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Starscream
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Admit it, you'd go Decepticon for him too
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Actually, you've been Airachnid
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A DOG OF WAR Click the cover, it's a link Loyal Tierza struggles through the heartache and despair of WW2 to find her boy. My First Blog-Marriage My Second Blog-The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Help find Tracey Cooeedownunder's sister is missing No Rest For the Wicked Click to buy. Haggis has a story in it. |
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Outcast Rogue
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lost
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Aha! I knew it was a Decepticon. Del didn't think so, because she couldn't see any emblem. Greg? If you say poisonous venom again, I'm going to bop you on the head with my fictional novel.
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I do horrible things to punctuation. If I wanted a label I'd tattoo a barcode on my ass. You know it's all fun and games until one of those petal-winged harbingers of death sticks its proboscis in your eye and sucks your gray-matter out through your retina. |
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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POISONOUS venom!
So there. Ha! Okay, all right, their venom is poisonous. Is that better? Maybe I should say they inject a toxic substance comprised of enzymes which inhibit certain biological functions... |
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Goonsquad
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In your worst nightmare
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*spit*
I'm sorry, sir, but you're going to have to come with me. *spit* You're under arrest detention. *spit*
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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What? Arrest and detention? Or arrested detention?
Is that anything like arrested attention? Or detentioned arrest? You can't arrest me, Marshal. I'm the preacher! What'll folks say? Can I have a drink before I go? |
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Goonsquad
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In your worst nightmare
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*spit* Go ahead though. Have that last drink. In fact I think I'll join ya. Beertender? A bar fer me and my friend here.
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Starscream
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Admit it, you'd go Decepticon for him too
Posts: 34,362
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You can have a beer Marshal but we don't serves prisoners. They drink too much and no one pays.
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A DOG OF WAR Click the cover, it's a link Loyal Tierza struggles through the heartache and despair of WW2 to find her boy. My First Blog-Marriage My Second Blog-The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Help find Tracey Cooeedownunder's sister is missing No Rest For the Wicked Click to buy. Haggis has a story in it. |
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Drat! But what'll I do in the meantime?
<pulls bottle from black frock coat, loosens starched white collar, takes long pull off bottle> Ahhhh... <sets bottle on bar, makes run for door> |
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Goonsquad
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In your worst nightmare
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*sends spider with poisonous venom after FG*
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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<shoots venomous spider in head, sprints for saloon doors, pauses...>
<hock, cough, spit, wipes on frock coat sleeve, slings excess at spittoon> <resumes sprinting> |
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Writing for the brand
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Where is everyone?
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Goonsquad
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Location: In your worst nightmare
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Today is your last day.
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The bar - I mean, my writing place.
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Writing for the brand
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Today is your last day.
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Well, Dan, you make it sound complicated. A couple sticks of wood, a ball, a few sandbags, and a field. Heck, we could play in the street if'n it weren't fer all the busted winders we'd have t' pays fer.
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Goonsquad
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In your worst nightmare
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Yep.
*spit* General Doubleday'll be gettin' another game together pretty soon if'n y'all want to play.
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Writing for the brand
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Alright. I'm game.
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Outcast Rogue
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lost
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I do horrible things to punctuation. If I wanted a label I'd tattoo a barcode on my ass. You know it's all fun and games until one of those petal-winged harbingers of death sticks its proboscis in your eye and sucks your gray-matter out through your retina. |
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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If'n y'all didn't hear, it appears I am back among the gainfully employed starting Monday at 8am as a tech writer for a hydraulic parts manufacturer in Tulsa, all of about 8 miles from my house by surface street. Starting pay is $15/hr and the job could go permanent after 90 days. That pay ain't chicken feed 'round these here parts.
Seven months out of work, six months on unemployment (I think I had 1-2 weeks left on state before having to apply for the Tier 1 federal EUC benefits), and now on the cusp of roaring back to just under a pay level I was at out at LBNL and better than anything I've had in Oklahoma thus far. Now, if I can just get my car registered and keep it going until I can get my DL fixed with California and here, life will be good again. I might even be able to get my cable turned back on, catch up on my rent and electricity, and pay for my prescriptions. Heck, there might even be money for new glasses along the way. |
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Goonsquad
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In your worst nightmare
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Baby steps, Greg. Great news, indeed. But baby steps. Do they have Albuterol in the 1800s?
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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No albuterol, no. They tended to use cocaine.
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Starscream
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Admit it, you'd go Decepticon for him too
Posts: 34,362
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A DOG OF WAR Click the cover, it's a link Loyal Tierza struggles through the heartache and despair of WW2 to find her boy. My First Blog-Marriage My Second Blog-The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Help find Tracey Cooeedownunder's sister is missing No Rest For the Wicked Click to buy. Haggis has a story in it. |
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Today is your last day.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Broken Arrow, OK
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Thanks, Reg. By my calculations I'll be pulling down close to $2k net (based on Single 2 Federal+State weekly deductions) per month which means, when I get paid in 2 weeks, the drinks are on me!
Turned in all the final paperwork today. I won't get paid for the first week (well, I will, but it will be included in the 2nd week's check), but thereafter the pay is weekly on Fridays direct deposited to a Visa debit card (available by the following Tuesday at the latest, but I've never seen it take anywhere near that long). Maybe I could even save a couple of bucks? Naw... Soon as I start thinking that way the Feds are gonna' jack me up for something they claim I owe from 20 years ago or something. |
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iz bossy . . .
Join Date: May 2009
Location: I have no freakin idea, you?
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Thought was already here. Preacher been takin aim at leggy things.
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Outcast Rogue
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lost
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Yes, I was sad witness to the blasphemy. I figure a reckoning is about due. But that's a task better left for another day. I'm not fully back to health just yet. In the meantime I'm listening to my husband try to convince our offspring to go pick all the dandelions, so he can make some wine. I hope he doesn't mean to try and cure me with it.
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I do horrible things to punctuation. If I wanted a label I'd tattoo a barcode on my ass. You know it's all fun and games until one of those petal-winged harbingers of death sticks its proboscis in your eye and sucks your gray-matter out through your retina. |
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