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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:12 PM
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I'm considering leaving my husband and starting a mink farm and gun store
Edited on Sun Aug-14-05 07:12 PM by Rabrrrrrr
What do you think?
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:13 PM
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1. I think an art gallery featuring the work of Thomas Kincaide would
be more fitting to your personality. I'm just sayin' is all :shrug:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:14 PM
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3. He can play Whitney Houston music in the background while serving
Starbucks coffee, too.

(Sorry, tried to work Tom Cruise into it, but couldn't.)
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:23 PM
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13. He could have a rack with scientology pamphlets!
It's just a thought. :shrug:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:24 PM
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14. Yes! And a Christian Science reading room!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:14 PM
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2. I'd sell beer, too.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:16 PM
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6. Well, if I'm gonna sell beer, then I'm adding a shooting range, too!
Might as well have something to do while drinking beer.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:17 PM
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7. You can use the empties as targets.
:thumbsup:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:21 PM
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11. Brilliant!
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:15 PM
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4. I don't know about your romantic life...but..
I've been considering getting my FFL for just such a plan (gun store, that is. Not the mink farm).

I'm sick of having to go into Bush loving gun stores to buy ammo. We need a liberal owned gun shop! I support your gun store! Minks...well, they smell. But so do I so I guess I should just keep quiet!

=)
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:20 PM
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10. Actually, yes, it would be nice to have more liberal gun stores
My friend owns a gun store, and, god bless him, I love the guy, but he thinks Rush is the biggest truth speaker since Jesus himself. My friend is also Catholic, married a woman who had a child out of wedlock, they had pre-marital sex, and he enjoys strip clubs post-marriage.

But he believes FIRMLY in "Christian family values, unlike the damn liberals who want to bring sin and debauchery into our schools".

I don't understand him at all some times.

I am one of the rare (though, I think, we're not really all that rare) liberal "gun nuts" who loves to hunt and shoot. And yes it would be nice to have a store to go to in which it wasn't assumed I was a racist, bigoted, uneducated, NASCAR-lovin' Shrub-supportin' piece of shit.
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:24 PM
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15. You're not alone...
There are a lot of gun owners in the Democratic party. The 'thing' about liberals is that we have a diverse range of opinions...not a single group-think mentality like much of the Right. It's both a strength and a weakness, I suppose...depending on the situation.

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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:41 PM
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16. You are not alone - there are many liberals with guns at DU
Indeed many have a hunting for food family history.

But do you really need the mink "farm"? Assuming memory serves me well tonight, I can recall nothing good of the mink farms I once visited.

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:57 PM
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20. So I can harvest them for their fur, and throw away their meat
I think wearing fur coats is funny, and is a RIGHT that the upper classes should continue to enjoy.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 07:08 AM
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21. mink stew - yummy -- much tastier than rat roast -but it is hard to make
shoes out of rat/mink skin

I'm afraid the only use of the skin is for the rich that like the fur and who will pay someone to sew little patches together. I rather like the idea of the rich wearing patch quilt rat/mink -

:-)

Besides the sewing could provide home jobs with piecework wages - another Bush new economy job - heck 2 new jobs if the person sells the stuff on EBAY.

:-)
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:15 AM
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22. Yes - it's time to bring back piecework wages!
People should get paid for what they produce, and not get paid for time spent in the bathroom or the lunchroom or at the water fountain.

And I think that sewing mink patches would be perfect work for children, with their smaller hands. And, with Shrubbie's new "No Child Able To Go Forward" education program, there should be a lot of children available to do some work, instead of being parasites on society.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:16 PM
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5. I think that would be a cool thing.....
My dad bought into a Mink "Farm" back in the 60's which pretty much tells you why my mom divorced him....

It was in some guy named Wendell's basement in the middle of a city....

Some of the critters got out and all hell broke loose in the hood that night....
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:18 PM
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8. Throw in live bait, and it'll be a hit.
:woohoo:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:22 PM
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12. How about a live bait shoot?!
That would be fucking awesome!!

A big tub of chubs and minnows, and all you can shoot for $10!!
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:43 PM
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17. It is Legal in Vermont - so why not! :-)
:-)
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:46 PM
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18. Synergy. nt
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:19 PM
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9. you're obviously a very complex person.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:16 AM
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23. Yes, I am indeed!
A very complex man indeed.
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-05 07:48 PM
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19. Funny, there was another post about a man
considering leaving his wife and starting a mink coat store and gun pawn shop!
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:17 AM
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24. I think your gun store needs an upholsterer adjunct.
Guns and upholstery is a combination that works well in business.

The minks can get by on their own.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:25 AM
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30. Perhaps we can figure out a way to upholster rifles into couch arms
and pistols into recliner arms...

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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:17 AM
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25. You probably ought to add some veal cages and some sex slaves too
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:19 AM
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27. Good idea! Absolutely must be raising veal as well. I'm sure there will
be some extra spaces in the backroom somewhere, that will be just the right size for a veal cage. Why waste the space? I gotta leverage every cubic foot I have.
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leftylady Donating Member (281 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:18 AM
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26. I used to have to walk by a mink farm on my way home
from school in Salt Lake City, It was pretty awful. Lots of guard dogs. And cage after cage of mink.

I don't think you want to go there.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:20 AM
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28. Oh, I *DO* want to go there! Rich people have a DIVINE RIGHT to wear fur,
and I'm willing to provide it to them.
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leftylady Donating Member (281 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 01:10 PM
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32. One time the mink got loose
There was a fire I think. My neighbors ended up with a mink in their window well. They are the most beautiful animals.

Have you heard of the new thing. Its fashionable to get stuff made of lamb fur - a special kind of real curly coated lamb. They kill the lams within days of birth - or kill the ewe and take the foetus of the lamb.

I just don't get that kind of stuff. Cotton is just fine and washes a whole lot better.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:22 AM
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29. You go, girl.
:silly:
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:29 AM
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31. Go chinchilla. That way you have your fur AND a tasty dining experience.
:9
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