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I used the word 'melee' in an official report. I took some flak over it, until the Sheriff said it was a good descriptive.
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Melee is okay, but if you use "hit points" or "saving throw" in the same report, things will probably degrade from that point.
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I have used the term "buggered" in official documents before... As in the "situation got more buggered up after that..."
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I loved skippies list. And when ever and where ever you can scew over the mindless go for it.
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JustinR wrote:Well then, the Irish mob has finally won it seems.
You really have no idea.

What gives me a good if painful laugh every time I think of it, and probably will forever, is thinking how well the American Irish mob has assimilated with the descendants of Cromwell's mob. Yeah, the regicidal theocratic murderous former Communists and ancestors of Progressives. Same ones that certain people here have argued as religious authorities..... :lol:
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Greg wrote:
JustinR wrote:Well then, the Irish mob has finally won it seems.
You really have no idea.

What gives me a good if painful laugh every time I think of it, and probably will forever, is thinking how well the American Irish mob has assimilated with the descendants of Cromwell's mob.
Or in my case, with the descendants of Cromwell himself, or at least his house. It's a wonder I don't expire from self-loathing. 8^)
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Netpackrat wrote:
Greg wrote:
JustinR wrote:Well then, the Irish mob has finally won it seems.
You really have no idea.

What gives me a good if painful laugh every time I think of it, and probably will forever, is thinking how well the American Irish mob has assimilated with the descendants of Cromwell's mob.
Or in my case, with the descendants of Cromwell himself, or at least his house. It's a wonder I don't expire from self-loathing. 8^)
Boston would set you off. ;)
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CByrneIV wrote:
First Shirt wrote:I spent a week in Boston one night. The only thing that would set me off is knowing that I couldn't leave.
Thus why when we moved back northeast, we set a 40 mile north MSD from Boston.
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Greg wrote:
Netpackrat wrote: Or in my case, with the descendants of Cromwell himself, or at least his house. It's a wonder I don't expire from self-loathing. 8^)
Boston would set you off. ;)
I have no intention of ever going there for a variety of reasons.
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