Thanksgiving is less than a week away but here at The Planet, every Friday Night is a holiday from the week’s “adventures”.
As usual, we encourage members to give that other site the day off today though if you do go by there, please don’t hesitate to invite others there to join us today and tonight.
Right here at The Planet tonight, we will as always host a music thread to listen to and share lots of wonderful music videos with your friends and colleagues (as well as chat about anything and everything).
And also tonight, we’re excited to present the debut of “The Weekly Planet”, our live roundtable with humorous and thoughtful discussions of this week’s news, . It begins tonight at 7 pm PST on the page of the same name (which you’ll find under “Live Events” at the top of the page).
For your convenience, here is the link to “The Weekly Planet” page:
http://planetpov.com/live-events/the-weekly-planet/
As with Debate Night Live, the live chat system does give access to all Authors so we really appreciate your allowing just tonight’s guests to enter comments. After the event, we will move to a related post for everyone to chat about the event and the topics that were discussed.
Hope to see you there tonight, should be fun!
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KillgoreTrout
bito
* Americans Elect has officially given up...Time Out for O/T
Caru
BourneID
SueInCa
AdLib
kesmarn
Excellent, BFF.Time Out for O/T
Who is Rob S that you all are referring to? For the life of me, I cannot understand how I get away with all the foul language I use but others get banned for far less. Pepe, did you get an email suspending you? I don’t get it….I saw the French stuff, pretty funny, but nothing like I write sometimes.
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Yes, I got an e-mail. Rob S. is a moderator.
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Do we have any proof that “Rob S” is a singular person? Or is this a generic “personalization” of whoever has the moderation power at any given time? Since there is no return e-mail, or so I believe I’ve been told, they could just be faking us all out.
But I’m continually pissed about the unfair and idiotic manner of their “moderation”. Troll shit that is as flagrantly abuse of people, our country, and the President gets left up and no one does anything about it, but then one of us post something fairly benign and it’s raptured and, in some cases, so are we. This is what has driven me away from any meaningful discussion there, it isn’t worth the effort. Besides, you can’t discuss with a troll. It never happens.
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But here’s my favorite:
Hello:
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As far as I can tell–neither one of you is staff. I have no idea if either of you actually posted the others’ password or anything else. I have no idea what started your fight, and I don’t care. The next time I notice either of your accounts acting out, I will, at the very least, suspend your accounts.
Let’s play nice, shall we?
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This was sent to naga and I.
I’ve noticed lately that the little “in-group” when they start talking about socks always ends up saying “LadyNaga, you know so much about these things, who is this or that?” It’s as if they acknowledge something is up but refuse to see any further.
And the sheep shall be led to slaughter…
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So, with that statement they are admitting that they do have staff posting, very interesting to say the least.
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Extremely interesting…how many are posting as trolls I wonder?
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Hah. Good point. I didn’t piece that together… how would someone get someone else’s password?
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I rarely make any effort any more to write thoughtful posts. Those just seem more likely to get scrubbed (more words?). I still think the “mods” are a bunch of interns getting drunk and messing with people’s heads.
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I’m convinced that from the time you click on reply, a timer starts, and the longer it goes, the less likely your comment will be of surviving. It’s as if they don’t want any well conceived comments being provided.
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Here’s a little ditty.
Hello:
I’ve recently seen a comment from you instructing others on avoiding our word filters.
Would you be surprised to learn that both trying to avoid the word filter and telling others how to do so might be defeating our purpose in implementing such things? Further, would it surprise you to know that we don’t consider either trying to fool it yourself or telling others how to do so to be acceptable behavior?
We don’t.
I’ve noted your account & I’m letting you know right now you need to not repeat this behavior.
Thank You,
Rob S.
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Another thing is, EVERYONE does what they can to avoid the word filter.
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Quite a nasty peace of work isn’t he?
Has a few delusions of grandeur, this one on one style with the members and moderators was not in practice when I left in April this year.
I think we should start a collection to buy a six months supply of ExLax to see if he can’t be cured of what is ailing him.
