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Old 04-24-2014, 11:14 AM
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By being so smart, but not just smart enough.
I prefer clever...

Any monkey can be clever, poke a stick in and pull out a bug, which is quite a bit different than intelligent..... not crapping in his own bed.....
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Because greed trumps smart.
Or because smart thought greed had disppeared from our good Christian eareth,
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Sounds about right. In this case Gandhi's teachings may be useless. I'm glad that Patty and I have no children.
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Sounds about right. In this case Gandhi's teachings may be useless. I'm glad that Patty and I have no children.
My oldest son is a Green Beret.

Maybe he'll have enough skills to make it, and help his younger brother and sister out too.
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My oldest son is a Green Beret.

Maybe he'll have enough skills to make it, and help his younger brother and sister out too.
I hope so, tell them to get the hell outta Florida Tom. What's left after the ever increasing ferocity of hurricanes is going to go under the Atlantic by the end of this century.
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I hope so, tell them to get the hell outta Florida Tom. What's left after the ever increasing ferocity of hurricanes is going to go under the Atlantic by the end of this century.
Not all of it will be under the Atlantic.

A lot of it will be under the Gulf of Mexico.
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