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All I know is the moderator of this forum can't win...
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We can win quite handily IF we can get rid of the "political correctness" nazis and go fight the way we used to.
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An excellent and realistic article.
All points bring to the surface the real complexities.
Bedouin.
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I ran into a africanized bee hive a week ago in the backyard. I dropped the weed wacker, took my 12-13 stings, boogied on out of there and realized... These bees were not going to stop untill I was no longer a threat. I.E. DEAD!
It took 1 1/2 hours to get my idiling weed wacker back and 2 days for the pain to subside.
You can't put rules on nature.
I went back after the 2 days and commenced boming untill EVERY LAST ONE OF THOSE AFRICANIZED BEES WAS DEAD. Because the children or the older folkz do not need to be attacked by them.
UPDATE: My neighbor came over yesterday and asked about those bees I got into. They are all in his wall in his entranceway to the front door. They stung his wife and she is hurtin. I had a second strike and won, for now...
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Well. We need to hurry up and win so Friar John can relax a little.
If we can just whip these people than FJ can be at ease until we find something else to debate about.
We need a good middle eastern tactical exterminator who works cheap, is efficient and heartless, and uses a good humanatarian method to put the little terror bees to sleep.
We need to do that to appease the more strident members of PETOT. (people for the ethical treatment of terrorists)
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We need to do that to appease the more strident members of PETOT. (people for the ethical treatment of terrorists)
LMAO: PETOT, I'm going to use that one! (I will take credit for thinking it up too!!)
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We can win quite handily IF we can get rid of the "political correctness" nazis and go fight the way we used to.
When the government starts frisking young Arabs at the airport rather than elderly women I'll assume we are ready to be serious. When we quit worrying about the "rights" and "dignity" of captured terrorists I have more faith in them. When we start burying dead Al Qaeda types in a mixture of pig entrails and manure I'll look forward to victory. When the traitors who leaked the information about the surveillance and financial tracking programs are executed and the NY Times suffers greatly for acting as a spy for the Islamofacists I'll trust that we will prevail.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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We need to do that to appease the more strident members of PETOT. (people for the ethical treatment of terrorists)
LMAO: PETOT, I'm going to use that one! (I will take credit for thinking it up too!!)
No probs ya can have the credit. I think PETOT does exist. Its the extreme left of the Democratic Party
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FriarJohn, How's about creating a Politics Only forum and those who wish to argue, I mean discuss politics on a motorcycle forum can go at it. 
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Or how about we just lock every friggin political thread!  Yeah, that's the ticket! There will never be a political/religious/crap forum here.
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All I know is the moderator of this forum can't win...
I think you may be able to relax (a little) on this one FJ. Like Bedouin said, this article shows the complexities of fighting against a guerilla enemy who has no concern for the lives of civilians. We've seen it for decades in Israel’s battles. The terrorists attack and hide among civilians, when they are retaliated against and civilians suffer, the Israelis are condemned. This has always been their M.O. and to try to fight it using 19th century battlefield tactics won't work.
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Our stategy in wars up through WWII was "all out" to victory. We waged complete, total war in WWII ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cologne and the Tokyo fire bombings are clear examples ) and that will be what will be needed to win again. In Lebanon, the Lebanese are claiming victory over Israel, and isnt that an admission that they support Hezbollah? Actually, an nation that will support a terrorist group, or refuses to clean them out of its own territory ( such as Lebanon ), deserves what it gets. If Hezbollah wants to hide behind the populace, then all will be targeted, and unfortunately many will die who are not a part of it ( yet, as citizens of that host nation, are they not collectively part of it ? ). This is much of what the author says. It is unpallatable, but well necessary to win, and to survive as nations and as the Western culture.
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Bonnyusa,
I heard that!
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Our stategy in wars up through WWII was "all out" to victory. We waged complete, total war in WWII ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cologne and the Tokyo fire bombings are clear examples ) and that will be what will be needed to win again. In Lebanon, the Lebanese are claiming victory over Israel, and isnt that an admission that they support Hezbollah? Actually, an nation that will support a terrorist group, or refuses to clean them out of its own territory ( such as Lebanon ), deserves what it gets. If Hezbollah wants to hide behind the populace, then all will be targeted, and unfortunately many will die who are not a part of it ( yet, as citizens of that host nation, are they not collectively part of it ? ). This is much of what the author says. It is unpallatable, but well necessary to win, and to survive as nations and as the Western culture.
