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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
I'll let you know as April gets closer if I'm still here (hopefully) and perhaps you'll let me buy you a drink or three?

Good deal. It'll be an honor to meet you, Steve. Any further info ought to be by PM, so you don't have to sacrifice your privacy (I doubt that you're an exhibitionist).

D.C. is an old haunt of mine, having been stationed there twice during my Air Farts years and practiced before the federal bar (the Supreme Court is a bizarre bunch to try to talk at. They're so detached and uninformed. The federal circuits are much more lively and entertaining. For example, I once invoked an old story about a conversation between a farmer and O.W. Holmes, Jr. in which the farmer said, "Pigs is pigs, yeronner" in support of the proposition that, if it's got a snout, tusks, pink skin, bristles, hooves and a curly tail, it must be a pig, and the only Jewish judge ever to sit on the U.S. Eighth Circuit court of Appeals interrupted my fun to ask, "Well, counsel, was it kosher?" I coulda shot him. I mean, doesn't a Jew know better than to trample on a guy's punch line?).

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

[chuckle] no way ...

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Thanks Paz, but I don't live in DC. I live in Virginia. I overlook DC , but I live on the saner side of the Potomac!
Want to bet that 1) each of those cars claimed to have the right of way 2) lied on the police report?

Look Steve, much as with your French ancestry, you can claim all you want that you dont live in DC, but you know its true.

Yuri , I don't live in DC. Come down and visit , and I'll show you. I collect guns. DC doesn't like guns. End of $%%@#$%%$#@*&%$#^& story! So there! (Virginian's BTW , like guns. That makes them my kind of people!)

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

Well, boys, life is a pretty amazing thing.....

Come May, then, I got nowhere to go. I'll be a homeless old bugger. I got my boat, and I still plan to go sailing, but I have no idea where I'll end up.

Any suggestions?

(as Ringo sang it, ...but, oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go. Nowhere to go...

Well, Pas, looks like life served up a great big old sheetburger for you. It sure could have gone worse for you when the local government started scraping the bottom of the barrel over there. At least you were able to "sell" part of your assets over there instead of having them "liberated for the good of the people."

Now, as for which direction to point that beautiful new boat of yours, why not start a tour of the more hospitable Pacific War locations? With any luck, you might run into LST's outrigger girls.

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: USS America

There's one in every crowd.  In this case, way more than one.  

What would you do if there wernt.

Find another crowd where I did fit in.

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

And the Government and the DC Metro just annouced that both will be closed tomorrow , day seven of Snowmageddon. Most of the local school systems have said "screw it, we will see you next tuesday!". I wonder , judging from the chaos this evening (high gusting winds , drifting snow) if there is any hope of the area digging out for Friday?

How's everybody north of here? Yuri? Aces? Anyone? Hello!

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Thanks Paz, but I don't live in DC. I live in Virginia. I overlook DC , but I live on the saner side of the Potomac!
Want to bet that 1) each of those cars claimed to have the right of way 2) lied on the police report?

Look Steve, much as with your French ancestry, you can claim all you want that you dont live in DC, but you know its true.

Yuri , I don't live in DC. Come down and visit , and I'll show you. I collect guns. DC doesn't like guns. End of $%%@#$%%$#@*&%$#^& story! So there! (Virginian's BTW , like guns. That makes them my kind of people!)

Then you'd feel right at home in some parts of Brooklyn.

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

And the Government and the DC Metro just annouced that both will be closed tomorrow , day seven of Snowmageddon. Most of the local school systems have said "screw it, we will see you next tuesday!". I wonder , judging from the chaos this evening (high gusting winds , drifting snow) if there is any hope of the area digging out for Friday?

How's everybody north of here? Yuri? Aces? Anyone? Hello!

We got about a foot up here on the North Shore. Not that much, but its the heavy, sticky kind, which makes shoveling it a pain. To top it all off, I went out for a smoke, slipped and landed on my ass. Although I'm sure it was damned funny to look at, I've got a damn sore back.

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
I'll let you know as April gets closer if I'm still here (hopefully) and perhaps you'll let me buy you a drink or three?

Good deal. It'll be an honor to meet you, Steve. Any further info ought to be by PM, so you don't have to sacrifice your privacy (I doubt that you're an exhibitionist).

D.C. is an old haunt of mine, having been stationed there twice during my Air Farts years and practiced before the federal bar (the Supreme Court is a bizarre bunch to try to talk at. They're so detached and uninformed. The federal circuits are much more lively and entertaining. For example, I once invoked an old story about a conversation between a farmer and O.W. Holmes, Jr. in which the farmer said, "Pigs is pigs, yeronner" in support of the proposition that, if it's got a snout, tusks, pink skin, bristles, hooves and a curly tail, it must be a pig, and the only Jewish judge ever to sit on the U.S. Eighth Circuit court of Appeals interrupted my fun to ask, "Well, counsel, was it kosher?" I coulda shot him. I mean, doesn't a Jew know better than to trample on a guy's punch line?).

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Well , there is that legality thing. I don't suppose NYC has repealed the Sullivan act yet? I don't particularly like punks with guns. Rednecks with guns, that's different. They just endanger the squirrel,possum and raccoon population. Punks endanger liqour store owners.

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

And the Government and the DC Metro just annouced that both will be closed tomorrow , day seven of Snowmageddon. Most of the local school systems have said "screw it, we will see you next tuesday!". I wonder , judging from the chaos this evening (high gusting winds , drifting snow) if there is any hope of the area digging out for Friday?

How's everybody north of here? Yuri? Aces? Anyone? Hello!

