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  Pearly's Mermaids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pearly couldn't swim, so his first instinct was to hold tight to that rudder despite horrible stabs of pain from his battered and bleeding leg.
Pearly woke up and passed out many times, then slept through the day and night waking to the pretty young face of the captain's wife tending his wound with a drip of alcohol, lemon juice, and slivers of willow bark.
Pearly grinned sheepishly, and the men lifted him and passed him forward for his mug of pure rum, his new leg gleaming in the afternoon light, his hinged ankle flopping as the crew heaved him forward.
www.vsa.cape.com /~powens/Pearly.htm   (1984 words)

  
 Bible Study - The Pearly Gates
Many are familiar with the idea of "Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates," but few are aware of its surprising origin in your Holy Bible.
On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.
www.keyway.ca /htm2002/pearlygt.htm   (683 words)

  
 Behind the pearly Gates - vnunet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In interviews, Gates can be either a pain in the backside, giving monosyllabic answers to questions he obviously thinks are stupid, or a nice bloke who giggles a lot and is extraordinarily compliant.
Gates was educated at a private school in Seattle, where in 1967 a group of parents organised a rummage sale, the US equivalent of a jumble sale.
Gates, who was by then at Harvard, was struck by the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.
www.vnunet.com /computing/analysis/2073923/behind-pearly-gates   (2916 words)

  
 DailyJoke
At the pearly gates he was asked by the Click to read the entire joke.
An HMO Manager at the Pearly Gates Two doctors and an HMO manager died and lined up at the pearly gates for admission to heaven.
When he got to the Pearly Gates, Saint Peter told him that Click to read the entire joke.
www.beliefnet.com /dailyjoke/DailyJokeList.aspx?CID=10   (1764 words)

  
 Pearly Gates
When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the arch made from mother of pearl, and the street that led to the gate made from pure gold.
He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.
They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.
www.agilityability.com /pearly_gates.htm   (467 words)

  
 Pearly Gates Gifts
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There are more than 10 "pearly gates" cartoons click here to view the full selection.
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 Religious Humor--Beliefnet.com
When he got to the Pearly Gates, Saint Peter told him that new rules were in effect due to the advances in education on earth.
A lawyer (yes, one of those jokes) arrives at the Pearly Gates and pounds his fist on the front desk.
Peter leads him to a beach, where there is a volleyball game going on, a keg of beer and the most beautiful women he has ever seen in the skimpiest of bikinis.
www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=770&discussionID=653   (630 words)

  
 Pictures of Heaven-Index
The drawing and her book were sent to Sally, with a request to sketch the scene as close as possible to scale and make it beautiful.
She also requested other pictures of people arriving from earth, walking through the Gate of Pearl into Heaven itself, and on to the Throne of God.
The picture of the message over the gate, hidden in the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, was created by Rita for a teaching transparency using "clip art" at first.
www.emotionallyfree.com /hpics-index.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Majesty - Dragon
Following the initial Gate, there are two branches of strategy you can use, either separately, or together.
The prime spot for this wave is adjacent to your newly flagged target above, or perhaps to another critical spot in the enemy town, now that his heroes may be distracted by your force in one area.
Planning a Gate attack lets you forget multiple flags on the edge of enemy towns, and allows one small flag to bring all force to bear.
www.strategyplanet.com /majesty/pearlygates.shtml   (1270 words)

  
 eBay - pearly gates, Guitar, Gardening Plants items on eBay.com
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Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dan
Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates TB-PG1 Trembucker Zebra NEW
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 Pearly Gates
At the gate, he told God how he had been abused all his life on earth - people swept him with broom, he had no where to sleep, etc. God tells him he is going to make his life very comfortable in heaven.
When they reached the pearly gates, St. Peter took them to their mansion, which was decked out with a beautiful kitchen and master bath suite with Jacuzzi.
Upon arrival at the gate St. Peter explained that all are equal in the eyes of the lord and he should wait in line, like the rest of the good people.
www.javacasa.com /humor/pearlygate.htm   (4267 words)

