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What are you Thankful for? - 11/23/2006 12:24:14 AM

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Happy Thanksgiving! After Talking to Andy from VA in r&p I just realized that I have alot of things to be thankful for. First and foremost I have my family and health to be thankful for. Secondly I am thankful for those who are serving the US to protect my family to allow us to enjoy the holiday. Thank you to our servicemen and women.

So what are you thankful for?

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/23/2006 12:51:13 AM

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What greater gift to be thankful for than life...

Of course there are others, as you've mentioned...health, family...but you didn't mention Matrix Games existence!!

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/23/2006 10:03:13 AM

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I am thankful the democrats took the whitehouse. ;)

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/25/2006 3:54:09 AM

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I'm thankfull I don't have to eat Nutella like all the poor heathens in Europe.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/25/2006 9:59:47 PM

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Nutella?

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/25/2006 11:48:09 PM

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Nutella?

A kinda peanut butter-like Chocolate spread in a jar. I've had some German relatives send me some, but I've seen it in the stores here is the US now.

Not my cup of tea smearing chocolate on toast.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 12:28:38 AM

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I am thnkfull that my PC works after stripping it down and reinstalling Winders

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 2:08:17 AM

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Nutella?

Nutella, a fiendish ersatz chocolate concoction proven to cause communism. It's horrific. Think vegamite for the sweet toothed. And yes, fifth columinsts are even now distributing this stuff in American Piggly Wiggly stores. This is the biggest threat to our precious bodily fluids since flouridated water.

Don't eat this stuff. Look what it's done to the Germans. Your kids will turn gay if you expose them to Nutella. Real Americans eat crunchy peanut butter.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 4:50:43 AM

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Real Americans eat crunchy peanut butter.

Real Americans eat oil reserves, and they sure do have an appetite.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 4:53:20 AM

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Real Americans eat crunchy peanut butter.

Real Americans eat oil reserves, and they sure do have an appetite.

Sorry - mistake - real American's eat Cadbury's chocolate. Trouble is they can't get it, which is why I spend a fortune sending regular supplies to a friend in Idaho!

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 6:17:57 AM

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quote:

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Real Americans eat crunchy peanut butter.

Real Americans eat oil reserves, and they sure do have an appetite.

Sorry - mistake - real American's eat Cadbury's chocolate. Trouble is they can't get it, which is why I spend a fortune sending regular supplies to a friend in Idaho!

They are feeding you a line... I see Cadbury chocolate at all the grocery stores (I love the carmel filled ones). Neat way to insure a free supply of treats though.

PS - you didn't hear this from me.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 6:21:37 AM

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And Doogie... "real Americans" (the native kind) eat fry bread!

Fry bread for Navajo Tacos, Navajo Burgers, Fry Bread with Chili Beans, fry bread with mutton stew, fry bread with salt on it as a snack - the list is endless. It's the basic staple of life!

What is this "crunchy peanut butter stuff"?

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 8:46:29 AM

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I�m thankful for the rights I and my countrymen like to take for granted , along with the sacrifice that made it possible.

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Real Americans eat oil reserves, and they sure do have an appetite.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 2:14:22 PM

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I�m thankful for the rights I and my countrymen like to take for granted , along with the sacrifice that made it possible.

Water is a "right". A full belly is a "right". Oil is a luxury, frequently obtained at somebody else's expense. Not really a very good candidate as a worthy cause of sacrifice, I suspect.
Personally, oil-user as I am, I think that peanut butter has probably done less harm, and it definitely tastes better.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 4:58:03 PM

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Let me get this straight,

You jump into a thread with the heading of �what are you thankful for� and your only contribution is some political hack at Americans .

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 6:26:36 PM

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Makes ya wonder eh Sarge.

Me, while not American (so technically I was thankful a while ago hehe), I would like to "attempt" to describe "why" I am thankful, and hopefully it comes out right.

