Archie Bunker and the doctor ... thx Anon Ymous!

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What a wonderful story of a- disabled- beauty! Thx Judi C! our good friend!

What a pair.. a story of hope and inspiration.

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Judi Cole	11:07 PM (6 hours ago)
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An Amazing story..........   What a marvelous story for horse lovers and an inspiration  for others.... to think of  the courage and determination.... yet we complain about trivialities in our lives !!!!   Wow, and to think of the small things I complain about! This woman is a treasure and so is her horse.  The determined Bettina Eistel and her very special horse, Fabuleax 5.  I saw this photo today and it took a whole minute for my brain to register what I was seeing

Look closely... No arms.  What is even more compelling than the fact that she can brush her horse with her feet, is that she competes, very well, at the Paralympics in dressage. Bettina didnt just overcome her disability, she walloped it!  (Kinda makes me feel ridiculous for complaining about anything).

Cantering WHY NO ARMS? Thalidomide.   Anyway, she was born in 1961 in Germany, with no arms due to the drug, Thalidomide.

Her book What is Thalidomide?  Thalidomide was a drug they gave pregnant women before it was known that it caused birth defects  Hence, Bettina was born without any arms.

Saddling Bettina doesnt let her disability stop her.  After all, this way of being is all she has ever known

Bridling... look at him drop his head. Anyway, as a small child, Bettina learned how to use her feet and toes as her hands and fingers.  As a youngster, she started in horse riding lessons.  She wears riding boots with cut-outs in the toes so she can have hands (imagine how cold her toes must get and how often they clip a branch or a fence board ouch!).  She can saddle, bridle, hose down, wrap, blanket and do just about anything else that is needed for her horse. And, she rides by steering with her legs and holding the reins in her mouth.  IN HER MOUTH.   Amazing. Oh, and besides all those horse riding feats, she can text, write and put on mascara with her toes!

They say Bettina is a master at hose water fights! After highschool in 1979, Bettina studied the History of Art, Archaeology and Ethnology in Hamburg, followed by an eight-year study of psychology. During her psychology studies, she  participated in a project with Hamburgs home for children. In 1989 she completed her studies with a diploma and has since worked as a graduate psychologist in a Hamburg counseling center for children and family therapy. PARALYMPICS I really couldnt find much information on her coaching (Her coach Franz-Martin Stankus) or how she learned to ride.  But, I did find out that:  Eistel was formerly Vice-European and Vice World Champion (two silver and bronze at the European Championships in Portugal in 2002 and three silver at the World Championships in Belgium in 2003) and won two silver and one bronze medal at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens.  She also won the German National Championship three times.  Her most recent successes are the bronze medal in the required tasks of the individual competition and the silver medal in the team standings at the 2008 Paralympics in Hong Kong.

With her dressage medal HER HORSE You have to really think about the kind of horse who would let this kind of a rider be his partner.  Really what temperament is needed to perform at high level dressage as well as take care of a disabled rider? I wish I knew if they looked high and low for him or if they simply trained a good horse to understand this rider?    I often hear that certain horses are much more gracious with disabled riders than with regular riders.

Taking a treat from Mom Bettina says she trained her horse via voice commands, head movement and leg aids.  Funny, I bet hardly any of us would think it was even possible to ride a horse without arms.  Fabuleax lets Bettina ride him in the only way she can with the reins in her teeth and the other set of reins between her toes.  Also - as you'll see in the photos, he lowers his head to be bridled and to be brushed.  What a gentleman!

Beautiful boy TELEVISION HOST Bettina has also landed a gig as a Talk Show Host.  With a weekly show on German TV station ZDF, Bettina is something of a media star.  They say her popularity is because of her engaging and optimistic personality but one cannot ignore her amazing ability to do everything, literally everything, with her feet...

Bettina as talk show host AFTERTHOUGHT I wanted to bring this story to you because I think sometimes we give up too easily. I cannot even imagine folding the laundry with my feet, let alone living 24 hours without my hands.  Wow..  Very inspirational.

What a great team!

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Funnies from Marine Sergeant Bob ... Thx Mr. L!

