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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:02 PM
 vsmith wrote:

As for the French Girls...

Big Smile [:D]

 

Those girls aren't French....

Whistling [:-^]

...where's all the armpit hair?

 

 

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Posted by Limitedclear on Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:22 PM
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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:27 PM

Hmm I guess six hours was long enough for the previous image...so I revised it with the PG version.......Maybe its better Eric didnt see it, ..............or did he?

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:02 AM

As for the French Girls...

Big Smile [:D]

 

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:56 AM

this ones Homer from the Simpsons

 

 

These two are from South Park, Cartman and Ike

 

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:33 AM
     Um.....O...K...Is it Homer Simpson, or South Park?  And where did th e french chicks go anyway?

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:42 AM
 Murphy Siding wrote:
Laugh [(-D]
 futuremodal wrote:
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 vsmith wrote:

Methinks it time for

     Methinks it's time to have my eyeglass prescription updated.  What exactly is that a picture of?Dead [xx(]

What?  You don't recognize the South Park kids when you see 'em?

 

Laugh [(-D] Actually, no.  If you remember, I got myself in trouble once before over something to do with South Park.  I think it had something to do with you and Iron Ken.  I simply don't watch television. (shrugs)  Chances are, I'm not missing anything.  I thought the tiny picture was Homer Simpson anyway.Tongue [:P]

Wow - yer eyes are bad...its a Duff Beer poster, with our favorite drooler 

As for South Park

Kick the Baby! We're going for the record Ike!

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:01 AM
Laugh [(-D]
 futuremodal wrote:
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 vsmith wrote:

Methinks it time for

     Methinks it's time to have my eyeglass prescription updated.  What exactly is that a picture of?Dead [xx(]

What?  You don't recognize the South Park kids when you see 'em?

 

Laugh [(-D] Actually, no.  If you remember, I got myself in trouble once before over something to do with South Park.  I think it had something to do with you and Iron Ken.  I simply don't watch television. (shrugs)  Chances are, I'm not missing anything.  I thought the tiny picture was Homer Simpson anyway.Tongue [:P]

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:19 AM
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 vsmith wrote:

Methinks it time for

     Methinks it's time to have my eyeglass prescription updated.  What exactly is that a picture of?Dead [xx(]

What?  You don't recognize the South Park kids when you see 'em?

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:13 AM
 vsmith wrote:

Methinks it time for

     Methinks it's time to have my eyeglass prescription updated.  What exactly is that a picture of?Dead [xx(]

 

 

 

 

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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:43 AM

Methinks it time for

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Limitedclear on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:02 PM
 futuremodal wrote:
 Limitedclear wrote:

....(my sides are hurting already)

That's what happens when you don't read the fine print on your prescription meds.......

Doctor to LC - "Like I've told you before, it's an ANALGESIC, not an ANAL GESIC!"

Sign - Oops [#oops]

Lame, FM, even for you. But whaddya want from an Econogeek...

LOL...

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:00 PM
 Limitedclear wrote:

....(my sides are hurting already)

That's what happens when you don't read the fine print on your prescription meds.......

Doctor to LC - "Like I've told you before, it's an ANALGESIC, not an ANAL GESIC!"

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:53 PM

 wallyworld wrote:
I learned alot. The French may or may not invade us from Mexico. My sodbusting forebears prematurely settled the West and should have invested in wagon wheels instead.. We may or may not own Canada.Wheat farmers in Montana are p----d off. Everything in the known universe may or may not be subsidized and \or corrupt and is also either a bargain or may be a boondoggle.

Exactly my point Mischief [:-,]

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Posted by Limitedclear on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:16 PM

 Murphy Siding wrote:
    But what about the "french chics"?

Yeah, don't you guys know the Foreign Legion always brings french chics???

Boy, maybe FM and Mikey will star in a new film. The updated version of Abbot and Costello join the Foreign Legion...

It'll be a fight over the DM&E construction...

FOFLMAO....(my sides are hurting already)

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:00 PM
I forgot what this topic was originally about...Confused [%-)]

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:52 PM
    But what about the "french chics"?

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Posted by wallyworld on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:48 PM
I learned alot. The French may or may not invade us from Mexico. My sodbusting forebears prematurely settled the West and should have invested in wagon wheels instead.. We may or may not own Canada.Wheat farmers in Montana are p----d off. Everything in the known universe may or may not be subsidized and \or corrupt and is also either a bargain or may be a boondoggle.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:44 PM
 oltmannd wrote:
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:

Oh, and Tom - this was in the 1940's, not the 1860's.

 

 

Exactly my point.

