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Today’s movie quote:
“I’ve tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I’ve worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there’s 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there’s 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn’t work out between us.”
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It’s two hours earlier here in Oregon.
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Make that three!
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Bull Durham
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Now to see what happens when I change my avatar over at gravatar….
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I noticed….
The Test post this morning appeared before the Meditation post.
But now the M appears before the T.
I’d chalk it up to alphabetical stuff, but the time stamp for M is 3 minutes before T.
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And now the Test post has a different title and vastly expanded content.
Was the test successful?
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What test?
It’s nine o’clock here in California . . .
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Hey, Michelle–nice avatar! (I’m really enjoying seeing these pop up everywhere.)
Re “test”–there was a post here earlier this morning by Lynn that said nothing but “test” which was a link to an article in World Mag. It later became a full post on the article the link was to.
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Michelle–we can’t go to your website from your avatar.
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Never mind, apparently they’re all like that unless we specify one.
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OK I got my Gravatar, now how do I get it over here???
Anlir how is the sinus infection. Don’t waste the good vodka, buy the rotgut. I happen to know an alcoholic who gets a fifth for about 8 bucks.
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All right I went several days back and realized I can’t load it it will be downloaded for me. Or at least I hope, because even if I threatened to drop her off somewhere and forget who she is this morning I still love her. Her name is Callie Leigh
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I can’t decide what to put on an avatar. It once took me a month to buy a apir of boots. By the time I found the ones I wanted they were out of style.
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Can I post today? Is the gremlin gone? Oh, the yearning and desire to say something, only to have it lost in cyberspace, never to be seen by the masses!
Yesterday was wierd. I posted on WV at #30 something, only to come back later to have that post be 40 something. Then, I could not post at all on either the work or home computer. I guess some of the missong posts reappeared. Dare I go there today and see a dozen almost identical posts from me? I will if this posts.
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KBells,
No fear! It appears as though you can change your avatar at will, although you can only keep two at a time hosted on gravatar’s site. I don’t think it’s permanent like our names.
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Hi Kim,
Sinus infection is not any better today. I’m gonna go get some cheap vodka in awhile. The worst thing is that I still can’t talk, which is unrelated to the sinus infection. I go back to the ENT a week from Monday.
It takes awhile for your avatar to get connected up to your name. I think I had to wait about a half a day. If it doesn’t show up by Monday, I’d say something is wrong. I’m not techie, but I will try to help you if it doesn’t show up by Monday.
It’s football time in TN! Vols are kicking off…and he took a knee in the end zone. I’ll try to live blog as the game goes on.
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Some football score updates:
Illinois beats Wisconsin 31-26
Auburn beats Vandy 35-7
Kansas beats Kansas state 31-30
Vols score! 7-0
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Has anyone else noticed that many of the men who have used a picture of themselves have beards?
Not complaining, though – my own hubby has a beard. (And a mustache.)
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Anlir, I have suffered from sinus infections forever. It is October and I am about due. I’ll get another in March. Has been this way for years. Once I literaly felt like my head was going to burst open. That time my mil got me to sniff up warm salt water and let it come out of my mouth. Instant relief. But if I had to do it right now I don’t think I could. I learned the vodka trick from my ob/gyn when I was pregnant. My doctor is really funny about giving antibiotics anymore.
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Vols leading 21-0! They’re playing like a house on fire.
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Karen O,
I noticed that too. It’s my observation that reformed Christians seem to have more beards. Am I correct about that?
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Kim,
I get them from too much air conditioning, especially if it blows directly on me. Also, I can’t sleep in a room that is too cold. I try to keep the a/c set on 80. Best of all, I try not to use it at all unless the humidity is unbearable. I’m like most men – I don’t like to take medicine or go to the doc unless I absolutely have to.
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“Has anyone else noticed that many of the men who have used a picture of themselves have beards?”
KarenO, I have a full beard too, but it isn’t visible in my avatar
Anlir, I’m with you on the doc-phobia. I only go if I think I’m close to death and in need of chemical interference. Doc once commented sarcastically while looking over my chart that he would like to see me more often than every six years. I just don’t go unless I think there is something he can prescribe that would be better than what I can buy OTC.
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KRM
I keep trying to answer your question on Gore below, but there seems to be a glitch. Anyone know if the new site has no love for Firefox? I can switch to ie, if I have to.
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CoyoteBlue,
I’m using firefox right now and it’s been working fine. There have been little gremlins in Worldmag’s website all week. I had troubles yesterday, and others have had trouble all week. They’re working on it.
You gotta get an avatar to go with your name
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Vols lead Georgia 28-7! Third quarter, 6:30 left.
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just testing to see if my gavtar has arrived and if I can post or I have to get parnoid and think WMB is out to destroy my free expression
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one out of two isn’t bad. Can someone tell me if I have to do anything after I have linked my email address to an image?
