Hope you all caught Marc on Conan last night. Don’t forget, he’ll be in the noon – 3 eastern slot on most of your AAR stations (sorry, Gypsy). I hear tell that Al’s blog will be left open for a couple of weeks, so if y’all want to blog over there during the show, it might help to show the new brass how great an idea it would be to bring Marc on board permanently. Just be nice to Al’s bloggers, if there are any there. They’ve just seen their favorite show come to an end, and – no matter what any of us, personally, felt about Al – we all know how much that sucks (twice). Guess I’d better go see if I need to shovel again. See ya.
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 :yuck:
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 :crap:
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😯 😯
:yuck: Its Thursday again :sheep: le
It would appear from this debate on the house floor that if one added all the IQs of the rethug members together the number wold be just slightly positive .. but.. the dems.. total would just be slightly greater than 20 . :yuck: :yuck: :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
fred, sadly that appears so 😯 :fustrate: :paranoid: :omg: :growl: :fist: :banana: 😉
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Giants meet to counter US power
India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War.
Foreign ministers from the three emerging giants met in Delhi yesterday to discuss ways to build a more democratic “multipolar worldâ€.
http://tinyurl.com/2aue88
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If you want to get your day off to a good start kneeling in front of the throne heir dictatordorps news conference from yesterday is on C-span :barf: :barf: :yuck: :crap: :paranoid:
Fred, re 4 , :omg: :no:
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😮 😯 Hillary?
Thx, Fred, I saw it yesterday :barf: and thx to you and this site … I can now, for the first time in years, watched it and laugh at 👿 bush instead of almost breaking my TV or weeping uncontrollably.
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Financial Power Shifts Away From U.S.
Increasing market liberalization and the development of European Union and Asian capital markets are undermining New York’s position as the premier provider of global finance.
The relative weight and competitiveness of financial centers in the global economy is a major concern for national and local policymakers. In recent years, London, New York’s main competitor, has been attracting more business and generating more financial sector jobs.
A recent report claims competition between financial centers is increasingly a function of access to talent and regulatory and legal environments. There is increasing concern that the United States is losing on both counts due to increasing legal and regulatory constraints and restrictive immigration laws:
1. Sarbanes-Oxley. A majority of business leaders interviewed for the report believe the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has helped improve corporate governance, transparency and accounting standards in the United States. However, many are also concerned that the costs of compliance may be discouraging foreign firms from listing in the United States in favor of markets such as the United Kingdom, where costs of compliance are lower.
http://tinyurl.com/ywp7hm
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Note the reason why .. honesty in investing is bad
Capitalists are 👿
:nixon: :nixon: Hey Druid :nixon: :nixon:
😮 😮 Morning Sean 😮 😮
Morning SeanMS 😉 8) :paranoid:
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1. Sarbanes-Oxley. A majority of business leaders interviewed for the report believe the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has helped improve corporate governance, transparency and accounting standards in the United States. However, many are also concerned that the costs of compliance may be discouraging foreign firms from listing in the United States in favor of markets such as the United Kingdom, where costs of compliance are lower.
http://tinyurl.com/ywp7hm
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Note the reason why .. honesty in investing is bad
Capitalists are
Comment by fred — February 15, 2007 @ 6:25 am
My supervisor (who is on vacation this week, so I shouldn’t talk about her when she’s not here to defend herself, but she doesn’t blog so WTF) has a major hard-on against SOX, which she claims is due to the additional paperwork it requires. I have been trying to explain to her that if you’re documenting what you are doing as you go along, rather than trying to reconstruct stuff after the fact, it’s not that much additional work, and the CYA factor is worth it if something comes along later to bite you on the ass. So far she’s still singing out of the management songbook, but I’m going to keep plugging away.
This reminds me of back in the ’90s when FMLA went into effect, and big business cried that hiring additional employees to cover leaves would put them under, Not the case. Surprise, surprise that Repigs could be WRONG – that hardly ever happens.
