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08-26-2009, 03:46 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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08-26-2009, 04:33 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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And which esteemed posters did you think needed to read that? |
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08-26-2009, 04:38 PM
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Southern charmer
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Adder
And which esteemed posters did you think needed to read that?
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Who knows? (Who cares? I thought it was interesting.) |
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08-26-2009, 05:05 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Gattigap
Who knows? (Who cares? I thought it was interesting.)
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A friend of mine went to her first meeting yesterday. I'm forwarding it to her and to another friend who stopped going to meetings about six months ago after finding out she was losing her job. She probably needs to start again.
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08-27-2009, 09:56 AM
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Moderator
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Gattigap
Who knows? (Who cares? I thought it was interesting.)
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Read Caroline Knapp's Drinking, A Love Story. It's a great look at functioning alcoholism sans any emotional horseshit or revisionist explanations of childhood traumas causing the malady.
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All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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08-27-2009, 10:15 AM
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prodigal poster
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Read Caroline Knapp's Drinking, A Love Story. It's a great look at functioning alcoholism sans any emotional horseshit or revisionist explanations of childhood traumas causing the malady.
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I absolutely second this. Knapp is a terrific writer and her story is compelling.
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My enemies curse my name, but rave about my ass.
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08-27-2009, 10:27 AM
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by evenodds
I absolutely second this. Knapp is a terrific writer and her story is compelling.
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Sadly, the chain smoking killed her a few years ago. Real shame.
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08-27-2009, 11:08 AM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Strange days indeed.
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A woman who has been missing from her South Lake Tahoe home has reportedly surfaced in Concord, 18 years after she was kidnapped.
Jaycee Dugard, who would be 29 today, apparently walked into the Concord Police Department on Wednesday. Concord police have declined comment, referring inquiries to the El Dorado County sheriff's office. A news conference is scheduled for today.
Dugard was last seen on June 10, 1991 as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. Dugard, a blue-eyed, blond 11-year-old dressed in a pink top and pink pants, set out to catch the bus to her school near South Lake Tahoe. She never made it.
As her stepfather watched helplessly from the family's driveway on a hill about two blocks away, a two- tone gray sedan pulled up and someone yanked the girl into the car and sped off. Even though officers responded within minutes, no trace of the car or girl was ever found.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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08-26-2009, 05:30 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Adder
And which esteemed posters did you think needed to read that?
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I figured that anyone who clicked on a link with that intro would like it. I did. Maybe it's because I just read Infinite Jest, which is heavy into A.A.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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08-26-2009, 05:38 PM
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Registered User
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I figured that anyone who clicked on a link with that intro would like it. I did. Maybe it's because I just read Infinite Jest, which is heavy into A.A.
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The best thing to make you* slow your drinking down considerably is to have kids. It's just not worth the hangover.
*and by "you" I mean "me"
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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08-26-2009, 05:39 PM
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Southern charmer
Join Date: Mar 2003
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When bears attack. With cardboard.
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08-26-2009, 05:47 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Re: When bears attack. With cardboard.
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Originally Posted by Gattigap
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I trust someone's alerted Colbert?
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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08-26-2009, 06:06 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The best thing to make you* slow your drinking down considerably is to have kids. It's just not worth the hangover.
*and by "you" I mean "me"
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Personally, I've found that alcohol is pretty much indispensable to parenting.
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08-26-2009, 06:09 PM
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Southern charmer
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
Personally, I've found that alcohol is pretty much indispensable to parenting.
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It does slow the kids down, I agree. |
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08-26-2009, 05:41 PM
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I am beyond a rank!
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I figured that anyone who clicked on a link with that intro would like it. I did. Maybe it's because I just read Infinite Jest, which is heavy into A.A.
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It was interesting, I was just giving you a hard time.
Also, I am sure it will surprise no one, but I do not think I could do AA. Admitting powerlessness and accepting a higher power are both beyond my capabilities, I think. |
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