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Guilty as charged.
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this is true Laughing emoticon
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If life gives you lemons…

Actually life never gave us lemons. Lemons are a man made cross breed between a citron and a sour orange. If you've been given lemons it's from other people. People suck.
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znomit wrote:
If life gives you lemons…

Actually life never gave us lemons. Lemons are a man made cross breed between a citron and a sour orange. If you've been given lemons it's from other people. People suck.
So it's no wonder that lemons make one pucker?
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This seems to apply to many things, riding included:

Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that's why life is hard.
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And stupidity is like death.

When you are dead you don't know, but everyone else does.

Being stupid is the same.
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I was at a Jimmy Buffett concert many years ago, and it was an outdoor venue.
And it was POURING rain.

Buckets.

My not-wife-yet-at-the-time was miserable. Wet rat sort of image.

So I grabbed her and said, very seriously, "You can only get so wet."
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skids wrote:
I frequently wonder when I witness stupid acts how does it not hurt the stupid actor? I think you are right they just don't know!
I had a chief in the Navy that told me many times, "Mather, there's no sense in being stupid unless you show it."
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My Dad told me,
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Don't piss off your Mother
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From Neil Gaiman's American Gods:

Lowkey: "Do not [mess] with [women] in airports."
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been down so long it looks like up to me

Richard Fariña


Genghis Khan and his brother Don
Couldn't keep on keepin' on

Dylan

"your other left dammit!"

"Mens, this morning...."

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skids wrote:
The mental picture I get is that this can only mean that your face wasn't showing enough pain when you realized what you had done and looked over to see the Chief staring right at you. As your eyes met you were not showing enough emotion or enough pain too much of a blank look still as it hadn't completely sunken in yet...
LOL! While what you say is true, I was really just a 19 year old dumb ass!<G>

Thanks, Skids!
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pigletpilot wrote:
And stupidity is like death.

When you are dead you don't know, but everyone else does.

Being stupid is the same.
If a man tells you he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or a Gurkha
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so fish and chips I love. I know this has gone away from the first post but I love food and really love fish and chips. My wife and I took a British isles cruise a number of years ago. I had the local bear and local fish and chips every place we stopped. Each was a little different but all so tasty. I now live in AZ and good fish and chips is a bit harder to find and most are just not like what I had in the British isles. Oh well just though i should post.
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LarryMK how was the bear? [/quote]
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The only thing worse than failure is the failure to try.

I tell my kids to always try their best, even if the outcome may not be what they hoped. Then again, they may surprise themselves!
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Statement on my tombstone will be:

"I looked so good, because you all were so mediocre - Thank you"

Ba dee ba da,

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Jimjar wrote:
@LarryMK how was the bear? }
i guess I need to read better before posting
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My Mother asked me:*
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Please don't piss off your Father.
*I didn't because she's my mom.
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znomit wrote:
If life gives you lemons…

Actually life never gave us lemons. Lemons are a man made cross breed between a citron and a sour orange. If you've been given lemons it's from other people. People suck.
I like lemon ice cream, lemon cake, lemon cookies and all are manmade delights from lemons which were created by we humans. I once had a California uncle who had lemons & grapefruit that allowed to tree ripen all the way were seriously sweet. All citrus we eat and use is bred by humans, whats the problemo?
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
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Some people value their time by how much they can make from it.
Others choose to value their time by how much they have left of it.

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Larry, The Brits make their batter for the fish with beer...
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Larry/Fud,

It is tough getting good fish and chips here in Minnesota.

I think Fud is right - the secret is fresh fish and the batter.
Also, freshly cut potatoes for chips. So much is frozen first here
or processed.

You almost have to go to a high end restaurant to get fresh made
on the spot. Although, we have a chain restaurant out of "Wisconsin"
called Culvers that has some pretty taste fish. The State of Wisconsin
is known for their Friday night fish fries - very good. Large
Catholic population in Milwaukee that have perfected their Friday
nigh fish fries over the years.

Bob Copeland
Great batter - fresh fish.  I expect not as good as in Joy Old England
Great batter - fresh fish. I expect not as good as in Joy Old England
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Ignorance is bliss.
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Bob Copeland wrote:
You almost have to go to a high end restaurant to get fresh made
on the spot. Although, we have a chain restaurant out of "Wisconsin"
called Culvers that has some pretty taste fish. The State of Wisconsin
is known for their Friday night fish fries - very good. Large
Catholic population in Milwaukee that have perfected their Friday
nigh fish fries over the years.
There has been a fish restaurant in Portland (Hawthorne Fish House) which serves fish and chips using a variety of different fishes. The walleye and the yellow perch (both from the Midwest Region) are excellent!
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Two of my brothers died of heart attacks, so this Life Quote comes from my heart:
Quote:
Get your heart checked, dammit!
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Dooglas,

My Dad was a fanatical fisherman who owned a cabin on Lake Mille Lacs
in Northern Minnesota. I was fortunate to have spent all my summers
in my youth at the cabin.

Here is the definition of fresh fish. The Dad's would go fishing and
catch Walleyes. On the same day, they would fillet clean them
and my mom would cook them in thick butter in a iron skillet on the stove.
She would rinse them, coat with flour and stove top cook them in
butter.

Man that was good. I ate fish so often I got sick of it and couldn't
figure out why anyone would order fish at a restaurant.

Fish story from Minnesota "Land of 10,000 Lakes".

Bob Copeland
Sign put up at the local store.  "Closed gone Fishing".
Sign put up at the local store. "Closed gone Fishing".
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