:fu:
Fred, I really believe that TV has destroyed our ability to give a coherent speech. All these used car salesmen pretending to be serious thinkers. Its not lke these were extemporaneous efforts. Listen to old speeches of ML King, or FDR, or Sevenson, or JFK, and its just pathetic what they call oratory today. If I worked for one of those Bob [or Bobbi] Forehead congress people yesterday, I’d want to crawl under my desk and hide. Pelosi exposed everybody, not just the GOP, by making everyone speak for 5 minutes. I heard better speeches at the meetings of my daughter’s softball club.
Thank God we have Maron coming up today. Saint Marc, pray for us. :sammy: :
For the two people on this blog who care:
Syracuse 70
USF 53
Rumor has it there were a lot of orange shirts in the stands. Sounds like you would have felt right at home, pj. Except for the lack of snow, of course.
I would almost bet that the Syracuse people were there because of the snow ..any reason to leave .. any.. 😮
I don’t know Crest if they had this debate two hours before the election some one might remember the rethugs were all fools but Americans seem to have a zero,zilch , nada attention span . :reaper: :reaper:
Ahhh.. Vestiges of Vietnam rethug caller on WJ wants the army to pave Iraq.. The SBR a country of MORONS and IDIOTS.. at least among those who can still stomach C-span :pent: :fustrate: :fustrate: :paranoid: :paranoid:
Have to go blog with ya all later
Take Care Fred … got stuck downstairs sniff but back now .
:pirate: :yippee: 45min-ish Marc Is On :yippee: :pirate:
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Good Morning Kevin, Fred Druid, Cresttwo and Sean :jesus:
Tea Cheers, Kristapea, Happy Marc Day. :yippee:
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Conan talked as if Marc still had an ongoing AAR show. Premonition? Also, no standup, just talk, with very obvious editing of the video as the camera-work transitioned abruptly between discussion topics. Perhaps Marc said some baaadddd things about Bush that needed deletion.
I think Conan might be confused. I wish I could be around to blog on Al’s blog. Do you think Marc will check it?
So I’ve downloaded wiretap to record Marcs show. I’m using the trial version, of course and it has a disclaimer that repeats on the recordings every 30 seconds or so. I wonder if that’s going to annoy the hell out of me and make me miss a punchline. Maybe I should just buy the software, it’s only $20.
The only thing is it looks like you can’t record multiple streams. :smack:
Stephanie just a few ago “reached out to Al F”. awwwww
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SeanMS I WILL not be answering you so you get the “posts”. If I answer I just cancel your post. I laugh at EVERYTHING You say that is funny, and whatever feeling I am usually with you on except regarding what :penguin: One day perhaps we will see if i can still play and we will Play A Game :omg: … If I Can ever Find You … 😮 :rofl2: . I look at your posts [many :hubba: :rofl2: ] You have my email at the “Gaming One” Server [i think that is what it called] :doh: .
I ALWAYS WISH YOU WELL :knit: {Prayers} :gate: Good Journeys Always
I am still going to have regular conversations, but YOU are closest to me to Take Over My Posts numbers = :banana: .
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good morning all!!
:banana:
MARC!!!!
Lunchtime with MARC!!!
:banana: :banana: :banana:
Hey quietgirl! :love:
Morning QG!
The folks at KPOJ seem confused. They don’t seem aware that Al’s show will even be broadcast today. It’s making me crazy because Dirkx or whatever is reassuring me that Marc will be carried on KPOJ when and if he has a daily show but he isn’t responding when I ask why I can’t hear him sub for Franken today and tomorrow.
Very annoying and I’m in a bad enough mood as it is. (Knee is throbbing and it’s POURING out.)
hey Andy :banana: :fist:
hola Kevin!! :love: :nixon:
sorry to hear that gypsy :smack:
if you can’t hear it, i’m sure someone will post it up later today.
Gypsy can’t you stream it?
Tea Cheers, QuietQirl, Andy aka Aquaman, and Kevin M …. :sigh: Marc :love:
Andy, did you get hold of Melina?