  
 Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates - Shopping.com
The original custom Pearly Gates pickups were wound for the famous '59 Les Paul Standard that...
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 Weatherford Democrat - The Pearly Gates and other pearls
I would have to assume that among the first written descriptions of gates would have to come from the Book of Revelation where the 12 pearly gates to the Holy City of Jerusalem are described in great detail.
As a kid, about 98 percent of the gates I saw were merely made from barbed wire — a staff you stuck in a hoop at the bottom and a bail at the top.
Invariably, the stretch posts on either side would shift a bit and cause the gate to be too tight to be opened by women and kids, who were the primary gate openers.
www.weatherforddemocrat.com /opinion/local_story_108095554.html   (956 words)

  
 San Antonio Current - Not So Pearly Gates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
By all accounts, Gates, currently the president of Texas AandM University, is a man of formidable intelligence and fierce discipline, and he’s won raves for his remolding (or “rebranding,” as the current Texas Monthly cover story puts it) of Aggieland.
When the Iran-Contra story broke, Gates was the deputy director of the CIA, and while his name was often linked to the scandal, it never defined him in the way that it defined John Poindexter or Robert “Bud” McFarlane.
A recently declassified 1984 CIA memo from Gates to his then-boss William Casey, suggests that, whatever Gates’s role in Iran-Contra, he certainly possessed an obsessive drive to destroy Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=17522979&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=482778&rfi=6   (810 words)

  
 Pearly Gates - Car Forums and Automotive Chat
3 nuns died and the all went up to the pearly gates.
It was Adam!" *Bells go off, lights flash, gates open, in she goes*.
Then, not to be gotten 3 for 3 in one day, St Peter turns to the 3rd nun and says "What was the first thing Eve said to Adam?" The nun ponders for a moment and says "Mmm...
www.automotiveforums.com /t143401-pearly_gates.html   (334 words)

  
 The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace
After death, each soul would either be taken by a demon to the gates of Hell, or ferried by an angel to the shores of Purgatory, which Dante located on an island in the middle of the Southern Hemisphere.
Beginning at the gates of Hell, he first takes us spiraling down into the heart of darkness, ever deeper into the maw of sin.
Above the entrance to the infernal kingdom Dante and Virgil are greeted by the famous warning popularly paraphrased as "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." For souls who cross this threshold, hope indeed becomes a thing of the past.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/w/wertheim-gates.html   (5388 words)

  
 Web Law Review -- Bill at the Pearly Gates
What Gates found was nothing like he had expected.
But a couple of weeks later he was curious as to how Bill Gates was doing, so God went down to Hell for a visit.
He found Gates in a cave, chained to the walls, fire licking around his feet and screaming while henchmen whipped him with red-hot chains.
www.eaglelink.com /law-review/jokes/joke1.htm   (345 words)

  
 Language Log: Linguist jokes (2): At the pearly gates
Her soul arrived in heaven at the Pearly Gates to meet St. Peter.
And with that St. Peter made the necessary travel arrangements and the young scholar was whisked down to the gates of Hell.
She strolled in, naturally rather nervous, and found herself in a lushly vegetated and well-kept courtyard in which stood an elegant Italian fountain.
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000837.html   (943 words)

  
 At the Pearly Gates
I may not share your view of God (or the lack of God as the case may be) but I do respect folks who are decent people and live according to a personal code of ethics.
A WWII veteran of the Battle of the Bulge told me about collecting dead German soldiers and being impressed that they had pictures of their families and Jesus in their wallets.
I agree with you then, that we must not allow our faith to be abused; neither from the inside nor from the outside.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/16647/102274   (954 words)

  
 THE PEARLY GATES - Historical Sign
The name for the Pearly Gates Playground is derived from Christian tradition as the entranceway through which souls travel to reach their god after death.
The gates of heaven are said to be guarded by Saint Peter, one of the founders of the Christian Church.
The Pearly Gates playground, located on Tratman Street and St. Peter’s Avenue, looks far different today than it was originally designed.
www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11794   (410 words)

  
 Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings: "Pearly" Gates
I understand the US Defence Secretary nominee, Robert Gates gave up his job as the president of a Texas University to step into Rumsfeld's shoes.
Mr Gates is at least publicly admitting that the Iraq adventure is a failure, unlike Bush and Blair (whose accidental admission of the fact had to be "clarified" later).
An article in The Independent gives the text of his statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee and another nice one shows how one by one politicians are admitting the truth.
retiredrambler.typepad.com /tonys_ramblings/2006/12/pearly_gates.html   (229 words)

