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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 10:59 PM
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Some days I just want to take off...
hop in my car, and drive away.

Disappear.

Go somewhere that I don't exist.

Leave it all behind.

think anyone would notice me if I took off in one of these:



Perhaps, a pink cadillac would actually be the way to hide, no one would ever think SPK would be driving that.

Do you ever want to just leave it all behind you, say FUCK IT ALL!

:shrug:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:00 PM
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1. Yes, with alarming regularity!
:hi:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:02 PM
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5. well what stops ya?
right now I"m having a hard time finding reasons to not just go

:shrug:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:03 PM
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8. Inertia...and Money
The killer of all fantasies.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:07 PM
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14. some people just go
but yeah

x(
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:01 PM
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2. I do quite often
Never happens though.

:hug:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:03 PM
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9. yeah
i think about it often too inchy

never happens :(

:hug:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:01 PM
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3. The thing about a pink Cadillac
is that everyone would notice the car...but very few people notice the driver. Probably would be a good way to hide.

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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:04 PM
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10. my thoughts exactly RRR
and who would expect to see me in it?
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:05 PM
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12. Pink is the official color of SEPs
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

If you want to disappear, you paint yourself pink and people will completely ignore you, deciding you are "Somebody Else's Problem", and will mysteriously disappear into the background.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:40 PM
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25. i might try that
:P
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:01 PM
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4. that's a bit ostentatious
Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 11:02 PM by kagehime
how about this?



then we'd match!

:rofl:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:05 PM
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13. I want to get away
not get towed away :P

okay

whatever, the vehicle matters little other than can it get me away
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:15 PM
Response to Reply #13
22. i know the feeling
and it's damn hard some days for me to not following through on it
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:21 PM
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23. right this minute
i might could do it

but then as KW said, inertia, and lack of money hit.

:(

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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:02 PM
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6. I thought that you were going to say "my clothes". In public or something.
To each their own :crazy: :hi:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:09 PM
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15. I don't want to scare anyone
so no

not that

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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:10 PM
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18. Are we both at that place where the only benefit we can gain from taking our clothes off
is to frighten people? :)
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:13 PM
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21. apparently that is the true
American reality

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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:02 PM
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7. That's an SEP!
No wonder you disappeared!
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:09 PM
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16. ...
:shrug:

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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:10 PM
Original message
Somebody Else's Problem field
Edited on Wed Jan-02-08 11:14 PM by Xipe Totec
The Somebody Else's Problem field (SEP field) is a fictional technology from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" by Douglas Adams. It is a cheaper and more practical alternative to an invisibility field. A similar concept has been used in other British science fiction.

In the novel, there is a character mentioned to try and create an invisibility field, and given a year, (with a bet on his life) he could render an entire mountain invisible. It's said he spent so much time fiddling with an invisibility field which never worked, that at the very last possible second, he did the most drastic last-minute work ever seen by the known Universe, and by the deadline, the mountain was gone from vision. However, he lost the bet shortly afterwards because there was a curious new moon discovered around the same time. Had he instead painted the mountain pink and erected an SEP field around it, he would probably have won, as most people don't expect to see a pink mountain, especially when someone claims it invisible (or absent).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem_field

Sorry, you'll have to fiddle with the apostrophe to get the search to work right.


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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:09 AM
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49. sounds good
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Hayabusa Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:05 PM
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11. Reminds me of a song.
No more upset mornings
No more tired evenings
This American dream
I am disbelieving

When the gas in my tank
Feels like money in the bank
Gonna blow it all this time
Take me one last ride

For the lights of this city
They only look good when I'm speeding
Gonna leave em all behind me
Cause this time

I'm gone

Long gone
This time I'm letting go of it all
So long
Cause this time I'm gone

In the far off distance
As my tail-lights fade
No one thinks to witness
But they will someday

Feel like a question is forming
and the answers far
I will be what i could be
Once I get out of this town

For the lights of this city
They have lost all feeling
Gonna leave em all behind me
Cause this time

I'm gone

Long gone
This time I'm letting go of it all
So long
Long gone, I'm letting go of it all
Cause this time I'm gone

