The forum for ranting, raving, complaining and praising
Rave = Emerson Pedal for the Cause, Rant = Linked In
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planet planet »
July 11 16, 6:36 pm
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My rave is that my IT contacts at Emerson are honoring me for their Pedal for the Cause bike ride. I am sharing my story and I'm going there Fri. for...
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Who cares about LinkedIn. Congrats, planet! Your story is inspiring and I'm glad it is being shared.
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Last post by Radbird
July 12 16, 6:46 pm
TVs everywhere - gas stations, restaurants, car repair shops
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ghostrunner »
July 7 16, 7:25 am
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I really really hate this.
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Can we add annoying radio being played everywhere? I got stuck in a waiting room connected to a sales floor and man it was loud. Stupid talk radio...
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Last post by JCShutout
July 8 16, 12:39 pm
Military Funerals
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cardinalkarp »
June 15 16, 10:45 am
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I wasn't sure if this should go in social or rants/raves as funerals for the most part aren't anything to rave about, but I attended the funeral this...
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My grandpa was an aeronautical engineer that developed the landing gear on the first F-15's. He and his three brothers all served in WW2. When he...
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Last post by TGantz
June 17 16, 9:25 am
Little crap that wreaks havoc on your day
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Freed Roger »
June 10 16, 9:25 pm
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It [expletive] me up when I put my coffee mug down and can't find it. Tonight, I needed a beer to justify watering the #&$$ plants my wife foisted upon us....
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I lost my locker key at the health club for about 5 minutes today. Didn't bother me, it gave me an excuse to go out by the pool area to check out the...
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Last post by jim
June 11 16, 11:56 am
Rave: Pacific NW
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stlouie_lipp »
May 15 16, 8:01 am
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a tallboy . or some tallboys ?
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SoFi is great. Saved me a ton of money on my med school loans
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Last post by MrSaigon
June 2 16, 10:47 pm
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Last post by stlouie_lipp
May 28 16, 4:54 pm
Daughter of a Friend in today's National Spelling Bee Final
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Joe Shlabotnik »
May 26 16, 6:57 am
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Erin Howard from right here in Huntsville Al and the daughter of a work colleague is going to be competing live on ESPN today.
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Jim, I agree about English spelling. It's ridiculous! Id be ok if we went to a phonetic spelling standard like Spanish. Do they even need spelling...
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Last post by Joe Shlabotnik
May 27 16, 7:10 pm
Intersection blockers
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lukethedrifter »
December 16 15, 7:43 am
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Intersection blockers
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You should get honked at. If it's green, get your butt out there. Green means go Molly.
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Last post by Swirls
May 26 16, 7:59 am
Greeting cards
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ghostrunner »
May 17 16, 10:33 am
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Someone needs to really crack this nut. Do women enjoy cracks about their age? Do they love gigantic cursive on the their Valentine's Day cards? Do...
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I've noticed it's almost impossible to find just a basic card anymore - they all play music, are covered with glitter, and have pop-out crap inside....
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Last post by heyzeus
May 18 16, 8:47 am
Rant: Listen closely because our menu items have change
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ndistops »
May 16 16, 8:53 am
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I'm completely on board with this. I have to call schools all the time (prep sports reporting) and get this message all the time. What's annoying is...
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I've found you can still just constantly push 0 and will usually be redirected to the operator/front desk who can then transfer you to the...
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Last post by Swirls
May 17 16, 2:02 pm
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Last post by Tim
May 12 16, 4:23 pm
American Airlines/DFW
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haltz »
December 28 15, 2:23 am
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I spent 24 hours in DFW before flying into Springfield Il and taking an Amtrak to St Louis. I had a ticket to come straight home at 7pm Saturday...
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I thought everyone leaned their seats back that 3/4 they allot you.
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Last post by lukethedrifter
May 10 16, 1:20 pm
Meetings
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JL21 »
March 12 14, 10:20 am
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Most meetings are [expletive] useless and a waste of time. More than half of the [expletive] that people meet about can be accomplished with a 2 minute phone...
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Just had a meeting with a company who are changing their name by adding Farms to it. The focus group felt that the word farm and a picture of the...
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Last post by IMADreamer
May 7 16, 3:20 pm
Rant: Car trouble
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IMADreamer »
January 18 15, 4:06 pm
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With my Vette sleeping for the winter and my Cuda awaiting it's newly machined engine block I was determined not to let a 55 degree day in January go...
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Our 400k+ mile Silvarado rusted in half today. Literally in half. The frame just rusted in two. Damn that was a good truck and I hate to see it go....