These are really good ones, funny too Nancy

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johnlooney@windstream.net	11:51 PM (5 hours ago)
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> From: "Pat Sullivan" <mamawpat@frontier.com>
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> Subject: FW: These are really good ones, funny too    Nancy
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:54:48 -0400
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> Subject: These are really good ones, funny too Nancy
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> Subject: Fender Skirts      Oh my I must be really old.I remember all of
> these!
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> Fender Skirts
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> I know some of you will not understand this  message, but I bet you know
> someone who might. I  came across  this phrase yesterday.   'FENDER
> SKIRTS.'
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> A    term I haven't heard in a long time, and  thinking about  'fender
> skirts' started me  thinking about other words that  quietly  disappear from
> our language with hardly a notice   like 'curb feelers.'
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> And 'steering  knobs.' (AKA) 'suicide knob,' 'Necker's  knob.'
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> Since I'd been  thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction
> first.
> Any kids will probably have to find some older  person over 50 to explain
> some of these terms to you.
> Remember 'Continental   kits?'  They were rear bumper extenders and spare
> tire  covers that were  supposed to make any car as cool as a  Lincoln
> Continental.
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> When did we quit  calling them 'emergency brakes?'  At some point  'parking
> brake' became the proper term.  But I miss the hint of  drama that went with
> 'emergency brake.'
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> I'm   sad, too, that almost  all the old folks are gone who would call the
> accelerator the 'foot  feed.'  Many today do not even know what a  clutch is
> or that the dimmer  switch used to be on the floor.
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> Didn't you  ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you
> could  ride the 'running board' up to the house?
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> Here's a  phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore.. ..  .
> 'store-bought.'  Of course, just about  everything is store-bought these
> days.  But once it was  bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a
> store-bought bag  of candy.
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> 'Coast to  coast' is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now
> means almost nothing.  Now we take the term 'world wide' for  granted.  This
> floors me.
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> On  a  smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once  a  magical term in our homes.
> In the '50s,  everyone covered  his or her hardwood floors  with, wow,
> wall-to-wall  carpeting!  Today,  everyone replaces their wall-to-wall
> carpeting  with hardwood floors.  Go figure.
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> When  was  the last time you heard the quaint   phrase 'in a  family way ?'
> It's  hard to imagine that the  word 'pregnant' was  once considered a
> little too graphic, a  little  too clinical for use in polite company, so we
> had  all that talk about stork visits and 'being  in a family way'  or
> simply  'expecting.'
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> Apparently 'brassiere' is a  word  no longer in usage.  I said it the other
> day  and my daughter cracked up.  I guess  it's just 'bra'  now.
> 'Unmentionables'  probably wouldn't be understood at  all.
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> I always loved going to  the 'picture  show,' but I considered 'movie'  an
> affectation.
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> Most  of  these words go back to the '50s, but here's a  pure '60s word I
> came across the other day  'rat fink.'  Ooh, what a  nasty  put-down!
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> Here's  a  word I miss - 'percolator.'  That  was just a  fun word to say.
> And what was  it replaced with   'Coffee maker.'  How  dull...  Mr. Coffee,
> I blame  you for this.
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> I  miss  those made-up marketing words that were  meant to sound so  modern
> and now sound so  retro.  Words  like 'DynaFlow' and 'Electrolux.'
> Introducing the 1963  Admiral TV, now  with'SpectraVision!'
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> Food   for thought.  Was there a telethon that  wiped out  lumbago?  Nobody
> complains  of that anymore.   Maybe that's what  Castor oil cured, because I
> never hear  mothers threatening kids with Castor oil   anymore.
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> Some   words aren't gone, but are definitely on the  endangered  list.  The
> one that grieves me  most  is 'supper.'  Now everybody  says  'dinner.'
> Save a great word.  Invite  someone to  supper.  Discuss fender skirts.
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> Someone   forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a  'certain age'
> would remember most of these.
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> Just   for fun, pass it along to others of 'a certain   age.'
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> IF  YOU AREN'T  OF A CERTAIN AGE, YOU MUST KNOW  SOMEONE WHO IS.  THINK  OF
> SOMEONE AS YOU SIT IN YOUR  "PARLOR" ON YOUR  " DAVENPORT ".
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Steve Martin- The Great Flydini skit on Johnny Carson's show Thx Dr. H!

 

Steve Martin The Great Flydini skit Johnny Carson Show 1992 Thx Dr. H!

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Sons,  I sent this to Carl Clark, Jr. also.  Jeanie and I think Carl favored Steve M. but would not try to do this skit. Daddy

Steve Martin- The Great Flydini skit on Johnny Carson's show Thx Dr. H!

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Subject: Steve Martin on Tonight Show

   

This was done once on the Johnny Carson Show. Good thing he taped it because it was never done again. It is one of the best skits Steve Martin ever did and he doesn't say a word.

The Great Flydini 

 

Posted by Sam, Kegley at 5:39 AM

Carl Clark	It's funny you sent me this, Sam. When I was in grade school, I performed thi...	Jun 21 (2 days ago)

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Funny, Mr. Winston Clark!  Your sense of humor is amazing.  The resemblance between you and Steve M. is in the non-smiling part.  No, I don't believe your comments, but how are Carl and Emma doing?  ;)

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Subject: Steve Martin on Tonight Show

   

This was done once on the Johnny Carson Show. Good thing he taped it because it was never done again. It is one of the best skits Steve Martin ever did and he doesn't say a word.

The Great Flydini