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After 37 years of doing her show 365 days a year, (We don't air the shows she does on the weekends.) You can still see the emotions of joy and pride in Ellen's face. She can't get enough of doing her show. Most nights she sleeps on the bed that folds out from her chair on the stage. Often, she invites her audience to a studio sleepover. The fact is, that in all these years, Ellen has never left her studio. Sure, she's had her body double stand in, go out to make a personal appearance now and then, but the actual Ellen has never felt the need to be anywhere else. And there's no place she'd rather be than right backstage, when there's only ...30 Seconds To Air.

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Ellen,
I wanted to see if you could let more people know about a subject near and dear to my heart. Alot of people don't think about the subject of organ and tissue donation as an important subject to discuss with their families. So in the event that they would ever be in that situation, someone knows their wishes. I would like to thank the anonymous family who did think about that and decided to help others.My husband was the recipient of a pancreas.Unfortunately, we needed to have a kidney first to save his life, but God blessed us with a living donor who we still keep in touch with. Theresa is truely "A Life Saver".
How many people can say that? With the help of the Kidney Foundation(who helped us get a new tire so that my husband could keep getting dialysis till he could get the transplant), Lifeline of Ohio who found us the pancreas, and Most of all, Theresa who found it in her heart to give the gift of life for someone she didn't even know. Please let people know, this truely is a Gift! Thank you for listening.

Hey ELLEN!!!

I have to agree with my fellow "CANUCK" about why we can't enter your contests? We are able to get this newsletter sent to us and watch your show EVERYDAY...but no contest eligibility?? Come on ELLEN!!! Show us you care, I know you do!! After all, we gave you Howie Mandell and he makes you laugh everytime he visits?? But don't feel bad, to make up for it, I would happily accept an invitation to your show and then a day to hang with you, Portia and your pets!! Give it some thought and get back to me "EH"??? I look forward to hearing from you.

Karen

Hi Ellen

I love your show and watch it everyday. Loved the segment about the animals in bed. We just got our first cat and she sleeps above my head. She's great. Like other posters here I was wondering why no mention of "pig"??? Anyway love your show!!!!

Ellen, loved hearing about your sleeping arrangements with your pets. How long have you had Mabel? And what happened to Pig?

Your show makes my day!

I love your show. You are the first show I watch when I get home from work which I record daily. You always put a smile on my face and bring joy to so many of us. No matter how bad my day is you lift it up. Keep up the great work!!!!

karen kilgariff

i miss you

Hi Ellen!
just want to tell you that I love to watch your show! You make me smile everytime. I always watch when I can, but here in Sweden it airs in the middle of the day, and I miss it when I have to be in school. thats to bad. but anyway, just wanted to tell you that you make me smile, no matter how bad I feel.
Love, Kicki, Sweden

Hi, this is a silly question to ask but its been driving me crazy since Fridays show, what was the name of the song and artist of the song Ellen danced to at the beginning of Friday February 8th show? I loved it and can not find it posted anywhere on this website? Thanks so much, Paula

I think you are doing a wonder show "without" the writers. Do you think you really need to go back to having writers do your show? I know you want to employee them so they can get back to normal but WOW you have been doing wonderful shows without them. Why not just pay them to stay home. Love watching you. Bobbie

Here is a little tidbit I would like to share with you and your viewers that I think works with your, "What the February" theme. I moved here to San Diego from Worcester, MA, on 7/1/03, 6 month pregnant with twins.... HA. Anyway, my point, and I do have one, is that Worcester, prononced "Wusta", was the birthplace of the first Valentine. Oddly enough it was also the city where birth control was invented. Coincidence? Ironic isn't it. One other thing, a man named Harvey Ball worked there in Worcester many years ago and was given the task at his place of employment to come up with a motivational icon of sorts. He made the "Smiley face". He never patented it so he never made any money from it. If he is still alive, I propose that you bring him on your show. Like you, has brought so many smiles to so many he should at least be mentioned. PS, you make my day when I watch your show, which airs as soon as my kids are home from school. When you dance, I dance and my 14 and 10 year old think that I dance like the "80's". They are doing "solger boy' and the new dances and laugh at me. I am having cartalige removed from my left knee on the 13th of February so I won't be going out dancing but I hope to come to your show when I recuperate so I can strut my stuff and embaress my little divas. If this is not possible, I was wondering if you could arrange a babysitter for us a baby sitter when my knee heals so that my husband and I could have a night to go out dancing. Babysitters are so expensive now that we haven't gone out anywhere by ourselves for over 4 years when the twins were born. So that's my, "What the February story". Peace, Brenda Cruz

