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Re: Midnight garbage collection - Today

Quoterz At least it was only a one-time thing. My house backs up to several different medical offices. There's a hospital about a half mile away, so there's a slew of medical offices in the area. Several years ago, the solid waste people decided that they didn't like working on hot summer days, so they decided to start picking up the garbage around 3am. The beeping of the trucks, followed

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Re: Van crashes into dozens of people in Barcelona.... - Yesterday

Quote$tevie Also, you've been corrected on your Southern political party meme at least a dozen times.it's beginning to appear that your English reading comprehension is worse than it seemed. The pathetic attempts at revisionism of history do not change the inconvenient facts $tevie, no maater how many times you will try to whitewash the reality. And it was your Democratic Party that created the

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Re: Speaking of old western movies... - 2 days ago

Rio Bravo, Vera Cruz....

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Re: Do you have a monthly car payment? - 2 days ago

Both cars paid off, truck bought with cash. Next car will probably get credit union financing at about 1.5%, as far as dealer knows it is like being bought with cash....

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Re: How to stop this insanity - 3 days ago

QuoteAcer Patient suffering didn't bring on the civil rights movement. When MLK started walking down the streets, it provoked the Democratic Party to show its true colors, and the nation acted. FTFY......

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Re: Today on TCM: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) @ 5PM Eastern, 8PM Pacific - 3 days ago

Then we find out they planted a brain tumor to flower after he has been elected to office. Lucky for us he lost the big election. Unlucky for us, he is still in the Senate...

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Re: eBay discounting shipping without my permission? - 3 days ago

It could be two possibilities, one, what you described, but I doubt it. Two, she mistook eBay's marketing pitch, that the flat rate you charged, was 50 cents cheaper than the rated shipping costs would be otherwise and took that as an additional discount. My money is on the second possibility. See if anybody else shorts you 50 cents on another sale of similar kind to indicate which way it work

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Re: Van crashes into dozens of people in Barcelona.... - 4 days ago

Quotemax Quotepdq I dunno - I heard the driver of the van feared for his life due to the crowd of very violent "alt-left" people in the area. /s American media propaganda machine and its associated trolls have been incensed that Trump has not blamed specific right wing groups for this incident of terror.... Quote$tevie Leave it to max to stand up for the poor old white supremacists. ..

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Re: Crisis in Germany: 20 Tons Of Nutella missing - 5 days ago

QuoteBuzz The Germans are so jealous of Italians over EVERYTHING... When was the last time Italians hijacked a truck of peppermint schnapps? == No kidding, one of the funniest comedies I have seen was a German tourist, getting onto an Italian bus from Rijeka to Trieste, and for the next 45 minutes instructing an unbelievably stoic Italian driver how to properly run a bus line....

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Re: Just saw Atomic Blonde - 5 days ago

Quotefreeradical The reviews that I've read basically say that Charlize Theron saves the day in that film. The movie is good, Charlize is excellent...

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Re: Catch this cover on The Economist ! - 5 days ago

QuotePam QuoteSpeedy If the military leaders feel the president is unfit to lead, then maybe they should resign. If too many adults resign then the country is in even worse danger. Yes, a military putch would certainly solve your problem. Somewhat unclear on the concept of this country's civilian control of the military....

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Re: Van crashes into dozens of people in Barcelona.... - 5 days ago

Quotepdq I dunno - I heard the driver of the van feared for his life due to the crowd of very violent "alt-left" people in the area. /s American media propaganda machine and its associated trolls have been incensed that Trump has not blamed specific right wing groups for this incident of terror....

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Re: Crisis in Germany: 20 Tons Of Nutella missing - 5 days ago

QuotepRICE cUBE Asking for a friend. "A friend"? Sure... Zombie War stash?...

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Re: Crisis in Germany: 20 Tons Of Nutella missing - 5 days ago

QuotepRICE cUBE ... more than 20 tons of chocolate treats ... 30 tons of fruit juice, disappeared from Wittenberg on Saturday. Somebody needed to wash it down....