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Last post by Diddy
May 4 16, 7:58 pm
Wall Street/Gov'mnt, Real Estate
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by MrSaigon » July 7 15, 1:26 pm
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It's richly ironic (come at me, semantics police) that for some time I was living in my parents basement, in large part, because Wall Street got...
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I'm going to bring you guys in on this early, but you're going to have to hear me miss a few notes.
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Last post by MrSaigon
April 28 16, 2:08 pm
Rant: Old age and west coast trips
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Joe Shlabotnik »
April 27 16, 8:32 am
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They don't mix. I haven't seen one inning of this series. I only saw the Sunday game vs. San Diego. Last night I was in bed by 9, because I'm old and...
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Some of them I can't even make it to first pitch! The perfect start time for me would be 6:15 central - I get home about 6 and would be able to grab...
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Last post by jim
April 27 16, 1:29 pm
Spring time lawns!
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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 »
April 24 16, 2:28 pm
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hahaha I've gotten so tired of it. Tried to take care of my lawn last year and thought I did a decent job getting rid of a lot of the weeds while...
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i always wanted astro turf.
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Last post by jim
April 26 16, 8:17 pm
Rant: Post-Dispatch
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TheoSqua »
October 6 09, 11:14 am
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So, the Blues started their season this past weekend, right? And, uh, they won two games in a row against the Red Wings, right? This is like, the...
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[expletive] the NFL and the Rams.
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Last post by Fat_Bulldog
April 26 16, 11:12 am
1000+ pages?!
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JCShutout »
March 14 16, 9:14 pm
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So aside from just a handful of things, I like to read things before I see them. I want to get my own view of the author's world before I view and...
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Ended up a pretty fast read, even having to put it down for a week to knock out a book for book club. Fun book.
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Last post by JCShutout
April 23 16, 4:06 pm
Winter 2014/15
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stlouie_lipp »
October 4 14, 7:16 pm
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I'm going to go ahead and start the thread with this:
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You're right, Jim. I need an attitude intervention.
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Last post by Radbird
April 17 16, 6:36 pm
Yet Another Driving Rant
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Molly »
May 25 10, 8:32 am
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Don't freakin' turn right in front of me and DRIVE SLOWER THAN ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The only people I absolutely REFUSE to let merge in front of me are the douches who know that up ahead the left/right/whatever lane in closed; yet...
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Last post by New Pagodi
April 16 16, 3:14 am
Decaf labels
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Gashouse »
April 15 16, 11:16 am
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Why the [expletive] don't coffee companies label Decaf prominently on the bags of coffee in the store? I have to be home with my two year old today because...
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My wife got home around lunch to take the afternoon. I discovered the issue just too close to when she'd be home to justify going out to get coffee....
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Last post by Gashouse
April 15 16, 12:36 pm
ACDC in Feb
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M1IRONMIKE »
January 19 16, 5:38 am
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i bought tickets to see ACDC February 20th at the Scottrade center.....check another one off my bucket list bands to see..
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I've never appreciated Willie Nelson as a guitarist as much as I should have. I mean I'd go to a show if it was just looking at Trigger on a stage,...
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Last post by MrSaigon
April 14 16, 3:20 pm
MATTENY WORSE THAN LALOOSER!!!!!!!!!!11
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Leroy »
April 9 16, 11:01 am
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JUST CAUSE SOME ILLEGALS HIT HOME RUS NONT MAKE HIM A GOOD MANGER. ERVY TEAM WINS MORE HOME RUNS THAN US. DISGUSTING. WORSE TEAM IN BASEBAL IN MY...
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OMG WTF MADDONCUBS >>>>>MATHEEEENTY CARDS!!!!!! CBUS MAY NEVER LOSE AAGAINNNNNNNNNNN!
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Last post by Freed Roger
April 12 16, 12:51 pm
Rant: Naming interstates
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Freed Roger »
April 8 16, 8:51 am
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It's a stupid Chicago thing. Thankfully GPS and apps are helping alleviate the dumb.
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In Houston it's crazier, because the highway system is shaped like a gigantic bicycle wheel with spokes. There are FOUR concentric loop roads. Each...
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Last post by Radbird
April 8 16, 7:44 pm
Rant: You can not search again at this time
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heyzeus »
April 4 16, 1:23 pm
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You just have to ask three times to get your answer. It's part of the the folk magic of GRB. Just like how if you say Candyman three times into a...
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ive never been able to figure out the search feature tbh
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Last post by go birds
April 4 16, 7:40 pm
STORMWATCH 2015-16!!!!!!
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stlouie_lipp »
November 20 15, 9:10 pm
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Snowing like crazy here. Calling for 5-10 total. I love the first snowstorm of the year. It gets old in a hurry though.