If nothing is everything
If nothing is everything, I'll have it all
If nothing is everything
If nothing is everything, I'll have it all

I am gone

***

Gone, by Pearl Jam
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:10 PM
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19. i am gone
feel it man
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:10 PM
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17. unless you change SSNs,
you exist
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:12 PM
Response to Reply #17
20. true


yeah, i would exist just somewhere else
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:40 PM
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24. not since I got over my exhaustion and depression
that caddy would lift anyone's spirits :rofl:

dude, be kind to yourself, you still got healing to do after the last year you lived through

but hey, if finances allow, go rent a big ass Caddy and take a drive to Branson, or Memphis or Carlsbad :evilgrin:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:42 PM
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26. ain't goin' to Branson or Memphis
Carlsbad would be more what i might do

but

i don't wanna go where it is cold though.

warm

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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:46 PM
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32. yeah, warm's gonna be a couple months yet
sorry about that

I need to take a trip to Nevada to say goodbye to a dear friend (who 12 stepped me after years of being my bestest drinking buddy) cuz the docs gave him 6-9 months before the cancer kills him

I'm going in late march and praying for decent weather but I fear I can't wait too much longer than that.

:hug:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:47 PM
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35. ...
glad they took the time to 12 step you AZ

you're special

and you're just regular folks too

and I lurve ya man

:hug:
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:50 PM
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39. I love you too d00d
and yeah, he's been a great friend to me for years.

I gots to go see him yanno?

So take a minute to count your blessings, then rent a big ass Caddy and go to a warm place for the weekend.

I hear NOLA is open for biz ;)
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:55 PM
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42. yeah
a weekend :(

need to just go
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:59 PM
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45. trust me
no matter where you go, there you are.

never run away from anything

only run TOWARDS things that bring you joy.

I've done so many geographics in my life it's ridiculous and the only ones that ever worked were the ones I ran TOWARDS

like this last one, NM has been great but I wasn't leaving anything behind when I left

your situation, not so much.......

but it's fun to dream sometimes, so knock your self out and have a blast

:bounce:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:07 AM
Response to Reply #45
47. okay
all i do is dream
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:43 PM
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27. Yeah, all the time.
and the same thing that stops me stops you.

RL
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:44 PM
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30. well fuck all
being a grown up sucks
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:48 PM
Response to Reply #30
36. Yeah, doesn't it though?
If I could take off AND bring the kids with me?

Zoom!

RL
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:49 PM
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38. yup
Zoom...

be gone like the wind

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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:44 PM
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28. today...especially, today
...:cry:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:45 PM
Response to Reply #28
31. well let's go!
today, tomorrow

any day will do

:hi:

:hug:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:44 PM
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29. Got room in there for me?
I feel like that sometimes too...


The only problem is...


Just about everything I love...

Is right here...

And on DU too...

*sigh*


:hug:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:46 PM
Response to Reply #29
33. see
never mind

:hug:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:47 PM
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34. I am not going to copycat it
I am not going to copycat it. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not! :silly:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:48 PM
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37. it makes no difference to me if you do
copycat away

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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:01 AM
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46. Wait, wait. Just let me say, then I'll feel better.
Some days I just want to take it off...


If only I could find the old video of the lady dancing with the giant fans..... :rofl:




Ok, I'll be good now. :D
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:08 AM
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48. as i said upthread
i don't wanna scare anyone

but yeah

some days i just wanna take it off too

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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:53 PM
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40. No, not at all...
I want to be right here, loving my husband and being loved, and being happy forever...I can hope. :)

:hug:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:54 PM
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41. i'm glad for you bibaby
i hope it stays that way for you forever :hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:55 PM
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43. I'm hopeful yet realistic...
We all know that life is not perfect, and I damn sure know that mine isn't. But the good parts are wonderful, and I want them to stay that way.

:hug:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 11:56 PM
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44. yeah me too
:hug:
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:20 AM
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50. All the damn time.
Since my girlfriend dumped me, I think about it all the time. :evilfrown:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:48 AM
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51. ...
:pals:

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From The Ashes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-03-08 12:51 AM
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52. I did it...
...it's not for the faint hearted, that's for sure. :hi:
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