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Old 08-18-2005, 04:27 PM   #31
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This will never happen.
Why not? What more is there to be said?
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Old 08-18-2005, 04:43 PM   #32
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Why not? What more is there to be said?
Generally one is expected to give a reason or reasons for making such a strong utterance as "I HATE George Jr.!" There is always somebody ready to take up the cudgel in poor Junior's defense and yet another incendiary thread with 500 posts is born. You haven't been around here that long? This IS The Cellar, after all!
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Old 08-18-2005, 04:56 PM   #33
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it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It's like you and others are participating in a pissing match, trying to out-do the others with your reasoning and your ability to substantiate our point of view. Seems like, after a while, you'd find it a waste of time. unless, of course, it's just another way to toot your own horns and demonstrate your typing skills....
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Old 08-18-2005, 05:21 PM   #34
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Each side is guilty of this - in the 90s a substantial contingent of the right was convinced that Gov. Bill Clinton ran coke out of Mena. It's almost as if you have two options:

1. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I shall oppose it.

2. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I believe he has sex with goats.
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Old 08-18-2005, 06:07 PM   #35
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it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It's like you and others are participating in a pissing match, trying to out-do the others with your reasoning and your ability to substantiate our point of view. Seems like, after a while, you'd find it a waste of time. unless, of course, it's just another way to toot your own horns and demonstrate your typing skills....

Well, I'm pretty worthless at pissing matches. I leave those to the ones with the equipment to piss high and far. I always dissolve into puddles, myself. As for my typing skills, well Wolf keeps my ego pretty in line about those. My reasoning? I bet UT has a pithy comment about THAT!

Nah, to tell the truth, the debates around here are pretty clever for the most part, and keep me amused. They also keep me off the streets for which my neighbors are deeply grateful.
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Old 08-18-2005, 06:15 PM   #36
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Mari--I always done knoe'd you was a hore.

Now--endevor to be a GOOD 'hore.
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Old 08-18-2005, 06:18 PM   #37
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Mari--I always done knoe'd you was a hore.

Now--endevor to be a GOOD 'hore.

Yassm'm. I sho be tryin'!
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Old 08-18-2005, 08:09 PM   #38
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I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I believe he has sex with goats.
While in that position, lest we forget.

As for Mena, Arkansas, well, that Clinton pair are famed for incontinently moneygrubbing 24-7-366 on leap years and for doing the wrong thing whenever possible at any time. Such evidence as there is in the matter suggests the smoke has a fire under it, rather than that there's nothing there.
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Old 08-19-2005, 12:30 AM   #39
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As for my typing skills, well Wolf keeps my ego pretty in line about those.
Actually, if ZippyT ever makes mention of your ability to type, THEN you have truly been schooled.
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Old 08-26-2005, 11:11 AM   #40
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That's a load of hooey and you can't see it because you believe that gun restrictions, expansion of the federal death penalty, increased taxes, the DMCA, and attacking Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Waco, TX were necessary courses of action and not at all restricting freedom.

As long as they separate church and state, I guess. Well except for Waco, I guess.
It looks like we're in trouble, then.
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Old 08-26-2005, 11:22 AM   #41
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Charming satire.

Post something real next time.
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Old 08-26-2005, 11:33 AM   #42
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Charming satire.

Post something real next time.
What? You don't believe the esteemed Mr. Watley?
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