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It's snowing again here. Saturday my wife and I went up to a place about an hour away north of Chicago (Evanston, home of the Northwestern Wildcats)...
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Last post by jim
April 4 16, 1:12 pm
Landscaping Rant
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Freed Roger »
March 30 16, 10:37 am
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The pragmatism is out the window on this stuff.
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We lost some tree limbs in the last snowfall, so landscaping this year will consist of cleaning up that mess. Just hope the tree doesn't look like...
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Last post by Radbird
March 31 16, 1:24 pm
Multi-level marketing schemes
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heyzeus »
March 28 16, 8:45 am
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Seems like every mom I know now is hawking some crap on Facebook. Weight loss supplements. Plexus, whatever the hell that is (apparently it's a...
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I've actually rejected a friend request twice from someone because I know she's just gonna post 8 times a day about how #beachbody #products are...
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Last post by cardinalkarp
March 30 16, 10:18 am
Rant: Caring more about politics than baseball
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jim »
February 13 16, 9:58 pm
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I wish more people cared more about baseball than politics. Maybe it's the dead of the off season and things will change but I'm not sure. I wonder...
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I'll try not to drag the discussion away from baseball any more than I have to, but as interested as I am in politics, this endless electioneering...
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Last post by Famous Mortimer
March 30 16, 12:34 am
12 MORE DAYS
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M1IRONMIKE »
March 3 16, 6:19 am
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Until a drunken Mexican vacation
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The other thing I forgot to mention was I met the beer vendor that worked the section I was in for game 3 of the 2013 WS. He did his beer call which...
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Last post by GeddyWrox
March 29 16, 12:07 pm
rave: Wasabi and Soy almonds
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jim »
March 23 16, 10:16 am
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Where have these damn things been all of my life? I actually have to count these f kers out so I don't eat 8000 calories worth at a setting.
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Generally speaking, I think most of these flavored almonds/cashews/peanuts are over salted to the point that whatever flavor they come up with gets...
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Last post by JL21
March 23 16, 7:49 pm
Rave (I think) - 75+ hour weeks
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Leroy »
March 19 16, 9:36 am
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Yeeeehaaaawww.
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I could probably count on one hand the times I've worked an honest 75 hours over a two week span.
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Last post by jim
March 21 16, 6:03 pm
Rant: Prescriptions
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planet planet »
March 15 16, 3:10 pm
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Everyone knows picking up prescriptions are kind of a pain in the ass, but today I go to Walgreen's clinic for pinkeye. The guy prescribed me some...
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Everyone knows picking up prescriptions are kind of a pain in the ass, but today I go to Walgreen's clinic for pinkeye. The guy prescribed me some...
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Last post by cardsfantx
March 16 16, 7:50 pm
Rant: The Current State of Amazon Customer Reviews
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Michael »
January 25 16, 3:35 pm
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Amazon used to be a great place for customer reviews, but recently I've noticed the marketplace has become an epidemic of this:
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Wouldn't you have to have bought tens of thousands of dollar of merchandise from Amazon to pay a $1300 Use Tax? Are you sure you didn't accidentally...
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Last post by Swirls
March 14 16, 2:58 pm
people who turn their life around
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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 »
August 8 11, 2:00 pm
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So, two months ago a temp agency sent us this lady. She is just north of 30 years old I think, has 5 kids - 3 of which were taken away by the state...
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Things sure have changed fairly quickly for AW. How's this lady doing?
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Last post by lukethedrifter
March 5 16, 9:22 am
Deployment
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M1IRONMIKE »
February 14 16, 2:12 am
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I got a call today from my youngest. His unit was supposed to deploy to Kenya this summer for some kind of security mission but he now says that...
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He is scheduled to end his tour of service in April of 2017.....during the same call where he told me of the possibility of being deployed he told me...
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Last post by UK
March 2 16, 7:07 am
Plantar fasciitis
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TGantz »
February 21 16, 4:26 pm
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I feel your pain, Albert. My god it's hard to walk.
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The doc suggested stretching while brushing your teeth.
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Last post by lukethedrifter
February 21 16, 8:41 pm
Rant/Rave: The Schlafly Locations
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JL21 »
October 23 14, 10:57 am
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Luke's comment about Schlafly Bottleworks inspired this.
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I'm an idiot. Also not into water play.
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Last post by lukethedrifter
February 15 16, 3:00 pm
Rave: Red Velvet Cake
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Michael »
January 29 16, 2:15 pm
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I love red velvet cake so much I insisted it was a choice at my wedding reception.
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I made a red velvet brain cake!!
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Last post by New Pagodi
February 12 16, 4:13 pm
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