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Or Ivory. Claims to be 99 and 44/100 percent pure, or at least used to. Probably drive somebody up the wall trying to figure out where the other 56/100 percent went to..

Hmm. If cleanliness is next to godliness, I wonder.. what's next to cleanliness.. almost cleanliness? Maybe missed a spot behind the left ear..

Probably couldn't miss it.. about the size of a refrigerator box.. "enclosed are the special anniversary instructions, as to how to to determine your ABS." *Include proof and verification of your income for each year, and part year since you left.* *list all income, and sources in Box 1. *add all income, enter on box 2. *Multiply by 0.15, enter this figure on line 3. *You may need an accountant, calculate cumulative compound interest at eighteen percent per year* *enter this amount on line 4, along with the name and address of your accountant.* *add line 3 and 4. Enter the result on line 5.* * Again, you may require the services of an accountant. Add late penalties. Twelve percent per annum, and fifteen percent per annum for each year your payment was later than two years or more* *enter this amount on line 6.* *add the amount in line 5 to the amount in line 6, enter the total on line 7.* *This is your calculated (not estimated) ABS*. *To avoid interest and penalties, you may enter next year's estimated ABS on line 8.* *Add line 7 and line 8. Enter total on line 9.* *put payment in the "envelope", not to exceed denominations of twenties or fifties* *send your payment (insured) to:* the rosie and donna show, New Knoxville, Ohio. The post office will know where to send it. *You are Welcome at der vey.*

So, no eye-witnesses of this sad event, or something equally as embarrassing? Oh well..

I was looking just a little deeper.. I have a few "theories".. the whole of creation has been at war since.. well, for lack of better words, the beginning.. probably good people can't remember it all.. :)

I think we've done this a thousand times before.. Most just can't remember it all.. I think some go to extremes to deny any kind of identification or rememberance of it..

Maybe it SHOULD be. If a person can't accept the darker side of human nature for what it is, how can one enjoy the lighter..

undetected, despite lack of proper hygene, not to mention bathing, because of the merits of after shave, colgne and perfume, and a LOT of it.. interesting you mention the word "smell". That's not roses and perfume you're smelling there fella..

I can imagine Engine cheering the bass on.. he's another "good old boy.."

Happy Birthday! To a guy who is in one of his primes, I hope you have a few more..

It brings back fond memories of my childhood.. I lived in the capital city of WV. We would drive by the beautiful courhouse.. hippies dancing or doing something around the fountain. Every once in a while, one would toss some soap in.. "wooowwwwww, coooooooool..." well, it kinda looked neat at night..

I can see rosie driving by.. sweat pouring down between her ears.. veins popping on her forehead.. "donna, when did I tell you to clean the fountain???!!!!"

I just wonder. I know Emporia got "flamingoed" by the natives a couple of times.. and of course, with the pr guy's reputation for telling everybody about the peas and nuts(o).. it was a carefully guarded secret, known only to da inner circle, that the "holy ground" was invaded by hoards of debils, apparently foiling da "hedge of protection" afforded to the household by the mighty stand of der upper ups.. but what about the fountain? Did it ever endure a savage attack from those outside the walls of "Zion"? Miscreants so "possessed" that they had to invent a new category of spurts for the aos production, "clean and squeaky" ?? I am PARTLY serious about the question.. had something as this happened.. I just KNOW I'd NEVER hear about it..

Perhaps a bottle of dish soap in the fountain would be appropriate for their festivities. Might not clean the scum beneath it, but if someone chose lemon fresh something or another, it would smell a little nicer. Besides, it would provide some entertainment for the evening.

Who knows.. maybe it's a good thing. Give the guy enough room and freedom to froth.. maybe he'll choke himself on it.. sometimes the worst thing you can do to somebody is to give them exactly what they want.. if it makes any difference.. the "thought police" that one poster refers to.. most of them I've read WANT the other side to be able to express their opinions without legal consequences. The arguments are so uneducated, so inane.. they're hardly worth allowing them the "dignity" to become some kind of martyr for a half baked cause. That was what kinda solidified da ministry when the deprogrammers were running amock.. "we MUST be right, da debil is fighting us.." Maybe that's the appeal to being a Holocaust denier.. a person can be a martyr.. toss their academic integrity and credibility to the wind, while a group of wide eyed followers fawn over the person, for being so "bold" or "noble(?)".. such "selflessness"..

hmm. Well, staffers can look forward to more millet, a lot more.. maybe a few beans. "administratively" a better choice of course. Don't have to refrigerate, stores longer.. besides, they won't have to dip so far into their already stretched resources. Probably LOTS cheaper than chicken.. the boy would probably even get a promotion..

"Dear Sir or Madam, I have recently acquired over ten million dollars from the estate of my Great Uncle Fred, and am looking for a worthy organization to use it properly. I am eighteen years old, and have no health problems, and love to work in a groundskeeping position eighteen hours a day. I love my work so well that I refuse to be paid for it. Please tender my application for association with your group, and I hope that I will be considered despite the many, many applications you must receive daily from those who desperately need said association more than me. Sincerely, Mr. Illa Bendoverforit."

Maybe I'll write.. naw.. wouldn't want to raise anyone from their state of boredom.. "ooh, ooh.. we actually got a LETTER.." might give them some false hope that this prize winning internet site actually was getting some results..

Maybe he's a regular patron of the establishment..

It's not even that. They hide behind the little "contact us" statement. Just write, da why is it international, New Knoxville, Ohio..

I understand all of this nice "let's get along in the world" kinda thing.. and I suppose the good President wants to open some dialogue.. but what's the point if it's "dialog" that can only be described as one group at another's throat.. :blink: where one person's "grievance" is the fact of the mere existence of the other party.. doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense, at least to me.. what's the guy gonna do.. get behind the podium.. recite some poetry, "how shall I exterminate thee, let me count the ways.." ?

Maybe they want the same kind of worship and adoration that herr vicmeister managed to rustle up.. I think a lot of us worshipped a friggin devil.. covered himself in a wardrobe of light.. "borrowed" from somebody who didn't need it or something..

I dunno.. I think it's a lot like the advice some give.. "just get over it.." does a person, really? I think a person can learn from it, provided they lived through it to begin with.. I have seen some interviews with people who lived through savage attacks from bears, sharks.. the most closure I've seen people experience is to just understand the nature of the predator.. that it wasn't their fault.. that the animal was simply behaving like those of it's kind have done for a millennium. The bible does call "them" brute beasts..

That's actually part of my point.. why would a person try to stand in the Lord's place, and try to forgive some of these scumbags for something that the Lord himself has a real issue with? If He relegates these false prophets and such to "eternal" fire.. if you believe the bible literally.. or even if you soften it as a figure or something.. "a real, real bad trip".. or something equivalent.. How could I do better? I may mouth the words "I forgive".. but do I really? Or do I look at their real nature, and simply recognize and accept it for what it really is?

"some of us" fight our insanity through life.. others of us have learned to embrace it..