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re: NOLA PD Billboard in BR (I-12 @ Millerville) - real turf fan
"The person[b] in front of [/b] this badge is a neighbor just like you" should be the counter sign ...
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re: War breaking out in South America as early as tomorrow?!? - real turf fan
Swamp Malaria Swamp Heat Swamp Humidity Swamp A single navigable river surrounded by swamp...
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re: Estate Sales finds today 11/30 - MAJOR score!!! - real turf fan
I sort of wish the played with cars would be worth more, sort of like the patina on sterling silver dinnerware. ...
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"The Paris Olympic Games will have a liberticidal taste," - real turf fan
[b]a liberticidal taste[/b] is one way to define what Parisians will have to adjust to just to live in their city for the next olympics. Have an olympics inside a city? Fine, just don't expect to be able to move around your neighborhood without "valid reasons" and the paperwork to prove it. [link...
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re: What are some things unique about your hometown? - real turf fan
Mine was surveyed by (the) George Washington...
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re: 10 best places to retire in the U.S. - the top 5 are all in Pennsylvania - real turf fan
[quote]In other words, Pennsylvania paid a lot of money to promote itself...[/quote] What a strange assortment. We've stayed in most of those PA cities and it wasn't even easy to find restaurants in some of them. Harrisburg for breakfast? One place open within the down town area. Scranton? ...
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re: Rosalynn Carter - real turf fan
[link=(https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html)]LINK[/link] During the service her son mentioned her activity in the eradication of Guinea worm. The Carter Center website linked above has the story of how much has been done and it's impressive. ...
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re: Do you think you’ll see 65? - real turf fan
I remember 65. What starts to get to me, as an oldie, is the number of friends who have died. Teachers, Accountants, my personal lawyer, I could go on and on about good people who lived fairly stressless lives and some did go around 60 from Alzheimers. It gets to the point where when I can't get ...
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The racoon strain of rabies that was found in Omaha in a kitten - real turf fan
[link=(https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/how-one-rabid-kitten-triggered-intensive-effort-to-contain-deadly-virus/ar-AA1kxBhi)]LINK[/link] SIAP An educational story of how the diagnosis was made, how authorities reacted, and what parts of the country the problem exists and how it's spreading. ...
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re: Have you been inside a newly remodeled McDonald's Recently? It's so bizarre - real turf fan
Bigfishchoupique suggested the machines will learn to spit lube oil. Maybe. But they won't be insolent or lazy or loaded with attitude. ...
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re: 75th birthday suggestions - real turf fan
A quality, strong and long shoe horn. It's something that he will use every morning. A telephone with adjustable loudness, his hearing may be beginning to fail. E subscriptions to several newspapers. ...
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re: 11yo Ville Platte native recognized for prized turkey carving with late father’s tools - real turf fan
I expected to see a wild turkey. A far handsomer bird....
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re: Dublin rioting - real turf fan
With hellish irony, the stabbing stopped when another immigrant (working as a food delivery guy) took off his bicycle helmet and used it to knock the perp out cold. ...
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re: Is Black Friday Shopping Dead? - real turf fan
cabbage patch dolls were followed by Tickle Me Elmo. They were must have toys for a lot of the middle class. (One daughter we know received eight different cabbage patch dolls). Does anybody stand in line of video games?...
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re: PETA posted about turkeys eating humans - real turf fan
A friend was doing field work in Columbia and their food suppliers had missed a delivery. Thanksgiving was coming and a different delivery person decided that they would enjoy turkey for the holiday sp he dropped a turkey along with their regular supplies. But his turkey looked a whole lot like ...
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re: I just got home from watching Napoleon... - real turf fan
[quote]I would love to see a lengthy, well thought out series on Napoleon. Something like a 10-epsiode mini-series that HBO has done well in the past.[/quote] Four or five decades ago, the French produced a 'movie' about Napoleon that was so long that the parts of it were shown in French Theaters...
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re: Meanwhile in Dallas - real turf fan
[quote]why does she always wear those weird gloves on her hands though?[/quote] Because the skin on women's hands gets thinner and wrinkly and gloves hide age. Once one's hands reach 70, they show age and there's no treatment or face lift that works because the skin is so thin and slow to heal fr...
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re: Tennessee and Texas…. - real turf fan
[quote]General Sam Houston and his Texas Army won the Battle of San Jacinto and declared Texas Independence![/quote] Sam Houston was East Tennessee. Had he married the young woman from Grainger County, he'd never have left. But her Daddy built her a brick home just up the road from where we live...
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re: Ideas for a trip with older teens for 3-4 full days. - real turf fan
Fly to Newfoundland. Visit the first european settlement in the NeW World (Aux en Meadows), Walk the Grand Morne Park, take the longest ferry ride down to Nova Scotia and visit the area the French Canadians were expelled from. Salmon fish. East Lobster. Fundy tides. Fly home from Halifax....
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re: Tennessee and Texas…. - real turf fan
[quote]PS Texas = UT Come and take it if you don’t like it.[/quote] I strongly suggest you get your overinflated arse down to San Antonio and visit the Shrine to the Alamo. Take a look at the different state flags represented and then have someone read to you the names and states represented ...
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