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Hey Kalima, how are you feeling? Hope better, my Dad had and older sister have RA, so far so good for me…just have a thyroid condition, which my doctor tells me is hereditary and connected to my family’s RA.
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I’m so very sorry to hear that, I think that my friend stopped taking her medication for many years, she has no insurance, had to stop working as she has chronic asthma too with a few attacks every week, so couldn’t afford to continue her treatment. Makes me mad as hell and I have a few American friends in the same boat.
Stress is bad for what I have too, I try to avoid it whenever I can. Take care.
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I was diagnosed two years ago with Hashimoto’s disease, so far I’m not on any thyroid meds yet.
Seems to flair up when I’m stressed out, have had only three attacks since being diagosed. Meditation and a lot of walking on the beach with big dogs help.
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Hello BDM, I’ll be feeling better after my next trip to aspirate again I hope, my appointment is for Tuesday and I’ve asked for a steroid injection this time.
I have a friend who has suffered with Hashimoto’s disease since childhood, her medication makes her feel very bad at times. I hope that yours is somewhat under control. My RA is hereditary too on my mother’s side, I don’t hold it against them.
Thank you for asking.
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Hey HITO!
I must have racked up a lot of HuffPo Naughty Points then for all the hyphen usage I employed to avoid the censorship over there when I was a regular.
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Wow, that seems a little more personalized than the generic time out e-mail…
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Hi HITO: That is precious. Whoever received it. I’ll have to set up a sacrifice account from a remote location sometime and send in a feedback on such things, not in specific, but a general rant. And I’ll give them a “good” e-mail. I feel sad that they force people into such behavior by their acts and then complain because we react to it.
Bunch of fucking morons. I’m thinking that some internet publisher’s father was a colaborator in Greece. She sure acts like she has the genes.
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Hey Mr. Monk, how are you, has DevastationManor imploded? Don’t see it on “My Fans” any more.
Checked today, I seem to have accumulated a lot of unknowns lately, have no idea who they are, can’t keep up anymore!
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BDM: I currently have over 3 in active service, but am no longer making them aware to other people, with a few exceptions. And not in public forums. DM is my primary known one, and most people over there know I’m Felonious Monk with that one.
I can very writing styles, but often chose not to.
It’s just a game. As I put it here this afternoon, it’s now just an internet paintball camp over there.
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I still see DevastationManor on my list. I think they have bugs in their software. The numbers go up and down inexplicably.
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I just can’t keep up with everyone’s new socks. I need to be slapped in the face with a “Don’t you know me” before I figure them out, LOL!
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No, it was working a little while ago. Don’t know what happened. Although I did push a few things today.
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As nasty as it was, it was nicer than the one below.
Especially since I emailed him about the situation.
Good night kids.
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Night!
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He sounds just a wee bit hostile.
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He is the asshole who decided to banish KevenSeven.
He is a smug little asshole.
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Did I mention that he is an asshole? Because he is an asshole.
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That was funny.
I don’t doubt it, but I have yet to have an encounter with the infamous arbiter of arbitrary injustice – though I’ve engaged in some heated exchanges – fingers crossed.
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Did he send you an email?
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Oh, yeah. He warned me to take him seriously.
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Going back to our discussion on Health Care, I really wonder if the public will be disappointed even if this bill passes since some changes won’t happen for years.
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Both the house and senate bills include an interim high risk pool for people who are currently uninsured and can’t get it. We’ll see how good it is!
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Yup.
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Obviously.
The Rethugs have dozens of petty little schemes to make the Dems suffer politically.
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The Dems need to sit down and read “The Art Of War”
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Depends on how well the Dems do on “edumacten” the masses on the parts that will go into effect at passage.
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But in 2010, the Repubs will have a built in argument, “Are you better off now than before the Dems passed a government takeover of health care?”
The Public Option wouldn’t kick in until 2014. Americans or infamous for their lack of patience.
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They wouldn’t do that, would they…?
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Oh, wait, they’re Republicans…
2014 is the end date, not the only date that things can be implemented (house bill) If things work out it may be sooner.