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Re: Hey Joe ! Your Crab Shack may have closed... - 6 days ago

Quoterz I love seafood, but did not like Joe's. We went there once. It was VERY loud. And every so often, all the servers would gather and sing. It was very annoying. Quotehal I just couldn't bring myself to eat at a place called Joe's Crab Shack That is because you were not its target demographics. It was designed for much younger audience. Landry's knows how to play this game, they

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Re: I think outing people seen in Charlottesville photos is a great idea - 6 days ago

QuoteDeusxMac Quotemax Quotehal Who said anything about curtailing free speech? You did, applauding and promoting the existentialist cyber bullying to a full fascist extent..... Wow, a three-fer: existentialism, cyber-bullying and fascist all in one sentence. "Cyber" yes,"bullying", no. And definitely not curtailing of free speech. This is about facing (or perhaps mor

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Re: HVAC follies .. it lives (again) ! - 6 days ago

QuoteBernDog How do you just walk right in to the wholesale supplier? I usually have to have a friend call and tell them he's sending one of his guys to pick up a part so I can go in. Otherwise, they don't sell to the general public. The right attitude. If you ask the right questions and have the right answers it is not problem....

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Re: Need recommendations for calling to the U.S. from France - 7 days ago

Keep it simple, go to T-mobile, ... I really do not understand why people try to overcomplicate things in life that do not require complex solutions...

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Re: I think outing people seen in Charlottesville photos is a great idea - 7 days ago

Quotehal Who said anything about curtailing free speech? You did, applauding and promoting the existentialist cyber bullying to a full fascist extent.....

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Re: Interesting things that have happened at weddings you attended - 7 days ago

Great story, space time. I have been to several Mexican village weddings and they also have the custom of bride stealing, although it is not as elaborate today. I also have been to Polish village wedding with even more elaborate celebrations, 3 days of partying and drinking, but bride stealing about the same as yours, except it was done in the daytime. A Pakistani Moslem wedding, also a three

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Re: He Said, She Said... But don't use Said as an adjective ! - 8 days ago

Any port in a storm... Port Said.....

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Re: Annual Forum Remembrance Day? - 8 days ago

Great idea...

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Re: Household budgets - how do you do it? - 9 days ago

My system is to spend less than I have....

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Re: I think I found an example which does not conform to Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Not yet. - 9 days ago

The noisy ones are creating a diversion for the silent ones. The designated pitcher ( if the pitch is right).....

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Re: What the heck is it? I found something very strange in satellite view in Maps - 9 days ago

Secret military highway....

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Re: The Death of Stalin looks like it'll be hilarious! - 11 days ago

QuoteAfter ZIS factory built the personal car for Stalin, the NKVD assembled the people involved in the project, the few workers and the engineers, loaded them into the prototype of the armored ZIS-115, rolled up the windows and opened up with machine guns. After this successful road test the builders were treated to a congratulatory feast.....

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Re: [ no longer ] the BEE'S knees?!.....AppleBEE'S and IHOP closing restaurants..... - 11 days ago

Quotefreeradical You can bounce a quarter off of the pancakes in IHOP. Most of their business is done between 2 and 5 AM....

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Re: 'plunge' worthy [ l<- Seinfeld ref. ]?!.....BMW plunges 7 floors down parking garage..... - 11 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 VIDEO: BMW plunges 7 floors from downtown parking garage Was it a 7 series BMW?....

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Re: Statistical information sources say multiple posting is a disease - 12 days ago

QuoteAcer POST FREQUENCY INCREASING. MELTDOWN IMMINENT. PREPARE BANHAMMER. like same posts, over and over and over and over and over.... QuoteDeusxMac QuoteDeusxMac QuoteDeusxMac QuoteDeusxMac QuoteDeusxMac

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Re: Invite Someone To the Forum Day - 12 days ago

Quotegabester QuoteNewtonMP2100 ...get your kids to join in when they get older....... No offense, but I'm not sure I would want the likes of some of you influencing my offspring were I to have any! g= bingo....

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