YOU DO A WONDERFUL JOB , DONT EVERY QUITE! I ENJOY YOUR SHOW VERY MUCH! YOU ALWAY HAVE GREAT GUEST ON YOUR SHOW .YOU ARE STILL YOUNG KEEP IT GOING .LINDA HAWKINS

I have a family of five with 3 sons. We have had four dogs in the family in the past years. We adopted the first two from the NHSPCA and being older, they didn't stay with the family long - (Harry the Beagle/Basset Hound and McDuff the Scottish Terrier). They both had health problems.
Then came along Tiger, our first yellow lab. She was given to us by a neighbor who had a bit of a problem with alcohol. While taking off for days on a binge, he let the dog stay outdoors without food or shelter even in the cold of New England weather. At first she was timid, but then started to come in and visit us while we fed her and kept her warm. She was the best dog ever - loving, sweet and a well-behaved visitor. When the neighbor next door got kicked out, he left us the dog (because he knew we took care of her), and we were very happy to have Tiger join the family. Living and loving her the longest, when Tiger died of cancer, she left our family in tears.
Six months after Tiger passed away, we were given Bailey, another yellow lab. The owner's husband just passed away and she was left with her autistic son. Unhappily, she had to give the dog away because she couldn't properly take care of Bailey.
Baily is a one year old purebred, crate trained and "potty trained". Because of his previous family leaving him in a crate all day, he weighed 120 lbs.!
Bailey has been with us now for 3 months and everyone loves him. We are determined to have him slim down, and being left out of his crate now, he has already lost some weight.
Bailey is a big, loveable puppy, who thinks he is a giant "lap dog"! He sleeps with my 16 yr. old son every night, and patiently waits for him to come home every day. Bailey sits and watches out the window. I wanted to show pictures of our dogs, but I don't think I can in this forum.
I know this was a long story, but I hope you listen to it anyway. I try to watch your show every day and am a big fan of yours. Take care.
With love,
Mary Anne Barnett from NH

Hi, my name is Katherine but people call me Kathy, Kat, Kat Kat, Kath, Katherine. My friend Kim, her husband Derik and I were able to be a part of your audience last Wednesday February 6,2008. I could tell you how excited we were to see you live and in person. My friend Kim actually started crying when she saw you. I told her to hurry up and wipe the tears away because the camera might move towards our direction. So I helped her wipe the tears away and went on to watch the show. I could tell you this that her tears were tears of joy. If it wasn't for her, we would have never seen you live. She was the one who called to ask for tickets. And to tell you the truth, we have been wanting to go to your show for months and months. It felt like faith didn't let us down and gave us the opportunity of a lifetime. We loved the show and the energy you provided with it as well. We don't mind coming back and watching your show live again. But my friend and I were kinda jealous about the 2sisters who won that trip to Japan. It's weird because on our drive to your show from San Diego we were actually talking about Japan. We wanted our families to go together to Japan one day. Kim's daughter is 3yrs old and my son is 2yrs. Once we saw the stage, I looked at my friend sitting next to me and mentioned,"Wow, we were just talking about Japan before we even came here." It's crazy to believe it I know but to tell you the truth, we didn't know the theme that day was Japan or something Japanese. So we were shocked ourselves. Anyways, hey, if I didn't work full time I would go to your show everyday! Well, I really can't do that. My work needs me and my husband and my 2year old son needs me also. But I don't mind driving 2 and 1/2hours. Next time when I get that chance to go to your show again, I will take my husband along. He likes to dance. Anyway, it's late about 1:23am. I just got off work. Good night? or Good morning? Oh whatever, just hope you have a nice day.