We got about a foot up here on the North Shore. Not that much, but its the heavy, sticky kind, which makes shoveling it a pain. To top it all off, I went out for a smoke, slipped and landed on my ass. Although I'm sure it was damned funny to look at, I've got a damn sore back.

Didn't you read the government warnings on the pack?! Smoking is dangerous! Especially in a snowstorm!

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Sounds like he had one of his own. AND HE will be the judge of what's better!

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Well, I can't get to work this morning. All trains going in that direction have been canceled after somebody got run over by one further up the line. Oh Goodie.

I still do not understand how you get run over by a train. I have been a train nut my entire life. I understand that if you are even near railroad tracks you need to watch, listen and take care. I am careful in my car near railroad crossings.

Plenty of people "overlook" the crossings.

I see one of two reasons: either he was drunk and trying to get home by walking along the railroad track, or he committed suicide by jumping in front of the train.

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

Well, boys, life is a pretty amazing thing, and I've had one that occasionally likes to sneak up behind me - particularly when things are going well and I feel that I have some control over the doggone thing - tap me on the shoulder, and whisper, "So you think life is good and you've pretty much seen it all, eh? Well, come over here, big boy, you got something to learn."

To recap, a couple of years ago, I retired to a European country in the Mediterranean area (I don't like to give too many personal specifics out here, so excuse me for being vague). I had found a beautiful, out-of-the-way place - an old, abandoned monastery and its grounds - that had a modernized dwelling on it. I negotiated a deal with the government (mistake #3,338,494 - trusting a government, ANY government) whereby I would buy the residence and adjoining area, and assume titular ownership of the rest of the property while agreeing to supervise and work on the restoration project that the church wanted done in order to make the place something of a museum, library, and place of worship and contemplation.

Pretty sweet. The first year went really well, and progress was good, even nearing completion in many respects. After some give-and-take with the law school in the U.S. where I taught for 16 years, I cut a deal to return for one academic year to restructure the curriculum for teaching professional responsibility and ethics and create a two-semester sequence of required courses, in an effort to do a better job of helping law students have a better idea of what it takes to be a respectable member of the legal profession (and, incidentally, raising the estimation in which "those danged lawyers" are held in society).

Nice. I was going to finish the year, accept the accolades and trophies - well, maybe the accolades and paycheck - then return to my retirement paradise, which I had rented out to a caretaker family in my absence.

Lo and behold, the world economic crisis rose up to bite me on the butt. The government, one of the most broke in Europe right now (I think you can easily guess which one it is), due to its financial difficulties, abrogated its responsibilities under our agreement.

So, I have accepted the caretaker family's offer to buy the property and deeded all remaining interest in the rest of the monastery grounds back to the government.

Come May, then, I got nowhere to go. I'll be a homeless old bugger. I got my boat, and I still plan to go sailing, but I have no idea where I'll end up.

Any suggestions?

(as Ringo sang it, ...but, oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go. Nowhere to go...

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

And the Government and the DC Metro just annouced that both will be closed tomorrow , day seven of Snowmageddon. Most of the local school systems have said "screw it, we will see you next tuesday!". I wonder , judging from the chaos this evening (high gusting winds , drifting snow) if there is any hope of the area digging out for Friday?

How's everybody north of here? Yuri? Aces? Anyone? Hello!

We got about a foot up here on the North Shore. Not that much, but its the heavy, sticky kind, which makes shoveling it a pain. To top it all off, I went out for a smoke, slipped and landed on my ass. Although I'm sure it was damned funny to look at, I've got a damn sore back.

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

And the Government and the DC Metro just annouced that both will be closed tomorrow , day seven of Snowmageddon. Most of the local school systems have said "screw it, we will see you next tuesday!". I wonder , judging from the chaos this evening (high gusting winds , drifting snow) if there is any hope of the area digging out for Friday?

How's everybody north of here? Yuri? Aces? Anyone? Hello!

We got about a foot up here on the North Shore. Not that much, but its the heavy, sticky kind, which makes shoveling it a pain. To top it all off, I went out for a smoke, slipped and landed on my ass. Although I'm sure it was damned funny to look at, I've got a damn sore back.

Didn't you read the government warnings on the pack?! Smoking is dangerous! Especially in a snowstorm!

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

And the Government and the DC Metro just annouced that both will be closed tomorrow , day seven of Snowmageddon. Most of the local school systems have said "screw it, we will see you next tuesday!". I wonder , judging from the chaos this evening (high gusting winds , drifting snow) if there is any hope of the area digging out for Friday?

How's everybody north of here? Yuri? Aces? Anyone? Hello!

We got about a foot up here on the North Shore. Not that much, but its the heavy, sticky kind, which makes shoveling it a pain. To top it all off, I went out for a smoke, slipped and landed on my ass. Although I'm sure it was damned funny to look at, I've got a damn sore back.

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ORIGINAL: USS America

Our kids are already going to school on Monday, which was going to be a holiday for Martin Luther King's birthday.  Now, the will be learning about him in the classroom.  

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Now, I looked in every dictionary I could get my hands on and I cant find "yarble" anywhere.....

"Yarbloko?" Govorist po Russkim yazikom?

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
Thanks Paz, but I don't live in DC. I live in Virginia. I overlook DC , but I live on the saner side of the Potomac!
Want to bet that 1) each of those cars claimed to have the right of way 2) lied on the police report?

Look Steve, much as with your French ancestry, you can claim all you want that you dont live in DC, but you know its true.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

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ORIGINAL: USS America

Our kids are already going to school on Monday, which was going to be a holiday for Martin Luther King's birthday.  Now, the will be learning about him in the classroom.  

In February? I thought that holiday was in January.