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6th August 2023, 09:17 PM | #3401 |
Becoming Beth
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8th August 2023, 09:10 AM | #3402 |
Acolyte of Víđarr
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3rd January 2024, 07:37 AM | #3403 |
Unindicted Co-conspirator
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Well, I'm not really new, but back after a really, really long time!
Not sure if anyone even remembers me at this point! |
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3rd January 2024, 07:40 AM | #3404 |
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Welcome back. I don't remember specific posts but I remember you.
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3rd January 2024, 07:48 AM | #3405 |
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3rd January 2024, 08:23 AM | #3406 |
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Thanks, it's nice to not be totally forgotten. I probably won't post much going forward, but I'll try to stop in once in a while.
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To forgive is human, to condemn for eternity is divine. -- AudioFreak Truth is where evidence comes from, not where belief leads to. --yy2bggggs Expelled exposed! Sylvia Browne |
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3rd January 2024, 05:23 PM | #3407 |
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I remember Tanstaafl.
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So take that quantum equation and recalculate the wave by a factor of hoopty doo! The answer is not my problem, it's yours. Three Word Story Wisdom |
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3rd January 2024, 05:34 PM | #3408 |
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3rd January 2024, 05:47 PM | #3409 |
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3rd January 2024, 06:09 PM | #3410 |
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Like others I have no recollection of what Tanstaafl posted, or what their position was, but I remember the name. Always good to have someone back.
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Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal (Molière) A pedant is a man who studies a vacuum through instruments that allow him to draw cross-sections of the details (John Ciardi) |
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3rd January 2024, 08:02 PM | #3411 |
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First one of you that proposes The Tanstaafl Effect, so help me god...
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3rd January 2024, 11:24 PM | #3412 |
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7th January 2024, 08:27 PM | #3413 |
a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
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8th January 2024, 11:21 PM | #3414 |
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9th January 2024, 03:42 AM | #3415 |
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"Your deepest pools, like your deepest politicians and philosophers, often turn out more shallow than expected." Walter Scott. |
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