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Starving artist - well, not starving, but if you happen to have an extra biscuit lying around . . .
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quote:
Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Have you considered having someone break his knee caps? It's surprisingly cheap. My family had Irish mob connections a few generations back. I'm sure I could get a family discount for you from someone.

I have a friend who'd do it. He has Views about people making girls cry.


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You are a Leprechaun. I'm not even sure what you are. Whiskey-soaked reports from your baffling Isle of Ire raise more questions than they answer. Are you a dwarf? Where's your pickax? If you're an elf, why don't you cobble? You'd think with all your gold, you could invest in some land, perhaps a title, and improve your station. Instead, you hide it in meteorologically-determined locations. You're getting killed on inflation, little friend!
 
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is in perfect karmic alignment
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Royko!
*Stares blankly*
*Mubles something unintelligeable*
*takes a deep breath*
*starts again*
Urhmgigglehrmpthfwrp?


~You are a *Taverner*.
Sometimes patrons want to go where everybody knows their names, though it helps 
when half of them are named John. When people want to celebrate, or commiserate, 
they gather to your establishment. You provide the atmosphere, the warmth, rum, 
and even an ear to bend. Did I mention the rum? Years before the language will be 
mangled with terms like facilitator and networking and interpersonal communication,
you've overseen it all, and broken up a few bar fights, to boot.~
-Royko
 
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Royko's letter made me search out this, from Persuasion - Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne:

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"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."


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There once was a bard of Hong Kong
Who thought limericks were too long.

- Gerard Benson.
 
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jebus, Royko. I'm making the husband study that. for, like, a few hours. and then he will be tested on just how well he understands.

for the redhead's sake, I certainly hope you score an introduction/coffee date.


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dear you,
yeah, you know who you are.....
you are the one who pushed my cart out of the way because it was in your way. you didnt even have the decency to ask me to move it.
you are the one who moved the divider at the checkout line because you didnt want my hippie food mixing with your pre packaged food.
you are the one who always comes to the y, wanting a financial assistance membership yet refusing to show any proof of income or assistance from the state.
you are the one who called me a feminazi because of the stickers on my van.
you are the group of kids that talk all through the movies i go to.
you are the one that would rather sneak into the ymca istead of paying your $400+ past due bill. you are the one who breaks up with someone because they choose to sit at the gay alliance table during club days at school. you are the one that looks at a pollack and says "i dont see why thats art, i could do that". you are the one that bitches constantly about your weight yet are always eating in healthy foods. you are the one that bitches about how people act in your chosen culture yet play into the stereotype.
FUCK YOU!




“The 75 Delirians?”
“Umm… well, number 2 is off sick, 38 is suffering from a mild case of sanity, and 74 has

run off to the world of men to spread sparkly gigglepops to their drab civilization.”
“Is she nuts?”
“Oh yes, she scored very highly on the entrance exam”
 
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Have you considered having someone break his knee caps? It's surprisingly cheap. My family had Irish mob connections a few generations back. I'm sure I could get a family discount for you from someone.

I have a friend who'd do it. He has Views about people making girls cry.


Hell, I'd be willing to do it. I've got similar views. I've offered to do it for friends before. Plus I look slightly psychopathic I could scare some permanent damage into him without doing too much.
 
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Dear Friends Getting a Divorce,

You guys are assholes. You are breaking up over MONEY. MONEY for god's sake! Not only that, you won't return any of my fucking calls to try and get my daughter's heirloom dress back. Now I have the kids asking me why they can't see your daughter anymore and that is the WORST FUCKING FEELING IN THE WORLD!! What have you told your daughter, huh? What? How do you explain to kids that they can't talk to each other anymore because Mom and Dad can't agree on who's gonna be friends with whom?

I'm keeping your Christmas presents (except your daughters).

-me


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Discordian Priestess, Keeper of the Golden Pine-Apple.

Jesus was a community organizer.


blog or not
 
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Dear Royko,

You *are* the best.

(Okay, right after Thirith. But that's still pretty far up. Smile)


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Starving artist - well, not starving, but if you happen to have an extra biscuit lying around . . .
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
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Originally posted by Marvinmarymac:
quote:
Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Have you considered having someone break his knee caps? It's surprisingly cheap. My family had Irish mob connections a few generations back. I'm sure I could get a family discount for you from someone.

I have a friend who'd do it. He has Views about people making girls cry.


Hell, I'd be willing to do it. I've got similar views. I've offered to do it for friends before. Plus I look slightly psychopathic I could scare some permanent damage into him without doing too much.

*looks carefully at El Leprechaun*
You don't have family from the Mourne area, do you?


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You are a Leprechaun. I'm not even sure what you are. Whiskey-soaked reports from your baffling Isle of Ire raise more questions than they answer. Are you a dwarf? Where's your pickax? If you're an elf, why don't you cobble? You'd think with all your gold, you could invest in some land, perhaps a title, and improve your station. Instead, you hide it in meteorologically-determined locations. You're getting killed on inflation, little friend!
 
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Maybe distant family. But we sadly left Ireland for America a few generations back. So no one I'd know of.
 
