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gingerwentworth1's avatar

I had the same belief about myself at the time but I'd just seen Rose get thrown out of another house. And that gave me the confidence to think I could really help her. I hope youve been able to change your mind about things. You better dump those tapes bc parents are idiots, and I am one but a humble one.

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Grumpy Old Man's avatar

Well, I would have assumed that she found a better home than mine - fortunately, I would not have known how much I missed by not adopting her. The theory at the time was pretty good - I am/was a horrible person (that just sneaked out - I think my mother's old tapes are still in here somewhere).

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He could be encouraged to run a new Beautiful or Affluent Air Force for patrolling rich peoples' towns. Ready to zoom in close if any discomfort arises or to warn them about new tax initiatives. I do recall the terrible anxiety of Foreclosure King Mnuchin when dirty poor people frightened him by walking around outside the gates of his gated community in NJ, protesting the loss of their houses, which made a lot of police cars have to come-- I am serious!!!!-- to insure the Foreclosure King's safety while his immense black car EVENTUALLY slid out among those few people who weren't even saying anything, just holding signs. That might be something for that bank president to think about.

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gingerwentworth1's avatar

Wouldn't you have felt let down if she'd been gone? When I tried to leave Rose behind, I knew she was a stray and I'd already knocked on a strange door and gotten her some milk. Yet she was still letting me go and rolling in the dust as I got farther and farther away. And really that's what I found irresistible. Sort of the opposite of GG Freya but just showed that cat quality.

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Queen Méabh's avatar

This could really work.

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Grumpy Old Man's avatar

GG/Freya was a rescue; I stopped in to a PetCo when they had some cats up for adoption. She crawled up onto my shoulder and purred in my ear; I managed to walk away thinking, she is mine if she is still there in a couple days. Sure enough, she was still there and she crawled up onto my shoulder purring - we have been together for 5 years now; we think she is about 15 y.o.

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Rooster Cogburn105's avatar

"How uncivil of him"-NYT

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Mr Canoehead/M Tête-Canoë's avatar

I'd love to have that clip on a loudspeaker following him on the golf course.

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Mr Canoehead/M Tête-Canoë's avatar

I'm hoping for Lupita Nyong'o.

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Mr Canoehead/M Tête-Canoë's avatar

Max Ferguson, a CBC announcer back in the days of tube-powered transmitters would sometimes helpfully observe the technicians. He referred to any tube in the top half of the transmitter as a eustachian tube, and any in the bottom as a fallopian tube.

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Mr Canoehead/M Tête-Canoë's avatar

Get someone to set up an FM transmitter so all the boomboxes are playing the same thing. And play something that Nazis hate but that is also fun. Why suffer when you can party? I suggest Billy Bragg to start with. Or this:https://m.youtube.com/watch...

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gingerwentworth1's avatar

The link says they were Saudis, I mean they're true soul brothers to our Donald, pretty retro culturally and definitely slow to react on climate. Being primitive man explains so much of the laws they enforce on their daughters and wives that we don't get.

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gingerwentworth1's avatar

I have never seen it! Very pretty.

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

No matter how grown up ladyish Donna Rose actually gets, I suspect that photo will ensure that I will always cannot even right now.

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

She looks like she knows she's the boss of you already.

Molotov!!

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

Floof in fluff!!

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