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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:35 PM
Original message
Contentious new age claim!
Much hullabaloo and shenanigans!

Who's with me?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:36 PM
Response to Original message
1. Bah. Anyone who buys this crap is just wasting their precious life-energy that could be
better spent by doing the contentious new-age claim that I post about.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:43 PM
Response to Reply #1
8. This contentious new age claim features more life energy for your time and money!
Woot!
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #8
13. My pretentious and contentious new age claim supercedes time, space and money.
My inner peace and humility prove that.

Oh... BTW.... thhhhhbp :P
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:37 PM
Response to Original message
2. I'm down with shenanigans, but I can't condone hullabaloo.
Not without knowing more, at least.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:38 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. Trust me on this one.
Huzzah! Hullabaloo! Have at thee!
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:38 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. Okay, sign me up!
:shrug:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:39 PM
Response to Original message
5. Posted response with little more than mockery in the message.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:42 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. Someone somewhere is misinterprets!
Offers sarcastic reply!
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:44 PM
Response to Reply #7
9. Strawman argument invoking your mother/upbringing.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:45 PM
Response to Reply #9
10. Serious sob story about loss and suffering unrelated to original new age claim.
Heartstrings are tugged!
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:46 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. Links to wikipedia and questionable sites to show you how wrong you are
coupled with apology as to your loss and suffering.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #11
14. Confusion regarding mixed message! Absolutist statements about new age haters!
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:52 PM
Response to Reply #14
19. Response suggesting you get a thicker skin, followed by :hug: smilie
as if I did it for your own good.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:00 AM
Response to Reply #19
33. Raucous glee at your love/hate perpetual fixation on topic you disparage
:rofl: :grouphug:
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:03 AM
Response to Reply #33
40. Statement that you'll be on Ignore before the night is done.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:08 AM
Response to Reply #40
49. Affirmation and lit candle that tonight or by the New Moon thy knickers will untwist
Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 12:09 AM by omega minimo
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:09 AM
Response to Reply #49
52. Mention that I'm knickerless, hopefully invoking the perverts to post.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:11 AM
Response to Reply #52
55. Perverts can't do word play with one hand
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:13 AM
Response to Reply #55
57. Horrified post by OP trying to break up deleterious sub-thread.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #57
59. Well Hullabaloo are you to demarcate and delineate the Shennanigans?
:spray:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:20 AM
Response to Reply #59
63. OP upset at inability to control own thread! Antics ensue!
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:25 AM
Response to Reply #63
66. Antics, Hilarity AND Shennanigans building to a huge meteor shower of universal laughter
:rofl:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:28 AM
Response to Reply #66
69. OP completely zings jokers with extremely deep quote from respected source!
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:32 AM
Response to Reply #69
71. OP out of body, rebuffed mob retreats to hive to plot and discuss french fries and dog shows
:hi:
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:50 PM
Response to Reply #5
15. Extremely long, partially-paragraphed response with misunderstood and
improperly-used scientific terms to defend the OP...
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:52 PM
Response to Reply #15
18. Big pharma shill jumps in and poo-poos your pseudoscience!
Rolling eyes emoticon unleashed! A low blow!

*(No relation to any existing DU big pharma shills is intended or implied)
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:53 PM
Response to Reply #18
20. Deleted message.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:54 PM
Response to Reply #20
24. Oh yeah? You and what kundalini?
Reply prior to deletion of post.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:55 PM
Response to Reply #24
25. Deleted message
cuz I'm on a roll.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:59 PM
Response to Reply #25
32. You're not my type.
Astonishing reincarnation of tombstoned DUer! Gives pause to skeptics!
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:04 AM
Response to Reply #32
41. Suggestion that you're nothing but a sock puppet, and that it takes one
to know one. Insert vulgarities here.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:08 AM
Response to Reply #41
48. States that this is not an internet tradition that I am aware of.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:09 AM
Response to Reply #48
50. Replies with RickRoll.
Just because it seems appropriate.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:58 PM
Response to Reply #18
31. PharmaShill totally annihilated by story of how family friend beat cancer
by practicing New Age technique from OP. Tangential mention of non-western cultural superiority due to intimate connection with natural landscape. Rhetorical question about BigPharma suppressing super-cheap 100%-perfect natural cures. Claim of victory!
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:01 AM
Response to Reply #31
35. Big pharma shill links to images of pee-pees falling off due to use of aforementioned "remedy".
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:03 AM
Response to Reply #35
38. Creepy anecdotal story.
Told in sections

