Listen up, people. I've lived 1/2 my life in CT and 1/2 my life in VA.

Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:52 PM
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Listen up, people. I've lived 1/2 my life in CT and 1/2 my life in VA.

You know what? No difference. People are people. There are assholes everywhere and great folks everywhere.

Get. Over. It.

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KitchenWitch

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:52 PM
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1. ...

:thumbsup:

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:56 PM
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2. True.

But its sooo much fun to argue about it anyway! ;)

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malta blue

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:57 PM
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3. Hey, who are you calling asshole?

:popcorn:

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:59 PM
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5. Not you, sweets. The folks who think the Civil War needs to

be re-fought.

Like we have fucking time for that. :eyes:

We have WORK to do, people!!!!!

Chop. Chop.

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malta blue

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:00 PM
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9. Chop chop is right!

:wtf: is going on in here?

See what happens when I can't DU from work anymore ;)

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Fire Walk With Me

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:19 PM
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20. Chop chop?

Don't you mean Slap Chop?

Perhaps we can get Vince to do a Civil War Re-enactment theme for one of his products.

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:58 PM
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4. You got that right, my dear Midlo...

:hug:

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Blue Dog Dominion

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Thu Jan-29-09 08:59 PM
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6. How else would people poop?

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:11 PM
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13. It would help if you made sense when you post.

:thumbsup:

Series. You'll fit in better.

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Blue Dog Dominion

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:25 PM
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50. You are the one who said "there are assholes everywhere", like you have a problem with assholes.

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:26 PM
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51. Um, okay.

:eyes:

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bigwillq

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:00 PM
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7. But the North still rocks!

:bounce: :P ;) :)

:hide:

:rofl:

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Symarip

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:00 PM
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8. SHHHHHHH....

I'm listening.

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TK421

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:00 PM
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10. And let me guess...your CT years were much better, right?

just kidding! :D I understand what you are saying, and have started a somewhat similar thread on this

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:02 PM
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11. That explains the air of "Hartford Elite" about you.

:rofl:

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:10 PM
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12. Oh, sweet Jesus. Hartford? Puleez.

I'm an elitist fool. Fairfield County. The Gold Coast.

:woohoo:

:rofl:

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:14 PM
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14. Oh Jeebus. Don't tell me your from Fairfield County.

Spent 20 years in various parts of that county. NOT GREENWICH!!

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:15 PM
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15. YOU SPENT THE WORST FUCKING YEAR OF YOUR LIFE...

Oh wait...is there ANYWHERE you lived happily? :rofl:

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:43 PM
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31. Thanks, Snyder!

Maybe I just enjoy torturing myself!

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:15 PM
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16. Darien and Stamford.

Taught school there for 10 years.

:woohoo:

My one bedroom apartment overlooking a funeral home's parking lot was more per month than the mortgage on my house here.

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:18 PM
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19. I spent a few days in Darien a few years back.

Nice place..:)

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:20 PM
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21. It actually is a nice place.

I had the distinct pleasure of knowing one of the famous Darien rapist's victims. Alex Kelly. The kid who fled to Sweden. Good times, good times. :eyes:

Happened in Stamford, though, which at the time had some very questionable parts of town. That poor girl. Never has been the same.

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:40 PM
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28. BTW, Wasn't there a bar named "gray goose" in downtown near the train station?

Actually, I preferred the diner that opened along route 1 in 97!

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:26 PM
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52. I left in 1991.

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:30 PM
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24. Public or Private School.

We lived in Norwalk for six years in the late 90's.

Yeah, we also lived in Bridgeport for a couple of years. Got to meet "bordeaux Joe" Ganim.

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:36 PM
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26. Both actually.

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:36 PM
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57. TM was born in Norwalk Hospital in 1990.

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madinmaryland

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Fri Jan-30-09 08:04 AM
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64. My daughter was born in Norwalk Hospital in 1997.

We lived a half block away, and I almost made my wife walk to the hospital to deliver the baby. I didn't! That's a joke!!

:hi:

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Midlodemocrat

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Fri Jan-30-09 08:32 AM
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66. OMG! How fuinny! What a coincidence!

At the time, we actually lived about an hour away in Monroe, so when I went into labor, we were racing to the hospital.

Little did I know that none of the Midlets would make an appearance before 24 hours of labor. :eyes:

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DeepBlueC

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:25 PM
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23. Hartford has not HAD an elite for decades

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flvegan

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:34 PM
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25. You calling Midlo "old"???

:popcorn:

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DeepBlueC

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:56 PM
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60. No

I thought she was saying she had nothing to do with Hartford, fortunately for her. I was saying of course that I am supposing she is far too young to have been of the Hartford elite even if she had been in Hartford. :shrug:

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Midlodemocrat

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Fri Jan-30-09 07:46 AM
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62. That comment will prevent you from ever being on the DTM list.

DTM - Dead to Me/Midlo.

:rofl:

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DeepBlueC

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Fri Jan-30-09 02:42 PM
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69. yay!

:fistbump:

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Captain Hilts

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:10 PM
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41. Hepburn died in 2003, so yeah. And she lived in Old Saybrook anyway.

Edited on Thu Jan-29-09 10:12 PM by Captain Hilts

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Xipe Totec

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:17 PM
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17. Speak for yourself; I'm a Masshole now

Formerly a Texas wetback.

