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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 01:24 PM
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I live in Michigan and am therefore better than you
Discuss.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 01:28 PM
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1. It is not nice to brag
especially to those of us who live beneath you. :rofl:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:18 PM
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9. We gave America John Conyers
Edited on Sat Apr-29-06 06:18 PM by ih8thegop
You gave us someone whose name hardly anyone can pronounce... Kuchinik? Kusinski? Kissassich?
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:09 PM
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43. Okay, Conyers... Michigan is indeed the best!
and it is a very pretty state
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:10 PM
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44. I like Michigan but haven't been there for a while
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 01:11 PM by barb162
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:02 PM
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46. Come! (nt)
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 01:29 PM
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2. Hey, can't argue with that
:hi:
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 01:41 PM
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3. again? Then what would happen
if I moved back to Michigan? If you are better than me simply by virtue of the fact that you live in Michigan then logically everyone who lives in Michigan is better than everyone who does not live in Michigan. I should be able to refute that thesis in two words - Ted Nugent.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:19 PM
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10. Nugent doesn't live here anymore. (nt)
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 01:42 PM
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4. I live in my own world and am therefore better than you
Nyah nyah-nyah-nyah nyah! :rofl:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:19 PM
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11. Sure act like it
<ducks>
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:20 PM
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13. And why not?
:7
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 02:02 PM
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5. You can believe that
if you need to. ;)
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 02:19 PM
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6. I guess living in Florida
Makes me the equivalent of basalt. :cry:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:20 PM
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12. Only if your brother is the President (nt)
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tokenlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 03:06 PM
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7. I'm in MI and the alcohol and pills help me feel the same way...
Edited on Sat Apr-29-06 03:07 PM by tokenlib
..through the job losses, economic suckiness and obnoxious republican idiots...

:) LOL! Here in MI we have to laugh about something...
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 07:58 PM
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21. I second that...
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wain Donating Member (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 05:10 PM
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8. It's true
I was born and raised in Michigan, so I know it's true.

Sad part is I no longer live in MI:(
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:43 AM
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37. Me too!
Born/raised Kalamazoo girl here! :hi:

I'm moving back - but I'm not sure WHEN.

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Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:22 PM
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14. You have been smokin' the curtains again. We gave the country
Sam Ervin. Do you know which red (soon to be blue) state I'm from?
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:23 PM
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15. I was born in that state.
Sadly, I was born a constituent of Jesse Helms.
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Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:25 PM
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16. Oh my. I don't believe I'd have told that. LOL Have you changed?
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 06:26 PM
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17. I can't argue with that.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 07:48 PM
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18. Not if you live in Hell
(Michigander/goose in joke)
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 07:49 PM
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19. Not better than me!
:D
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 07:53 PM
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20. I heart Detroit.



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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:25 PM
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22. Connecticut...
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:25 PM
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23. Oh yeah?
:P
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:27 PM
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24. What did Maine give America?
Huh? }(
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:28 PM
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25. Lobstah. Chowdah.
Hannibal Hamlin.

Uhm....

:silly:
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Jazz2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:36 PM
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26. Michigan...gotta love it if only for the
Edited on Sat Apr-29-06 09:39 PM by Jazz2006
fact that it has a city called Kalamazoo.

When I was a kid, my parents liked to take long road trips and at some point, we went through Kalamazoo and the name stuck with me. There was a game that we played at school where you had to come up with the name of a city that started with the last letter of the city previously stated in the game.... when my turn came and I had to come up with a city name that started with the letter K, I said Kalamazoo and everyone thought I was making it up.

I said, "but but but....no, really, it's a place in Michigan. I saw it. It's for real."

To no avail. They didn't believe me.

I suggested that they look it up on a map.

Instead of looking it up for themselves and finding out that it actually existed, they insisted that I was making it up and taunted me relentlessly.

9 year olds can be such little bastards.

I wonder where they are now.

(My guess: either at Freeperville or at the 9/11 conspiracy sites.)

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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:38 PM
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27. k...
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 09:46 PM
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28. I'm from Indiana . . .
Therefore, I'm better than you! :P
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-29-06 10:24 PM
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29. I live in Texas so you would be correct
:o
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 12:33 AM
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30. Not if you live in Grand Rapids you're not.
Gads...what a horrible place to live.

I spent 5 LONG years there. I wouldn't move back for a million dollars.