I am thankful that I have realized over time, that I am not beholding to any belief system's divine benefactor for the good in the world, which allows the flip side, I have been able to realize that there is no uncaring benefactor responsible for all that is unpleasant either.

I am thankful that even though life can have a lot of really crummy things happen to a person, life is also about a lot of things that make it all worth while.

In 93 my life seemed to end thanks to disability, but, I am thankful life has shown me that even that event, as bad as it was to endure, shaped and molded me so that in the end, I am today a better person than I was before it happened, even if I lost out on a few dreams.

I am thankful that life gave me my son, so that no matter how depressed I might get over my condition, I could never really for very long, escape the fact that I truely have a purpose and am needed.

I am thankful that I live in Canada, a country that continues to annoy the US by always seeming to be just a little better than they are at so many little things (we have better comedians because we're funnier :)).

I am thankful for all the guys that make me cry on Rememberence Day (Nov11 in Canada), who will never grow old, and made it possible for me to live where the word "free" truely means something (as it does in the US too of course).

I am thankful for all the books, the libraries, the documentaries I can take for granted. The newspapers with their attrocious spin, the free access to the internet. Because they make it possible for me to see it all, and reach my own conclusions. I am thankful I am not starved of credible information like some regions of our world are.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/26/2006 11:46:20 PM

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Let me get this straight,

You jump into a thread with the heading of �what are you thankful for� and your only contribution is some political hack at Americans .

Hi Sarge

Yeah. You're right. It was out of place, and I apologise.

I'm afraid I have a serious case of the grumps at the moment, but that doesn't give me permission to snipe as and when the mood takes me.

Cheers,

Martin

PS. I have been dying to ask, for months, if your avatar is the famed "Sgt Rock" from my child-hood comics (sign of my age)

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 1:01:11 AM

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My beautiful young wife and my precious daughter. The girls drive me nuts sometimes, but they also help me maintain my sanity. The Gunny is an odd sort, without a doubt, but these women keep me alive. I don't know what I'd do without them.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 1:12:59 AM

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PS. I have been dying to ask, for months, if your avatar is the famed "Sgt Rock" from my child-hood comics (sign of my age)

Thats the one

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 1:32:29 AM

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And Doogie... "real Americans" (the native kind) eat fry bread!

That's because there's no Piggly Wiggly on the reservation. I've been to a lot of Indian reservations, and all I ever saw were casinos, tax free shops, and junkyards. You'd think they'd take some of that tax free revenue and put up a shopping center or two.

Doesn't it annoy you that tax free Indian nation enterprises make billions, and virtually none of it makes it way to your kids? And good on you for volunteering to teach at an Indian reservation.

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What is this "crunchy peanut butter stuff"?

It gives it texture. Did you know that in 1970's era Germany, a jar of Jiffy extra crunchy peanut butter served the same function as Hershey bars and nylon stockings in 1946?

German hippie girls would do almost anything for a jar of American peanut butter. There was nothing like in German grocery stores. My hippie friends would demand I bring back cases of it from the commisary. And I'll bet you never guessed the old Dog lived on a commune with German hippies, huh?

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 1:40:01 AM

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I'm afraid I have a serious case of the grumps at the moment, but that doesn't give me permission to snipe as and when the mood takes me.

I'd have the grumps too if I lived in a nation that has hundreds of North Sea oil platforms and imposes absolutely outrageous taxes on gasoline to fund welfare programs to benefit ingrate asylum seekers that hate your guts.

I'm thankfull I live in a country where taxes like yours would be met by armed insurrection.

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if your avatar is the famed "Sgt Rock" from my child-hood comics

And unlike some people we know who've never shouldered a ruck, Sarge actually earned the title of "Sarge."

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 12:00:48 PM

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Hi Doggie,

I apologised for straying away from the positive nature of the topic. Some reciprocation would be appreciated.

Cheers, Martin

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 1:48:33 PM

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Nutella?