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Anlir, How ’bout them Vols? I am pleasantly shocked and also embarrassed about having so little faith in them. Beating Georgia is so much fun!
Hope the win lifts your spirits and causes you to heal quicker
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hrw,
As long as you have ‘confirmed’ the avatar, it should arrive in a day or so.
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It took a day for my avatar to show up. I don’t have a website–yet–Cameron. I guess I’m a bit frustrated we no longer can send e-mails. Fortunately, the person I wanted to contact had a website . . .
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Prior to the Redirection-Rapture, I was one who was skeptical that life in the Afterblog would be all many hoped it would be. I suspect real-life-rapture will be similarly frustrating for many literal believers.
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Monday is our 30th wedding anniversary and after giving my husband a hard time last night “What? No surprise trip to Paris? Or even Hawaii?” It occured to me I hadn’t planned anything romantic for him, either.
Then I remembered what I had suggested Chas do earlier in the year for his 50th. I’ve spent a good part of the day remedying my lapse–and have written out several paragraphs describing each year of our marriage and now am scanning in photos.
(I’m somewhat hampered in this task because I haven’t updated the photo albums in 10 years, but fortunately the last five years’ photos are available on the computer thanks to our digital camera!)
It’s a good exercise even if it isn’t your anniversary–remembering the good and the bad and the times you simply hung in there because nothing else could be done. Why not try it yourself? You’ll be way ahead for your next anniversary!
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Adios wins! Bull Durham is correct. Please enjoy your digital dollars…
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Hi y’all.
Back from a much needed vacation up N Carolina way. Skipped out on the chartered sailboat, but got my beach fix anyway. Just bummed around for 7 days in the sand and surf, and ate seafood the whole time… I made up for not spending on the sailing by buying a few new tools on the way past the huge Harbor Freight outlet on I-95 though..
Trying out the new blog for the first time…
Lessee how this goes.
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My wife and I just watched The da Vinci Code and enjoyed it a lot. If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth the rental fee. Now to go watch Grizzly Man. Yikes. Bears scare me.
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Welcome home, MIM. Sounds like a nice time–and you got new toys!
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#27 Michelle, congradulations on your 30th. We celebrated ours in August. For our 25th, I made a list of 25 memories, printed them up on elegant card stock and framed it in a silver frame. He loves it! I packed it with us on our weekend getaway for our 30th and he encouraged me to start on the list for our 50th.
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Hamachi,
Grizzly Man is a fasciniating movie. I should rent it again for my hubby. He just climed Mt. Whitney and while they were sleeping at the portal (on the ground, no tent) the bears getting ready to go into hybernation were foraging through cars and backpacks without mercy.
Some people have said The Da Vinci Code is hard to follow if you haven’t read the book. Did you think so?
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Michelle, #27:
Happy Annversary tomorrow!
We went to (through) Highlands, NC on our honeymoon in’57. My son gave us a gift certificate for an inn to revisit Highlands. Tomorrow is our first chance to use it, so we’re going for three days. Highlands is a nice town in the western NC mountains.
I made a stab at your suggestion of writing a memory of each year. But gave it up because many of them are personal. Just us. e.g. 1958, early, “I think I’m pregnant.” I was a student working part time, no benefits at all. She worked for an insurance company that didn’t allow pregnant women to work more than three months. It was a difficult time. But we made it. He’s a fine man now, and gave us three fine granddaughters.
1962,”I lost the baby.” How else could she say she miscarried. It was mother’s day.
Other things were to personal to mean anything to others. Some semi-funny. On our 25th anniversary, we attended an afternoon funeral for a friend. Afterwards we had a meal, not a snack. So: Shall we go out for dinner to celebrate our 25th? Neither of us wanted much, so we went to Wendy’s. We saw some friends there, and said, “We’re celebrating our 25th anniversary”. They laughed with us. Even now, in deciding where to go, one of us will say, “If it were an important occasion, we could go to Wendy”s.
Let me see if this works.
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I had a hard time watching Grizzly Man because I knew what was coming and his naivete drove me nuts. I won’t see Into the Wild for the same reason–I read the book and the young man’s stupidity was criminal to anyone who has ever backpacked or even been to Alaska.
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Some time ago, my son was looking through a photo album. He said, “Most of these pictures don’t mean anything to me.” So, at his suggestion, we are writing our bio’s. It is a short story of my life, with annotated pictures at the end of each segment. Writing a life story is a daunting task, so I wrote a section on “My Early Life”. Goes through high school. Seven pages. Then an annotated photo section. Then “My Air Force Years”, another eight with lots of photo’s this time. etc. It isn’t finished, but not much hurry now because he’s part of the story and remembers as much as I do. I’ve also put many home movies and color slides on DVD.
