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  Aussies, Shiraz, and Neophyte Drinkers

  by jgnat in

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  this post is in honor of ozziepost, one of our long-standing australian posters.

  i am probably posting this in the perfectly wrong time of day, so if one of our australian friends could bump this thread when you are all waking up, i'd appreciate it.. ozziepost is well known for his love offfair with shiraz, an australian wine.. you may not know this about me, but i am a neophyte drinker.

  i like to be in charge (is anyone surprised), and acohol unacceptably takes away my sense of self-control.

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  I love all this wine-talk! I always enjoy shows about wine and cheese and all those people with surperb senses of taste and smell talking about "hints of this" and "sos-and-so notes". Unfortunately, with perpetually blocked sinuses, my olfactory faculties are severely unequipped for trips into the rarified world of fancy, subtle tastes. So I like "sharp" cheeses, and prefer beer to wine. /philistine The other day I did something that I wondered if it would anger the somellier class: I used Wolf Blass Shiraz to make Boeuf Bourguignone, not knowing if it would work. Tasted fine to me, but as I said, I have a hard time differentiating between reds.
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  What is your favorite Mythical creature ?

  by 5go in

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  mine is the japanese kitsune.

  the fox spirits humbler of haughty samurai and foiler of crooked bussiness men.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kitsune.

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  Stephanus

  The Small-Government Conservative
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  Should Britain Build a £100m Mosque for the Olympics?

  by LittleToe in

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  a poll is being taken by the british newspaper "the evening standard" as to whether or not britain should invest 100m in a new mosque for the olympics.

  i have to admit i'm a little confused as to why folks would desire to have their tax money invested in paying for a religious building, given that religions are already tax free.

  i don't see a similar offfer to build a new cathedral, synagogue or hindu temple, nor would i want to.

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  If not a penny of taxpayers' or Olympic money go into it, and the Muzzies spend their own hard-earned, then go for it!
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  How clergy explain tragic deaths - how WTS mocks them, and reality check

  by Inquisitor in

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  in this week's sunday study, the wts again relish insulting the clergy with the following statement:.

  paragraph 5) another reason why people think that god does not care about us is that religious leaders have made them feel that way.

  what do clergymen often say when tragedy strikes?

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  This is kind of a sore point with me. A month after our daughter's death, we had an old JW biddy snearing at our belief that our daughter was in Heaven. At about the same time, there was a tragedy just near the local Kingdom Hall where some old lady stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake at the traffic lights, and collected two little girls with her car. The JW girl survived, while the Baptist one died. A Dub bloke referred to it with "Well, I suppose her parents are happy because she's in Heaven now!" (rolling of eyes, sarcastic tone). Arsehole!
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  Remember how great the get-togethers were in the 1980's??

  by PaNiCAtTaCk in

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  i remembers skating parties at least once a month, volleyball at the park, get-togethers where everyone would play bible charades and sing kingdoms songs, going to the river to swim with the whole congregation after the sunday meeting, spending the afternoon at the lake eating watermelon and water skiing.

  it was a great upbringing!

  also, i dont want to leave out the strong feelings of eliteness that i had even as a child, of having the truth.

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  Interesting how short sighted the leadership was about all this stuff. To them, the social life of the friends was superfluous, an impediment ot "the Work". But in reality, it was the glue that held the structure together.
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  Dungeons and Dragons

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  has anyone or does anyone here play the comp game?.

  i remember this from when i was a kid and recently googled it.

  i was amazed with the graphics and thought about downloading the game.. way back when n64 was the big thing, i got into zelda ocarina of time (?

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  From time to time there are releases of the old D&D PC games. They stretch back to the 80s and include: Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, Secret of the Silver Blades. Later, better interface versions include Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter and Pool of radiance II.

  Of the fantasy roleplaying genre: The Might and Magic series (VI and VIII are probably the best - in VIII you can recruit dragons into your adventuring party!), the Quest for Glory series, and the Wizardry series. Wizardry 8 is very playable. There also other franchises, such as Everquest, Final Fantasy, and so on, but I haven't played any of those.
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  COMF: Who's still here?

  by COMF in

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  hi, ya'll.

  i left jw's voluntarlily in 1987, still believing but thinking something was wrong with me that caused jehovah to reject me in spite of my best effforts.

  after that it was "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die".

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  Me! Me!

  Finally, someone who knows the value of a woman with curvature! LOL
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  70 year old doesn't "wait on Jehovah"

  by Nathan Natas in

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  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/23/international/i134208s12.dtl

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  Stephanus

  One has to further wonder WTF this guys "friends" were up to while he got strangled to death

  Crapping their dacks (pants)?
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  I am getting a fan base or just getting lucky with my topics ?

  by 5go in

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  i notice some people that follow me around this board just wondering if it is coinsidence.. or maybe i'm starting to be paranoid.. or maybe i am bored and wanted to start yet another useless topic..

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  Stephanus

  As arguably one of the prime suspects, I'll say Yep, we follow you around, waiting to pick up the crumbs of wisdom that fall from your table!
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  Vote for the "most obscure one" on JWD :)

  by onacruse in

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  now, this is just for the fun of having a little "roast", eh?

  narkissos said:.

  lol.

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  Stephanus

  I've always found 5go to be a little obscure, but perhaps that's just his spelling and grammar.