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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:47 AM
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Tell me something negative, and I'll turn it into a positive
Bring it on, lounge lizards!
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:47 AM
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1. "George W. Bush" n/t
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:51 AM
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3. Lame Duck President will never hold office again
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:49 AM
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2. Electron n/t
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:52 AM
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4. Proton
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:55 AM
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7. Hey, you can't turn an electron into a proton!
On these forums, we obey the laws of physics!
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:57 AM
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11. Electrons and protons meet neutrons
And make atoms with their swirly three-somes.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:58 AM
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13. Did I hear Modem Butterfly mention three-somes?
Be still, my beating heart...
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:59 AM
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15. Down boy
I've got a Chow and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:54 AM
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5. I got billed for using 29,000 gallons of water.
Looking over my dusty lot with it's farm of
moisture collectors... I just don't see the lake.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:55 AM
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8. Now you can get to know the water people really well!
And meeting new people makes life interesting!
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movie_girl99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:54 AM
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6. my boss is a huge steaming POS n/t
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:56 AM
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10. But on the plus side, now you have someone to blame...
...your mistakes on.
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movie_girl99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:07 AM
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26. excellent point..thanks!
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:08 AM
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30. You know, given the right circumstances and a bit of caution...
...you can use a really shitty boss as a cover for all sorts of incompetence and fecklessness.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:55 AM
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9. I don't believe in "positive" and "negative"
Actually that statement id more neutral.
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:57 AM
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12. poo pudding pops.
melting slowly in the sun and dribbling down your arms.

(no, you don't have to eat it)
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:58 AM
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14. Some people really like that
Now you have a business opportunity!
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:00 AM
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16. My credit score is 500.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:01 AM
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18. At least you can stop worrying about identity theft
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:08 AM
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29. LOL, oh that's good.
Callous, but good. :)
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:09 AM
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32. I have been there
There's a certain freedom in being completely screwed. It's sad, but true, there's a lot of shit you don't have to worry about when you have lousy credit.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:01 AM
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17. my headphones at work broke
now what do I listen to?
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:02 AM
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20. Why, your own inner thoughts and earworms
Here, I'll get you started:

"Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy
And I feel like loving you!"
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:01 AM
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19. The Holocaust
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:02 AM
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22. Humanity now knows its full capacity for evil
Remembering it is another thing
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:02 AM
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21. I'm beginning to have more nettles and brambles than flowers
in my garden and can't see how I'll ever get it right again...

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:03 AM
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24. Think of all the money you'll save on water and garden supplies!
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:08 AM
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28. Ah well, yes, and nettles are good for butterflies *sigh*


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:03 AM
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23. The Messiah.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:05 AM
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25. Without The Messiah, Handle would have had to stop composing
Also, The Messiah was a definite turning point in the idea that vocal music could be written in English.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:07 AM
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27. The Pope.
:)
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:08 AM
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31. Now drag queens have someone to aspire to
A little healthy competition is good for us all!
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:12 AM
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33. my bf
he is gone till September ;(
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:14 AM
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34. Great! Me time!
Time to do all those chick things guys aren't into.
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:14 AM
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35. but I have a lot of me-time when he is here also
because I only see him on weekends.
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:16 AM
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36. Well now you have time to get REALLY hot
Make him really miss you Monday through Friday!
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:18 AM
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37. I am already doing that
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 08:18 AM by MissHoneychurch
:evilgrin:
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:18 AM
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38. you're wrong!
:hi:
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:19 AM
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39. But on the plus side
I have lots of learning experiences!
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:20 AM
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40. .
;)
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Spacemom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:28 AM
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41. My husband and I aren't getting along
My husband and I went to bed mad last night. We made one rule when we got married (12 years ago), "Never go to bed angry." We broke it for the first time last night. :(
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:29 AM
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42. The worst fights are always followed by the best make ups
Plus, if nothing else is accomplished, at least you cleared the air.
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