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    I want to have babies.
    
    -b

    
    "Can't we all just get along?"
    

    
    "Can't we delete this note too"???
    

    
    SHADDAP you!!
    

    I'm being oppressed by politically correct elitists!

    
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	I've moved beyond cranky to recklessly silly.

    
    There are those who call me "whacky".
    

	if lady di ever endorses wine-in-a-box, I will be cranky

how often do you get cranky?  any numbers?

	almost never

    I get cranky when the Trilateral Commission starts tinkering around
    with my car while I sleep.

    
    Or when they start putting transmitters in dog's heads!!!
    
    Who'll be next???  Nutters???
    

    
    How often does that happen?  Any numbers?
    

    SHADDUP YOU!

    
    <--- IYO.
    

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    my, that's some tongue, andrew.... ;> :>
    
    

    
    
    Notice it can't fold up..... :(
    

    
    I'm not cranky!  I'm as giddy as a drunken man!  I'm as happy as
    a lark!
    
    Wheeeeeeee!!!!
    
    
    
    Rob
    
    (I know, I know, I'll shut up now.)
    

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	i'm cranky cuz i had 3rd row seats in the gahdin tonite.

> 'cuz I need one o' them switches the Doctah was talkin' about.
    
    Who doesn't? %^/

    ...because I woke with a headache.

    ...because I kept getting cut off in traffic this morning.  
    
    Some geek *purposely* cut me off (I had my turn signal on and everything)
    on the highway, as I was trying to get around a truck (he was behind
    me).  For the briefest of moments, I forgot myself and felt like
    ramming him (him and that old guy in the nice shiny beemer who cut me
    off not 3 minutes later).  Since I'm still driving my old junker around, 
    it wouldn't have bothered me in the least- what's another scratch or dent
    to my butt-ugly car?  Would've been a big deal to slobo in his $30K
    car, though- and old dude in his nice new beemer.  Might also
    have been a good lesson in courtesy for them both.
    
    The other three times or so I was cut off was probably not intentional.
    
    Actually, I'm not cranky about it anymore (stupidity/lack of courtesy on 
    the roadways in these parts are simply a normal part of everyday life), 
    so maybe I  should've placed this in the TTHT topic, simply due to the
    overabundance of idiocy this morning.
    
                                       
    -steve

    ...still not knowing what a class "B" poison is?

	Steve,

	What are you trying to imply by your use of the term "geek" ?

	Is that some sort of disparaging statement against intellectuals ?

	I think your biases are showing.

        Re "geek"
        
        I believe the origin of the term "geek" is from the carnival
        person whose act consisted of biting the heads off live chickens
        or rats and similar exploits - nothing to do with intellectuals.
        
        hth, yvw, nnttm
        
        &y
        

    
    re:.29
    
    > Some geek *purposely* cut me off (I had my turn signal on and everything)
    > on the highway, as I was trying to get around a truck (he was behind
    > me).
    
    Hi Steve, glad to see you didn't mind me cutting you off like
    that...hehehehe....eeeerrrr no, no that wasn't me, I was framed!...hehehe
    
    re:.31
    
    > What are you trying to imply by your use of the term "geek" ?
    > Is that some sort of disparaging statement against intellectuals ?
    > I think your biases are showing.

    too funny Karen, too funny    :-))))
    

    re: .31
    
    
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

    not enough sleep - I've been averaging about 5 hours a night since the
    film festival started.  Think I'll give away my tickets for the 2
    movies I have booked for tonight - anybody want them?  If you leave
    now, you might be able to make the late show.

    I, too, encountered far more than my usual share of jerk drivers
    yesterday, including an intentional cut-off by an expensive luxury
    car that I should've rammed with my 8-year-old heap.
    
    In fact, just about everyone everywhere was really into being
    cranky yesterday.  It wasn't a full moon (waning gibbous, as
    someone pointed out), so what's the story?
    
    Chris

    Network snafu.
    
    Somebody broke their thinwire connector. Aaaaaargh!!!!

    
    	Maybe the Trilateral Commission blasted it with a phaser.
    

    
    Shaddup ! Shaddup ! SHADDUP !
    
    There, I feel better already.

    Heard last night that Jerromy Brett has died and no information given
    except that he died ob 09/12/95. Has any body seen this? Can any one
    give more details? He was one of the best Sherlock Holmes actors that
    I`ve ever seen.
    
    Thanks. 

    heart failure at 59.