:P

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:17 PM
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18. Well, Texas. Seriously. What more can I say.

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

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Xipe Totec

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:20 PM
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22. At least I'm not a Texas Goat Roper

That would be...

... Bad...

:evilgrin:

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texanwitch

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:41 PM
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29. I hadn't heard the term Goat Roper in a long time.

That takes me back to high school.

There were all these fake cowboys walking around the school, we called them shit kickers also.

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Xipe Totec

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:48 PM
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32. At least you know I'm not faking it

I know the term, and what it means...

I went to UT Pan American, back when it was Pan American University.

:hi:

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texanwitch

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:53 PM
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34. I was closer to a cowboy then they were.

I grew up around cattle.

:hi:

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Xipe Totec

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:57 PM
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36. I'm the kid on the right...

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texanwitch

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:12 PM
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42. I almost killed by a cow that had a very young calf, just a few days old.

I some how jumped a six foot barb wire fence, that was a close one.

Was that your calf?

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Xipe Totec

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:18 PM
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46. Not my calf,

I was summer ranch help at a friend's ranch.

In Tamaulipas Mexico.

I've also helped deliver a breeched calf in Veracruz, Mexico.

Nothing like having your arm, up to the shoulder, up a cow's vagina trying to grab hold of a calf that doesn't know which way is out...

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texanwitch

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:38 PM
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58. My Grandpa did that a few times.

It was so cool to see a calf be born.

One cow always had twins, every time.

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:36 PM
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27. Both states are terrible

:hide:

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:41 PM
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30. Pffth! This coming from the turnpike state!

:rofl:

Which exit??

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:02 PM
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37. I don't live near the turnpike

And the "which exit" joke is even lamer than Maryland.

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:07 PM
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39. Mighty sensitive about that!

:shrug:

Yeah, Maryland is a bit lame. A bit too many fundies for me!

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:15 PM
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44. It's just like the lamest NJ joke ever

I mean, at least make fun of Secuacus or something.

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:19 PM
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47. Sorry, but I'll joke about any area, and anywhere.

Nowhere is sacred to me.

:shrug:

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TK421

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:48 PM
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33. An excellent post, Midlo...and here is a video for you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik

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Captain Hilts

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Thu Jan-29-09 09:55 PM
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35. They even have them in Canada. Really, they do.

Edited on Thu Jan-29-09 09:56 PM by Captain Hilts

And, I too, have spent chunks of my life in Conn. and VA.

They're both tight-assed states with strange liquor laws.

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:04 PM
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38. Yeah. CT is really fucked with the liquor laws.

No alcohol sales after 9 (used to be 8) and none on Sunday. :wtf:

Many a beer runs on sunday to NY State!!

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Captain Hilts

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:09 PM
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40. You weren't even permitted to LOOK at beer after 8pm on a Sat. night in CT. nt

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:13 PM
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43. They would put drapes over the beer in the fridge aisle in the grocery store

after 8 pm.

:rofl:

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Captain Hilts

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:16 PM
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45. Yeah, I thought that was the craziest damned thing I'd ever seen. It's right up there. nt

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Midlodemocrat

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Fri Jan-30-09 07:47 AM
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63. Oh, God. I remember that!!!!!

:rofl:

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madinmaryland

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Fri Jan-30-09 08:06 AM
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65. Oh, and 7:55pm in the Grocery stores, the would make the "last call" announcement

"You have FIVE minutes to purchase any alcoholic beverages."

:rofl:

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:21 PM
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48. Or to RI

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Captain Hilts

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:23 PM
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49. For sailors in Groton, CT it was the ferry to Fishers Island, NY. nt

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:28 PM
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54. Actually, I did go to MA a couple of times when I was in Hartford.

Other than that from Danbury and Norwalk, it was NY.

Even from Watertown and Bridgeport, it was NY!!

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:27 PM
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53. Seriously? You think so? You can buy beer/wine

here 24/7.

:shrug:

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:31 PM
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55. Thanks for the update, Midlo. Now I know where to go to get boxed wine at midlonight!!

:hide:

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:31 PM
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56. It's true. It shocked me when I moved here, but you

can buy beer or wine 24/7.

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HarukaTheTrophyWife

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Fri Jan-30-09 07:34 AM
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61. That part made me sad about moving back to NJ

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kwassa

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Thu Jan-29-09 10:47 PM
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59. well, Virginia is just on the wrong side of the Potomac.

no getting past that. Unsolvable problem.

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seabeyond

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:25 AM
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67. i have lived 60% in calif and 40% of life in texas. hm. lol. n/t

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SOteric

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:41 AM
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68. Basically true, however -

If you want to find douchebags, you have to go to DS1istan.

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Midlodemocrat

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Fri Jan-30-09 03:04 PM
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71. Good point.

However, I can't get there from here. :cry:

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madinmaryland

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Fri Jan-30-09 02:44 PM
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70. Interesting my breakdown is as follows:

45% - Ohio
45% - CT
10% - Maryland

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Fri Jan-30-09 03:09 PM
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72. In his classic essay "Self Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson said...

..."My giant goes with me wherever I go"...

He was basically saying the same thing. It's not the people who change from town to town. It's our attitude as we travel. We go looking for good people and we find them. We go looking for assholes and we're never disappointed.

:toast:

The actual quote and link to the essay:

Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

http://emerson.thefreelibrary.com/Essays-First-Series/2-1-2

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