Posted on 02/03/2005 11:21:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator
Edited on 05/17/2005 10:09:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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that should be 45 min & 5 seconds. my bad.
This is simply too much reading. I will follow RINOCON posting etiquette and continue to post every thought, question, utterance, rhetorical question, and joke in Breaking News, entitled with my CAPS LOCK engaged, super-numerous exclamation marks, and SpellCheck turned off...
My effort at lampooning Ted "The Swimmer" Kennedy was my first-and last-stab at genius.
:)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I figured The Wizard of Id's "Fink-in-the-drink" gag would be perfect for Ted Kennedy.
FYI, newbie. ;-) *smooch*
Thanks for the reminder.
LOL
psst, where's the bathroom?
Are you heylady's son???
Yup! How have you been?
Great, other than trying to recuperate from a nasty flu bug. Hubby "Turbojet" and I had such a great time in DC. How have you been? :)
The "Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints" link could maybe link to an html page somewhere that can be updated instead of to a thread from April 2004. It is easy to update a regular html page but to update a thread you have to add something at the bottom. (Bob Wallace is not on that list!)
I have been really good. DC was awesome, I wish it wasn't every four years though. I guess I am one of the few who did catch the Flu. My mother was out sick for almost a week. How is the Turbojet?
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Sheesh...get a room.
Jim updates the body of the thread as needed.
Doing good! He just got home so I'm getting off line for awhile. Good to talk to you! Say "hey" to heylady!
Will do, take care.
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