just like this

for maximum

melodramatic

impact.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:06 AM
Response to Reply #35
46. Repetition of multiply previously posted pee-pee joke
Punchline: "Three, four days - it'll fall off on it's own!"
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:09 AM
Response to Reply #46
51. Posting of water-spewing emoticon!
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:10 AM
Response to Reply #46
53. Enraged post regarding staying on-topic!
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:14 AM
Response to Reply #15
58. Offensive use of poetic license, imagination and way too much white space
Truly

truly

truly

pretentious

beyond

all

comprehension
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:18 AM
Response to Reply #58
62. Soon-to-be-deleted query: "What did Ignored say?"
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:23 AM
Response to Reply #62
65. "Check your PM" reply!
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:26 AM
Response to Reply #62
68. ,
:boring:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:42 PM
Response to Original message
6. Dude, wait...what?
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:47 PM
Response to Original message
12. Anecdotal evidence as to why your claim is stupid, but MINE is superbly logical.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:50 PM
Response to Reply #12
16. Link to website that fed me my belief.
My anecdotal website's beliefs can beat up your anecdotal web site's beliefs with its aura tied behind its back.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:53 PM
Response to Reply #16
22. Insinuations about your lack of mental width; snide comparison of you to a frightened feline.
:P
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:56 PM
Response to Reply #22
26. Loses cool! Sits shaking fist at computer monitor!
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:57 PM
Response to Reply #26
28. Invocation of Godwin's Law IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:12 AM
Response to Reply #28
56. Post containing genuine spiritual, moral, and social value.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:18 AM
Response to Reply #56
60. Post flinging shit like a choleric monkey.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:25 AM
Response to Reply #60
67. Giver of genuinely good spiritual advice sighs, OMs, and levitates to a new age forum.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:50 PM
Response to Original message
17. Are there gonna be cheeseburgers?
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:53 PM
Response to Reply #17
21. Deleted Vegan Subthread
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:54 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. Blah blah PETA blah blah
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:00 AM
Response to Reply #23
34. Threadjacking rant about PETA. Stealthily crafted callout of certain vegan DU'ers.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:05 AM
Response to Reply #34
43. Mention of how good bacon tastes. Likely a "mmm...bacon" type of thing.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:06 AM
Response to Reply #43
45. Required drive-by posting that mentions eating tasty animals.
Fist-bump Emoticon
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:10 AM
Response to Reply #45
54. Supplemental backup post for you with links to the Center for Consumer Freedom.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:57 PM
Response to Original message
27. pointless one word response which adds nothing to the discussion.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:58 PM
Response to Reply #27
30. Lounge icon posts "high five" emoticon in response!
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:18 AM
Response to Reply #27
61. Post With Every Word Capitalized To Indicate Self Importance And Hypocrisy
Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 12:18 AM by omega minimo
:freak:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-09 11:58 PM
Response to Original message
29. Popcorn emoticon
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:01 AM
Response to Reply #29
36. Toast emoticon in reply
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:02 AM
Response to Original message
37. It's a contention convention. A contentious consensus. A content-free consternation.
:spray:
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:22 AM
Response to Reply #37
64. Snarky reference to Post #58, proving Post #62 was a fraud
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:29 AM
Response to Reply #64
70. Fearful hatefulness in response to incomprehensible post make monkey brain hurt
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:03 AM
Response to Original message
39. Respected Lounge icon admits to having tenderness for said new age claim!
Uncomfortably divides Loungers!
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:05 AM
Response to Reply #39
44. Cautious response meant to simultaneously avoid stepping on said Lounger's feelings
while still disagreeing about the original point.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:07 AM
Response to Reply #44
47. Comical self parody further encouraging Loungers breakthroughs and enlightenment
:toast:
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 12:04 AM
Response to Original message
42. Hula hoops in Sheboygan?
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:33 AM
Original message
Alerting
Post of frivolous nature not allowed according to FR rules.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:33 AM
Response to Original message
72. Alerting
Post of frivolous nature not allowed according to FR rules.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:37 AM
Response to Original message
73. You are mistaken
adding that those who believe in contentious hullabaloo or shenanigans are sucking kool aid through an invisible mystical straw!
:nuke:

*peace*
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 08:57 AM
Response to Original message
74. Inevitable locking
Followed by one or several "polls" to get the natives riled up all over again.
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:47 AM
Response to Original message
75. Careful, well-thought refutation with links to reputable sources
Reminder that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:50 AM
Response to Reply #75
76. accusation of being narrow minded materialist!
:P
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 10:54 AM
Response to Reply #76
77. Sighs, wonders aloud why he bothers even trying
Possible FAIL picture.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:22 AM
Response to Reply #77
78. Mere suggestion that the extraordinary is quite ordinary and no threat to anyone
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-09 11:25 AM
Response to Original message
79. Reply hazy. Try again. n/t
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