Lou: Who's on first?

Bud: Yes!

Lou:What's on second?

Bud: Exactly!!

Maybe it's time to head to Niagra Falls?

 

"I don't know"

"Third base!"

     Exactly my point!

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Posted by oltmannd on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:43 PM
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:

Oh, and Tom - this was in the 1940's, not the 1860's.

 

 

Exactly my point.

Lou: Who's on first?

Bud: Yes!

Lou:What's on second?

Bud: Exactly!!

Maybe it's time to head to Niagra Falls?

 

"I don't know"

"Third base!"

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:30 PM
 TomDiehl wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:

Oh, and Tom - this was in the 1940's, not the 1860's.

 

 

Exactly my point.

Lou: Who's on first?

Bud: Yes!

Lou:What's on second?

Bud: Exactly!!

Maybe it's time to head to Niagra Falls?

 

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Posted by oltmannd on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:50 AM

 zardoz wrote:
And Now For Something Completely Different:

I wish.  But, you can always dream.....

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Posted by zardoz on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:30 AM
And Now For Something Completely Different:
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Posted by TomDiehl on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:16 AM
 futuremodal wrote:

Oh, and Tom - this was in the 1940's, not the 1860's.

 

 

Exactly my point.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:29 AM
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:

 MichaelSol wrote:

The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification.

Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada.

Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken!

Does this mean that we really did own Canada?Mischief [:-,]

     Wasn't that sort of a *road grant* sort of project?  The U.S. built the road, and pretty much *gave* it to Canada.  Now Dave, according to your theory ,those darn Canadians got an advantage over the private, non-road grant countries that tried to build roads later, without government financing.Clown [:o)]

You must be on drugs, 'cause there's no way to parse that level of nonsense.

The Alcan was built by US troops to benefit transportation between Alaska and the lower 48, not to benefit Canada.  The Alcan to this day is more of a benefit to the US than to Canada.  Ownership is irrelevent, since it is open access, like all such roads.  And all roads are built with government financing, so that last quip is nonsensical.

Oh, and Tom - this was in the 1940's, not the 1860's.

 

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Posted by vsmith on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:04 AM

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Posted by Limitedclear on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:43 PM
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 Limitedclear wrote:
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:

 MichaelSol wrote:

The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification.

Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada.

Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken!

Does this mean that we really did own Canada?Mischief [:-,]

     Wasn't that sort of a *road grant* sort of project?  The U.S. built the road, and pretty much *gave* it to Canada.  Now Dave, according to your theory ,those darn Canadians got an advantage over the private, non-road grant countries that tried to build roads later, without government financing.Clown [:o)]

LOL, logic, what logic???

LC

     Laugh if you wish.  When France gets done mopping up Mexico and finally does invade California, the U.S. and Hawaii will need to have Canada on our side.  I sure hope there's no capacity issues on the AlCan Highway due to deferred maintenance!Laugh [(-D]

Hell, let those crazy french chicks come on down...

I was just laughing at the thought of FM being capable of anything remotely resembling logic...

The thought of it makes me LOL...

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Posted by TomDiehl on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:50 PM
 futuremodal wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:

 MichaelSol wrote:

The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification.

Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada.

Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken!

Does this mean that we really did own Canada?Mischief [:-,]

In the 1860's??????

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:34 PM
 Limitedclear wrote:
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:

 MichaelSol wrote:

The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification.

Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada.

Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken!

Does this mean that we really did own Canada?Mischief [:-,]

     Wasn't that sort of a *road grant* sort of project?  The U.S. built the road, and pretty much *gave* it to Canada.  Now Dave, according to your theory ,those darn Canadians got an advantage over the private, non-road grant countries that tried to build roads later, without government financing.Clown [:o)]

LOL, logic, what logic???

LC

     Laugh if you wish.  When France gets done mopping up Mexico and finally does invade California, the U.S. and Hawaii will need to have Canada on our side.  I sure hope there's no capacity issues on the AlCan Highway due to deferred maintenance!Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by Limitedclear on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:29 PM
 Murphy Siding wrote:
 futuremodal wrote:
 TomDiehl wrote:

 MichaelSol wrote:

The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification.

Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada.

Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken!

Does this mean that we really did own Canada?Mischief [:-,]

     Wasn't that sort of a *road grant* sort of project?  The U.S. built the road, and pretty much *gave* it to Canada.  Now Dave, according to your theory ,those darn Canadians got an advantage over the private, non-road grant countries that tried to build roads later, without government financing.Clown [:o)]

LOL, logic, what logic???

LC

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