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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:13 PM
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My husband just had Wes Clark ask him for directions in Santa Cruz, CA
Hubby was picking up a drum set across from a media production company - Wes Clark and a couple of guys walked up to him and asked him where 'Digital Media (?)' was, hubby told him. He didn't snap that it was Wes Clark until he had already walked a few feet off. The guy he was buying the drum set said (with awe) "do you know who that was?"

Hubby called me about the encounter - I'm all jealous now!

The REALLY cool thing... Wes Clark is a man that asks for directions!!!

(WES was my man in 2004)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:14 PM
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1. He ASKED FOR DIRECTIONS? I'm in!
:rofl:
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:16 PM
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2. Normally that would be cool in a man
But I want the president to know where he is and how to get where he's going and to have a GPS.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:23 PM
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6. Well, maybe he can not ask for directions publicly so we can pretend
he's all knowing. lol
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:28 PM
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10. Candidates must have a GPS chip implanted dontcha know?!
I swear, there's a killjoy in just about any thread these days. Even one with a nice story like this one. :hi:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:35 PM
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13. I think the poster was just trying to cover all the bases.
lol

:evilgrin:
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:44 PM
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18. Thats me.
:hi:
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:50 PM
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24. Can you imagine Chimp being dropped in the middle of a large city
without a dozen SS agents? It would probably take him an hour to find out the name of the state!
:evilgrin:
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:08 PM
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33. Can we drop him, literally, from a plane or something?
Just kidding, Agent Mike!! :hi:
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:36 PM
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37. and remember, we're talking about a man who needs to have labels all over his clothing
.... just so he knows what his own name is!
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montana_hazeleyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 05:37 AM
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55. H e would probably
stand on the corner sucking his thumb and crying for mommy.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:06 PM
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60. I pick The Green Zone. Green or not, he'll still get a good taste of
how life is NOT a white tie dinner there.
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:32 PM
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12. That tickled my funny bone too...Kudos to the OP..n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:45 PM
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20. Wouldn't it be good to have an Asker in office instead of
a Decider?

lol
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:48 PM
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23. Oh Yeah!! An 'asker' is certainly preferable to a
'decider' any day. Wes Clark somehow went up a few points in my book (I thought he was already at the top) !!!
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:34 PM
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36. A leader asks what the people want a dictator decides what the people need.
Edited on Sat May-05-07 07:37 PM by IChing
I've always respected Wes. The people gave the directions to the decider in the last election
he choose to ignore them and is driving this country, lost and running out of gas on the highway to hell.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:52 PM
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26. LOL
:D
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:16 PM
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3. Did he offer him directions to the White House?
I hope, I hope..............
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:18 PM
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4. If he had recognised him at first he might have!
We donated good $$$ to his primary bid.
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:21 PM
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5. Wes is a great guy
I sure wish they'd pick him up for vice. I was stationed with him at Ft. Irwin CA.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:53 PM
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27. I think he'd be a superb Secretary of State
and that story is beyond cool.
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Wesin04 Donating Member (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:03 PM
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44. Wes deserves the top of the ticket
Why waste that expertise on a Vice? He'd outshine anyone he served with.
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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:23 PM
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7. I could have sworn I saw Jane Goodall at the grocery store last weekend.
I almost said hello, but then I felt ridiculous. It looked just like her, but somehow it seemed impossible that Jane Goodall would be walking around my local grocery store.
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:25 PM
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9. Wes Clark was walking around an industrial area in Santa Cruz..
Why not Jane Goodall in your grocery store!? She would be an amazing person to meet.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:32 PM
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11. New scurrilous and spurious completely unfounded and scandalous DU rumor. . .
Edited on Sat May-05-07 06:32 PM by stellanoir
pssssssst. . .

skinner grocery shops with chimpanzees.

shhhhhhh
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dogman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:05 PM
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31. Was she buying bananas?
Might have been a clue.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:24 PM
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8. THat is sooo cool!!
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:35 PM
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14. He asked for directions?! WOW!
I'm even more in awe of him now than before!!

