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Reply #75 on: May 04, 2009, 08:51:44 AM
Makes you feel any better I once apologised for having a bit of a blonde moment.

To a blonde female lawyer.

In the comic shop I ran at the time.

That karmic debt wa sonly repaid a coupe of years later when a tall, thing Australian goth man showed me his Punisher nipple tattoo.  Even as I recoiled, I could sense the weight lifting...


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Reply #76 on: May 04, 2009, 09:11:37 AM
I was training a guy in financial planning.  We were doing the "free up capital and invest it" part.  One of the things was about 15 minutes on traditional life insurance, how it's far too expensive, and that the investment component is essentially a sham.  I was showing him the routine by presenting it to a third party.  He wanted his mother to see what he would be doing, so I was showing her.  She had terminal cancer and would die three months later.  I have never been so uncomfortable in my entire life.


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Reply #77 on: May 04, 2009, 09:41:15 AM
On the subject of extreme awkwardness, there's a movie called Young People Fucking that really does a better job of capturing the current generation of 20-30 year olds awkwardness than just about anything. If you have had sex, it is painful.

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Reply #78 on: May 04, 2009, 11:11:43 AM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 03, 2009, 06:42:15 PM
As to the marrage thing: Egads! Am I one of the few truly contentedly married folks on here? Maybe I just trained mine better?

I hope you saw the winking face I posted.  I was kidding.  My first line was correct:  I will be happily married for 25 years as of July 7 this year.


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Reply #79 on: May 04, 2009, 06:34:11 PM
shared pain: thanks folks ;)

IZ- I did see it I just get strange looks far too often when I mention being happily married for nearly a decade- and it saddens me, thus I seem to be a bit defensive. 25 years. You are indeed a lucky couple.

I love it when you know each other so well a whole argument can take place based on shifting facial expressions

Oh, great and mighty Alasdair, Orator Maleficent, He of the Silvered Tongue, guide this humble fangirl past jumping up and down and squeeing upon hearing the greatness of Thy voice.
Oh mighty Mur the Magnificent. I am not worthy.

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Reply #80 on: May 04, 2009, 11:27:53 PM
*flees thread under the threat of happy people*


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Reply #81 on: May 05, 2009, 04:03:56 AM
No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..

Oh, great and mighty Alasdair, Orator Maleficent, He of the Silvered Tongue, guide this humble fangirl past jumping up and down and squeeing upon hearing the greatness of Thy voice.
Oh mighty Mur the Magnificent. I am not worthy.

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Reply #82 on: May 05, 2009, 08:11:33 AM
Talia, watch out she's got a folding chair behind her back.


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Reply #83 on: May 05, 2009, 09:20:19 AM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 05, 2009, 04:03:56 AM
No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..

Count me in:)


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Reply #84 on: May 05, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
Quote from: Alasdair5000 on May 05, 2009, 09:20:19 AM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 05, 2009, 04:03:56 AM
No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..

Count me in:)

I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.

There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p


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Reply #85 on: May 05, 2009, 04:15:42 PM
Quote from: Talia on May 05, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
Quote from: Alasdair5000 on May 05, 2009, 09:20:19 AM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 05, 2009, 04:03:56 AM
No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..

Count me in:)

I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.

There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p

You know you like it.


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Reply #86 on: May 05, 2009, 04:46:06 PM
Folding chairs?  We're supposed to be using folding chairs?  I've been using the wrong tool for the job:



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Reply #87 on: May 05, 2009, 06:37:54 PM
Z! how do you even lift that thing? You must have arms like... like.. something amazingly big.

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Reply #88 on: May 05, 2009, 06:39:30 PM
Quote from: Russell Nash on May 05, 2009, 04:15:42 PM
Quote from: Talia on May 05, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
Quote from: Alasdair5000 on May 05, 2009, 09:20:19 AM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 05, 2009, 04:03:56 AM
No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..

Count me in:)

I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.

There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p

You know you like it.


A spanking! a spanking!

Oh, great and mighty Alasdair, Orator Maleficent, He of the Silvered Tongue, guide this humble fangirl past jumping up and down and squeeing upon hearing the greatness of Thy voice.
Oh mighty Mur the Magnificent. I am not worthy.

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Reply #89 on: May 05, 2009, 07:24:37 PM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 05, 2009, 06:39:30 PM
Quote from: Russell Nash on May 05, 2009, 04:15:42 PM
Quote from: Talia on May 05, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
Quote from: Alasdair5000 on May 05, 2009, 09:20:19 AM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 05, 2009, 04:03:56 AM
No Talia come back I have cookies, coffee and a whole slew of swear words..

Count me in:)

I am relieved that was in response to MacArthurBug's post, not Russell Nash's.

There are only so many beatings I can take a day :p

You know you like it.


A spanking! a spanking!


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Reply #90 on: May 06, 2009, 09:02:15 AM


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Reply #91 on: May 06, 2009, 06:19:59 PM
BUTSEKS

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Reply #92 on: May 06, 2009, 06:32:08 PM
Well, my nickname in Korea was Mongo after picking up a safe and carrying it out of a track vehicle by myself.



But now, after far too many years of living far too hard, I'm a little smaller, and am thinking about hiring someone to beat Talia with the chair:



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Reply #93 on: May 06, 2009, 07:25:52 PM
Quote from: Zorag on May 06, 2009, 06:32:08 PM
Well, my nickname in Korea was Mongo after picking up a safe and carrying it out of a track vehicle by myself.



But now, after far too many years of living far too hard, I'm a little smaller, and am thinking about hiring someone to beat Talia with the chair:



just.. oh my  frickin gawd..


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Oh mighty Mur the Magnificent. I am not worthy.

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Reply #94 on: May 06, 2009, 07:33:29 PM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 06, 2009, 07:25:52 PM
Quote from: Zorag on May 06, 2009, 06:32:08 PM

just.. oh my  frickin gawd..

I thought the aliens were supposed to burst out of your stomach.

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Reply #95 on: May 07, 2009, 11:34:41 AM
Quote from: Heradel on May 06, 2009, 07:33:29 PM
Quote from: MacArthurBug on May 06, 2009, 07:25:52 PM
Quote from: Zorag on May 06, 2009, 06:32:08 PM

just.. oh my  frickin gawd..

I thought the aliens were supposed to burst out of your stomach.

Steriods or photoshop.  You decide.


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Reply #96 on: May 07, 2009, 01:31:27 PM
That pic may be photoshopped, but there are guys with arms like that.


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Reply #97 on: May 07, 2009, 06:11:40 PM
Quote from: Zorag on May 06, 2009, 06:32:08 PM
Well, my nickname in Korea was Mongo after picking up a safe and carrying it out of a track vehicle by myself.

My nickname in Los Angeles was Tres Huevos.  For reason which should be quite obvious.  ;D

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Reply #98 on: May 07, 2009, 09:54:01 PM
no that pic is real, saw a documentary on that dude.  got all pussy and gross and yea...

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?

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Reply #99 on: May 08, 2009, 06:52:05 AM
Quote from: Bdoomed on May 07, 2009, 09:54:01 PM
no that pic is real, saw a documentary on that dude.  got all pussy and gross and yea...

I presume what you meant was pussy as in full of pus, but how I read it first was pussy as in wimpy.


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