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  Dear Caprice wagon driver in Framingham, Massachusetts

  by detective in

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  i was behind your car the other evening.

  now, we are boston drivers so i suppose i shouldn't be surprised that you ignored me when i pulled up next to you and beeped repeatedly but had you looked over you would have see me giving you the big thumbs up.... i was diggin' your silent lambs bumper sticker.. sigh... we were almost road buddies.. .

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  detective

  Well, you get a thumbs up too, then!

  I hope caprice Classic-man knows that someone out there was thinking, "yeah, you tell 'em"...
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  Dear Caprice wagon driver in Framingham, Massachusetts

  by detective in

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  i was behind your car the other evening.

  now, we are boston drivers so i suppose i shouldn't be surprised that you ignored me when i pulled up next to you and beeped repeatedly but had you looked over you would have see me giving you the big thumbs up.... i was diggin' your silent lambs bumper sticker.. sigh... we were almost road buddies.. .

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  detective

  I was behind your car the other evening. Now, we are Boston drivers so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you ignored me when I pulled up next to you and beeped repeatedly but had you looked over you would have see me giving you the big thumbs up...

  I was diggin' your silent lambs bumper sticker.

  sigh... we were almost road buddies.
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  Something smells fishy

  by detective in

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  time to pull out the "pocket demon".

  a handy, dandy excuse to avoid responsibilities.. .

  at the risk of being redundant... i saw this on fox.

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  detective

  Time to pull out the "pocket demon". A handy, dandy excuse to avoid responsibilities.

  At the risk of being redundant... I saw this on fox. Sorry if it's a re-post.

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  Sushi Spooks Spur Suit

  Monday, September 12, 2005

  Long after their mortal forms left this Earth, the ghosts of dead prostitutes may be dragged into a Florida court.

  The owners of Church Street Station an entertainment complex in downtown Orlando, are suing a sushi restaurant that broke its lease after claiming its space was haunted.

  "It's very serious," Lynn Franklin, attorney for Christopher and Yoko Chung, owners of Amura Japanese Restaurant ), told The Associated Press. "A lot of people are corroborating having seen incidents in this location."

  Church Street Station owners, who include boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman , offered to perform an exorcism before the restaurant moved in, but were rebuffed.

  "As a Jehovah's Witness, Mr. Chung has deeply held beliefs regarding spirits and demons," wrote Franklin in a letter to building owners, according to the Orlando Sentinel. "These beliefs require him to avoid encountering or having any association with spirits or demons" — or with exorcism rites, Franklin later explained to the AP.

  Church Street Station says it doesn't really matter if the building is haunted or not.

  "I asked them if these were good ghosts or bad ghosts, and if they were good ghosts, why it was a problem," said David Simmons, a lawyer and state lawmaker who represents the company.

  Emilio San Martin, who runs Orlando Ghost Tours , said the building at 125 Church St. once housed the Strand Hotel, which was in fact a brothel.

  "The ladies there entertained many a gentleman of wealth," San Martin explained, adding that he himself had in the past heard the crying of the prostitutes' murdered illegitimate children.

  Workmen conducting renovations last fall saw a bartender and two dancing girls reflected in a mirror, a subcontractor recently told the Sentinel. San Martin said a slender man playing a piano could often be seen and heard when the space housed Lili Marleen's Aviator Pub & Restaurant, which closed a few years ago.

  Church Street Station wants $2.6 million from the Chungs to make up for 10 years of rent and theoretical damages. It also wants a judgment on whether there really are ghosts in the building, and if so, whether they would interfere with the operation of a restaurant.

  "There is no evidence," says the lawsuit, "that there are ghosts or apparitions in the premises or, if there are, that the ghosts or apparitions interfere with the defendants' quiet enjoyment and use of the premises."

  To be fair, both sides may be being a bit disingenuous in claiming prior ignorance of the spectral situation.

  San Martin told the Sentinel that until the property changed hands in 2001, he regularly took tour groups through the building. He still begins each day's Orlando Ghost Tour on the sidewalk out in front — in plain view of the Chungs' current restaurant, which sits across the street.
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  Name Things that AGGRAVATE You

  by minimus in

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  i hate pop ups on my computer.

  i can't stand getting salespeople calling from the same company 3 times in a day!

  i hate being behind asian or indian drivers........

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  I'm already in Boston and yes, the traffic was horrible.

  Coffee was right, many of the roads here are paved over the original cobblestones, hence the small winding streets and seemingly senseless one ways. During pothole season you can actually look into the foot-deep potholes, and just below the broken axles and twisted hubcaps you can see the original cobblestones.
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  Name Things that AGGRAVATE You

  by minimus in

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  i hate pop ups on my computer.

  i can't stand getting salespeople calling from the same company 3 times in a day!

  i hate being behind asian or indian drivers........

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  asian or indian drivers? what do you mean?
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  CRY LIKE A BABY

  by tijkmo in

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  ok lots of movie threads running at mo.

  so whats your fave for when you wanna cry.

  guys u gotta answer too.

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  cinema paradiso

  that did it for me.
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  Please don't refer to your husband as...

  by IronGland in

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  hubby.

  the term makes me nauseas.

  carry on.

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  Is "hub-ster" okay?
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  relationship with jw's

  by clay in

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  i stumbled upon this site while looking for help.

  my prob is there's this girl i really really like alot.

  she's beautiful,smart, has a great personality and i love being around her.

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  hi clay,

  stop thinking about your dream girl being a jehovah's witness and start thinking about her as being a member of a destructive high control group. Don't worry about the specific beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses, don't worry about 1914, Rutherford,holidays and other JW details. Instead focus on the psychology behind what has linked her to this high-control group. Is it family and friends, is she attracted to the dogma, does she ned to have a controlling factor in her life?

  What will she experience if she leaves her high-control group? Rejection? Isolation? Is she prone to depression? Is she manic? Co-dependent? What are her personality traits?

  If she left, how would she put food on the table? Would she go to college? Where would she live? With you? At twenty years old, that's a tall order for you both.

  Looking at it from her perspective, what are the benefits of her leaving (not the benefits for you, but the benefits for her)? For her perspective, what are the benefits of staying? Does she want to leave?

  Write these things down so that you can make a better assessment of some of the factors that are contributing to her decision making process.

  Then go to the library or the bookstore and look up steven hasan's books. He's an expert on cults. It's a must read if you are seriously considering attempting to get her to leave a cult.

  it might be helpful to look at other books on sociology/psychology and cults.

  Just some thoughts.
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  JWs betraying you to the elders.

  by greendawn in

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  i was once betrayed by an unknown person to the elders for buying soft porn magazines in a shop.

  i never managed to figure out who it was since there were many people in the shop (news agency) at the time and i never noticed a jw from the local congo or one from other congos in the area that i knew.

  to this day it's a mystery to me who saw me there and went to tell the elders.

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  I'm sorry, I guess I shouldn't have told on you.

  no, just kidding. It really does stink that other people feel the need to turn against each other. Then again, high control groups count on members to police each other. That's the environment they intentionally create.
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  I LOVE YA

  by mormon 4 life in

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  i agree with all.

  before i become a mormon i study jw and when i read about the 144.00 i remeber asking the witness if i would be one of them.. they never replid they said they would get back to me on that one but they never did.

  so what i have said is not to make it look like i dislike jws but just that i disagree with da doctrine......love ya mormon 4 life.

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  detective

  Hello,

  you should try www.exmormon.org for another take on mormonism.

  also, try freedomofmind.com a website by a leading cult expert to get the scoop on why he thinks mormons are a cult.