a Sara Hickman notice about her Website
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Hiya Sara's Pumpkin Patch!

Noper, this isn't from Sara Hickman, but from her MailingList and WWW
Wiseguy, mike.

I am writing y'all because some of you may have noticed Sara's website is
missing! EEP!
Here is a partial explanation (from my point of view, not Sara's) keep in
mind that I am a bit upset....

It looks like the transition between Sara Hickman's webhost, FeaturePrice and
the people that bought FeaturePrice, AtlanticNet, is NOT going easily.

Apparently the "children" at AtlanticNet have staged some sort of EXTORTION
scheme to EMBARRASS everyone that had accounts with FeaturePrice (like Sara)
into BUYING webspace with AtlanticNet (at THREE TIMES the cost of the old
FeaturePrice price). They have taken all the FeaturePrice sites down and
perpetrated
their own (mis)information.

I have changed the DNS nameservers already to make sure AtlanticNet's info is
not "published" so that people attempting to visit Sara's Website do not see
this unauthorized propaganda.

AtlanticNet, CONTRARY to all their email assurances, are NOT honoring the
FeaturePrice contracts. Now I (WiseGuy mike) am not saying that AtlanticNet is
SCUM and UNPROFESSIONAL. Nope, scum has better class than that. And I am not
saying that AtlanticNet is actually COMMITTING extortion, because as we all
know holding something as tenuous as a website hostage until MONEY is exchanged
isn't really extortion...is it?

ANYway, that's the deal. I am upset about it, and I am looking for a better
host for Sara's Website. I'll keep y'all informed!
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In the meantime, here's a look at SARA HICKMAN'S upcoming schedule (YAY!):

*Thursday July 17-the CACTUS CAFE in AUSTIN, Texas
http://www.utexas.edu/student/txunion/ae/cactus/index.php?cactus=current

*Friday, July 4, 2003 Big Fourth of July Celebration in LEANDER, Texas

*Friday, August 1, 9pm sharp. FLIPNOTICS in AUSTIN, Texas
http://www.flipnotics.com/

*Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003 Summer Peforming Arts Series at Marina Park in
KIRKLAND, Washington It's an outdoor show and starts at 7pm.
{A $2.00 donation per person to the Kirkland Parks Department is appreciated
to support the series. For more information call (435) 828-1105}
These summer concerts are held at the Marina Park pavilion and grass
amphitheatre. For a schedule, visit
http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us
directions:
http://www.brassbandnw.org/marinapark.htm


*Sara is performing at the ACL FESTIVAL but we do not know if it will be Sept
20 or 21-yet. AUSTIN, Texas
http://www.aclfestival.com/schedule.html

*Saturday, Oct 4, 2003-AIDS benefit in DENTON, Texas for the Aids Services of
North Texas.
6PM at the Gateway Center in Denton
http://www.aidsntx.org/

*Saturday, Oct 25th Pioneer Farms in AUSTIN, Texas.
Sara performs at 11:30-1:00pm.
http://www.pioneerfarm.org/

*Saturday, November 8, 2003 DALLAS, Texas-ALEXANDER'S HIDEAWAY and (tenative)
just maybe a kid's show on the 9th during the day.
http://www.alexandershideaway.org/

*Saturday, November 8, 2003 DALLAS, Texas -Lamplighters School performance at
3pm

*Saturday, Dec. 6th McGONIGAL'S MUCKY DUCK in HOUSTON, Texas -2 shows!
http://www.mcgonigels.com/

*(tenative) Saturday Dec 13, 2003. OPEN DOOR COFFEEHOUSE in ARLINGTON,
Texas -2 shows! A 3pm children's and a 7pm adult show.
http://www.opendoorcoffeehouse.org
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Some interesting notes:
Sara has a new mailing Address! Yep it's:
Sara Hickman
PMB# 412
3005 S. Lamar Blvd.
Ste D-109
Austin, TX 78704
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A few asides taken from various email sources:
LEARNING ENGLISH
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became
oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should
never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is
houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be
called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a
pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of
booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would
never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we
never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine,
she, shis and shim.
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Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English;

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present
the present.
8. At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example... If you have a
rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor
ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren't invented in England. We take English for granted. But
if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing
rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And
why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and
hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what
do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that
smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can
burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and
in which an alarm goes off by going on. . .
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Sara can be e-mailed at :
sara@...

Her website is:
http://www.sarahickman.com/
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Hey, check out GregD's fabulous websites for Sara Hickman:
Past Sara's eNewsLetters---> http://www.habu2.net/saramail.html
and
SaraMoments by GregD---> http://www.habu2.net/saramoments.html
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Mail cards and letters to Sara
(and money orders and checks, as well) to:
***NOTE: NEW MAILING ADDRESS*****
Sara Hickman
PMB# 412
3005 S. Lamar Blvd.
Ste D-109
Austin, TX 78704
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