MM the Cleanser, The Palate Cleanser :rofl2: :yippee:
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Awwww Gypsy :smack: … But “somewhere here” hopefully, there will be “links” to these different shows. :pup:
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Druid!!!! :love: :love:
oh..i miss the magic of Marc on the radio.
:alc: LUVYA MARC!!! :alc:
Oh no, lunch is over. No more blogging. But I’ll still be listening. Later, all! :yippee:
bye kevin!
:alc:
Kevin M, Cheers 😉 :pirate: :yippee:
And Quiet Girl :yippee: T and/or :alc: and/or :bong: :rofl2: 😉
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Marc is doing the “appeitizer” (sp?)show? uh…how about the purgatory show? i know….the LIMBO show!!
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No streaming for me. There’s no sound card in the computer on my desk. See, I don’t NEED one and as a poor non-profit we only get what we NEED. Or something like that.
I got a reason from Dirkx that makes sense even if it is a little insulting to Al’s fans. They didn’t want to confuse them into thinking Marc had replaced Al so they went directly to playing Sam’s show in that slot.
Check out this, from the Oregonian’s oregonatwar blog. Ian’s one of my friends and his wife is a Maronista (not a blogger but a big, big fan of Marc.)
Hey! Mornin’, sheeple.
hey there Trav!!
:fist: :40:
morning :yawn: :knit:
Ok travis are you calling in? :pup:
hi sblue!
:joe:
Hey, Trav, amigo, good morning.
It’s the taint. ‘taint Franken, and ‘taint Hartmann.
Gypsy, quietgirl…Druid! :dancers:
Hello Druid, Melina is well.
Trying to wake up after the late night with Conan.
who’s calling? :knit2:
Is Melina mad at us? :holla:
re 51:
yes! the ‘taint show!
hey…Mort is going to be on! :banana:
afternon patriots! I’m heading over to aar per pj’s suggestion
Nagdabbit! Someone had BETTER have this online later this evening. I’m having a bad enough day without knowing that I’m missing Marc AND Jim!
:nana: to KPOJ and their (possibly justified) low opinion of the intelligence of Al Franken’s fans.
Sblue, I’ve figured it out. We all have to meet in Chehalis to go outlet shopping and hold a knitting circle. Of course, I have to be able to get to Chehalis first… (With the bad knee I can’t get into Ol’ Zeb’s little car even if he were willing to drive it that far…)
Where on Al’s blog are we supposed to be? I can’t find anyplace worth blogging at…
Marc just said tomorrow is his last day 🙁
Melina is in the grocery store blogging at Al’s under the special announcement.
Marc must have the record for most shows on AAR. how many people say they’ve had their own radio show for only 2 days?! :pirate:
I think I’ll stick it out here. I don’t want to add to any statistic that indicates how many of us “miss” Franken.
Has anyone read this and have an opinion of it?
Op-Ed Columnist: No Apology Needed
By DAVID BROOKS
Would anybody mind if I pointed out that the calls for Hillary Clinton to apologize for her support of the Iraq war are almost entirely bogus? http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/opinion/15brooks.html?ex=1171688400&en=7fdc0c3523af80d5&ei=5121&emc=eta1
Hillary A (for AIPAC) D ( for DLC) Clinton is the thugs favorite democratic candidate which means they are pretty sure they can either defeat her or that they can create so much noise with their noise machine that she will be destroyed . Brooks is a thug tool just baiting the tap for the MORONS and the IDIOTS
After her performance yesterday on the Senate floor calling out Iran I would say she needs to be sent to the recycle bin. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Aaahhh…even Marc’s Music is better than Al’s!
Awww tomorrow is Maron’s last day sniff
I Need To Be Saved.
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🙁 Morning Remembrance
MOOOOORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
who’s choppin onions?! :knit2:
Disaster Feared in Ship Fire off Antarctica
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Officials warned of a potential environmental disaster in Antarctica after fire erupted Thursday on a Japanese whaling ship, as the search continued for a missing crewmen from the crippled ship.
