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It's true...that's what a kidsmoke does.

I already have it....you guys are going to love it and be happily startled by it! Pretty effing great!!!!!* * Oh calm down I'm totally lying. But I bet it is.

If I had an extra hat I'd mail it to you! Sometimes these little keepsakes get invested with all kinds of memories, don't they? So it feels like you've lost much more than a hat. I hope you find a replacement.

Thank you so much for this sweet thread, Leigh, and the rest of you! I only just noticed it. Yesterday was a frenzy of activity, complete with a lobster dinner, some incredible and perfectly thought-out gifts, and even one of those noisy and dangerous candles with inset fireworks that shoot 4 feet up above the cake and spin and play "happy birthday"! (Ours failed on playing happy birthday so we filled in for it, in that tinny sort of song...who knew we could all sound so perfectly tinny?!) No one's hair was set on fire and the Fire Dept. didn't need to be called, so I'd call it a rousing succe

It shouldn't bug me so much but it does...the guy who was the big winner is from a local area that is fairly well-to-do. (Rich, big mansion-y homes) He apparently bought 3000 tickets so apparently had $6000 (at least) to spend on powerball tickets. Sheesh, if I had that much spare cash I probably wouldn't even be playing! I guess I just prefer it when you hear that somebody who genuinely needed it is the big winner. Some poor slob working a low-paying bus-driver type job, y'know? The school crossing-walk guard, the lady who serves you at Dairy Queen. I am trying to be happy for the guy, who m

Good luck tonight, everybody, even though it's more likely that ISIS will decide to disband and join Bono to put on a big concert for world harmony and peace.

Yeah, I really like "Lazarus", and the video for it is intense.

Rest in Peace, David, and thank you.

All possibilities! 1. A pair of conjoined twins will be successfully separated by a pair of great white sharks who are themselves conjoined. 2. Justin Beiber will stop being a little bitch. 3. Donald Trump will get over himself. What's more likely to happen than YOU winning?

I'm so sorry, NoJ. He's at peace now, but how sad for all of you who loved him. Deepest condolences.

Lucky you! Frank is a hoot!

Congratulations, Wilco! A richly deserved nomination!

What an inspiring story! Thanks for the perspective adjustment. This is going on in the city next door to me. Horrifying.

We could probably have a whole other thread about ways in which we have badly cut ourselves. For instance: Ladies, remember when you were learning to shave your legs and you took a long strip of skin off the whole front of your shin? Yep, all the ladies here just cringed at that memory.

What, no pictures?

Happy Thanksgiving, Via Chicago! I hope your home smells as good as mine does right now. Wow, sometimes aromas are the most incredible things. I wish a Thanksgiving for all of our American members in which there are some weird or even difficult relations, but you feel so grateful that you love them anyway and have a delicious feast and laugh a lot and feel love, and loved, a lot. Happy Thanksgiving. There's always a lot to be glad for.

I like what you've said, lost highway. Makes a lot of sense from my own life experiences.

Wow, now Donald is insulting the disabled? This fool has gone completely off the rails.

Yes, I suppose you're right. Whom.

I've always thought it's kind of a wonder that any of us make it to adulthood. You know how kids grow up, and with the safety of years having passed, begin to confess some of the shit they did that you never knew about? My daughter, now coming up on age 20, recently told me that when she was about 8, she had heard about people burning leaves, and she wanted to try it. But she didn't want me to see, so she made a big pile in the narrow (20"?) space between our garage's side wall and our fence. Our wooden fence, I should add. She had some leaves in the pile that were kind of wet so she was

Omigawd, I could fill pages, but probably my worst misadventure was as a child of about 7 or 8, with my sister a year younger. Walking to the library one day (because in the early 60's, kids walked everywhere) we stopped to admire the view from a bridge that crossed the freeway there. In that time there weren't the massive fences that there are now, and we got what we thought was a fun idea. We began picking up trash near us, and chucking it over the rail at the cars below, hoping to score a hit on a passing car. It was just little stuff...bits of paper, soda can pull-tabs, and I remember an e

Interesting...I didn't even think about my choice of that word, but it does seem to fit his case. Yes, "supporters" would be the more traditional term for those backing a serious candidate. Trump seems to be taking part in his own little reality show, oriented toward a tv audience.

With all due respect, folks, this thread really isn't intended as a serious political thread, just a bemused look at how far The Donald can apparently go without turning away his fan base. It really has, and does, amaze(d) me that he can say the things he says, as a genuine (?) candidate. Anyway, please keep your deeper political thoughts over in the political thread...they are an interesting debate in themselves and deserve to be read in a more serious context. Thanks.

Ooh, good choice. It's hard to think of anyone who really has "mass appeal" as a personality these days, I suppose because we are pretty splintered off as a society. No one figure really emerges.