Yes we too sleep with our Dog. He is a small shitz but can still hog the bed.He has to be right at the bottom of my feet. I almost bought a shiipooh last week and told my husband that he would not be sleeping in the bed and he said Ye right. We ending up not getting the puppy because she sold him. I was soooooo sad because he was the cutest. Thank you for taking the time to make people laugh!!!!! Laura

Dear Ellen,
This was the only way my computer would let me get in touch with you. I need your help. I watch your show all the time and I see how you help people in need everyday. I had a baby boy named Dorreese in March of 07, and during my maturnity leave I was laid off from work and I was unable to find another job until recently. Because of this I was late making payments on my jeep. Well I got caught up and then it broke down, what I thought was the water pump was really a crack in the engine. I tried to trade it in but because I was late on payments I have bad credit and cant get a loan. I tried having my mother co-sign for me but her credit isnt the best either and she lives in N.C. and I live in M.A. My father died when I was a freshmen in collage 4 years ago and I have no other fammily Left to turn too. My boyfriend cant get a loan either because of his credit. Now I have no way to get to my new job, or to get my son to his docters appointments. Im on my last hope that you may beable to help me.I dont know what else to do. Iam truly loseing faith. I need your help so bad, but more then that I need some words of wisdome, and I need to smile again because I have to beable to get up everyday and take care of my son.Please can you help me? I want to give you my number but I dont want to post it online. Please e-mail me back at www.rodriguez68@msn.com to get my number. Hurry I dont have much time. Thank you.

I want to be there so badly...

Ellen,
Thank you for telling PH to spay/neuter her dogs. I have 11 cats. I have the last 4 going next week to be spayed and neutered simply because there are too many animals in shelters because someone didn't want to take the time or spend the money to get their pet spayed or neutered. Thousands and thousands of sweet, loving animals are put to sleep every week. When will people be smart enough to help control the pet population? How many more needless deaths have to happen? Any of you posting, saying that PH shouldn't have her dogs spaye or neutered, you are part of the problem since, obviously, you are not part of the solution.

Hi Ellen,
I loved Friday's show! What you said about pets is soooo true!! I have 11 cats, a pitbull and a ferret. My cat, Oreo, sleeps down between my feet and I have the same problem with moving my feet at night. Oreo, though, gets very upset at my moving so he chomps down on my feet when I move. It doesn't hurt because I am under a thick comforter. After he bites my feet, he hisses and growls at them for a few seconds before curling back up to sleep. One of my other cats, Cleo, likes to sleep on top of me under by blanket. If I roll over, she crawls up to my face and lightly smacks me for disturbing her sleep. No claws, just a light tap to remind me I am bothering her. The rest of the pets sleep out in the living room except for the ferret, who sleeps in his cage at night.
Please talk more about your babies. We love to hear about them.:)

Hey Ellen;

Scary Shari from Sudbury here... (I'm not really scary, it just rhymes..) Anyhow I am a huge fan, an i'll bet you don't know where the heck Sudbury is..First let me tell you that Sudbury is the Nickel capitol of the WORLD!!! Yes the WORLD!!! And we have a big nickel in our city to prove it.. Anyhow, the reason for this letter is to ask you why Canadians aren't awknowledged on your website?? I would love to enter your contests, but I live in a province, not a state...And I know for a fact...that if I were lucky enough to win a contest or appear on your show, your would thouroughlly get a kick out of me, so let me know Ellen, Love thy Neighbour...And hopefully we Canuks can participate in your contests...
sincerly,and respectfully yours..Scary Shari from Sudbruy.(im not scary it just rhymes....)

Bush: Court order to cease and decist from Mark Dixon Rowley

Your Secret Service has advised me under threat of arrest that I am not to distribute the following document on the ground.

That document is court registered and was used to render me competent. Unless my intel is an NSA secret, you will cease and decist so that I may get a good nights sleep. You will see a court order not to bring me as a third to kill when your gifted eyes show up, since I have called you by my side, and you have refused. You will either step by my side today, or you will not be commanding armed forces for the period certain to dawn. What looms on the horizon loomed for the greek gods too. This may require and understanding of mathematics, statistics, and black box artificial intelligence tools and their applications in records ordered by time in space. In short, predictive modeling.

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Love, HoneyBunny.


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