New Zealand Conservation Minister Chris Carter, whose country is leading efforts to help the stricken ship, said it was carrying 132,000 gallons of heavy oil and 211,000 gallons of furnace oil and was starting to list from water pumped aboard to fight the fire.
“It is a serious situation … a ship badly damaged and full of toxic oil,” Carter told National Radio.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17166275/
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Poor Jeffy :penguin: we knew him well 🙁 🙁
aww…Jeffy’s a survior! he’ll probably be using the other penguins as stepping stones till he gets to safety :penguin:
Rollins is coming up! just enough time for me to listen to some Black Flag
AArghh!! The stream just crapped out.
quietgirl re 71 :nod: :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
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yes!! i’m going to try my best to go see Marc, Janeane and Henry….but i need to come up with the funds :fustrate:
LAWTON!!
QG, since I can’t hear it I have to ask….WHERE will Marc, Janeane, and Henry be? PLEASE????? :love:
I am little late on listening to my podcasts for this week – including Ed Schultz. I like Ed’s show – but since the Clinton issue his head has gotten too big and way to full of himself.
I know AAR has screwed up huge and if not for getting bits of Maron, I would not listen to anything AAR does – but Schultz’s latest thing on AAR was embarassing to listen to. I felt sorry for him. He needs to step back from himself.
:sammy:
in LA, they’ll be at the Silent Movie Theater for a few nights in april. come on down to LA!! :banana: :nixon:
look here for details gypsy
Darkjstz!!!
:banana: :doh: :love:
Its never enough. Where do i go now, Mike and the Mad Dog? :sammy:
aww..and just like that, it’s over. :smack:
well, i’m going to get something to eat before my class. have fun bloggies!! :yippee:
My Stream just came back, but no MARC Until the morrow. 🙄
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gypsy I am looking on Marc’s site — I’ll see if dates and locations are there.
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Gypsy, is this what you need or now where? 😉
Apr 10 2007 7:30P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Grammercy Theater New York NY
Apr 11 2007 7:30P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Grammercy Theater New York NY
Apr 12 2007 7:30P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Grammercy Theater New York NY
Apr 13 2007 7:30P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Grammercy Theater New York NY
Apr 14 2007 7:30P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Grammercy Theater New York NY
Apr 15 2007 7:30P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Grammercy Theater New York NY
Apr 24 2007 8:00P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Silent Movie Theater Los Angeles CA
Apr 25 2007 8:00P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Silent Movie Theater Los Angeles CA
Apr 26 2007 8:00P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Silent Movie Theater Los Angeles CA
Apr 27 2007 8:00P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Silent Movie Theater Los Angeles CA
Apr 28 2007 8:00P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Silent Movie Theater Los Angeles NY
Apr 29 2007 8:00P
Marc Maron, Henry Rollins and Janeane Garofalo at The Silent Movie Theater Los Angeles NY
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Hello Quiet Girl!
Any word on what PG is up to? I miss GNC and the 24 podcast is late.
Mine is behind schedule because I am sick again with a cold.
Oscillococcinum take me away!
:sammy:
Has anyone read this and have an opinion of it?
Op-Ed Columnist: No Apology Needed
By DAVID BROOKS
Would anybody mind if I pointed out that the calls for Hillary Clinton to apologize for her support of the Iraq war are almost entirely bogus? http://select.nyti…5121&emc=eta1
Comment by gypsy — February 15, 2007 @ 1:21 pm
Brooks is an idiot. I can’t believe the New York Times actually pays him for the drivel he writes.
On the PBS NewsHour, he seems like a nice enough guy, but every week he is either espousing a nonsensical opinion or eating crow for a previously-spewed nonsensical opinion. If it were me, I would feel bad for being wrong so frequently, but it doesn’t seem to faze him much.
