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    >  GP> Our guesses are based on reality, experience, & facts.   
      
    >   Experience is the best teacher.   
      
   Is it? Experience kills everyone she teaches.  Everyone.   
      
    >   The TV sets here haven't been plugged in or turned on in over 3 years.   
    > The only "TV" I watch is if the local newscast is on, then I go to their   
    > website, or view it on the smartphone.   
      
   When I lived alone, my tv was rately on, but now it is in the evenings, & I get   
   the remote to picjk sometghing I can stand (something thought-provoking & made   
   with talent, not just a hackjob)   
      
    >   That's for sure. Or like the cartoon: "Welcome to H***. May I park your   
    > handbasket??". Or the other one that has the character asking "Where Am I??   
    > And, why am I in this handbasket??". :P   
      
   Does it say something about volumes of traffic that it's a highway to Hell, but   
   a staircase to Heaven?   
      
    >    Fifty years ago, my Dad and I went to the Dade County Youth Fair in west   
    > Miami. There was this heavy set comedian from Kentucky called "The Duke Of   
    > Paducah". All I remember is that it was G-rated, and it was hilarious. As   
    > I've said many times, people like Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George   
    > Burns, Gracie Allen, Groucho Marx, etc. proved "you don't have to be dirty   
    > to be funny".   
      
   Nobosy's saying otherwise, but that era is gone & past.  There are some funny   
   ones now, but not enough people watch them to make it a profitable   
   exercise/pursuit.  I miss John Pinette(RIP) -- a great storyteller & downright   
   funny guy! Look him up on YouTube. . .   
      
    >   There was a book when I was majoring in Radio/TV/Film in college, called   
    > "Subliminal Seduction". The sexiest thing in Playboy is NOT the   
    > centerfold... it's some of these ads, especially for alcoholic beverages.   
      
   I usually enjoyed the articles & jokes more than the centrefolds.   
      
   Now I can't be bothered to open any. . . as the stories got dumber & more about   
   promoting the smut side of the business than being interesting insights into   
   the world we live in.   
      
   I was most impressed in first seeing the list of women who refused $1,000,000   
   (in the '70s & earlier) to appear in Playboy.   
      
    >  GP> Some cultures consider a man & woman married if they are in solitude   
    >  GP> in a closed room together.   
      
    >   Common law marriage.   
      
   By what's common by their laws, yup.   
      
   Here it's 6-12 months or you file a tax return together as "equivalent to   
   married"   
      
    >  GP> I'm waiting for one of these to hit the news. . .   
      
    >   Or the tabloids.   
      
   I would not know then, as I dn't read that .   
      
   [autposts]   
    >   With mine, it's like this:   
      
    > 1) Today In History -- on various topics in the appropriate echoes, once a   
    > year. This includes Burma Shave ads, Pun History, Weather History (partial   
    > after 1990), Comedy/Bloopers, Random Quotes, QWK Mail Taglines, etc.   
      
   I'd prolly ask you to limit it to once a week in the Funny echo, until there's   
   enough contribution so your autoposts aren't all bunched up. . .   
      
    >   While there are disabled folks who are in worse shape than I am, what   
    > really gets me mad is vehicles that park in the handicapped spot, with   
    > no indication of a hangtag, license plate, or disability. Basically, they   
    > parked there, because they were lazy.   
      
   Our placards come with a letter to not use the spaces even if entitled, if   
   we're having a good day & don't fully need it, to leave it for those who really   
   have no choice.   
      
   Friends would want me to use my card to get us good spots, but I'd say no, &   
   ask them to drop me at the fronmt, then go park.   
      
    >  GP> We, the disabled community here in BC, are pointing out that just   
    >  GP> because a person stands or walks does not mean they shouldn't   
    >  GP> necessarily be in a wheelchair--that's between them & their   
    >  GP> doctor/OT/Physio. . .   
      
    >   You have a valid point. Yet, I'm sane...just ask my psychiatrist.    
      
   Well, it's an ongoing fight, to keep city hall remembering that we are people,   
   too, & equally deserving of fair treatment under the law as anyone else.   
      
   I'm waiting for a bright & feisty defense lawyer to plea his client as guilty &   
   demand he be given the Kennedy sentencing, as he's equal, under thge lawm to   
   any Kennedy.   
      
    >  GP> Now if a girl is told to be careful it means "or you might get herpes,   
    >  GP> AIDS, &/or pregnant" back then it meant "or you might get kissed"   
      
    >   I don't think I kissed her. The poor thing had acne real bad, and a lot   
    > of pitting on her face. They say "beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clear   
    > to the bone"...yet to me, if they have an inner beauty, that more than   
    > makes up for it.   
      
   Acne isn't contagious. If I liked her & she was looking for a kiss, I'd've   
   kissed her. If I was't ready to be serious with her for a commitment, I'd keep   
   my kiss basic & not long & French.    
      
   Sometimes a girl just needs acknowledgement that she's good enough for a hug &   
   kiss. . .   
      
    >  GP> & sleep during that 12-1 if they're Senators up here, who are appointed   
    >  GP> for life.   
      
    >   Like the US Supreme Court Justices.   
      
   Our SC, too. . .   
      
    >   Nowadays, you could be taken to court for abuse.    
      
   Yup, but I'd gho & I'df defend myself just fine, thankyouverymuch.   
      
   I was not "hitting" my child, I was "teaching an important lesson"; one is   
   punishment/revenge, the other is the carefullyl considered lesson that makes   
   the child a better human being & citizen in the long run.   
      
   My dad, when I did a crime worthy of a spanking (lying & stealing, as they were   
   in t he Ten Commandments) would send me to my room & join me in some time   
   later; I imagine after he communed with Godf about his responsibility & how to   
   do it righteously & not emnotionally.  So he'd arrive 20 minutes later, quite   
   calm, ready to teach to his class of one.   
      
      
    > ... Error Failed. Press any key to resume error.   
      
   Sounds like Windows Vista.   
      
   i'd 'x' MSIE & it'd pop up a message, "Internet Exploder stopped.  Reloading. .   
   ." WTHHHH????    
      
   I edited the name a little. . .   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
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