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Guard Dog
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Something you wouldn't have in NZ Kiwi Jesus is Limeburners whiskey, West Aussie made, but then why would the Brits have it, so I don't know what to recommend because you've probably tried the different malts, meads, Conecuh ridge whiskey, Jack Daniels, Real McCoy, McKenna, Wild Turkey, Makers Mark etc. I don't deviate too much from Jack/Turkey, but out of the bourbons I'm familiar with, give Makers Mark a go if you haven't tried it.
I suppose instead of payment you're just going to thank your friend for this amirite?
I think that going with a Bourbon would defeat the point, to a certain degree. Bourbons are American products-- Shryke is talking about duty-free shopping in the UK, so presumably he's looking for recommendations on booze from Ol' Blighty. (Also, Wild Turkey Rye > Wild Turkey Bourbon.)
@Shryke, if you're focused on a blend, the high-end Johnny Walkers are very good. Or, among Irish whiskeys, try Midleton. Very smooth (but very pricey).
Ditto what Enoch said. If you must have blended try Johnny Walker Blue Label or Glenfiddich. Do not ask her for bourbon, it's not English and Enoch said. Plus if it did not come from the state of Kentucky, it will suck. England makes at least 1000 different brands of Gin, but I've never been a big fan of that spirit. My choice for Scotch (admittedly not a big drinker of that either) is hands down Isle of Skye single malt by Talisker. It's rich and spicy and goes really great with cigars. It's a little hard to come by where I live now but in Miami imports were more common and I had it a few times. Thats my $.02.
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I donated! I wish I could do more.
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I bought a new XM radio today. It should get here in a week. The anticipation is just killing me. Not.
So anyway, I'm playing this cheap (and lousy) computer game called "Art of Murder". The protaginist is a female FBI agent. The thing is, she is starting to show up in my dreams at night. I waited too late in life to stop drinking I think. Too many missing brain cells, it's like trying to run a big company after all the middle management quits.
At least she is hot, as computer characters go: http://www.amazon.com/Art-Murder-FBI-Confi...0694&sr=1-3
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what's peoples opinion on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
i read the first book years ago but don't really remember anything about it at all
and recently at a friends place read through the first 60 or so pages of it
it seems kinda mediocre, and in no way caught my attention. i was just curious to see if the series got any better and whether it's worth a shot
That man never had an original thought in his life. How he has cobbled together a career with so little ability is certainly a mystery to me.
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The Cards-Packers game was nothing less than epic. Kudos to Green Bay for not rollling over the way the Bengals did. I'm pulling for the Cards the rest of the way. But, they better find a way to play defense before next weekend. If they give up 45 points to New Orelans then they're done.
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mmmmm..... boneless chicken breast marinated in pinapple juice & teriyaki, cooked on a Foreman for 6 minutes. Served with a grilled pinapple slice (also cooked on George) and papaya salsa and steamed white rice. Good stuff!
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Just got home. No sale on that place in Covington. The foundation is sagging and that place needs more $$ to fix than anyone would ever pay for it. The only thing that can help that house is a match and a few ounces of gasoline.
No time to worry about that though, I've got a date tonight and it's snowing pretty steady so I gotta leave a little early.
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Covington is a VERY small town in west central TN. It is notable for only three things, the largest Truck Stop west of Nashvill on US 51, its the county seat of Tipton County and the western headquarters of the Tenn Fish & Game Service, and hunting and fishing in the Hatchie River and Anderson Tully management area. This place is locaed pretty close to both so I was hoping with the right kind of fix up it might be attractive to a hunting club. Otherwise this place is rual and to call it poor would be accurate.
I was also looking at a 900 sq ft place in Bartlett that needed some work. They are asking $160k. Gotta research that one some more.
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Bengals over the Jets: Sorry Jets, you have to play against the starters this week!
Dallas over Philly: Funny line of the week came from a caller to the Herd the ESPN Radio morning show "Andy Reid couldn't spell excellence if you spotted him the consanants and told him to buy a vowel!"