My wife hasn’t gotten far in her bio. She doesn’t do computers and her family never took pictures. All the kids are fascinated with the old pictures. They never say it this way, but they are amazed at how pretty Elvera used to be. But we understand.
I recommend that everyone do simething like that. Maybe Michelle’s suggestion will work. They will value it later. Do it while your memory’s good.
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“This government does not torture people.” — KingBush to reporters 10/5 in the Oval Office
“I have put this program in place for a reason, and that is to better protect the American people. And when we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America, you bet we’re going to detain them, and you bet we’re going to question them, because the American people expect us to find out information — actionable intelligence so we can help protect them. That’s our job.”
Translation: When America does it, you can’t call it torture. Notice, gentle readers, the clear, incisive and flawless grammar. KingBush suffers dyslexia only when he tries to sound compassionate.
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It looks like people are able to post multiparagraph comments today. I’ll try it
Life on the edge.
Adios, on Grizzly Man. I have seen Treadwells other shows on Discovery CH (I think) and really enjoyed them. First, the soundtrack is amazing, with none less than Richard Thompson on guitar. This is reason enough for me to see the film. The footage was raw, and it was interesting to see how he behaved in scenes that never made it into his specials. His mental illness was much more apparent, IMO. Sounds like he was bi-polar, and at times almost child-like. I would see it again. It’s hard to find bear footage of this quality anywhere else.
N.A. predators are an interest of mine, and I’ve spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas, so I’m aware of how far over the edge he was with respect to common safety practices. I would never do that, and I don’t think it’s good for the bears to be habituated to people. I study predators because I don’t want to be eaten
That said, I have to think the amount of time (cumulatively ~4 or 5 years?) he spent in such close proximity with the bears without incident suggests he had some insight into their behavior that is unusual. Incidents of brown bears preying on humans are also extremely rare. Far more incidents of stalking and preying on humans have been observed in black bears, which I found counterintuitive. Part of the reason they say to fight an attacking black bear, but play dead for a griz. Anyway, interesting movie. I enjoyed it.
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Life on the edge.
Adios, on Grizzly Man. I have seen Treadwells other shows on Discovery CH (I think) and really enjoyed them. First, the soundtrack is amazing, with none less than Richard Thompson on guitar. This is reason enough for me to see the film. The footage was raw, and it was interesting to see how he behaved in scenes that never made it into his specials. His mental illness was much more apparent, IMO. Sounds like he was bi-polar, and at times almost child-like. I would see it again. It’s hard to find bear footage of this quality anywhere else.
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Drats. Had to split up the post.
N.A. predators are an interest of mine, and I’ve spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas, so I’m aware of how far over the edge he was with respect to common safety practices. I would never do that, and I don’t think it’s good for the bears to become habituated to people. I study predators because I don’t want to be eaten
That said, I have to think the amount of time (cumulatively ~4 or 5 years?) he spent in such close proximity with the bears without incident suggests he had some insight into their behavior that is unusual. Incidents of brown bears preying on humans are also extremely rare. Far more incidents of stalking and preying behavior toward humans have been documented in black bears, which I found counterintuitive. Part of the reason they say to fight an attacking black bear, but play dead for a griz. Anyway, interesting movie. I enjoyed it.
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N.A. predators are an interest of mine, and I’ve spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas, so I’m aware of how far over the edge he was with respect to common safety practices. I would never do that, and I don’t think it’s good for the bears to become habituated to people. I study predators because I don’t want to be eaten
That said, I have to think the amount of time (cumulatively ~4 or 5 years?) he spent in such close proximity with the bears without incident suggests he had some insight into their behavior that is unusual. Incidents of brown bears preying on humans are also extremely rare. Far more incidents of stalking and preying behavior toward humans have been documented in black bears, which I found counterintuitive. Part of the reason they say to fight an attacking black bear, but play dead for a griz. Anyway, interesting movie. I enjoyed it.
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N.A. predators are an interest of mine, and I’ve spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas, so I’m aware of how far over the edge he was with respect to common safety practices. I would never do that, and I don’t think it’s good for the bears to become habituated to people. I study predators because I don’t want to be eaten
That said, I have to think the amount of time (cumulatively ~4 or 5 years?) he spent in such close proximity with the bears without incident suggests he had some insight into their behavior that is unusual.
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I had to cut my post off. This is ridiculous.
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I give up. Now I get the “duplicate comment” nonsense. I long for the old slow blog.
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Adios, I’ll be very brief in hopes of sneaking one past this broken blog.
I didn’t find The da Vinci Code hard to follow. I’m sure it skips a lot that was in the book, but it was a well done movie with a good plot and interesting twists.
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Chas – Your “Wendy’s story” reminded me of Elizabeth Edward’s book, “Saving Graces.” In there, she tells of her and John’s anniversary tradition of going to Wendy’s for a meal.