Every middle eastern country has supporters of Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the U.A.E, even Iraq to name only a few. I'm sure Turkey has a few, even though they are in NATO. India has tons of Muslims, and there must be at least a few that support Hezbollah. Are you suggesting that we fire-bomb all the cities in the middle east? The last batch of terrorists were born and raised in the UK. That means the UK supports terrorism too. Should we only firebomb portions of London? Naaaah, lets bomb the whole city and make sure we get them all. Sorry Adey and Gina, that's just the way it is. Hey, remember those riots in France last year? Don't forget to bomb Paris too. That wouldn't bother anyone around here. St. Paul has a sizable Muslim population. Robed Muslim women walk by my house every day. It looks like a typical midwestern suburb, but who knows what sinister things are brewing in those townhouses down the street. So don't forget to bomb St. Paul. Maybe we should use nukes. Why hold back? Let's go all the way. We have the technology. Let's use it.
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Wow, talk about completely missing the point and then stretching the imagination to astronomical heights.
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Every middle eastern country has supporters of Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the U.A.E, even Iraq to name only a few. I'm sure Turkey has a few, even though they are in NATO. India has tons of Muslims, and there must be at least a few that support Hezbollah. Are you suggesting that we fire-bomb all the cities in the middle east? The last batch of terrorists were born and raised in the UK. That means the UK supports terrorism too. Should we only firebomb portions of London? Naaaah, lets bomb the whole city and make sure we get them all. Sorry Adey and Gina, that's just the way it is. Hey, remember those riots in France last year? Don't forget to bomb Paris too. That wouldn't bother anyone around here. St. Paul has a sizable Muslim population. Robed Muslim women walk by my house every day. It looks like a typical midwestern suburb, but who knows what sinister things are brewing in those townhouses down the street. So don't forget to bomb St. Paul. Maybe we should use nukes. Why hold back? Let's go all the way. We have the technology. Let's use it.
Cody
Yes exactly. The disimilarities to WWII are too great to ignore and use the same tactics. It is not a war against nations but fractions thereof.
I think perhaps these groups need to be "expired" from within.
Information (or, if you like, intelligence), I think that was the key to last week's success.
It would appear that the technology and personnel is available worldwide.
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The solution will certainly not be a simple nuke ‘em and make the Mid-East a glass parking lot approach. It will need to take a multi-pronged approach, just as was done in WW2 (since this analogy has come up) Yes, we bombed the hell out of Berlin, Dresden, Tokyo, etc…, but we also worked with Resistance Movements in all of the Axis-occupied countries, as well as through propaganda broadcasts to soften up the population to NOT support their regimes when our troops did enter their towns/villages. Well, same thing needs to be done here. The US must earnestly work to change it’s image in the Middle East, which can be done if we succeed in setting up thriving economies in Iraq and Afghanistan. These countries need to show the rest of the Arab world, particularly to the “man on the streetâ€Â, a better alternative than the monarchies/dictatorships in existence in Saudi Arabia andother places, where the people controlling the oil are the only ones getting better off from all that revenue. So, whatever your view on Iraq (everyone knows mine), we now must not only stay there for the long haul, but redouble our efforts there, and make sure the governments succeed. Because, in the long run, if we don’t eliminate the cause for discontent and hatred of our ways, the terrorists killed today will be replaced by more born tomorrow.
Secondly, we will need to work with (i.e. PUSH) governments in the region to work with us to infiltrate and root out extremist cells as was done in England and Pakistan last week. There are those whose minds are just so hate-filled, that finding them and locking them up for good is the only safe way to eliminate the threat.
Thirdly, the US and it’s allies must FORCE, through whatever diplomatic/economic/veiled military threat means necessary, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon to sit down and work out acceptable borders and eliminate any disputed territories, with the understanding that first and foremost, Israel is there for ever. This includes making Jerusalem a “free cityâ€Â, meaning, it must be open to all 3 faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, equally and fairly, since this is one of the biggest sticking points in any argument. Maybe even make Jerusalem a City-State, as is the case with the Vatican, independent from Israel, or ANY other country.These negotiations have to appear even handed too, not just the US backing Israel, we have to reel Israel in just as we have to squash unreasonable demands by the other countries. Jordan and Egypt are already somewhat on board with allowing Israel to exist in peace, but the other three still have open issues, and these need to be settled. Without that, there will never be peace in the Mideast, period!