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Dear Royko,

quote:
I want to be forced to invent new and as yet unheard god-names to gasp in reverie.


Fucking poetry.

Steamily yours,
Alaura




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“Chives?”
“Yes, m’lud?”
“Is that Ms Ephemera hovering over the croquet lawn?”
“Indeed m’lud. She’s marshalled all the haggle-dans. Missy-twigs and vale-nymphs from Claypole Woods. Apparently she intends to tear this house down and dance on the ruins.”
“Well, Chives, you’d better start the car, what? And pack my tennis things too”
--- Joe 3Heads
 
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*re-reads Royko's letter*

*plots frolicking with hubby*





I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time


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Starving artist - well, not starving, but if you happen to have an extra biscuit lying around . . .
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Maybe distant family. But we sadly left Ireland for America a few generations back. So no one I'd know of.

Its just a very Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran thing to say. Both of whom have scared the ex. One of whom the ex is still scared of.


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You are a Leprechaun. I'm not even sure what you are. Whiskey-soaked reports from your baffling Isle of Ire raise more questions than they answer. Are you a dwarf? Where's your pickax? If you're an elf, why don't you cobble? You'd think with all your gold, you could invest in some land, perhaps a title, and improve your station. Instead, you hide it in meteorologically-determined locations. You're getting killed on inflation, little friend!
 
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Dear Royko:

I hear you man, with philosophy to live by. And that is some damned awesome writing.

-- With respects,

Mythos


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Originally posted by Marvinmarymac:
quote:
Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Maybe distant family. But we sadly left Ireland for America a few generations back. So no one I'd know of.

Its just a very Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran thing to say. Both of whom have scared the ex. One of whom the ex is still scared of.

Ok, I looked up Ciaran, But could you please explain what exactly Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran means? I've never heard that phrase before
 
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was not written by a man named "Cougar"
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*reads Royko's letter for the first time*

whoo...

I don't remember the last time something left me that hot and bothered


That's one lucky red-head. Smile


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There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house.
"What does it mean?" I asked.
"A pirate needs the site of the sea," he said, and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.
 
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Starving artist - well, not starving, but if you happen to have an extra biscuit lying around . . .
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
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Originally posted by Marvinmarymac:
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Maybe distant family. But we sadly left Ireland for America a few generations back. So no one I'd know of.

Its just a very Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran thing to say. Both of whom have scared the ex. One of whom the ex is still scared of.

Ok, I looked up Ciaran, But could you please explain what exactly Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran means? I've never heard that phrase before
Oops. Two of my friends. One of whom became notorious for his ability to sink while I was teaching him to swim. They have been known to gang up on people who are upsetting their female friends.


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You are a Leprechaun. I'm not even sure what you are. Whiskey-soaked reports from your baffling Isle of Ire raise more questions than they answer. Are you a dwarf? Where's your pickax? If you're an elf, why don't you cobble? You'd think with all your gold, you could invest in some land, perhaps a title, and improve your station. Instead, you hide it in meteorologically-determined locations. You're getting killed on inflation, little friend!
 
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dear you,
yeah, you know who you are.....
you are the one who pushed my cart out of the way because it was in your way. you didnt even have the decency to ask me to move it.
you are the one who moved the divider at the checkout line because you didnt want my hippie food mixing with your pre packaged food.
you are the one who always comes to the y, wanting a financial assistance membership yet refusing to show any proof of income or assistance from the state.
you are the one who called me a feminazi because of the stickers on my van.
you are the group of kids that talk all through the movies i go to.
you are the one that would rather sneak into the ymca istead of paying your $400+ past due bill. you are the one who breaks up with someone because they choose to sit at the gay alliance table during club days at school. you are the one that looks at a pollack and says "i dont see why thats art, i could do that". you are the one that bitches constantly about your weight yet are always eating in healthy foods. you are the one that bitches about how people act in your chosen culture yet play into the stereotype.
FUCK YOU!


Dear Sparkly:

I could totally pull off Pollock. Wink otherwise, I say, "exactly!"

In almost complete harmony,
Apathy


~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
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Originally posted by Marvinmarymac:
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Originally posted by El leprechaun:
Maybe distant family. But we sadly left Ireland for America a few generations back. So no one I'd know of.

Its just a very Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran thing to say. Both of whom have scared the ex. One of whom the ex is still scared of.

Ok, I looked up Ciaran, But could you please explain what exactly Sinking-Boy-and-Ciaran means? I've never heard that phrase before
Oops. Two of my friends. One of whom became notorious for his ability to sink while I was teaching him to swim. They have been known to gang up on people who are upsetting their female friends.

I probably should have been able to figure that out from your post, oh well. They sound cool.
 
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They are. Except when they're being annoying. But that's just part of the package.


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You are a Leprechaun. I'm not even sure what you are. Whiskey-soaked reports from your baffling Isle of Ire raise more questions than they answer. Are you a dwarf? Where's your pickax? If you're an elf, why don't you cobble? You'd think with all your gold, you could invest in some land, perhaps a title, and improve your station. Instead, you hide it in meteorologically-determined locations. You're getting killed on inflation, little friend!
 
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