Anyway, there were plenty of people who did not drink the neocon Kool-Aid and knew this was a bullshit war to begin with. Unless Hillary was getting more detailed intelligence than the rest of the Senate due to her proximity to a former president, she had the same intel that Feingold had when he correctly called it bullshit.
If Brooks’ supposed insight is so brilliant, why isn’t Hillary using it as an explanation for her vote? Because she knows it won’t work at this late date, perhaps?
By now it’s obvious that Hillary is not going to do a John Edwards and actually apologize for her vote. But she will need to perform some sort of act of contrition to unite the party if she thinks the left is going to back her candidacy.
Brooks is the bogus man, not us. (That reminds me, I need to put on the Roxy Music box set this weekend.)
And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE someone post a link to today’s Morning Rememberance. (I guess technically it was still morning in L.A. when Jim read it.)
The Anna Nicole Smith bit was hysterical. I haven’t disturbed that many of my neighbors since… well, since MS was on the air. Maybe I should soundproof my cubicle.
:rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
OK, I must be missing something. Is Franken leaving AAR permanently for his Senate run NEXT YEAR? I thought he was just going to Iraq again. Is Marc completely divorcing himself from AAR? I can’t even stream from work, and I won’t be able to listen tomorrow, either (taking hubby to an interview at noon, wish him luck)
P.S. is there anywhere I can find last night’s Conan appearance? It’s not on nbc.com
That is the lamest bullshit excuse I’ve ever heard. Substitute hosts always tell you over and over that they’re standing in for whoever.
Well, I recorded the show with Wiretap free trial and about every 30 seconds a disclaimer says, ” This audio is recorded using an unregistered version of Wiretap”. It’s pretty annoying, actually. I think I’ll get something else that can record multiple streams.
So, who wants to meet up in LA to see one of those Marc, Janeane and Henry shows?
krista…..i’m trying to get some money together!! but i’d love to go to one of the shows….it sucks that i can’t even come up with 25 bucks :fustrate: :rant1:
well, back to class i go :tommygun:
krista there is a setting in Wiretap Preferences / Format you can use to record I think it is AIFF (not MP3) that records without that voice but gives you huge files. You have a lot of room on your iMac so it shouldn’t be a problem!
If you can do that, then you can always convert them to mp3 (or other compressed format) afterwards, to save space.
Saw this posted by Bob over at the AAP forums, so, in order to fuel some baseless speculation, I’ll repeat it here:
Well, if Bob said it, then it MUST be true. Bob wouldn’t lie. That’s George and Dick’s job. 😀
I’m baselessly speculating right now!!
Hi everyone. I hardly ever post…I am the worst lurker in the universe. I just wanted to tell everyone that if you didn’t hear Marc today live filling in during the 12-3 EST spot, he is on NOW on the Miami affiliate.It is am 940 WINZ or something close to that. Somehow when I try to put the website here it isn’t showing up. Hope this helps someone. I was just soooooo happy to hear his voice. He needs to be back daily! Whar can we do to make it happen?
Pam
Krista, yeah, I’ll start saving pennies now! Although this might delay my return trip to Phoenix. But it’s all good.
Gotta head home now, bloggren. Type at you later.
Dirkx-bag said something similar to me about Maron, something about how he wouldn’t be surprised to start hearing Marc on a daily basis sometime soon.
I have to say, though, that his bullshit excuse for not airing Al’s show does make me laugh because Al’s fans ARE frequently dumbasses. :spank:
Sblue, I’ve figured it out. We all have to meet in Chehalis to go outlet shopping and hold a knitting circle. Of course, I have to be able to get to Chehalis first… (With the bad knee I can’t get into Ol’ Zeb’s little car even if he were willing to drive it that far…)
Comment by gypsy — February 15, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
Your knee pain will be bad, but my flashbacks of estrogen toxicity from being kidnapped as the “token guy” to one of those outlet malls excursions will be comparable. The fabric store was OK, but when they started marching toward the Bali Bra store….
