Biggest poll EVER!

[kaush 0]

So do I have to post here daily for 129385739 days before I get my free doughnut?

I would advise that you read the small print in the agreement, Madam. Now, if you would be so kind to turn to page 753, paragraph 5, subsection d(ii) clearly states: "Upon entering this agreement by submitting votes (3) to the aforementioned poll (aka 'Biggest EVER'), the member (add name) or members (in instances where one of more members share an account [see Visajourney guides] [add names]) shall be voluntarily entering into a further agreement (see above) separate and remote from aforementioned agreement (see above, this sentence) to post further comments, pictures (see Visajourney guides, adding pictures), video content (henceforth known as 'You Tube' content) and related or unrelated content (see page 1027, paragraph 8, subsection j(xi) for rules regarding unrelated content) for a period not less than nor limited to 129385740 days consecutively, including holidays (public and religious, inclusive of all faiths, irrespective of the faith of the member(s) [add name(s)]) in order to qualify for the free (not including shipping and tax, to be paid on delivery by the member(s) [add name(s)]) doughnut. In the event that said doughnuts are unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute other food items which may or may not include green-stalked vegetables. (NB. We are not liable for any litigation nor criminal charges relating to the immigration status of the employees of any horticultural companies and/or agencies involved in the harvesting of said vegetables.) Your statutory rights are not affected. May contain nuts."

Dang it!!Just found out I am allergic to nuts fineprint.

Edited September 22, 2007 by kaush

[Cécy 44]

I want a baked cinnamon doughnut. When are you sending it over?

[SteveLaura 0]

I told you once.

[almaty 19]

log: damn, i am now working on brother steven celery farm.///me and pablo and the hos....i came here for doughnits and now, we are organic farming....thankfully, i brought my pet burro, bosco, one of the hos seems to taken a fnacy to him...maybe, i could...................

[Marilyn. 340]

I want a baked cinnamon doughnut. When are you sending it over?

[almaty 19]

MAHOPAC, N.Y - It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.

They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, "Give Us Our Just Desserts" and "They're Carbs, Not Contraband."

At issue is a decision to refuse free doughnuts, pies and breads that were being donated to senior centers around Putnam County, north of New York City. Officials were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent by providing mounds of doughnuts and other sweets to seniors.

The picketers said they were objecting not to a lack of sweets but that they weren't consulted about the ban.

"Lack of respect is what it's all about," said Joe Hajkowski, 75, a former labor union official who organized the demonstration. He said officials had implied that seniors were gorging themselves on jelly doughnuts and were too senile to make the choice for themselves.

C. Michael Sibilia said, "I'm 86, not 8."

Inside, some seniors said they missed the doughnuts but others said they were glad to see them go.

"It was disgusting the way people went after them," said 80-year-old Rita Jorgensen. "I think the senior center did them a favor by taking it away."

Stan Tuttle, coordinator of nutritional services for the county's Office for the Aging, said the program had gotten out of control. As many as 16 cases of breads, cakes and pastries were delivered, by various means, to the William Koehler Memorial Senior Center each day. Some were moldy and some had been stored overnight in the trunks of volunteers' cars, he said.

Caregivers there and elsewhere say the doughnut debate illustrates the difficulty of balancing nutrition and choice when providing meals to the elderly.

"Senior citizens can walk down to the store and buy doughnuts. Nobody's stopping them," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.

But he notes that older people have high rates of heart disease and high blood pressure and says senior citizen centers, nursing homes and assisted-living centers should not be worsening the health problems of seniors.

At the North East Bronx Senior Citizen Center, lunch is served five times a week (suggested contribution $1.50).

"We don't tell them what to do, we don't force them to eat what's good for them. But we certainly don't give them anything that's bad for them," said center director Silvia Ponce.

The church-basement senior center, one of 325 under the New York City Department for the Aging, has a mostly Italian-American clientele, a Naples-born cook and a menu that includes eggplant parmigiana, linguini with clams and manicotti.

"We try to give them what they like," said the cook, Stella Bruno.

The lunches have to supply one-third of the federal minimum daily requirements in such categories as calories, protein, vitamin C and vitamin A, said Chris Miller, spokesman for the department.

The Bronx center offers coffee, tea, bagels and rolls in the morning, but nothing in the doughnut family.

"The sweetest thing here is the raisin in the raisin bagel," said Nicholas Volpicella, 87.

Maureen Janowski, director of nutrition resources for Morrison Senior Dining in Atlanta, which provides meals at more than 370 senior living communities, says residents' food preferences depend somewhat on their age. Those born between 1901 and 1925 generally prefer meat and potatoes, and those born between 1925 and 1942 are "a little more trendy, a little more adventurous, a lot more nutrition-savvy," she said.

"They have choices, and we show them how to make good choices," she said.

At the Bronx center, Bruno said she tries to help the seniors avoid the bad buffet choices when they take a trip to Atlantic City. As a group was departing, she handed them bag lunches — with a roast beef sandwich, cranberry juice and carrot sticks.

"Protein, vitamin C, vitamin A," she said.

[SteveLaura 0]

Internet diary, Sept 24th 2007: Sister Marilyn of the Double D Tanners has reinstated her care packages, albeit on a temporary basis, she has implied. Her kind heart has been touched by the plight of the poor dears in Putnam County who have been denied doughnuts at their nursing homes. She will not rest until every senior citizen has a pile of old Dunkin Donut boxes under their bed, and they have to ply a cream-filled delight from their cold, dead, sugary hands.

In the meantime, the celery has not been the greatest of substitutes. Dean is less than thrilled with taking over the management of the fields. He was slightly more chipper this morning when he took his camcorder with him. Said he was doing a nature study. Noticed he took his trusty steed with him and volunteer Fefe. Plus a tube of KY jelly, for some reason (calloused hands?)

I will be taking a well-earned vacation later this week. Dean said he has things well in hand - hence the callouses. Says he has a new business venture, and can we set up a website with PayPal? Seems these nature films of his have an enthusiastic audience - possibly ornothologists, as I'm sure I heard him talking about the Great Tits he captured on film.

[Sarah Palin 0]

What a coincidence that SteveLaura will be on holiday this week - so will I! Small world, and all that. Maybe I'll see him in New Glarus. If that's where he's going. I have no idea. I've never heard of the place.

Um.

Any more of that delish celery, perchance..?

[almaty 19]

note to pablo, bosco and fefe...tomorrow is brother steven annioversary..time to harvest some sweet lucy and put it in the brownies...i see a night that they will talk about years later

Edited September 24, 2007 by almaty

[SteveLaura 0]

Ooh, brownies! Cheers, Dean!

[almaty 19]

lol.. i knew you could dig them......peace and goodness to you and your wife, laura and visiting parents...........dean

[almaty 19]

waiting for brother steven to return...got some issues with ICE and pablo..also PETA has issues with my pet burro, Bosco.....Janet Reno called the feds down on me...and took FeFe ..seems she was cuban and was elian's older sister...

[Marilyn. 340]

I am tired of doughnuts.... anyone want some celery??

mmm one of my favourite snacks.... celery with cheese whiz....

supposedly i am allergic to celery.... I had an allergy test when I was younger and it showed that I was allergic to celery... the doctor said I shouldn't have it more then once a week... how can you be allergic to celery??.. they are mostly water

[almaty 19]

i agree,,i think the doctor smoked some sweet lucy when he told you that sister...

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