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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:02 AM
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I didn't just fall off of the turnip truck.
Is there anyone else here who also didn't just fall off of the turnip truck? :shrug:
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:04 AM
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1. No but I did off the rhubarb truck.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:10 AM
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16. And you're one yak short of a herd, too.
:evilgrin:
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:12 AM
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18. Hey! I got plenty of yaks. I got a whole herd!!
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:13 AM
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21. You're ready to rumble, aintcha, Crazy!
I'll be your head cheerleader, OK? :thumbsup:
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 07:27 AM
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43. I mighta been born at night, but I wasn't born last night, ya know?
*cough*
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:04 AM
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2. I don't know, but I definitely wasn't born yesterday.
Maybe the day before, but definitely not yesterday.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:06 AM
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5. I bet I couldn't interest you
in a timeshare in Antarctica, either, could I? ;)
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:11 AM
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17. I could sell refrigerators to the indigenous peoples there.
:D
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:12 AM
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19. But could you sell 'em a raft of,
um, bovine excrement? :shrug:
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:05 AM
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3. I didn't
Also, I was born at night, but not LAST night.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:06 AM
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6. I had guessed that about you.
:hug:
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:09 AM
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13. Thanks for the hug
I needed that!
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:21 AM
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27. Wanna know the best thing about that hug?
It was given to you by me personally, and I won't come back in a few days and retract it. :) Here's another for good measure: :hug:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:05 AM
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4. Neither did I .......
regardless of how things might look!

Heidi, sorry I didn't post in your Nighthawk thread tonight....

It was just too long for me...but I'm still glad to see you!

I did see my daughter and grandson today, and got some good pics!

Another time I will post one for you!

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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:07 AM
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8. You're sweet, Peggy,
but you're _far_ from stupid. :hug: :loveya: (And no apologies necessary about the Nighthawks thread. Heck, I sometimes don't post there myself. :rofl: )
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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:07 AM
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7. No, but I DO have an evil twin. n/t
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:08 AM
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11. .
Does your evil twin have access to your DU password? Be careful out there, buckaroo. :thumbsup:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:07 AM
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9. I never even got to ride on the turnip truck
:cry:

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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:09 AM
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12. Maybe you did ride on the turnip truck,
but you didn't _recognize_ it as a turnip truck? :shrug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:10 AM
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15. I'm a trained, professional journalist
I'd notice turnips in a truck.









What do they look like?
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:15 AM
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23. Not sure what they look like, but sometimes they smell like
disingenuous apologies. :shrug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:16 AM
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25. Wait a minute
Maybe it was an accordian truck.

:shrug:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:19 AM
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26. No doubt about that.
But _you're_ no L-O-O-Z-A-H. :hug: :loveya:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:22 AM
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28. Well... thanks
But not knowin' what turnips look like ain't gonna win me any awards. :blush:

Maybe I should re-think applying at AgWeek.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:08 AM
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10. No, but I will admit that until tonight,
the lights were on, but nobody was home (unless you count the cats).
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:10 AM
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14. Too funny!
I taught that expression to my goddaughters when they were about five and seven! :thumbsup:
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:35 AM
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34. I like this one.
There's nothing in the attic but cobwebs.

or

The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but there is no train.



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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:37 AM
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36. Those are excellent euphemisms, tw!
I think I've forgotten about 75 percent of the great, very descriptive euphemisms I grew up with. :( Thank you for the reminder, gf! :hug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 06:59 AM
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41. I came up with this one a few years ago
for reporter types:

"He's a couple columns short of a page."
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:13 AM
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20. I don't know bout no turnip truck
but Momma didn't RAISE no fools...
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:13 AM
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22. Right on!
:hug: I love me some smart girlfriends! :loveya:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:15 AM
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24. Me too!!!!
:loveya: back!
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:23 AM
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29. mine didn't either
I was brought up by my uncle.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:24 AM
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31. Your uncle didn't raise no fools, either . . .
That's clear, hfojvt. :pals:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:24 AM
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30. What turnip truck? Nobody told me anything about a turnip truck.
Why am I always the last to know about these things? :cry:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:25 AM
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32. I apologize.
*Insert rimshot here.* :rofl:
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:35 AM
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35. One rimshot coming up



Just make sure I get the memo next time. :thumbsup:
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:28 AM
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33. Banana truck!!
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 04:38 AM
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37. I'm green, but I ain't _that_ green.
:evilgrin:
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Maine Mary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 06:01 AM
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38. Me neither
:-)
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 06:01 AM
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39. That's good to know.
:)
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Maine Mary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 06:39 AM
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40. Why didn't you notice that before?
:evilgrin:
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 07:05 AM
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42. Yup. Plus, I didn't just roll in on a loada hay.
Sometimes though, the lights are on but nobody's home.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 08:54 AM
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44. Hell, I've never even been on a turnip truck.
Did I sleep through a bad night on DU?

BTW ~ I do like eating turnips. not that anyone ask
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 11:50 AM
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47. I love turnips!
And if I knew what they were called in Italian, I'd buy some when I go shopping next week. :thumbsup:

By the way: :loveya: gf. :*
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 09:00 AM
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45. You were pushed? n/t
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 11:49 AM
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46. That's entirely possible.
:hi:
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 11:50 AM
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48. if it meant i could sleep in it for a while, i'd volunteer to fall off the
turnip truck.
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