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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:21 PM
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I am a Green Party member, and this is why I vote for the Green Party.
I am a upper middle class white male, so if I vote for the Greens and the Republicans win, then it doesn't matter, cuz I live large large large large! Woooooooo hoooooooo! I talk about fair trade and all that stuff people talk about at parties in college and at Denny's and all that when we're out pontificating about how the system has no wisdom, but if it never happens, I still win! Bizzingo bizzango bling bling!

Think about it: I get to go to all that stuff where hippy chicks are flopping around running topless around the campfire all blitzed out on mushrooms and blueberry buds and stuff, and have my hemp wallet be phat as phuck ya0. You could say that's the other reason it's the Green Party!

Cuz we be, big pimpin' spendin' G's...

NOTE: This post is sarcastic.
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Vektor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:23 PM
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1. OOooooohhhh...
Do blueberry buds get you high?
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:24 PM
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2. 15% THC
You bet!
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:24 PM
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3. I've never tried them, nor do I reccomend it, but here you go.
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Vektor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:27 PM
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4. Well, well!
You learn something new everyday. Next thing you know, these little buds will be illegal!
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:39 PM
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10. Riiiiight. Blueberries get you high...
Never mind the fact that blueberries have been around for thousands (millions?) of years and nobody has discovered this before.

Do people really buy into this?
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:41 PM
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13. You know, I think that stuff only /smells/ like blueberries.
Ingredients: Wild Dagga, Wild Hops, Leonurus Sibiricus herb, Avena Sativa, Wild Lettuce, Cannabae Buds.

But when you think about it, there's probably a lot of stuff that gets you high that not many people know about due to the overwhelming popularity of marijuana.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:48 PM
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17. Maybe you're right
Edited on Thu Jan-06-05 11:48 PM by MercutioATC
but how do you think marijuana became popular? A long time ago somebody burned plants and one of them made them feel funny. I have a hard time believing that nobody ever burned Wild Dagga, Wild Hops, Leonurus Sibiricus herb, Avena Sativa, Wild Lettuce or Cannabae Buds.

...although the "Cannabae buds" sound suspiciously like "cannabis".
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FreepFryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:07 AM
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20. Actually, they also found piles of carbonized marijuana ash in the center
of what appear to be Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon ritual caves. They'd light a bonfire and as part of their sacred rituals in the deep caves, go into a trance, the images of animal spirits adorning the cavernous walls...

...much cooler than a vw minivan in a 7-11 parking lot.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:59 AM
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25. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, but...
...you know there's those potsmoker urban legends that get around when you're 'moking, too!
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FreepFryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:07 AM
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27. Ah, you see... I saw it on the Discovery Channel. :)
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:17 AM
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30. I thought the reference was to blueberry pot...
There's a beautiful Northern California Afghani/Thai hybrid that got named "blueberry".

Very sweet and potent! One or two tokes is plenty.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:10 PM
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37. Like catnip, for example.
Wonder if any human has tried it?
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:34 PM
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5. Lot more to this post than meets the eye.
Good job.
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Casablanca Donating Member (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 11:16 AM
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34. .
Edited on Fri Jan-07-05 11:20 AM by Casablanca
:evilgrin:
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:36 PM
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No offense but I don't see Greens in the white house either. n/t
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:37 PM
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9. Come see them at work in a state legislature instead
Want to see what a Green in a state legislature can do? (I LOVE living in Maine!)

A list of bills that John Eder has
submitted. Quite impressive.

Rep. Eder of Portland


LR 183 An Act To Make Election Day a State Holiday

LR 221 An Act To Enhance the Maine Earned Income Tax
Credit

LR 222 An Act To Amend the Corporate Charter To
Include Public Interest

LR 223 An Act To Simplify Rent and Property Tax Relief


LR 224 An Act To End Corporate Welfare

LR 225 An Act To Ensure Equal Pay for Maine Women

LR 226 An Act To License Rental Units in the State

LR 227 An Act To Encourage Cooperative Housing

LR 228 An Act To Encourage the Use of Clean Fuel
Vehicles

LR 229 An Act To Require the Labeling of Genetically
Modified Organisms

LR 230 An Act To Protect the Public from Mercury
Poisoning

LR 231 An Act Concerning Recognition of Qualified
Political Parties

LR 232 An Act To Encourage Independent Media

LR 233 An Act To Make the Minimum Wage a Livable Wage

LR 234 An Act To Provide College Loan Forgiveness to
People Who Perform Public Service

