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  Why does my cat drool saliva when he purrs?

  by Fisherman in

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  i have a cat that cannot stop purring when he is with me, when i carry him or put him on my lap he drools saliva all over me.

  he cannot stay still on my lap.

  he moves all the time and demands to be petted all of the time again and again.. this is the only cat that i have ever owned.

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  Our kitty drools on us, and also tends to have a runny nose like a three year old child. The vet says he's fine, just very "moist".
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  Your All Time Favorite Song- If You Had to Pick Just One ?

  by flipper in

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  i decided to do a couple fluff threads tonight as my threads have been way too deadly seroius lately !

  so if someone told you to pick one song that was your all-time favorite, what would you pick ?

  i'd have to say for me it has not changed since the 1971 hit by led zeppelin, " stairway to heaven ".

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  The Lion Sleeps Tonight- not sure who did this, but I've always loved it.

  Sympathy for the Devil, by Rolling Stones

  Pagan Girl by Emerald Rose

  Down With the Sickness By Disturbed (although I also like Richard Cheese's version a lot)

  I Can Dream About You by Dan Hartman (yeah, I'm definitely a child of the 80's!)

  Any one of these songs playing on my cd player will put me in a good mood for the next hour or so.
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  Underage Apostates

  by Wordly Andre in

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  i told my parents that do not want anything to do with jw's when i was 15, i stopped going to meeting (not that i was really going anyway), stopped going to assembly, even stopped the memorial.

  at first it was guilt trips, crying, the whole what did we do wrong why are you doing this.

  then the threats started, i will pull you out of public school and get rid of all your worldly friends that are a bad association, then it was well if you want to act like an adult then all you get is room and one meal a day we do not support those who turn their backs on jehovah.

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  My family beat the shit out of me and I left home, very mixed up, at 15. It sucked, but I hope it's made me a stronger and more compassionate person.
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  Secret Santa: Your Special Connections

  by Nosferatu in

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  i thought this might be a good idea this year.

  many of us work for certain companies and can get great discounts on certain items.

  others (like me) have good connections to get certain items that others might not have access to.. please post what your special connections are!

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  I can get hold of some interesting stuff in my town, at what I'm told are reasonable prices. I'd be breaking Federal law, however, if I tried to mail it!
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  I hate Pot Luck

  by Nosferatu in

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  this friday, we're having a pot luck at work before we all go on holidays for a week.

  i hate pot luck, especially when it's at work.

  i gave my wife heck for throwing out that open package of crackers that was sitting on top of the microwave for the last couple of months.

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  Hubby's friends always want me to bring coleslaw to their bbq's. I have a recipe that is supposedly a clone of the stuff they serve at KFC, and the guys seem to dig it. Unfortunately for me, due to vegetarianism and other dietary restrictions, the coleslaw is usually rhe only thing I can eat at these shindigs, so I'm getting fair sick of it!
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  Is there anyone else who hasnt gotten there Secret Santa???

  by Es in

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  i havnt received mine yet, im just wondering how many others havnt either???

  just incase mine has been registered so it can be tracked.

  we have already had one bad experience this week, had to send on hubby's xbox console as it overheated and died, the post have "misplaced" it, im so glad we have it insured.. es.

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  I haven't received mine yet, but I'm not worried. Sometimes, it's cool to have one present to open a few days after all the others, like a bonus.

  I hope my recipient gets hers with no problems; I was later than I'd planned in sending it out.
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  Muslim helps Jews attacked on New York subway

  by beksbks in

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  new york (cnn) -- a muslim man jumped to the aid of three jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the jews saying "happy hanukkah," a spokeswoman for the three said wednesday.. friday's altercation on the q train began when somebody yelled out "merry christmas," to which rider walter adler responded, "happy hanukkah," said toba hellerstein.. "almost immediately, you see the look in this guy's face like i've called his mother something," adler told cnn affiliate wabc.. two women who were with a group of 10 rowdy people then began to verbally assault adler's companions with anti-semitic language, hellerstein said.. one member of the group allegedly yelled, "oh, hanukkah.

  that's the day that the jews killed jesus," she said.. when adler tried to intercede, a male member of the group punched him, she said.. another passenger, hassan askari -- a muslim student from bangladesh -- came to adler's aid, and the group began physically and verbally assaulting him, hellerstein said.. "a muslim-american saved us when our own people were on the train and didn't do anything," adler said.

  adler pulled the emergency brake and the train stopped at dekalb avenue station, where police came on board.. the 10 suspects, ages 19 to 20, were taken into custody, said brooklyn district attorney spokesman sandy silverstein.. askari was first handcuffed alongside them, but he was released when adler told police he was not an attacker, hellerstein said.. alder was treated at long island college hospital for injuries that included a fractured nose and a cut lip that required several stitches, while askari suffered a black eye, hellerstein said.. .

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  That's really good to hear. What a brave thing to do! Thanks for sharing this with us.
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  Christmas Gifts

  by Wordly Andre in

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  what were some of your favorite gifts last christmas?.

  what are you wishing for this year?.

  i'll start, last christmas i got a gun safe from my best friend chris, that was really awesome.

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  I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine. She's buying me a tire for my car! It sounds like an odd gift, but I just had a blowout on the highway, so it's the thing I need most right now.

  Renee's fricking awesome!
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  Beards and dress clothes...

  by B_Deserter in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i often wonder about the unwritten rule in kingdom halls that a witness should be in dress clothes and brothers cannot have beards (the beard rule i think is pretty much us-only though).

  sure, they won't stop you from coming to a meeting in your work clothes and they might even treat you fine.

  but, if you want to go anywhere in the congregation (i.e.

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  Where I live, beards are forbidden. Moustaches are ok, though, so many of the brothas grow these big, awful porn-star 'staches to compensate for lack of beardiness. They all look like Jason Lee from My Name Is Earl, dressed up in a polyester suit. It strikes me as a silly, pointless rule.
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  Secret Santa Ideas thread

  by Angharad in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if everyone who is signed up for the sectret santa can post a few ideas of the sort of thing you like in here, when people receive their names they can come in here and look you up so get some ideas .

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  I haven't been to the store as yet, but I know exactly what my giftee will be getting. This will be my first gift sent out this year, so it's officially the start of my Yuletime celebration-yay!