And lastly, and almost as daunting as the whole â€ÂIsrael and it’s neighbors problem†is finding a way to get the UN unified on making countries like Iran understand that there are severe consequences for being reckless troublemakers, and the strength to enforce those consequences. If we are going to have a world body for settling disputes, it has to be a world body that can force the resolution of that body on the country in question. And currently, even if all the bureaucratic and corruption issues are worked out, the UN does not possess that resolve or ability. The US cannot and should not be the worlds police force, we can’t afford it and are not prepared for it, nor should the rest of the world be exempt from policing the world.
Of course, sitting down and writing all of this, or any other solution, is easy, getting it to happen is the hard part. And with everybody trying to protect their special interests, us included, I am sadly not very optimistic about this happening.
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Or how about we just lock every friggin political thread! Yeah, that's the ticket!
There will never be a political/religious/crap forum here.
Please. 
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Or how about we just lock every friggin political thread! Yeah, that's the ticket!
There will never be a political/religious/crap forum here.
Please.
Oh, come on guys! "Stuff" like THIS, is what keeps SOME OF US COMING BACK, "during those cold cold nights" when the talk around here turns exclusively to...."Chrome/Air Injectors[and their removal]/Birthdays"!!!
OH CRAP! 
I think I just gave Friar John and Phil YET ANOTHER REASON to ban this stuff from around here!!!! 
SORRY, my fellow opine-inclined motorcycling cohorts!!!  
Cheers,
Dwight
(oh...and FJ...that "I can't win" line o' yours had me ROARIN', DUDE!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Wow, talk about completely missing the point and then stretching the imagination to astronomical heights.
What point am I missing, exactly? I thought we were talking about all out, no-holds-barred war? Are we doing this or not? Aren't we talking about the financiers? The arms suppliers? The moral supporters? The think-alikers? What about the supply lines and sources of new recruits? Shouldn't we go after those too?
Here's an idea. I propose a radioactive zone from the southern Lebanese border to the Litani River. Turn it to glass, make it glow. Make it unlivable for a cockroach. That should hold 'em back.
This is fun. I think I'm starting to see the light!
Cody
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"Stuff" like THIS, is what keeps SOME OF US COMING BACK
So, banning this crap would keep you from coming back?
We need a moderator meeting...........
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Wow dude , you ought to stay out of that sh!t during the day, your losing your reasoning power!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Stuff" like THIS, is what keeps SOME OF US COMING BACK
You're not helping your case AT ALL.
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(oh...and FJ...that "I can't win" line o' yours had me ROARIN', DUDE!!!)
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Ok Phil, I'm sorry. [head hanging down...scuffing toe on the asphalt] I was just funning everybody. I was just making a point by stating the absurd. I was using sarcasm. Don't send me to the moderator's office. Hey, my bike has been in the shop for 10 days. I'm just not thinking straight. Cody
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Hey, my bike has been in the shop for 10 days. I'm just not thinking straight.
That would be enough to make ME grumpy (OK, grumpier)
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Of course I am sure everyone understands the implications as you stated them Cody. From my standpoint it seems that far too many on the left do not take the terrorist threat "seriously enough"
It seems some on the really extreme left are willing to do nothing at all just sit in the sun and bury our heads in the sand as though the problem will fix itself. Some do not seem to understand that the guys who are trying to blow up ten airplanes inbound to the US are not going to listen to reason. Their ideology is completely fascist and is beyond negotiating.
The UK does have a problem with a significant troubling populace of Islamic persons. Of that indigenous grouping some are full scale hostiles and should be deported to a nice place in the middle east preferably by being kicked out of an airplane from a middling altitude of say 8000 feet so the resultant impact incurs troubling injury.
France also has this problem and so do we to a somewhat lesser degree.
All I think is needed is that the seriousmess of the threat be treated with a WW3 mentality by all of US so that unity will breed strength of purpose regardless of political affiliation.