I know he (they) set a lot of people on this blog on edge and because of their pro-choice position, I could never vote for him as President, but I sure did enjoy her book and look at both of them a bit differently than I had before I read the book.
Happy Anniversary to Michelle and your own “Dr. Phil.” We have friends who spent two wonderful weeks in Hawaii just last year for their 30th anniversary. On our 30th, we had just become grandparents 10 months prior to that and were still totally infatuated with the #1 Grandson (still are!) and we took him with us for the day!
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Michelle,
I understand. Predators are an interest of mine, and I used to collect reports/sightings of griz in Washington state. (still a few around) I have spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas in NA. He broke ALL the rules. It is surprising how many cumulative years he spent among the bears without incident, only to be eaten by an underfed bear from the interior. I’m sure you know how unusual incidents of browns preying on humans are. Black bears are far more likely to exhibit stalking and preying behavior toward humans than are browns. The basis for the rule: fight an attacking black bear with all you have, but play dead for a griz. I was surprised to learn Treadwell didn’t even carry spray. I always carry it, even when I don’t expect to see a bear.
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Michelle, I understand. Predators are an interest of mine, and I used to collect reports/sightings of griz in Washington state. (still a few around) I have spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas in NA. He broke ALL the rules. It is surprising how many cumulative years he spent among the bears without incident, only to be eaten by an underfed bear from the interior. I’m sure you know how unusual incidents of browns preying on humans are. Black bears are far more likely to exhibit stalking and preying behavior toward humans than are browns. The basis for the rule: fight an attacking black bear with all you have, but play dead for a griz. I was surprised to learn Treadwell didn’t even carry spray. I always carry it, even when I don’t expect to see a bear.
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Michelle, I understand. Predators are an interest of mine, and I used to collect reports/sightings of griz in Washington state. (still a few around) I have spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas in NA. He broke ALL the rules. It is surprising how many cumulative years he spent among the bears without incident, only to be eaten by an underfed bear from the interior.
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Michelle, I hear ya. Predators are an interest of mine, and I used to collect reports/sightings of griz in Washington state. (still a few around) I have spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas in NA. He broke ALL the rules. It is surprising how many cumulative years he spent among the bears without incident, only to be eaten by an underfed bear from the interior.
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Michelle, I hear ya.
Predators are an interest of mine, and I used to collect reports/sightings of griz in Washington state. (still a few around)
I have spent time in the Alaskan backcountry, as well as other high-bear-population areas in NA. He broke ALL the rules.
It is surprising how many cumulative years he spent among the bears without incident, only to be eaten by an underfed bear from the interior.
I’m sure you know how unusual incidents of browns preying on humans are.
Black bears are far more likely to exhibit stalking and preying behavior toward humans than are browns.
The basis for the rule: fight an attacking black bear with all you have, but play dead for a griz.
I was surprised to learn Treadwell didn’t even carry spray.
I always carry it, even when I don’t expect to see a bear.
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Well, here’s hoping this one goes through. I haven’t been able to post since Friday morning.
CoyoteBlue #27- It doesn’t seem to matter what you use. At work I usually use Firefox. So when I couldn’d o=post Friday, I tried IE7, still no posting. I am at home with IE7.
Michelle- Happy Anniversary tomorrow!
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Hurray!!! I can post again! (I won’t have to try Netscape now!)
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Seriously, Anlir, try the local honey thing. I used to get a sinus infection every year at this time, usually to the point of not being able to talk. Now the only time I’ve had any sinus problems is when I travel. Honey is made of pollen. Eating a little every day makes gets you used to it.
My uncle cured my husband’s sinus problem once with White Lightening. Can say I’d recommend that.
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“Can” say or “can’t say,” KBells?
I grew up in “The Moonshine Capital of the World” — Franklin County Virginia, where more moonshine stills are busted every year than anywhere else.
Of course, my friends in Patrick County next door said that have more stills — they just to smart to get busted!
Not sure about using it to help with a sinus infection, though I do know it would be good for CLEARING a sinus. VERY strong!
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Outcast that should be “can’t” say (Baptist you know). See my bio about my typo problems.
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Interesting. I looked through the comments to todays Whirled Views and not a single one had anything to do with the movie quote. What does that say about us?
I think the quote is typical. “I tried them all and they just don’t work.” Whatever “work” means.
Kinda like saying you tried all kinds of harlots, not finding any one of them worth settling down with, to prove that marriage is not all it’s cut out to be.
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Thanks for the clarify, KBells!
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Interview of the President by Al Arabiya
Oval Office, Colonnade, Map Room
October 4, 2007
Quote – President Bush
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071005-5.html
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n & M air conditioning…
Total system maintenance is a no brainer in my opinion…
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