Pats over the Ravens: I do think the Ravens can win this game but it's hard to go against Bellicheck and his boys in January.
Cards over the Packers: Arizona finds a way to win when they really have to. I know tha matchup favor Green Bay but my gut is telling me otherwise this week.
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I refer him to hippiepants since he was way more liberal than most people during those days.
He was way more liberal than most Christians these days. Folks really need to lay off the whole old testament you'll-burn-in-hell schtick and get down with the judge not..., do unto others... program. Ol' J was all about the love. New Testament 4 Life.
This.
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In the case of the latter perhaps you could invite him over for some steaks and bourbon? Or even better help clear up whatever's bothering him.
I had to do a little research to even find out who owned it so my offer to buy was out of the blue for sure. I think he figures since I approached him the seller sets the price. The truth is it's worthless to him and I think he figures it's worth something to me so he's playing a little hardball. However, he's wrong, this is one of those things that might be nice but no big deal if it dosen't happen. Either way, $9K is all I can pay without mortgaging the lot and I don't want to do that. I explianed my reasons and the issues with the property. He told me he'd think it over.
Whatever heppens, happens. I am looking to do a little real estate investing this year anyway. I was looking at a house in Covington that was on sale for only $20k on a 220X140 lot (about average sized). In good shape it's worth about $70k but this place hasn't seen "good shape" since before the turn of the century. I'm going to meet the realtor up there tomorrow to see what all is wrong. Maybe I can fix it up. I've gotten pretty good at that kind of thing over the past few years.
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I had another date with girl today. We went for sushi, the place was pretty small, crowded and loud and the service was bad and the sushi was only subpar at best. However the tone and date in my opinion certainly went over a hell of a lot better than our first two but there is still something wrong and it is pissing me off. I have very little experience with female relationships but this is starting to get out of hand. It's pretty obvious were going out on dates, I tell her I like meeting up with her and that shes interesting and stuff to be complimentary and nice but while together it feels like the only thing running through her mind is like "why did I agree to this", she just seems kind of bored and doesn't want to be there and then afterwards we start chatting through text/facebook and all the sudden its all puppy dogs and squirrels, good times, etc
I wasn't even expecting us to go out on this last date, I kind of put out a vague want to hang out type thing just as a formality last week and then I get a text a few days ago reminding me and that she was interested. I don't know anymore, I'm thinking maybe shes stringing me along to be nice (and get free stuff >
) or something. I told her kind of straight up that it feels like she doesn't want to be there but she said she has fun. I'm just totally confused and I don't want to play games and she doesn't really want to open up. But I don't exactly have any other prospects either. This sucks.Just my $.02 but from what you said she sounds very comfortable over facebook, IMs/etc but not so much face to face. It sounds like she is not accustomed to dealing with real people who are right in front of her. I've heard this is becoming fairly common amonst younger people, girls in particular. It is more likely that she is self concious of her own social skills rather than anything you are doing wrong. If that is the case then I suggest double dating with two of yours or her friends to take some of the pressure off of her. See how that works then try for some alone time afterwards. Above all keep it light and fun especially in the beginning. There will be plenty of time for heavy relationship stuff later.
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Vineyard?
If you've abandoned ideas of buying at 14k you could set out precisely why you chose to offer 4.5. Comparisons, issues, etc. Let him see why, he may shift.
Not Vinyard, Moonshine! Good Tennessee river bottom land, that is what its good for. I'll plant corn and sorgum for the mash up by the house and build a still by the river! Kidding of course. I would like to build a dock to fish from plus the plot is a natrual flood barrier for Cold Creek and I'd like to ensure it never gets developed which would increase the chance of my place flooding. I sent him a email explaing why I was not going to meet his price and how I came up with 9K. Another 10 acre plot closer to Raliegh Millington Pike (the nearest hard road) sold for $4800 per last November. And it is ready to build. This patch of dirt has the river and the Hatche Management area on one side, and me on the other. He cannot develop the lot unless I grant an easement for utility access and if he is a total A-Hole about this I will not be inclined to ever do that.
