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Old 08-23-2006, 08:27 AM   #16
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Maybe he's back on the sauce and nose candy?
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Old 08-23-2006, 08:58 AM   #17
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Maybe he's back on the sauce and nose candy?
He scored some off his daughters?
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Old 08-23-2006, 04:56 PM   #18
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Hmmm there are signs that Rummy the Great's head is on the chopping board. Wonder how long it take to find a substitute?
I believe that my local grocery is selling beef scraps for about $2.00 a pound. We should therefore be able to replace him for about six bucks or so.
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Old 08-24-2006, 10:02 PM   #19
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I believe that my local grocery is selling beef scraps for about $2.00 a pound. We should therefore be able to replace him for about six bucks or so.
That wouldn't be replacement, that would be upgrade.
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Old 08-31-2006, 09:43 PM   #20
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Old 08-31-2006, 10:05 PM   #21
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Old 09-01-2006, 04:24 AM   #22
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There is no greater advantage than being underestimated.
"Never underestimate the predictabillity of stupidity"....
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Old 09-01-2006, 07:52 AM   #23
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"I said I was looking for a book to read, Laura said you ought to cry Camus. I also read three Shakespeares. ... I've got a eck-a-lec-tic reading list." --George W. Bush, interview with NBC's Brian Williams, New Orleans, La., Aug. 29, 2006

"We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives -- like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write." --George W. Bush, on federal education requirements, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" --George W. Bush, Beaverton, Oregon, Aug. 13, 2004

"I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." —George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

"I'm the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." —George W. Bush, as quoted in Bob Woodward's "Bush at War"

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Well. It certainly isn't difficult to underestimate him.
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Old 09-01-2006, 09:17 AM   #24
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Well. It certainly isn't difficult to underestimate him.
Or misunderestimate him as the case may be.
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Old 09-01-2006, 09:37 PM   #25
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Actually, most of the time I find, to my sorrow, that I had been overestimating him.
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