:wow:
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:37 PM
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15. I am in awe of any man that asks for directions.n/t
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:45 PM
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21. Hey buzzard - did you know you are at 999 posts?
Save that 1000th for something good!
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Ignacio Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:39 PM
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16. Cool encounter!
I had a similar run in with Mark Warner last summer in NYC. I was buying something in SoHo and I randomly ran into him and a staffer of his.
...As for Wes Clark, I really hope he runs, but I'm feeling like he's not gonna do it this time around :(
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:40 PM
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17. Give me a direction askin guy any day

Let's give him directions to the office that will register him to run for PRESIDENT!!!!
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:44 PM
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19. Should have given him directions for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!
:patriot:
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Sweet Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:04 PM
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30. Directions to my house would be cool, too!
I'm just sayin'. :evilgrin:
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:07 PM
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32. well...
Party at your house then!

:party:
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:46 PM
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22. This might be the place, alittlelark
Digital Media Factory
2809 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

http://www.digitalmediafactory.net/index.php

There are a number of stories like this of people running into Wes out and about. One I remember was in a mall when he was buying a suitcase. Lots of them from airports, bookstores, park benches.

I keep saying he needs a damned minion just for appearances :shrug:

I notice Digital Media is partnered with UCLA where Wes is a fellow now. It could have something to do with it.

He has this coming up soon.

“The Art of Strategic Leadership”

Leadership Seminar at the University of California – Los Angeles

General Clark will be speaking to the American Council of Young Political Leaders at a Leadership Seminar (University of California – Los Angeles) in conjunction with the UCLA's School of Public Affiars exclusively for ACYPL alumni and supporters. This program has been custom designed to meet the leadership challenges that confront key decision-makers on a daily basis.

The program will include classroom lectures and highly participatory case studies and exercises led by UCLA faculty and distinguished outside speakers. Registration includes all program materials, reception and dinner on Thursday and Friday evenings, breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday, and all program-related transportation.

Please see the seminar website (“The Art of Strategic Leadership” for registration, accommodations, and http://www.acypl.org/docs/reg_form.pdf for further details about the schedule.

Date: May 17 2007 - 6:00-10:00pm
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:51 PM
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25. I just asked hubby and he said that's the name!
He couldn't remember the last part.

Thanks for that scoop!
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jen4clark Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 09:53 PM
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49. Digital Media Factory
h/t to early-bird at CCN for this:


http://www.digitalmediafactory.net/film/filmproduct.php?prodid=9

Programming the Nation


JEFF WARRICK, Executive Producer, Director
MARTY COLLINS, Producer, Director of Photography

A feature-length documentary about the history of subliminal programming and its alleged uses in modern media. Using a chronological structure, the film covers the first documented case of subliminal technology used in a movie theater during the late 1950's, to its reported examples in popular music, film, advertising, audio & visual self help tapes, and political propaganda.

The project is intended primarily for educational purposes and will be an unbiased, yet thorough exploration on the history of this purported phenomenon. Many facets and differing opinions will be covered through interviews with experts in the field of advertising, psychology, mass media, and scientific research. The film also examines point of views from filmmakers, musicians, politicians, broadcast agencies and other experts.

Initial distribution will focus on educational institutions with course curriculum in communications, journalism, mass media, sociology, political science, graphic design, art history, music, film and television. Subsequent distribution will target film festivals both here and abroad, and eventually to wide, domestic and international theatrical release, television, video and other ancillary markets.
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ArkySue Donating Member (647 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 10:26 PM
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51. Wes Clark at the mall....
I saw both Gen. and Mrs. Clark at the mall around Christmas time a couple of years ago...or rather, he saw me and they came over to say hello. They could have kept walking because I didn't see them til they said hi. How nice is that?? Guess it pays to be a local Clarkie, heh! Needless to say, I was flabbergasted!
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Cameron27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 02:59 AM
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53. That's as nice as it gets !
Lucky you:D
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NCarolinawoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 02:09 PM
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58. I remember the "park bench" story.....
He was getting ready to give a speech in Washington DC, and someone saw him sitting on a park bench by himself, writing the speech or putting the finishing touches on it.