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Most excellent Mes!
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Now reading The African Queen by CS Forrester. He is really famous for his Horatio Hornblower novels but this one was he best in my opinion. It never recieved much love even after it was made into an excellent movie by the same name in the '50s.
Also reading Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. There is just something about Papa Hemingways stories that I have always found appealing.
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Last month I made an offer to buy a small (2 acre) plot of land next to me. I heard nothing for months then today got a counter. It's wooded, isolated, has no hard road access or utility access unless I grant an easement, and to top it all of it's not even level (not by a long shot). I offered $9K, $4500 per acre. That is more than generous because lots without all of those issues are going for that price. The owner countered with $14K. He can go pound sand for that price. Oh well. Cold Creek runs along it's entire southern border and thats where I go fishing and I had a few ideas for that land.
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Apparently I missed out on the best parts of Mkrekus posts. But from what I glean from whats left he made a nonsensical argument by taking my example to an extreme and using the exteme to disqualify my argument (that is actually what a "strawman" is by the way). I could counter by saying that since he is in favor of gay marriage he must also in favor of an adult male marrying a young boy since after all they are both male. You see the problem here Mkreku? No, you probably don't.
This thread has grown pretty tiresome for me so this will be my last post and I'll end it but saying this:
There are two kinds of people in this world. One group desires nothing more than to live their lives as best they can in peace and with the freedom to do what makes them happy. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I am certain I've read that somewhere. The second group is watching the first group in a trembling rage because the first group, in the process of living their lives, is doing something the people in the second group don't like. The people in the second group will do anything to force the people in the first group to behave in a way they think they should. They will use rhetoric, laws, guns, they will strap on bombs and blow themselves up. The people in the second group are a pretty disparate bunch, from the religious zealot burning an abortion clinic, to the muslim terrorist, to the lone nut job banging away on his computer keyboard (Mkreku, Oblarq, LoF). The one thing they all have in common is they think they know better how you should be living your life than you do. And nothing makes them madder that when you deny them, or disagree with them. Most of it is pretty tame. They just use language to insult and belittle. Notice the really insulting posts in the two communist threads have been directed at those who oppose communisim or follow a religion. But it is just a very small step to shooting and that is why the worst atrocities in history are comitted by the people in group 2. Small wonder they are so attracted to totalitarian styles of governance like communisim and it's ugly kid sister socialisim.
No thanks, not for me.
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Let me generalize it further:
Why should you have the right to own something which is intended to harm other people when you don't have the right to harm other people?
Hunting, self defense, target shooting, collecting (I have three antiques one of which saw actual service with the Union Navy during the Civil War, it is priceless).
I don't like this whole conept of someone else telling me "No you can't do/have/say/think/read/believe this thing because "I" don't think you should!" You are simply imposing you will or morality on someone else using the law as a means of forcible coercion. If you are oppsed to firearm ownership, don't buy one. It is not for you to tell somone else what they can or cannot do. Personally I am against abortion but I do not think it should be illegal. I think it's immoral and would not participate in one without medical necessity but I believe everyone must decide for themselves what is right or wrong for them. If someone else decided to get one I would not stop them and I would try tp prevent someone else from stopping them even though I believe it's wrong. Personal freedom is the single most important thing in the world. We MUST all be free to choose our own path in life, even if it leads to ruin.
Suppose i decided that the internet is a dangerous and immoral thing and that no one should have free unrestricted access to it? Now suppose I had the political power to impose that morality on everyone else, and did so? Do you think that would be a good thing? Even if you did not use the internet would it be a good thing? Try to cram this concept into that narrow little closed mind of yours, totalitarianisim is not much fun when you find yourself on the recieving end of it. And sooner or later, everyone under it does. Communisim IS totalitarian. Even Marx said it must be inescapable. Those fences and walls in Europe were meant to keep people in, not out. I strongly suggest you think about that.