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They’re referring to it as the target date. These kinds of things always take a while to implement and typically, longer than planned.
There is a possibility it doesn’t even happen by 2014.
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Didn’t Medicare take only 6 months to come online?
Seems there are a lot of shell games from all quarters.
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Well, we certainly did not all understand the concept, that it was to be a conversation between three people that we would comment on later.
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I decided to go with the flow on that, if people were enjoying the format.
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What the hell else could you do?
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Welcome back to the post, all!
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Good job AdLib, Monk, Grabamop. Not exactly Buckly & Galbraith, but fun
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It was fun. Especially when the audience came down onto the stage.
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Sorry, I was lured away by a hot bubble bath with candles and classical piano.
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What are you doing back, sounds great!
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All mellow now.
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Like this:
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Hey all, thanks for that lively chat. I have to go for now, but that was fun
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Great to see you here SueInCa! See you soon!
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Good evening, everyone. Enjoying your Friday night??
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Hey KK good to see ya.
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‘sOK. And you?
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Stuck in a hotel in Philly, with a real crappy Internet connection, ibahn. So, the responses may be a bit slow, but otherwise, doing fine.
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Hey KK! Good to see ya!
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Good to see you, too, AdLib.
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Hey, hope I was not too rough with you after the debate?
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Nah. I have a thick skin; I adhere to the saying, if you can dish it out, you should be able to take it. I came to these sites from the newsgroup world, and you should see the crazies there.
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Wow, this site is getting more and more popular. I am glad to see it and happy to be on a site where I can speak my mind. I noticed tonite that Rameriz was not getting alot of hits on his comments. Sometimes I can go on there and be fine, then other times the silly comments drive me crazy. There is one little bastid on there, leduck, who starts out ok, then he starts hitting on the posters he thinks are women. I try to take it in stride but soon enough I am a nasty little poster again. Sooner or later I will leave for good.
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That leduk is a ledick
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Good evening, Sue. Are you referring to Shawn Hanks?
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No, a guy calling himself “leduck”
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A real head case.
I’m been around enough crazy in my to smell it out. Leduck is crazy. He might be harmless, I dunno, but he’s crazy. He’s OCD about the Peak Oil thing then he starts making weird sexual comments…
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Hey, Pepe, good evening, was that you with the Malkin sock?
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For some reason, my computer double posted. Never mind.
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Hee, hee.
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Dang you!
LOL. I think I had some inside information already.
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Hi Sue!
Good to see you here.
Leduc suck. This is the planet to be on.
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It ain’t what it used to be. What happened, in your opinion?
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IMHO, Arianna got to high on the number of clicks and she is running all around talking shit about everything. She was a republican and I am not sure she is deep down still a republican. She has a lot of liberal people working for her, so she hides it. The more trolls they let in, the worse it got. I sen emails directly with info on those trolls and they did nothing about it.
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I keep getting the feeling she’s up to something that is going to hurt the dem party.
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I know this is stupid, but it made my day– I drove up a road yesterday where there were at least 75 elk grazing and laying down. Passed within 15 feet of them and they were so sure they were safe there, they didn’t move away.
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Not stupid at all, something like that is nature at it’s best.
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Nice!
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Sounds gorgeous.
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I wanted never to leave.
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Where’s KevSev?
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I think he was here earlier.
MissTraci, this is different than HP and takes a bit to get used to. Not always instant gratification.
I leave it up all day, and post, wait for a reply, post again.
Nights are usually busier. You’ve got some great posters on here right now.
Hi Miss Traci.
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Hey DG!
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Hey sweetie!
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Hi Dey!
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Is Pepe here?
Pepe, I personally invited Rami over here once, twice, maybe three times. No reply at all.
Even posted the wordpress addy.
He is chicken shit, BTW.
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Pardon my french…(heh)…
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He’s a twatwaffle….
Again,I apologize for cursing.
My apologies for the plethora of apologies….
He’s reading the site, though. He just made a crack about “HuffNo Friday” on the Palin thread.
