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  1. excellent.

    It took me a minute to get fully up to speed on that one. Indeed, excellent.

    The light of day sometimes strips away my fear

     

    I'm here and I'm the same as I always was, but different

     

    The old fuss burned into a new stint

     

    Another way I can say I'm fine and never know if I'm walking the line or on either side

    Cool.

  2. So how long do we keep herding in the noobs with all these promises of mercy and unicorns before we reveal the hazing process?

    I say we let them enjoy the barbecue first. They've been out there alone for a long time. Seems the decent thing to do. I'm so excited! They all look so juicy, despite the dehydration!

    And a hearty welcome to the noobs and lurkers who've started to come out of the shadows!  Please stick around; this place is (usually) great.

    It's always great when you're posting!

  3. I have read many posts in this thread.  Some have been from posters with whom I share much history.  Some have been from posters with whom I share no history.  I liken it to a hobo campfire.

     

    You may not think of yourself as a hobo.  I've got a wife and kids!  But there's a fire.  We gather around.  I don't see any wife and kids here.  Where's your precious wife and kids?  Not here.  At all.

     

    You want to know how to fit into a hobo campfire?  Just wait for the biggest baddest hobo to get too drunk.  Then beat the ###### out of him.  He'll wake up wondering what the ###### happened.

     

    You'll have a place at the hobo campfire, that way.  Be sure to apologize in a threatening way.  "Sorry Charlie for whooping your ass last night.  I was angry at the wife and kids."

    You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house, you may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife...

  4. Anybody write poetry? I've become inspired recently after hearing former poet laureate Billy Collins read some of his stuff on "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" (I listen to NPR, but I'm not smart.) His work is so accessible and funny, you don't feel like it's even poetry. So I wrote a few. They're throwaways, really, certainly nothing that I would put up against a serious poet's work.

     

    Anyone want to share? I sure as hell am not going first.

     

     

  5. The remedy is just to think back to the good ol' days. If you were in front of the person (not hiding behind a computer), would you respond that way? If you would, then it's likely acceptable; or maybe you really are a prick.

    Louis C.K. has a funny bit in this vein. How the anonymity and safety of your vehicle gives you license to direct unimaginably rude comments to people, comments you would never make, say, in an elevator if someone stepped in front of you.

  6. I have redeemed myself! I found an old Polaroid camera on the free table at a yard sale. 68 bucks! (Minus eBay's cut and I'm going back to give the nice old guy who didn't know what he was putting out a twenty.) This would be a fun side business.

     

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Polaroid-SX-70-Land-Camera-Model-2-R-Ivory-untested-/221783829311

     

    Why would someone want such a piece of junk? The people who bought it, at the-impossible-project.com, refurbish these cameras and resell for 400 bucks!

     

    https://shop.the-impossible-project.com/shop/cameras/sx70/ca_sx70_model2_mum

  7. Just wondering: any chance there's an epub version of the book? I'm going to read it, but I'd love to be able to use my reader instead of the tablet or computer.

     

    On my Dad's side, my grandfather tried to enlist a few times but was rejected due to a heart condition. Either my great aunt or grandmother worked in the Curtiss (??) factory in Buffalo on planes. (They're both Helen Pie, so I need to verify which one it was). I think my parents still have the aluminium soldering/welding kit in a green toolbox stamped with the name somewhere.

     

    I don't know what my mom's side of the family did, I'll have to ask my mom next time she's here.

    Sorry, no epub version. Just PDFs for now.

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