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Ok, you guys can just forget about Gun Control. The SCOTUS took that up in 2007 in DC v. Heller. The Court held that "the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that firearm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. The Court based its holding on the text of the Second Amendment, as well as applicable language in state constitutions adopted soon after the Second Amendment."
Stare decisis. That is settled law. The government is not going to come take everyones guns away unless the hold a match to the Constitution first. It will be a generation or more before that issue is taken up again. The previous Gun Control ruling was in 1938. So forget about gun control. It will never happen.
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I haven't checked out the web site yet but I've got to agree with LoF (can you imagine that?) about WWI. In those days Europe was like a wolf pack with too many wolves in it. The only thing that might have changed would be who fought with who and when. The colonial disputes, strangulation of trade, etc would still be the central cause. The assasination was just the match that lit the powder. The powder was still there without it. What might have changed is the US involvement. The US was far more isolationist back then, and far less developed than Europe. Had the Zimmeman Incident not happened I believe the Lusitania would not have been enough for Congress to give Wilson a Declaration of War. If the US had remained neutral the outcome would have been the same, the isolationists would have been proven right, and the US Military would have missed out on 20 years of advancement and improvment. It would have made the US less likely to involve itself in WW2 and far less capable when it did. That would have made a big change in history.
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Todays Results:
Kelverin: 12-4
GD: 12-4
Volo: 10-6
End of Season Standings:
Kelverin: 174-81
GD: 171-84
Volo: 166-89
Yes, I know the Jets-Bengals game is still on but I have a better chance of giving birth tonight than the Bengals do of pulling that one out.
So Kelverin wins the season on a surge in week 15. I was never able to close the gap and Volo keot falling farther behind. Congrats Kelverin, you win a lifetime of free use of the Obsidian forums plus the chance to purchase your own copy of Alpha Protocol on the day it's released.
We'll keep this going through the Super Bowl just to see what our recods end up looking like.
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Weather does not equal climate. Suck it, everybody who tries to politicize the one remaining neutral topic of conversation available in this country!
Not the last one. You're forgetting football. Speaking of which, how did the Giants make out today?
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F*****G Bucs.
What a crappy season. Defense sucks, O-Line sucks, need a reviever or two and an upgrade at running back. How many kickers have we used this year? I lost count. One draft isn't going to help. Next year dosn't look too good either.
F*****g Bucs.
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Maybe this wouldn't happen if you weren't actually my alt? Just a little... how do we say... food for thought.Hopefully you're referring to others (but I really can't tell who - everyone in this thread seems a separate entity), but because I'm still irked off that a certain moderator accuses me of being LoF (and used the possibility of banning him permanently to try and threaten me - again, go ahead!) I want to clarify that I am not him, and being accused of being him is pretty insulting, because I agree with him (and the way he acts) about as much as I do taks./insecure rant
One of these days you are going to forget what name you logged in under and post something that will give you up!
Thats how Sand/Killian/Hades/et al gets caught.
) or something. I told her kind of straight up that it feels like she doesn't want to be there but she said she has fun. I'm just totally confused and I don't want to play games and she doesn't really want to open up. But I don't exactly have any other prospects either. This sucks.
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Actually it is really easy to get sucked into computer games. Back when I was going through my divorce I spent a lot of time playing Baldur's Gate I & II, Torment, KOTOR, and NWN. I had also just lost my business so I had a lot of time on my hands and to top it all off I was drinking....heavily. Not like now but serious, self-medicating drinking. It got to the point where Bastila, Viconia, Fall-From-Grace and all of those others characters started to seem more real to me than actual people I knew. But I got through that pretty quickly. The one thing I will say is that little distraction (ok, BIG distration) probably kept me sane in some pretty bad times.
Paraphrasing Homer Simpson "Computer games give us so much... and ask for so little!"
Hmmmm I haven't played FO3 in a while, I wonder if any new mods are out...