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  If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?

  by Open mind in

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  they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

  thoughts?.

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  @ Finkelstein: Oh Wow!

  Thank you for posting that. I wonder if they got "counseled" later?

  Probably not.

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  If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?

  by Open mind in

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  they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

  thoughts?.

  om.

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  @ Quendi, wish I could see it live. (I'm too cheap.) Let us know how it turns out?

  @ gl tirebiter, yeah, she really dodged the question, IMO.

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  edited: FOX sports is keeping live scores posted here,

  http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/basketball/gametrax/Lithuania-vs-United%20States-20120804-1221213

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  If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?

  by Open mind in

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  they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

  thoughts?.

  om.

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  I'm sure you're calling it spot on, Quendi.

  As long as she doesn't buy the equivalent of a $.50 Malawian Social Security card, she should be safe from the men in suits.

  All WT snarking aside, she played amazingly strong today. Good for you Serena!

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  If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?

  by Open mind in

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  2. physical

  they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

  thoughts?.

  om.

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  Anyone paying for full coverage including medals presentation?

  I've just got plain old NBC.

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  If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?

  by Open mind in

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  2. physical

  they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .

  thoughts?.

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  They're playing right now and Serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.
  
  Thoughts?
  
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  p.s. She just won!
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  The Art of Writing

  by Quendi in

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  2. entertainment

  gore vidal's death tuesday in los angeles got me to thinking about writers.

  i am a writer myself and i know there are many other writers on this forum.

  i wanted to open a discussion on writing in the twenty-first century and get other thoughts, opinions and experiences on this.

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  Christopher Hitchens summed up my chances of ever creating the Great American Novel with these words:

  “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

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  Who On This Site Would You Like To Meet?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are a lot of interesting people that frequent this site.. sometimes, we get an idea of what the posters are really like in "real life".

  and i'm sure i could be easily surprised by some that you think might be strong personalities because of their board presence, and in reality, they might be shy in a face to face setting.. i would enjoy meeting simon.

  simon used to be terribly annoyed by my posting and now i think he's accepted with tolerance my being here.. farkel seems like a grouchy cantankerous fellow but i think he'd be very interesting company!.

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  Very happy to have had a luncheon with Da Farkel and my children a couple years ago.

  (We'll have to do it again next time we're in your neck of the woods Doug.)

  And since I always want what I cannot have:

  hillary_step

  maximus

  AlanF

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  p.s. Oh, and of course, the whole lot of the rest of you.
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  Sparlock spotted in Taiwan

  by Steve_C in

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  no, not 'made in taiwan,' but actually in taiwan.. i thought you might enjoy some photos of yours truly engaging in heathen activities while wearing my new sparlock t-shirt.

  i'm not really a taoist/buddhist, but sporting the warrior wizard shirt while burning incense in the temple made me feel like some kind of naughty double-apostate .

  the one-hundred+ year-old wu fu ("five fortunes") temple, near my apartment.

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  Were you a JW trophy wife? Not necessarily a serious thread.

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  sal, it's funny but things were much more shallow in the dubs.

  i noticed some of the ugliest blokes getting pretty little trophy wives so long as they had a job or were the sons of elders.

  my dad (an elder) even went so far as to encourage me to come back to the dubs because i would easily pull a good looking wife .

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  Yes, before my surgery.
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  Add your favorite JW prayer cliche'

  by King Solomon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you know what i'm talking about: the trite, often-repeated phrases that convey the person offering the prayer has drawn a mental blank, and utters these words while their brain desperately searches for the next cliche', so they can conclude the ritual with the required tag, "in jesus' name we pray".... (is that like the postage stamp?).

  ok, i'll kick this one off, and take the most obvious:.

  "forgive us where we fall short....".

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  At large JW food-eating gathering prior to eating:

  "Bless this food and bless the hands that prepared it."

  I don't hear this one very often, but there's on JW around these parts who is guaranteed to include it in any pre-meal prayer.

  How exactly is the "blessing" of the food and the hands supposed to happen?

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