A kinda peanut butter-like Chocolate spread in a jar. I've had some German relatives send me some, but I've seen it in the stores here is the US now.

Not my cup of tea smearing chocolate on toast.

Actually it's hazelnut butter, not chocolate

. Made of hazelnut and cacao.
Actually an Italian "invention" and product, but got really famous in Germany when introduced to the german market in the late 60s / early 70s. Like so much other Italian stuff

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 6:01:11 PM

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Thankful for my family and my life. Everything is temporary and someday it all will be gone. GONE. So enjoy the moment.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/27/2006 7:00:50 PM

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I am thankful the democrats took the whitehouse. ;)

I am thankful my ideological opfor are this "precise"....

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/28/2006 12:08:43 AM

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Hi Doggie,

I apologised for straying away from the positive nature of the topic. Some reciprocation would be appreciated.

Cheers, Martin

"Reciprocation" was given, didn't you notice? Or is "Reciprocation", when it comes from me, "uncalled for."?

And yeah, the topic did have a positive nature before some people jumped in with stuff like "I am thankful the democrats took the whitehouse. ;)" and " Real Americans eat oil reserves, and they sure do have an appetite."

I get it. I really do. You guys getting your digs in is in keeping with a "positive nature", and we of the unwashed digging back is "uncalled for."

Awfully sorry to break up the yank bashing, old chap. Just isn't cricket. Bad sport, eh wot?

Cheers, mate.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/28/2006 12:24:03 AM

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Actually it's hazelnut butter, not chocolate . Made of hazelnut and cacao.
Actually an Italian "invention" and product, but got really famous in Germany when introduced to the german market in the late 60s / early 70s. Like so much other Italian stuff

Nutella, clinically proven to cause communism. Marc Shwanebeck, Nutella Fiend. The prosecution rests.

We've actually got the stuff here now. I remember it. I just never figured out what you were supposed to do with it. Like the girl said, chocolate goop and bread just don't mix. Now broetchen, that's a thing we could use here. Nobody in the states makes a decent broetchen - bratwurst just aint right without broetchen and that curry goop.

Pomme frites mit mayonaisse is an aquired taste along with selzer wasser. I guess I caught a mild case of communism because I still like both.

By the way, did you ever get that set of dog tags with your name on them I got in Fort Bragg and sent your way via Axrael? That was a while back, and Axrael seems to have moved on.

If you ever need some U.S. Army patches or stuff let me know, I live an hour's drive from Bragg.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/28/2006 12:42:18 AM

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That's because there's no Piggly Wiggly on the reservation. I've been to a lot of Indian reservations, and all I ever saw were casinos, tax free shops, and junkyards. You'd think they'd take some of that tax free revenue and put up a shopping center or two.

Doesn't it annoy you that tax free Indian nation enterprises make billions, and virtually none of it makes it way to your kids? And good on you for volunteering to teach at an Indian reservation.

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I'd have the grumps too if I lived in a nation that has hundreds of North Sea oil platforms and imposes absolutely outrageous taxes on gasoline to fund welfare programs to benefit ingrate asylum seekers that hate your guts.

I'm thankfull I live in a country where taxes like yours would be met by armed insurrection.

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ORIGINAL: Doggie

Awfully sorry to break up the yank bashing, old chap. Just isn't cricket. Bad sport, eh wot?

I think I understand where you're coming from now. It's not edifying, but I understand it.

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/28/2006 1:26:37 AM

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I think you finally get it. See, when I patiently explain things to people in the real friendly like way like I'm noted for doing, they understand.

You'll note that I don't go out of my way to annoy people in Britain. You don't see me busting in to threads about games to say Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery was a Nutella eating weenie. You'll not see me disrepect the haggis in the middle of a thread about submarine warfare. So why do some of you people insist on pissing on the yanks all the time and telling us it's raining?

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RE: What are you Thankful for? - 11/28/2006 1:49:47 AM

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