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I had stupid amounts of aches and fatigue. I'm the only person I know who had more than a sore arm. So of 20 or so people 1 had side effects.

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That came from a Black guy at work who went through a car windshield. He has since moved on to another job. Our resident white conspiracy theorist claims that said Black guy was brought up to hate white people.

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Not entirely true, of course. My 70-year-old agoraphobic friend cannot go out in hot weather, so he's waiting till summer is over. He doesn't see anyone but me and I'm fully vaccinated; I won't make him sick. He wants the J&J so he only has to go out once.

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My biggest memory of jump school is the red clay/soil that gets into everything you where. And, at least in the 80s, you did a lot of pushups and situps and exercises in large covered areas filled with wood chips. So with the humidity of Georgia in the summer, spending a good part of your day sweating and rolling in wood chips, and nowhere near enough washing machines, most of us spent all of training smelling like a decaying forest.

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and I'm sure at least one of those actors hates his guts

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I feel sorry for those blobfish and rescue dogs that have a resemblance.

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and ruins it for the rest of us.

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did he get a blow up doll to fake his own death, like Homer? (I just like cartoons in which it is much easier to suspend disbelief)

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I got my shot on Sat. and spent Sun. in bed. No big, cuz I'm an older retired type! But now I'm still that type, with much less chance of infecting a young, unretired type!

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Reynolds said "I am proud to be a governor of a state that values personal responsibility and individual liberties."

Which is why Crapo, Risch, and Fulcher all voted against the 1\6 Commision. :-\

To Idaho's (small) credit, Mike Simpson voted Yea.

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Ooo, I want to go there. Smuggle me out in your suitcase, OK? /s/s/s

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Did Pfizer. 1st shot, arm pain (like I'd taken a punch). 2nd shot - all good! (I did know to flex the arm a lot after the shot). OTOH, I heard it may have less effect on the olds, like me...

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I made the mistake of watching "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" last week. Not a bad movie - a beautiful, artistic, too-well acted movie. The ending is haunting me...

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I do tend to have a desire for the Darwin solution.

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aren't usually the analysts the people that figure out where the terrorists are and not some guy playing dress-up? Most of the patients that had been referred to me from Ft Meade (NSA) are usually wound really really tight and their diagnosis is usually related to somatization of anxiety (except for the one guy who just had asthma.)

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