. That is my hope though.
Made in Japan is what we grew up seeing. Look where Japan is now
Car manufacturing and textiles are gone. Bush just signed another trade agreement with central america (CAFTA or maybe it is central america or LAFTA hahaha. More jobs out the window. You think these poverty stricken people are going to be buying cars from us? The only thing they will be doing is sending their kids here for their college education.
Cry patriotism. Rome fell when they ran out of raw materials (steel, timber) and their nation was filled with immigrants brought in for cheap labor who reproduced then at astounding rates, becoming the majority, only to be so unpatriotic they could not create an adequate army or an infrastructure as they were not deep patriots with a deep undying love for their land and constitution.
Rome stood for several thousand years and fell in less then 400 years.
In the end, corruption prevailed at the highest levels.
History will repeat itself. Not in our time but in your grandchildren's future, the situation will be irreversible. There simply has to be a middle class and the middle class need middle class jobs.
It's a distraction. Besides, there's nothing on worth watching
anyway. I don't even have a favorite TV show any more because they've all gotten so offensive. One thing that helped me was to figure out how much time I wasted during a day and how many lines I typed on the message boards. That's all wasted. It could be earned money instead of fooling around with meaningless distractions.
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