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Nice hit!

Drives me insane. Can't hit the mute button fast enough.

Yesss!!!!!

Wow!

Let's GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Yeah baby! Hook'em!!

You're right. I deauxn't.

I kneaux, tell me about it.

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Oh Hi Mark Balloon Knot Surly You Jest Harvey Wine Stain The Fake Gnus

DJ Mangino?

Yeah, there probably wasn't a deli. I'm just too old to remember what all they had so I was making shit up. But you're right, the burgers were very good. I also remember the burritos being pretty good from whatever the Mexican place was called.

Gil, please give my thanks to your son for everything he's doing to serve our country. I am so glad to hear he is back home! I can't imagine how proud you must be, and whether you think so or not, you do deserve credit for raising such a fine young man. My condolences to the family of SPC Alexander Missildine. We can't ever let ourselves forget these sacrifices. I don't have kids, but I have a nephew currently deployed in Iraq, and he'll probably be going into combat zones in Syria before long. He's a West Point grad and a Ranger. I know his parents feel the same way about him as you do about your son. Some of you might remember my posts a couple years ago on the Shag about him being shot in the chest (by a US civilian contractor, no less) in Afghanistan during his first tour. He saw all kinds of combat as a Platoon Leader, and survived a suicide bombing on the base, only to be accidentally shot by a damn contractor. But he recovered and isn't letting it slow him down. I can't say I can fully understand the worry parents must feel for their deployed solider, but I'm pretty close to my nephew, and can at least empathize, even if it's not nearly the same. God bless all the men and women putting themselves in harm's way for our country.

I'm not the Bernard type, but I think this kind of thing is pretty common, unfortunately. In fact it happened to me. I was pulled over about 12 years ago not because I was driving erratically or anything, but because the lightbulb above my license plate was out. I'd had a few beers over a 4-5 hour period but didn't feel I was intoxicated. And I'd stopped drinking at least an hour before leaving the bar. I was actually giving a couple drunk friends a ride home. I will say that I was much younger then and wouldn't even take that chance today. And this was years before Uber, of course. Anyway, I did the field sobriety test and performed flawlessly. I did ask the officer to repeat instructions a couple of times because he was very vague/confusing (on purpose, I believe). It took several months for DPS to hand over the arrest video even though my attorney requested it immediately. Meanwhile I'm without a driver's license because I'd refused the breathalyzer (which I was always told to do if I'd had even one drink.) When my attorney finally gets the video he tells me with a big smile that I look and sound as solid/sober as anyone he's ever seen on tape. But you wouldn't know that from the officer's report. He wrote that I was swaying, slurring, and confused (because I'd asked him to repeat his instructions). When my attorney showed the video to the prosecutor, he immediately agreed to drop charges if I'd do a few hours of "alcohol counseling" and AA classes. We agreed, with the caveat that my record be expunged, which it was. It still cost me $4000 in attorney costs and various court fees. But I"m sure that's about as cheap as it ever gets. The other infuriating part of the story is that while my attorney was trying to get hold of the video and locate the trooper who arrested me, he finds out that after my arrest, he had been fired from DPS for altering/deleting video after wrecking his cruiser, and prior to that had been fired from APD for pulling over young ladies without cause and hitting on them. Of course DPS refused to tell my attorney where he was. He was nowhere to be found and didn't show up for my license hearing, which helped me get my DL back. TLDR: I was pulled over and arrested for DWI and the state trooper lied about how I did on the field sobriety test. Video showed the truth. Trooper turned out to be a dirty cop. Charges were dropped, record expunged.

Back in my day we didn't have Wendy's in the Union. Or any other chain restaurant. We had nothing but generic food offerings like "Mexican" and "Deli". That's the way it was and we liked it!!! #surlyolds

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All of this.

If this story is true, it's disgusting, and no one should have to witness that on a flight, or anywhere else in public. That said, people that turn to Twitter for everything annoy the shit out of me. If she was being "sexually assaulted" (her words), then don't you think it's worth waking up the person in the aisle seat so you can go and alert a flight attendant?? Or just press the fucking "Call Flight Attendant" button directly above your head?? WTF. Also, it was a "nearly 5-hour flight" and she never once got out of her seat? I'm calling b.s.

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I'm in Burma!...you most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

That’s right, Elaine. White lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally.

I'm going with this right here.

Definitely something I would've done in my 20s. Hell probably even in my 30s.

And Who Do You Love is a Bo Diddley song.

It's because of the flatness of the earth.