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Win some free advertising for your business/ministry on Grace Talk Soup!

Would you like some help promoting your business, mission, blog, website or cause?  Help us promote Grace Talk Soup and win some free air time advertising on the show!  Post our link to your newsletter, website, Yahoo groups, Facebook account, Twitter account or blog and then email us gts@artofeloquence.com to tell us where you did!  The one who promotes us the most that week will have his/her blog link, site URL, business or cause mentioned on the show! Don’t know what to post? Cut and paste this in! Tune in to the Grace Talk Soup Weekly Podcast featuring Lucy Linguist & Ethel the Editor, starring in “I LOVE LANGUAGE!” each Thursday morning 8am PST/11am EST where these two crazy compadres...

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When insults had class

There was a time when men disagreed using intellect and humor to banter back and forth.  Much of it was all in fun. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one."   - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply Learning Communication skills can also be fun with Art of Eloquence.com!

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10 Signs Your Child Might Be Gifted

10 Signs Your Child Might Be Gifted: 1. He has a picture of Albert Einstein over his crib. 2. He teaches himself to read at the age of two using DVD subtitles and video games. 3. He prefers Jeopardy over Cartoons at age 4. 4. At six he has a nasty habit of correcting mom’s spelling. 5. He points out that studies show that forced napping can, in fact, be hazardous to one’s psyche! 6. He reads the dictionary for FUN! 7. He postulates the meaning of life for five hours, but cannot sit still for five minutes in order to eat! 8. He can spend hours on the internet pondering the answer to life’s questions, but he can’t figure...

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Dr. Seuss Meets the CPSIA!

I have been blogging about the Child Protection Safety Initiative Act for a few months now.  It went into effect under cover of darkness and was supposedly designed to protect our children from lead poisoning which was a real concern born out of the state of toy making in China.  It blossomed as UNTHINKING legislators threw law together with the intent only to make themselves look like they were actually doing something about the problem. However, instead of requiring testing from toys coming from China or other foreign countries, the law requires every product manufactured for children 12 and under to go through rigorous and expensive testing in order to be compliant.  This included things that were never known to...

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