    .41
    Was there an on going problem? I didn`t think  he looked well in his
    later episodes but I thought it was make-up for the part. I will
    certainly miss him in that part and he will be a very tough act to
    follow. I am truly saddened by his death. Would it be possible to get
    the full obituary?
    
    Thanks.

    RTw  09/13 1300  Actor who immortalised Holmes dies, aged 59

    LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuter) - Actor Jeremy Brett, who immortalised the
    detective Sherlock Holmes on British television for 10 years, has died
    of heart failure aged 59.

    Hailed as the definitive Holmes, Brett died peacefully at his London
    home, a spokesman for Granada Television said on Wednesday.

    "He was a great friend and a really remarkable actor," said Edward
    Hardwicke, who played Holmes' bumbling sidekick Dr Watson in the hugely
    popular series. "Jeremy brought extraordinary energy to the part and
    made it his own."

    The son of a colonel, Brett appeared in the film version of My Fair
    Lady. He married actress Anna Massey in 1958 but the couple was
    divorced four years later. They had one son.

    He married American actress Joan Sullian in 1978 but she died of cancer
    in 1986, plunging him into depression.

    He began playing Holmes in 1984, relaunching a career which was in the
    doldrums during the 1970s.

    After collapsing with heart trouble in 1993 while filming his last
    appearance as Holmes, Brett said: "I would be risking my heart, head
    and neck if I was to stick it on the block again playing Holmes."

    REUTER

    .43
    Thank you.

    Nice that it happened to be at hand. :-)

 Not much sleep last night.  Also a big customer problem with which to deal.




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	Yeah, doc, but what about Jerromy Brett ?

    A lemon entry, my dear Jennison.
    

	Sounds like sour grapes, Colin !

    I prefer canteloupe

    
    fret not, qaren...i thought the same thing you did... ;>
    
    

    1.  Childhood friend's mother died yesterday. 
    
    2.  Two hours of grief counseling over the phone (see 1)

    
    .51
    
    Then you also missed the point.  Read .47, read .48 as a punning
    answer to .47 and then read Conan Doyle.  It's quite innocent.
    Really.

    
    
    	.... being exhausted because of a 14 hour day yesterday
    
    	.... have I mentioned that I hate my economics class?
    
    	.... not being able to go right home tonite and relax
    	     because I have to work job #2, probably till 9:00
    

    .54
    Funny...I always thooght there was 24 hours in any given day (+ - a few
    seconds). :')

    
    
    	pppffftttth!  =)
    

    .50
    
    Me, I can a loupe.  Well, I could, anyway...

    I can't elope, my ladder's broken.  But the reason I prefer cantaloupe
    over sour grapes is:
    
    	A melon entree. my dear Binder.

    Antelopes can't elope.

    .58
    
    I'd have figured it was alimentary, my dear Walters.

    Ooo.  He's baaaaaaad.

    
    
    because i am. 
    
    

    
    Because God invented raccoons.

    -b

	.63 please note the two c's, Oph.

       2 C-notes?

ah, now that's the way i like it.

the other way is such an assault on the eyes...
get's my drift?

    
    Who wants to know?
    

    
    I'm cranky because I was threatened with obstruction of justice by
    a hotshot Nashua police officer.
    
    Now where's that police note?
    
    
    
    Rob
    

    Wot, the cop threatened to obstruct your justice?  Pls disambiguate. 
    Tnx.
    

    
    	Sick today....very effing sick. Ack...
    
    

    >Sick today....very effing sick. Ack..
    
    But your still at work, right??   :)

    
    
    Because some people can be such orifice heads!
    

    
      Terry, I thought the orifice heads were Saudi...
    
      bb

    Now you've done it Bob.  You miss-pelt her name and she's gonna be
    p.o.'d for sure.  

    
    Thank you for noticing Brian. :*)
    
    
    It's TerrIE, TYVM.
    
    
    Terrie
    

    	Today is national grouch day!

    
    <-- Shaddap, you!
    
    

    
    	Some people here don't NEED a special day, jerky.
    

	It's kind of amazing at who knew the day to begin with..... must be an
ambassador he must!

    I'm cranky because I wasted the whole weekend with a nasty cold.  I did
    manage to fix my car on Saturday (being out in a nice chilly breeze
    most of the day didn't help my cold much, though).
    
    I'm nicely numb this morning after about 3 hours of solid sleep last
    night and a good dose of Drixoral 12-hour cold/flu.  
    