And, yes, Brooks — and Judith Miller — fall into the category of “useful idiots” as their psyops handlers would say.
If you didn’t see Conan you didn’t miss anything new. Short conversation- maybe some editing of anything controversial said. I paid $1.95 for the one-day premium.
Worth it just to hear the old gang- paschman, jim, Kalo the Costco ‘Ho- the old music- the warm sense of humor. :yippee:
Marc gave out big props to franken for being funny. :rofl2:
reality check about gouliani :jason: :tommygun: 👿
re 95, Good tip, pj. Thanks
Kristapea, in the same place in preferences you can also set it to record in mono which cuts the initial file size in half. You can convert it to MP3 in iTunes.
cool.
I noticed that Yahoo! has a group devoted to AAR discussions called LeftWingRadicals. So I checked it out, and noticed they asked you to give a reason or rationale for the owners to let you join the group. You have to put the reason in a form box, so I stuck in this:
Because.
Alas, my “membership” was rejected. Boo-hoo.
A senior Justice Department official who recently resigned her post bought a nearly $1 million vacation home with a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips months before approving consent decrees that would give the oil company more time to pay millions of dollars in fines and meet pollution-cleanup rules at some of its refineries.
Sue Ellen Wooldridge, former assistant attorney general in charge of environment and natural resources, bought a $980,000 home on Kiawah Island, S.C., last March with ConocoPhillips lobbyist Don R. Duncan. A third owner of the house is J. Steven Griles, a former deputy interior secretary, who has been informed he is a target in the federal investigation of Jack Abramoff’s lobbying activities.
http://tinyurl.com/2fl7l6
Leaders of Iraq’s Kurdish minority, who were key US allies in the 2003 invasion, are becoming increasingly critical of US actions in Iraq and are now seeking assurances from the Bush administration that Americans will protect their region if violence reaches its borders.
http://tinyurl.com/29bb43
If you care, FrankenMaron Show streaming here now
Of course in Seattle it is over the air at AM 1090.
wvmc3d, re 111 Cool 8) thx but i think 🙄 for now
but thx 😉
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Fantasy: Gore and his appointed adm kicks out all, evil 👿 bush and evil 👿 bush adm A.I.V hmmmmm :nod:
Sue P. 😉 re 109 🙄 :fist: hiiiyaaa :banana:
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pjsauter, re 97 Cool 8) I NEED to believe in something. thus I TRULY Believe in BoB 8) THX 😉 and 107 is 8) with angst :love: 😮
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artnorton I missed Marc on Conan [ :smack: and I just woke up]. 🙄 but i did get to hear Marc on Ex-Al’s. :yippee:
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Ah WaWa :40:
a.i.v. Hey Red :hot: Chili Peppers 8)
PJ, Post a zillion posts please, now. I am only about 50-ish away. 😮 Top 5 are are a certain type. top 4 out of 5 are of a certain type. 😉
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I worked out for almost 2hrs then fed fire and curled up next to the flames and feel asleep. tons of wawa :40: then DANCED :pirate: :yippee: :pirate: : :dancers: :pup:
Hey , The Velvet Glove :dancers: :pirate:
c-ya :pirate: :fist: HiiiYaaa
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SBlueHeron, I think Melina is probably angry at ME since “sides” are being drawn since I am “seeing” the BS :crap: is angry at me CUZ I JUST WANT US TO WORK IT OUT HERE. If not here, WHERE? I just feel we should put the “workable” paradigm to a “workable reality”. Stupid Me .. WHATEVER … 🙄 I AM JUST TIRED OF ALLLLLL GAMES. whatever 🙄 . The Red Queen is rising.
Snow White Queen by Evanescence
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Quietgirl, don’t worry about buying a ticket, I’ll cover you. Looks like we got a whole month of shows to choose from. We should be able to coordinate something.
re #95 tip incorrectly attributed to usual master pj, :doh: :doh:
Thanks really go to sblueheron. Please forgive me and thanks!
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: