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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:06 PM
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This place is fucking insane.
And I've been part of that insanity for almost ten years.

Thank you, my friends and fellow DUers, for everything. Even the bad stuff.

It's all part of the package.

Here's to you, as we come to close out another year.

:toast:

:hug:

Better days, friends. Better days.

:)
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:07 PM
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1. Insanity tastes better with milk, but even better with was
:)
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:22 PM
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59. A Pound of Flesh
for the main course makes the meal even sweeter.
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:09 PM
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2. I agree with you.
I can handle the negativity, because the positive more than makes up for it.

It is always interesting and informative.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:14 PM
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3. You can always tell the writers by their subject lines.
Here I was expecting Will on a tear, a big 2003 bring-down-the-house rant - and instead I get a mushy pillow-post.

You're going soft. :D
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:15 PM
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4. Derp.
:P
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:18 PM
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5. I still believe in miracles and magic, Will.
Maybe next year will bring enough "interesting times" that people will be forced to find their miracles and magic.

Certainly will be interesting, certainly will be different.

So, here's to...courage, and a sense of humor.:toast:
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:26 PM
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6. And to Xanax
:toast:
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 07:13 PM
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72. ...
:hug: +a gazillion! :rofl:

Jenn
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:26 PM
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7. Serenity now... insanity later.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:26 PM
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8. Derp?
Edited on Thu Dec-23-10 10:27 PM by Hawkeye-X
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:42 PM
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10. Thunder Derp
So much Derp...
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:48 AM
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28. I gotta tell ya...
Edited on Fri Dec-24-10 04:48 AM by SDuderstadt
I have no idea what "derp" means. Apparently, I am late to the party on this.

HELP!
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 07:22 AM
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30. It pretty much means what you think it means, i.e. What it sounds like.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/iphone/#define?term=derp

derp

A simple, undefined reply when an ignorant comment or action is made. Brought to life in the South Park series, when Mr. Derp made a guest apperance at South Park Elementary as the chef for a day, followed by hitting himself in the head with a hammer and exclaiming "Derp!"

I am t0tally c00l3r than 7u n00bs.

Derp.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:08 AM
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32. I hate to admit it, but...
Edited on Fri Dec-24-10 10:09 AM by SDuderstadt
I have never, ever watched South Park. I have also never seen Seinfeld.

I am hopeless.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:49 AM
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34. This is Derp.


Speaks for itself, really. :)
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puebloknot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:39 PM
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48. DERP, in Pig Latin is ...
... ERP-DAY.

Eers-Chay!
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:42 PM
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50. I saw a couple of Seinfeld clips on YouTube.
Other than that, I'm with you. Haven't watched TV in decades.

Is Bonanza still on? Lorne Greene must be getting kind of old for all that horseback stuff now.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:21 PM
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58. "Bonanza" became...
"My Three Sons".

I think.
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BobbyBoring Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:03 PM
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57. You're not alone
I even tried a few times. A friend told me that if I watched Sienfeld, I would understand certain behavior. Guess I'll have to try something else although it does esplan 1 thing~
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:41 PM
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18. Oh, that's a whole lotta creepy.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:18 AM
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20. I'm getting a tic just watching it.
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pengillian101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 09:24 PM
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79. OMG
Too funny!
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:42 PM
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9. Is this one of those "sex threads" I hear so much about in the Lounge?
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:45 PM
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11. Here's a shot of Jamesons for you and
everyone for a better and more prosperous New Year. :beer:
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:17 PM
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45. For a relaxing pick me up
1 large mug of GOOD coffee
1 shot Jamesons
1 shot Kahlua
1 shot Bailey's

I highly reccomend it!!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 03:04 PM
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52. Sounds like a good Christmas Eve drink.
Thanks for the recipe.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 10:58 PM
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12. Better days are upon us.....keep the faith....GOPers floundering, DEMs Rising
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KittyLover Donating Member (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:02 PM
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13. Agreed.
I love Jameson, btw. May all my DU friends have a GREAT, FANTASTIC, and INFORMATIVE 2011! This place is great.

Keep the faith, boys and girls. Better days are on the horizon.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:07 PM
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14. Better Days, cheers!
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Duval Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 06:25 PM
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69. Thanks for the link!
:hug:
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snappyturtle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:17 PM
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15. Cheers and hugs to all!
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:24 PM
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16. Tainted Love.
:hi:

RL
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:38 PM
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17. Here, here
To better days :toast: :party:
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-23-10 11:44 PM
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19. Well, the last ten years have been interesting.
That's an understatement.
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:45 AM
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21. K&R Here's to you Will.
Sometimes I get my ass kicked here, and sometimes I post something that gets a hundred recs (guess which happens more often... on second thought, don't). I keep coming back though, because, of the relatively few message boards I've posted on (and this has been the ONLY one I've posted on for the last few years) this one is by FAR the most entertaining.

We'll never change the world here, but it's sure fun to think we could, and even more fun to argue with those who disagree with us.

Better Days Indeed.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:50 AM
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22. "This place is fucking insane."
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:59 AM
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23. Kampai!!
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:13 AM
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24. I think we should have a New Years Eve party.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:27 AM
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25. DU has been insanely helping my sanity since first BushCo term!
Thanks Will, and other insane DUers too!
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:22 AM
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26. That pretty much sums it up.
And I wouldn't have it any other way!

Cheers fellow DUrs!

:toast:
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:20 AM
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27. Boggles the mind, almost a decade in the Underground now!
Cheers to everyone!
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Le Taz Hot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 05:37 AM
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29. Are you leaving for good . . .
again? :hide:
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 08:55 AM
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31. It would be worse "if we weren't all crazy"
That's the Parrothead in me.

Seriously, here's hoping for a better year (2011)

:toast:
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:12 AM
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33. True...all of it.
:toast: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:57 AM
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35. Insanity is the new normal
Edited on Fri Dec-24-10 10:57 AM by lunatica
Here's a Christmas card for you

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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:59 AM
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36. I knew I should have pulled those drapes!-
I thank the powers that be for you guys every day.

My sanity through the insanity...I'm not going anywhere

Love you all,my friends.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 11:23 AM
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37. A happy Derp to you Sir.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 11:29 AM
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38. The BEES! n/t
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 12:35 PM
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39. In my head.
Bees. Bees that Derp. Derp Bees. In my head.



Derp.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:20 PM
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40. The insanity keeps me coming back for more.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:31 PM
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41. Derp?


To better days.

:toast:
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:36 PM
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42. Better days, Bro. Better days, Pitt.
Edited on Fri Dec-24-10 01:38 PM by ClassWarrior
:toast:

Never Give Up.

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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 01:56 PM
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43. well DU dysfunctional family we have made it!!
Have a good one, and yes insanity has its good points and bad.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:14 PM
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44. you swore - I'm telling
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:18 PM
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46. Takes one to know one!
Merry Christmas, Will - and thanks for all your marvelous writing. We need you cloned.

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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:24 PM
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47. But its NOT Einstein's Definition of insane,,, Wouldnt be anywhere else
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

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felix_numinous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:39 PM
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49. I'm crazy
but not insane ;-)

:toast: To all you good people!
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BetsysGhost Donating Member (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 02:45 PM
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51. I believe in Miracles
B-) :+ B-)

:toast:
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 03:13 PM
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53. I disagree.
It's just plain crazy.

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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 03:14 PM
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54. "This place is fucking insane."
That's what my brain cells say.
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tpsbmam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 03:31 PM
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55. I actually found sanity when I landed here!
I was out in the Bush/Cheney wilderness on my own (well, with some 3-D friends) before discovering DU. My best friend died in 2006 -- it's no accident that I joined in 2006 when I lost the person with whom I discussed politics for hours every week. So this place was an outlet for my outrage and a place I could be with like-minded people and a place I could numb out and not think about my wonderful friend no longer being here.

So, as insane as it is, it still provides a saner place than so much of the rest of the world these days!

Cheers!

:party: :toast:

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woofless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 03:41 PM
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56. Backatcha Bro'.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:26 PM
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60. "Better days."
It's always about "better days"--that today was better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better than today.

And it's about "hope"--the hope that we'll have better days, for without hope, we have nothing.

There's a reason Dante included his famous phrase above the entrance to Hell...

:toast: Here's to DU!
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 04:33 PM
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61. That's it. I'm leaving DU. (nt)
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 05:06 PM
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62. HAPPY HOLIDAYS ...
CHEERS :TOAST:
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Plucketeer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 05:08 PM
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63. It's a madness I LOVE!
BEST WISHES TO ALL AT DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND!!!!!







BOEHNER - McCONNELL JOBS PROGRAM
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haydukelives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 05:36 PM
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64. "Better days"
From your lips to gods ears
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Scottybeamer70 Donating Member (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 05:57 PM
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65. I love this insane place!
Just discovered this place not too many months ago.....wish I had discovered it
a lot sooner! I believe there are some truly wonderful people in here.
We have to be a little insane to put up with those who think they are sane!!
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Duval Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 06:13 PM
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66. Oh, it HAS been almost
ten years! WRP, you were an inspiration when you came to speak at UNC-Chapel Hill. I have been an activist since then and thanks so much for writing your books and being one of the first to speak out. Your input has been invaluable.:bounce: :hi: :thumbsup: :grouphug: :fistbump: :yourock:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 06:18 PM
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67. God, I remember that night
Such a great place, such great people.

:hug:

Thank you.
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Duval Donating Member (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 06:53 PM
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70. It gave me chills that you remember! :)
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juajen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 06:21 PM
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68. Back atcha!
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 07:10 PM
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71. I have followed you...
since day one. I also have been here since almost, inception. I have always read your posts, even chastised you once. I am so very grateful to know someone so articulate, wise, intelligent...and so forth. There are SO many here; however, to me, you were the first.

Thank you, Will, for all you have contributed! :hug:

Jenn
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 07:27 PM
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73. well... i used to be rchsod but after a few years i've become mad!
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 07:41 PM
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74. Happy Days!
and nights! :hi: :beer: :smoke: :party:


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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 08:25 PM
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75. Indeedy-do!
:bounce: :hug:
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 08:56 PM
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76. Happy Holidays!
:thumbsup:

PB
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 09:00 PM
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77. Happy Christmas (War is Over)
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 09:15 PM
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78. Rock on, my friend
rock on.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-24-10 10:06 PM
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80. Still ClayZ, after all these years.
Cheers!

K and R
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