    Oh well, at least I have my voice back (for now).

    
    	1) I got to bed late last night.
    	2) My daughter woke up 4 times last night.
    	3) My son, the one that never wakes up at night, woke up twice
    	   last night.
    	4) Hubby and I got to "discuss" the proper handling of item #3
    	   for longer than necessary at 3:15 a.m.
    	5) The volume on the alarm clock was too low this morning, allowing
    	   me to oversleep by 15 minutes.
    	6) I arrived at work 15 minutes late, only to realize I was in
    	   a class scheduled to start 1 minute after I arrived.
    	7) I was in class most of the day.
    	8) I missed my run due to item #7.
    	9) I got offered an aerobics class at a great gym, at a time when
    	   I am not available.
    	10) I'm out of coffee.
    
    

    
    
    Sheeeeeeeeesh Karen!!!
    
    I hope you don't have PMS or own a gun!!!!
    
    
     :) :) :) :)
    

       And Andy, I hope that you, too don't have PMS.

    
    
    I ain't cranky!!!!! (today)
    

	Karen, after all that, are you sure you want coffee???? :-)

    
    	PMS ???
    
    	Did you actually ask me if I have PMS ?
    
    	Whoa, boy, you *are* brave!
    
    	(BTW, FWIW, I don't typically suffer from PMS, which is why
    	I don't have to kill you for your question.  I did, however,
    	get to realize the full joyful experience while I was under
    	the rule of pregnancy hormones.)
    
    

    
    I was told that I needed, without fail, to go to this rehearsal
    tonight.  It was very important.
    
    I sold my symphony tickets.  Some total stranger got to see Emanuel Ax 
    in my wonderful seats.
    
    I wasn't needed at the rehearsal which started at 7:00 until about 8:15.  
    I was on stage about 15 minutes, then I sat and waited for almost half
    an hour, and then I was told I could go home.
    
    
    This show is making me sick.  I think I have an ulcer 8^/.
    
    
    John, was it good?
                                                          

    Helpful Hint -- it is customary NOT to refer to one's posterior in the
    plural.
    
    :-)
    

    
    <-- 8^)
    
    

    
    	In light of this morning, yesterday is beginning to look
    	like a good day.
    
    	yuck...
    

    
    	Wow, what's on his shirt today?
    

    
    	Do keep up, Shawn.  My crankiness yesterday was not caused by
    	the offending T-shirt (though the shirt didn't help).
    

    
    	Oh yeah, you had PMS or something, right?
    
    	[Kidding!!]
    

    Who the hell wants to know?
    

    Oh Auntie JoJo! You um want to play um Floam?

    You go away with Floam.  You don't play it here.  No.  NO!!!

    Me still got um Gak that um Laughs With A Jiggle bought for me. You
    wanna play um Gak Auntie JoJo?

"Laughs With A Jiggle" ????

    So is the T-shirt wording written here somewhere ?? I'm curious as to
    the cause of this unhappiness...

'twas here yesterday. The wording seemed designed to offend.

The infamous "which way is up and out" doors are closed.  Someone commented 
that it looks like a hospital here now - I think it looks marginally better 
than that, but the screams of pain are pretty similar.


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re: .99, Martin

Is it the 17.8721 t-shirt to which you refer?

    Ahhh, yes sir, that's probably the one. Now I see why some may have
    taken offence. I have doubts about religion, but those are pretty
    stupid things to have on a T-Shirt.
    
    I think pitying the person with the T-Shirt might be an idea.

    Well, yes, Laughs With A Jiggle.

    <--- that some kinda indian name ? I'm lost.... help!!

    i'm found again.... who is Laughs With A Jiggle ? apart from an obvious
    friend of onangonga or howeveryouspellit.

    This kinda like "Dances With Wolves," "Notes With No Clue," that kinda
    t'ing? Help me out here.
    

    Stupid Note Writer ? :*)

    
    Dear Sir or Madam
    Will you read my note?
    It took me hours to write it
    Will you read my note?
    
    It's based on a note
    By a man named Haag
    But it reads just like
    It was wrote by my dog.
    

Buy you toys, hell - he was prepared to charter a goddam bus for you!

    You gents been on the fall over juice again ?

    Me um to young to drive um bus. Laughs With A Jiggle is very generous
    man.

    Yes, he um good friend of Onondaga. He buy me toys.