These bad guys within the greater islamic populace are the enemy and the thing is the greater majority of Islam is not doing much to police their own kind to behave in the manner that a true religion of peace would and should behave.
Most of the problems with Islam today are not the fault of the Western world. Its their problem and they show little interest in taking responsibility for it.
God help us (sorry Dwight) should a terrorrist attack occur that makes 9/11 look like a walk in the park.
Should that occur in these US or Britain than the war that some of us have been referring to as WW3 will be exactly that with no misunderstandings by anyone.
All bets will be off at that point.
We seem to be fighting a holding pattern against these people side by side with Israel. Israel has basically just completed a small campaign whereby they have at least protected their citizenry from an increasingly hostile terrorist group Hezbollah. Unfortunately they were not allowed to finish the job. As a result the modus operandi will occur again at a later date.
It does look like this fight is gonna last for a very long time.
In the meantime we need a commitment from all our politicians to go forward with any and all needs that will help us uncover any plots regardless of whether they may involve invasions of privacy or civil liberties.
After all who cares if Uncle is looking over ones shoulder if one has nothing to hide?
Nothing we have done since 9/11 has made them hate us any more or less. Iraq is a country free of a dictator who easily rivaled Hitler. It is a nation embroiled in religious zealotry at this point all for the purpose of seeing who has power Sunni or Shiite. At the same time Al Qaeda is there stirring the pot. I view it as necessary to fight these people on ground of our choosing. Taking the fight to them to busy up their resources and personnel is a good thing.
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I understand completely. Continue the sarcasm!
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I've been lookin' at this terrorist thing just a little bit differently lately since I've come to realize one thing about people like those...ahem...gentlemen in the U.K. who had this...ahem...plan.
You see, if history has shown us ANYTHING, it's that..."Fundamentalists" ain't NEVER been THAT BRIGHT!
(case in point....."Hey", said the Salem Mass minister, back sometime in the 17th century. "That there woman has some sort o' hold over this here man! She must be a WITCH, for crissake! She's gotta BURN, I say!"....among the many other "insights" the overly religious have "concluded" throughout the years)
And NOW you see, we have these...ahem...gentlemen, who DESPITE THE FACT that governments throughout the world, ESPECIALLY since 9/11, have thrown BILLIONS of dollars into anti-terrorism measures and ESPECIALLY AIRPORT SECURITY, They're STILL TRYIN' to take down AIRPLANES!(I mean...how stupid is THAT, huh?!)
You see, when OTHER "softer targets" are readily available to them(ummm...just thinkin' off the top o' me head here, but I'd say maybe subways[still] or some kind o' sporting events would be FAR easier pickins...BTW, don't worry people...I doubt any of these..ahem...gentlemen would have the good sense to own a Triumph, so I doubt they'd be readin' these "suggestions" per se). Let me state this again....these imbeciles..ahem...gentlemen are STILL FIXATED on friggin' AIRPLANES, for GOD'S SAKE!!!(sorry Kevin) So I ask you! How friggin' smart can they REALLY BE?!("Fundamentalists"...REMEMBER!)
I mean, come on here people! Think about this for a minute. If we can't OUT-SMART these fundamentalist idiots...ahem...gentlemen....maybe we DESERVE what we GET...HUH?!
SOOOOO, In essence....WHAT'S to WORRY ABOUT then?! I think we might be juuuuuuuuuust a bit smarter than "them guys"...RIGHT?!(at least, I HOPE we ARE!!!)
(the previous was offered "tongue-in-cheek", for the clueless amongst us here...and BESIDES....why not have a little fun with this topic, 'CUZ gentlemen....whatever we write in this here forum doesn't mean a God d*mn(sorry, once again Kevin) thing, ANYWAY. Nobody of "importance"(read: the ability to act upon our little opinions) is gonna read it....RIGHT?!
Oh...And Cody,
Speakin' of "tongue-in-cheek"(and the "Clueless")....
Songwriter/performer Randy Newman, a few years back, basically said the same thing you stated in your "tirade"(but I'm sorry to inform ya that he did it with a little more aplomb) in his song, "Political Science".
And it goes like this....