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He is a coward. A self-righteous angry coward…
So Rami is a week off schedule. There was no HuffNO Friday this week. Poor little lost Rami.
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Nope, I think we made our point. Now we’ve taken away the trollies talking point. That puts us two points ahead.
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(Adlib, I apologize.)
Pepe, Fuck Rami, and fuck him again. Nasty troll.
BTW, I saw no one reply to him, not one post, except my taunts.
They know he’s an asshole.
You however are a cutey patootey.
I can’t make the little hearts over here…
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You talking about the Firefox hearts?
Who cares?
You make hearts flutter with your words.
You are one accountable dude. They don’t make them much anymore.
Sigh.
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What happened to you at hp?
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The four bastards known as AC, Rami, GringoLingo and some other asshat reported his divine french.
Pussies all of them.
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Flossy was the fourth one … and I’m just in the penalty box.
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Hah, someone just called Ramirez “GringoLingo” on the HP thread. Wow! Could be!
It takes one troll to tattletail and another to ban.
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Is he in time out, or out of time?
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He’s on a three day time out.
Pepe will reappear on Monday, so says Rob.
But similar to my Queen/Naga email…they’re watching and will ban in an instant.
Dey, do you remember the old days on HP? They are becoming fainter and fainter by the day.
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I just get sad when I go there now. Psople don’t know how small and mean they have made that place. They even changed Lardini.
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The former.
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Evening, Khirad.
You’ve been busy over there, haven’t you? Glad you came back, even if to witness me embarrassing myself.
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His little French tongue got bit by Rob S.
Shameful hussy!
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Rob is someone’s bitch.
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Rumor has it when Rob S goes on a bender, it has multiple meanings!
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LOL…
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Ewwwww.
How you doing, sweet man?
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Ha!
Yes.
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Hello?
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Great to see you at The Planet, MissTraci!
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Thanks! Good to be here!
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Wow, good to see you Miss Traci.
Been a fan of yours forever.
Welcome, and it’s a good night here. You can say whatever you want…and I mean anything.
It’s great here on this planet.
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We can say ANYTHING?!?!
Ok, KITO…you got it…~smile~
@HITO, BTW…..oops…..
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KITO’s cool with me.
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Very cool with me, KITO.
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Hi thanks for the warm welcome!
So I have to refresh my browser to see the new comments correct?
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They move up on their own. But I refresh occasionally just to make sure I’m getting it all.
You may speak your mind, no matter the topic.
To post things up on top, go to the bottom, and post in the box down there.
You can see the reply boxes, should you wish.
Adlib is the king here. And KQuark is the second in command, with wonderful bylines.
I know you remember them both…from back in the day.
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Yes?
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Hey!
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What the putain is going on here?
~snark~
Hello all!
Apparently, putain is now off-limits on HuffPo…
PUTAIN!!!!
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PUTAIN indeed, Skunkworth!
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Sorry I’m late.
I had an anklebiter to kick a bit. All better now.
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Did you dispatch with extreme prejudice?
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SeeknDestroy indeed….KITO
LOL
Probably. Anklebiter known as NeedmorePalin.
How pathetic is that moniker?
I dispatched with kindness, in fact even gave it a “smooooch”. Probably drove it over the edge similar to the photo up above.
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Over the edge, indeed KITO….
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~ahem~
~straightens tie~
No need for business acumen tonight Seek.
You can leave that tie hanging in the breeze, but you do look nice.
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~smile~
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ILK.
I love Cuban chicken with putains!
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LOL…I was stealing Pepe’s word there…
Hello Adlib….good to see you..
Love the edit button, BTW…
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Great to see you too! Edit buttons rocc – *edit* rock!
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LMAO!
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Best of luck with tonight I will try to check in later……have fun!
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Thanks PatsyT! See ya then!
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Question AdLib, Do they get checked for performance enhancements after the discussion? LOL
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Yes and if anyone turns out not to have any in their bloodstream, they are really in trouble.
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Good ‘un
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