I believe that was the same day that Eric Massa, who was running for Congress, told some Clarkies that when General Clark came to give the speech, he arrived with a strange befuddled look on his face. He told Eric that a woman had come up to him on the street and told him that she loved him. LOL

I think the General was being forced to come to grips with a new kind of celebrity. :) (This was after the 2004 election)
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 06:47 PM
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59. BWHAHAHHAA
:rofl:
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live love laugh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:58 PM
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28. I'm jealous, I wish he would've asked me even though I'm halfway across the country. nt
:silly:
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:03 PM
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29. My husband says he saw Bruce Springsteen filling up his pickup at Raceway
This is in Red Bank, NJ, a few miles from where he lives so it might well be true. Bruce sitings are common and most people make an effort to give him some privacy. Somehow the thought that Bruce would buy discount gas--or wouldn't have his car flunky take the thing out and buy it for him sounded strange but maybe he's just a frugal sort of guy.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:11 PM
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34. Well, Bruce IS the working man's lyrical hero, you know. eom
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:28 PM
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35. I KNEW he was the type of man who would ask for directions! He has NOTHING TO PROVE!
:loveya:
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:07 PM
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61. He must not be worried about the size of "it". nt
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jen4clark Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:43 PM
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38. I lived there
when he ran last time and the Santa Cruz For Clark group was simply amazing! In fact, it was in Santa Cruz that I first heard of General Clark from Michael Moore, Fall of '03.
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Frances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:46 PM
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39. Do you know why he's in Santa Cruz?
nt
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:58 PM
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41. Reply #27 had a theory
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 07:48 PM
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40. that is just awesome. I'd love someone famous like that to ask me for directions
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:00 PM
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42. No kidding.... I wish I'd offered to pick up hubbies drumset for him!
;)
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:03 PM
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43. OMG
You would have passed out on the sidewalk :)
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:14 PM
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45. I honestly don't know what I would have done!
I've had fun the last few minutes thinking about it! I have come up with many scenarios ranging from a handshake and words of respect and admiration to groveling at his feet to enter the race. Many in between as well!
:evilgrin:
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Cameron27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:20 PM
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46. Oh same here.
Edited on Sat May-05-07 08:22 PM by seasonedblue
I probably would have been too flustered to open my mouth. In my daydreams, it works differently:P
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:23 PM
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47. All I could think of was weak knees nt
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windbreeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:22 PM
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63. or....you could do like I did, and totally forget what you were
going to say...!! looked up into those chocolate colored eyes and my mind went blank....and that was AFTER I had traveled about 4,000 miles just to meet him...he has a very firm and warm handshake...
wb
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 08:23 PM
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48. I believe Clark was an Armor officer. (Armor branch in Army)
If he had been infantry - no way would he have asked. He would have walked eighteen miles out of the way first.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 10:20 PM
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50. Very Cool! Clark is just a man.....and a cool one at that!
I remember when he did that MTV video....It was the coolest out of all those running!

You could tell by that one that he's like us, and knows it!

:thumbsup:
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 02:52 AM
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52. COOL
B-) I LOVE Clark :loveya: I so wish he was running this time. :-(
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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 04:27 AM
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54. This thread is dripping estrogen
:evilgrin:

:hide:
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NCarolinawoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 01:47 PM
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56. LOL. You're a brave one.
Yes it is!

:hi:
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 02:07 PM
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57. LOL. What's the deal? Doesn't Wes use MapQuest?
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 07:08 PM
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62. Yep. We love ourselves some Wes! nt
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CarolNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-06-07 11:14 PM
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64. haha! That's a great story....
Thanks for posting it.....How cool....Your lucky husband.
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