LR 235 An Act To End the Interest of Special Money in
Campaign Financing

LR 236 An Act To Expand Benefits Available under the
Maine Residents Property Tax Program

LR 237 An Act To Expand Broad-Base Sales Tax

LR 253 An Act To Establish Universal Day Care

LR 308 An Act To Ban the Influence of Special Interest
Money in Politics

LR 529 An Act To Require the Removal from Schools of
Products That Trigger Childhood Asthma

LR 821 An Act to Repeal the Prohibition Against
Same-Sex Marriage

LR 822 An Act To Prohibit Hunting or Pursuing Bear
With a Dog

LR 823 An Act To Prohibit Bear Baiting

LR 824 An Act To Prohibit Bear Hunting Using a Trap



LR 825 An Act To Protect the Citizen Initiative
Procedure from State Agency Influence

LR 826 An Act To Protect the Citizen Initiative
Signature Collection Process at Polling Places

LR 827 An Act To Repeal the Tax Exemption for
Nonprofits

LR 828 An Act To Prohibit the Privatization of
Drinking Water Supply Sources

LR 829 An Act To Prohibit the Privatization of
Correctional Facilities

LR 830 An Act to Prohibit Prisoners in State
Correctional Facilities from Working for Private
Companies

LR 1024 An Act To Establish Citizen Ownership of
Maine's Groundwater

LR 1054 Resolve, To Establish a North Woods Park
Feasibility Study

LR 1517 An Act To Prohibit the Use of Neck Snares

LR 1520 An Act To Promote Fairness and Democracy in
Wildlife Management

LR 1521 An Act To Promote Nonconsumptive Use of
Maine's Fish and Wildlife Resources

LR 1524 An Act To Promote Public Safety

LR 1712 An Act To Establish Energy Standards for
Residential Rental Properties

LR 1713 An Act To Improve the Energy Efficiency of
State-owned or Occupied Buildings

LR 1714 An Act To Implement the Affordable Housing
Protection Act

LR 2010 An Act To Stabilize Maine's Fishing Industry


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Election reform can help save this country!
Same day primaries with ranked voting ballots for the Dems, and
THESE reforms for your town, county, and state.
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:42 PM
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14. Let me guess! You work in sales! Good pitch but I'm going to run my car
into the ground before I even consider a new one.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:47 PM
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16. Switch to walking or mass transportation when that ol' clunker gives up
the ghost.

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Election reform can help save this country!
Same day primaries with ranked voting ballots for the Dems, and
THESE reforms for your town, county, and state.
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:36 PM
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6. Huh. not much like me, then.. Female.. live in a trailer... stay at home
with my kids. Believe in unions, fair trade, and election systems that work.

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Election reform can help save this country!
Same day primaries with ranked voting ballots for the Dems, and
THESE reforms for your town, county, and state.
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:36 PM
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7. lol -eom
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:37 PM
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8. You got that right! I'd be getting baked, dosed, and laid at a drum circle
if only I'd nod my head to the nihilistic fashion statement that is the Green Party, rather than making my lonely case for the Democratic Party, which offers none of that groovy stuff, at least not anywhere around here.
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mycatforpresident Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:11 AM
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21. Uh, that happens all the time in my town
because there's nothing better to do. Not that I participate. Really. C'mon, I'm over thirty, stop LOOKING at me like that!
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PaganPreacher Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:16 PM
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39. Hey, come on down to Kansas!
Edited on Fri Jan-07-05 12:43 PM by PaganPreacher
We been havin' our county Democratic party meetups out at Camp Gaea, the swingin'est, bare breasted'est - bonfire dancin'est - blueberry smokin'est place on Earth!

www.campgaea.org

We put the "party" into "Democratic Party!"

If you make it down here, look me up. I am the guy with the bodhran and the long-stemmed pipe.


Truth in advertising statement: this is not me.

The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:40 PM
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11. You rockin' LoZoccolo!
I'm topless running around a campfire and blitzed as weeee speak.