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"No one likes us,
I don't know why
We may not be perfect,
but heaven knows we try
And all around,
even our old friends put us down
So let's...DROP "THE BIG ONE"
and see what happens!"
(this is just the first verse, but TRUST ME! It get's EVEN BETTER as it goes on)
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If you've never heard it, I suggest you find a copy of it.
It's ABSOLUTELY GREAT(and a perfect-pitch send-up of the "Let's Nuke 'Em All" Crowd)
Cheers all,
Dwight
(BTW...how about them DODGERS?!)
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we are standing in a herd of camels trying to find a race horse. we need to defend our selves and our allies. they are all on our side when we put the opposing party out of power. then they bond together against us because they are all of the same origin. i don't care how hard we try. it WON'T happen. they are still camels. i haven't heard anyone say they want to be different. why? they want us to do their dirty work and to solve their internal power struggles and leave. then , we stick our nose in and try to assist again. we get our nose bloodied and they become camels again.
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we are standing in a herd of camels trying to find a race horse. we need to defend our selves and our allies. they are all on our side when we put the opposing party out of power. then they bond together against us because they are all of the same origin. i don't care how hard we try. it WON'T happen. they are still camels. i haven't heard anyone say they want to be different. why? they want us to do their dirty work and to solve their internal power struggles and leave. then , we stick our nose in and try to assist again. we get our nose bloodied and they become camels again.
so, you are referring to these ragheads as "Camel Jockeys?"
Well. Harumph. Dat aint gonna sit well with the PC crowd in dis neck of the woods minority that they are. 
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I like this one better:
Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
I'm going out and eat worms
Big fat juicy ones
Slip slap slimy ones
I'm going out and eat worms
First you bite the head off
Then you suck the guts out
I'm going out and eat worms
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm
I'm going out and eat worms
Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
I'm going out and eat worms
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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Re: Can We Win?
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Fe Butt
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Sorry Phil,
But you're attempt at a parallel/simile/analogy/metaphorical send-up of Mr.Newman's(and by proxy...mine, I guess...or was it Kevin you were sending up here?  ) most astute little ditty about the inherent dangers of warmongering was...well, to put it frankly...just a little below your usual incisive rhetorical standards.(Trust me on this, kid..the "first rule of comedy" is that it's nearly impossible to satirize a satire and then achieve even modicum success, my friend....I mean haven't seen any of MY attempts at fracturing the lyrics of a few popular recordings with decidedly mixed-results around here???) 
If this is the best that you could come up with("WORMS"???!!! )...I'd stick to administerin' this here place if I were you.
Cheers,
Dwight
(for, believe it or NOT....I think you're actually GOOD at THAT!) 
Last edited by Dwight; 08/15/2006 1:27 PM.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Re: Can We Win?
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Big Bore
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Big Bore
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No analogy intended. I just like worms!
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Hey Phil! In THAT CASE, you should watch this Tony Bourdain dude on the Travel Channel! That funny as hell New Yorker S.O.B. ventures the friggin' world, eatin' ANYTHING and EVERYTHING the locals put in front o' him.(and that would include worms, BTW)
Ironically, next Monday's(10pm EDT) episode has him traveling to Beirut one day before those idiots over there started their latest little religious squabble.
Should be a good one.
Cheers,
Dwight
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Big Bore
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Big Bore
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He learned everything he knows from me.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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Adjunct
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Hey Phil, Don't feel rained on, man. I thought your poem was A-ok. Dwight actually insinuated that my "tirade" lacked aplomb. How do you like that?! I launch into my best rant on death and destruction and all he can say is "Randy Newman does it with more aplomb." Well, Dwight, take this... "Nyah nyah nen-nyah nyah"  Fffzzzzft. How do ya get any respect around here?. Oh, BTW, the bike is heading back to the shop. (well, at least parts of it) Cody
I was born a long ways from where I was supposed to be. - Bob Dylan
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Fe Butt
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Fe Butt
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Okay Cody! I'll bite! That "Nyah Nyah" stuff is from that One Hit Wonder group, Stream, and their 1968 hit single..."Hey! Hey! Hey! Goodbye....RIGHT?! I bet they've been playin' that song A LOT at Dodger Stadium lately! What's that now...15 out o' 16 games won?! Cheers, Dwight
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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