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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:25 AM
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31. I spent a week there one night !
:bounce:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 07:53 AM
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33. Obviously you've never been to Frankenmuth
We're talking Twilight Zone level weird here. :scared:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 12:30 PM
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39. I'm from Kentwood!
Better than Grand Rapids in all things but politics (GR itself is Dem... just not the rest of West Michigan.)
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Beausoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:37 PM
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61. I lived very close to Kentwood. 44th and Kalamazoo..Milbrook.
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 10:39 PM by Beausoir
First weekend I moved into my home...two thugs walked into my garage in broad daylight. My father in law caught them removing the pins to my door....they were planning on coming back later to rob us.

I couldn't understand how my neighbors gushed about the great neighborhood. They were all older retirees and the home prices were in the upper 100's.

Two blocks away a child was stabbed to death.

There were NO sidewalks. None. No child could ride a bicycle in Grand Rapids.

Downtown was block upon block of burned out buildings. There is one little enclave of E Grand Rapids...but even that is just some ridiculously overpriced homes in a high crime area.

God. I spent 5 years there and I consider myself lucky to have escaped with my sanity.

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patsimae Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:44 PM
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63. There is a college nearby
A Catholic college I think? Do you know the name of this institution it escapes me.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-01-06 03:07 PM
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66. Aquinas (nt)
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:28 AM
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32. Hey, I'll always be on top
being a Canadian and all...;-)
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 08:20 AM
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34. Hey u4ic
:hi:
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:58 PM
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45. Hey billy!
How goes it? :bounce:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:25 PM
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48. Sunday evening loneliness
The lounge is always quiet at this time.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 04:25 PM
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50. Awww...
:hug:

That's why I went out grocery shopping; the lounge was dead.

The supermarket was definitely not.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:32 AM
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35. I shop,
therefore I am. So there ! :headbang:
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 12:29 PM
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38. Michigan or UK? Which gave the world Margaret Thatcher?
}(
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 12:54 PM
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40. Ya lost me somewhere
I didn't give no one Maggie. Thought at first Do you know Dick was a question as my name is Richard.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:58 AM
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36. I think Michigan residents are more literate.
In my database of customers I have 123 people in Michigan and only 18 in South Carolina.
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MiniMandaRuth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:05 PM
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41. Washington ROCKS!
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 01:06 PM by MiniMandaRuth
:headbang:

Coffee, computers, aireoplanes, Jimi Hendrix..... We got it goin' on!
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 02:29 PM
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70. Whatever.
Edited on Tue May-02-06 02:29 PM by ih8thegop
You're just jealous because our governor looks better than yours. }(
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 01:07 PM
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42. I've lived in Michigan...
on Mackinac island.

Can I at least sit at your table?
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:02 PM
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47. Ever been to the French Outpost?
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 03:03 PM by ih8thegop
:9
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:32 PM
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49. Fort Michilimackinac
Yup, been there several times, as well as Mackinac Island!
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Giant Robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 05:58 PM
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51. I live in Michigan too
And probably north of you.

So :P
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 06:54 PM
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52. Definitely north of me
...but I'm still better than you.

:P
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Giant Robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 09:11 PM
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54. *Insert witty reply here*
:P
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dr.zoidberg Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 07:47 PM
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53. That's insane.
That's like saying that you're from Louisiana and are proud of its education system. "Louisiana, at least we're better that Arkansas".
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 09:54 PM
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55. Well, I am still better than you
:P
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 09:55 PM
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56. Except for the job situation!
I love this place. But I've been "underemployed" for a year now.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 09:56 PM
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57. At least you don't work for Amway - excuse me, ALTICOR (nt)
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Giant Robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:05 PM
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59. But.....
Amway is the way to get rich! The meetings told me so!
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Momgonepostal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:00 PM
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58. You're probably colder than me, too!
Seriously, though. Other than the cold I bet Michigan is not a bad place to live. Ya gotta love Kalamazoo with that promise to help pay for public school children's college.
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:08 PM
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60. Illinois > Michigan
That is all.

:P
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 10:42 PM
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62. I agree, you are much better at living in Michigan than I am. n/t
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shugah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:45 PM
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64. i live in michigan also, therefore you are my equal
;-)

Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-01-06 03:08 PM
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67. Yeah... but WHERE in Michigan?
}(
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:47 PM
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65. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
You are better than me, but it's not because you live in Michigan.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-01-06 11:44 PM
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69. Yes it is (nt)
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-01-06 03:09 PM
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68. You better wish again...
Michigan,

indeed!
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 02:54 PM
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71. I live in the best town in Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Therefore I am better than everybody....:woohoo:
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