:hi: hic-up :crazy:
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PaganPreacher Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:24 PM
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40. Hey, molly....
I have some primo blueberry smoke over here, for a fine topless campfire girl.

Wanna share?



The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other rcheek.

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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:45 PM
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43. Ohhh boy. If only I weren't nursing my topless campfire hangover
I'd indulge.

Perhaps next week? ;)
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PaganPreacher Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:36 PM
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44. Count on it!
I'll keep a pyre on for ya..(with apologies to Tom Beaudette).

The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.

***

What is with us Pagans, and our fascination with bonfires?



Isn't that kinda like the French having a fascination with the guillotine?






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Niche Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:40 PM
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12. I like naked groovey beautiful people but my greens in my garden...
P.S. I thought Greens wore Burkinstocks and dug love... when did they start pimping-blingy-bling? Ahh I'm confused...
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:44 PM
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15. The talk of bling bling comes with the territory of making mad bling.
Which is exactly what the Republicans are letting me bring home!

Bling BLING!
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:54 PM
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18. Oh! Please!
Everyone knows Greens are Dems that went UNDER-underground.

Like one those CIA "front companies".

You got major attacked in Ohio and New Mexico!?

SEND IN THE GREENS!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 11:01 AM
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:03 AM
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19. You guys are all about your party ego; Greens are about getting
stuff done.

So, riff on the Greens - until you need them next time.

Sad, just really sad.
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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:14 AM
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22. Yeah, stuff
like all those congressional races you won, and all the legislation you passed, and all the governorships, and large mayoral races, and...
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:39 AM
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23. And all the recounts you started because you could
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:55 AM
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24. Grizzeens and Libertizzarians!
Now that's what I'm talking about...hippies and Playboy Channel Republicans, gangstas of the recount, together4democracy.

One, one vote! Ah ah ah ah aaaah!
Two, two votes! Ah ah ah ah aaaah!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:03 AM
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26. sorry, let my fingers do the talking, me bad
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:12 AM
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28. Do progressives attack there friends?
Sure they do and any progressive that may be Christian as well as the greens or any one really, and Karl Rove is laughing his ass of at how foolish we are. and gloating at how easy it is to do, too get us to attack each other.
Do you ever see the rethugs attacking Pat Robertson no matter how stupid he is? Or any of the libertarian with wacky ideas? No they know there is strength in unity and we apparently do not.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:16 AM
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29. I try not to attack, but I got a hippy gangsta swerve on from that GREEN.
I'm the type of guy eating a Whole Foods dinner, talkin' bout...I'M A KILLER.
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pgh_dem Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 11:55 AM
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35. psst...the correct answer to the question is actually no
Progressives don't...
Now apply deductive reasoning without overreaching (overreaching would be imagining that any seeming progressive who attacks their allies is a closet Karl Rove)...and BINGO
You are left with - the attacker isn't a progressive.
LoZoccolo's header message is just one giant kiss on the ass of the DLC (Democrats who Love Corporations oops i mean 'Centrism').
Keep smearing the 'fringe', LZ...which includes the CBC, Sen Boxer, the Rainbow Coalition, Alliance for Democracy and Common Cause.
The Greens were so busy smoking dope and getting rich that they brought lawsuits against the Repubs and won a recount (such as it was).
The 'moderates' and 'centrists', on the other hand, did ... what?
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:04 PM
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36. I can answer that
They took the money and ran
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:11 PM
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38. Whizzoo hizzelped with this recount, yizzo?
Libertarians, who are more gangsta than the Republicans, who are more gangsta than the DLC.

Don't matter to me, it's all one big drum circle about to get CRUNK!
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demodonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 04:23 AM
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31. The Greens Got The Ohio Recount Going...
And may I ask exactly what did YOU do??
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 10:55 AM
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32. I was gonna count the votes...
...but then I got high.
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demodonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:36 PM
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41. Get high, huh? Your post is a VERY constructive use of bandwidth - NOT nt
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 05:01 PM
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45. The Stoned Zone is a constructive use of bandwidth.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 12:37 PM
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42. At least you did us the favor of telling us you were kidding.
Otherwise, it reads like a freeper post trying to be a Democrat.
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