  
 VN Boards - The pansies in Congress just discovered there ain't no pearly Gates.
At his first Pentagon news conference since taking office, Gates was asked his reaction to the debate in Congress over the effect of such a nonbinding resolution.
Gates talked to reporters as Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill prepared for the start debate next week on the resolution of opposition to President Bush's decision to send an additional 21,500 U.S. forces into battle in wartorn Iraq.
It's clear Gates believes all the nay-sayers are giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
vnboards.ign.com /ac_friends/b5258/101170790/p1/?28   (1214 words)

  
 Audiogalaxy - Review of Pearly Gates
Coming a few songs after such pitch-dark, burbling morbidity, "Pearly Gates" mad ascent towards heaven feels direly earned, and the aforementioned wail — a reaction to being "told I had to wait" — even more so.
Because they’re a band that Did It Themselves, Pearly Gates CDs may be hard to find outside of their home city of Austin, TX: copies of their debut are available easist through direct emailed requests.
And like I said, "Pearly Gates" is a fucking beautiful one.
www.audiogalaxy.com /pages/review.php?band_id=87369   (329 words)

  
 The Glory of Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
We are told that God "has prepared a city for them" and we are given a preview of the glory of this city in the book of Revelation: "Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, or a stone of crystal-clear jasper...the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone...And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl.
And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass...the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb" (Revelation 21:11, 18, 19, 21, 23).
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 RPGamer Editorials - Reply to: Square at the Pearly Gates
A recent editorial, "Square at the Pearly Gates," detailed the recent use (or overuse) of angel imagery in Square games.
The reason cited was that after Kefka's angelic final boss form, anything less would be anticlimactic.
With the return to fantasy in FFIX, however, Square will no longer be attempting to give its game a science-fiction feel, and the need for angel imagery will dissolve.
www.rpgamer.com /editor/2000/q2/052800rc.html   (360 words)

  
 Gates to Heaven
In the second part, after a critical analysis of problems of interpretation due to the persistence of traditional art historical views, this alternative is applied by Hans Bloemsma to narrative art.
How icons could function as gates to heaven is concisely expressed in a recent book by Robin Cormack, where he stresses the point that these images were a key element in Byzantine culture.
For, as he puts it, all members of Byzantine society were users of icons; anyone could enter a church and be confronted with them.
www.teol.ku.dk /ckk/conf/S6/session_6b.htm   (6843 words)

  
 The Pearly Gates
So, the next day at 12:01, the first person came to the gates of Heaven.
The Angel on duty at the gate that day,remembering the new policy, promptly asked the man, "Before I let you in, I need to know how your day was going when you died."
A few seconds later, ex-President Clinton comes up to the gate.
www.nku.edu /~baranowskim/errata/humor/heaven.htm   (555 words)

  
 A Slice of Infinity: Standing At The Pearly Gates, by Ravi Zacharias
Two Aussies, he said, appear at the pearly gates of heaven, catching the doorman completely by surprise—he was certainly not expecting any Australians in heaven.
He asked them to wait at the gate until he could verify their credentials with Peter.
When Peter was informed of these applicants from “down under,” he, too, was caught off guard and decided he would need to accompany the doorman back to the pearly gates to talk to these visitors.
www.rzim.org /slice/slicetran.php?sliceid=86   (356 words)

  
 SameDayMusic.com: Seymour Duncan SHPG1 Pearly Gates Humbucker Pickup
Originally designed as a recreation of the pickups in the ?59 Les Paul Standard that defined the raw, rebellious sound of Texas blues-rock.
The Pearly Gates is sweet, but slightly rude, with great sustain and a bright top end that make harmonics jump out of the guitar.
be used in the bridge with an APH-1n Alnico II Pro in the neck for smoother tones; or, a Pearly Gates in the neck with an SH-11 Custom Custom for heavier rock sounds from the bridge position.
www.samedaymusic.com /mc--304327/sid--sku_SEMSHPG1/product--SEMSHPG1   (265 words)

  
 Pearly Gates vs. Heavenly White MG - Vines Forum - GardenWeb
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have grown Pearly Gates in the past and was very pleased - especially when grown with Flying Saucers.
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