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Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 195
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:37 pm: | 
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And the television and the computer. While we were in Switzerland and Liechtenstein for two weeks she decided that we didn't need communication with the outside world. For all that I knew World War III might have exploded in the Middle East! Next time my children have "TV turnoff" in school they will get a lot more sympathy. I am a CNN and an MOL junkie. The only other time she did this to us was when we vacationed at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and there were no TVs in the cabins. I hope this isn't going to become a habit. I don't even know who got kicked off of Big Brother. Do any of you ever take vacations where you cut off communication with the outside world? We didn't even make any phone calls!
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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 9046
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:43 pm: |
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Yes - it's great, but also embarrassing if something major happens and you have no idea.
We were on the Cape when NJ had the brief shut down in July. The night before we were heading home, someone said "you must dread leaving." I agreed, but thought that they were referring to the end of vacation.
I find it very liberating, and I'm a huge internet/MOL/news junkie. I never even used to give anyone but the cat sitter our phone number and never turned my cell phone on while we were away. I've had a family illness to deal with the past 18 months, so I keep my cell on 24/7 now, but don't answer it unless I have to. I won't check e-mail or log-on, tho. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 4543
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:44 pm: |
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you really need to get control of your wife.... |
Hoops
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Username: Hoops
Post Number: 1937
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:56 pm: |
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check into the Ask Mem thread to get some answers on what to do about it. |
Matt Foley
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Username: Mattfoley
Post Number: 783
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 11:39 pm: |
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Magic Man- I understand you 100% brother. When Mrs. Foley and I went on holiday to Queen Victoria Station in Antartica, she had all of my handhelds shut off! I was just plum lost without my BBC Wire,Reuters, and off shore casino gaming services. To make matters worse, while in Outer Rangoon last October, that witch left a basket and a "Take 1" note on our porch for Halloween. Who does that?
This Jan. we are scheduled to spend Martin Luther King weekend aboard Russian Space Rocket Volstok III . I promise you I will have my Blackberry! |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 198
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 11:46 pm: |
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Matt, such interesting vacations. We just keep going back to the Alps every summer lately. But I will have to pass on your jaunt into space. What if you don't get back and the two of you travel out into space forever? Maybe the witch better leave Halloween baskets for the next decade.... Make sure you pack a lot of food on board. I can tell you like to eat! |
GlassJoe
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Username: Glass_joe
Post Number: 83
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 11:57 pm: |
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Matt, you failed to mention your extended trip to Turkey. The one that ended in U.S. State Department embarassment. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 1588
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:10 am: |
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Dear Peter G Magic:
I feel your pain. Especially with the Alp connection. My incidents happened in Mondsee, Austria and again in Seeheim, Frankfurt. Grindelwald Switzerland was another major setback and don't let me even mention Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica and Roatan, Honduras.
However if your wife is that bored with your internet activity you might try payin g some attention to her. I hear Viagra can help if it doesn't come naturally. Please call the doctor if your availability lasts longer then 4 hours. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 4546
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:15 am: |
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As Buzzsaw would say, "Oh no you didn't!". |
Matt Foley
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Username: Mattfoley
Post Number: 784
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:16 am: |
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That reminds me. Would anyone be interested in renting my cottage on Easter Island over Thanksgiving? The couple that usually lets from me that week has cancelled. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 1589
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:20 am: |
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Oh yes I did my dear. I could have used you there at the hotel "Blaue Traube" Marktplatz 1, 5310 Mondsee. My computer wouldn't connect and it turned out to be Kazaa and it screwed me up major. Where was Monster when you needed him. But thanks so much for today my friend, my son is free to roam the sites that "no woman has gone before!!! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 4547
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:28 am: |
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oh the women have been there, and they are still there, why else would he go? |
Psychomom
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Username: Psychomom
Post Number: 562
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 1:53 am: |
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I missed the broadcast of man walking on the moon when my family was on vacation down the shore...we brought a little portable TV with rabbit ears and all we got was static and snow. But I lived to tell the tale.
I just got back from vacation in Myrtle Beach,with no computer,no MOL and I missed you guys but the world did not come to an end.
REAL MEN unplug once in a while and romance their wives....are you a MAN or a MOUSE???  |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 200
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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As previously posted, twice a day romancing my wife should suffice. But three or four times she got rid of the kids in the afternoons and we sexercised a third time. The woman is an animal! I lost ten pounds between the hiking and the romancing. I am starting to look downright anorexic! Yet I get no sympathy on MOL. And I really missed you guys/gals. What was I thinking? |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 201
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 10:42 am: |
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Greenetree, was helpful and sympathetic. Thanks Greenetree. Who else goes on vacation and gives up the computer, TV, the phone? I would still like to hear from some of you. |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 1654
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 10:54 am: |
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I just did that on an island in Maine. No computer. Cell phone tower far away. T.V. with rabbit ears (why bother?)
I went sailing (no engine, no noise, no high gas prices.) I read. I played with my son. We visited with friends.
It was MOL-free and I was fine. Of course, I drank alot.
J.B. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 8104
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:26 pm: |
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I give up MOL when I travel and I never carry a cell phone, a blackberry, or an ipod so no problem in that direction either. However, I do try to read the occassional newspaper or catch the news on tv or radio, assuming any of these is available. It's nice to know what trouble may be brewing while you are gone, even though you as apt to be as powerless to do anything about it while ylu traveling as you would be if you were at hoem experiencing it live.
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Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 202
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:53 pm: |
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Thanks, Joan and Jersey Boy. We get so used to modern methods of communication that I think it is difficult for most of us to give it all up. Yes, Jersey Boy, booze would definitely make it easier I'm sure. But it wouldn't set a good example for my children. DARE has had an influence on our household and anything more than a glass of wine with dinner isn't considered acceptable.
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SO Ref
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Username: So_refugee
Post Number: 2115
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 1:07 pm: |
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She took away the booze too?!?!?!
Damn...she must be a hottie. |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 1656
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 2:57 pm: |
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I was drinking TO set an example for my son:
"And this is how you make a proper martini. NO GODDAMNIT, gin first, THEN vermouth. For CHRISTSAKES, you're as bad at this as you were at lighting my cigar! Just forget it. We'll try again when you're three. Now go find your mother and tell her I want a drink."
Like I said, I was fine without MOL.
J.B. |
Jersey_Boy
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Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 1657
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 2:58 pm: |
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Kidding.... |
pcs81632
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Username: Pcs81632
Post Number: 118
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 4:25 pm: |
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Jersey Boy,
If not from you, then, I ask, who would the children learn from? I was in my late TWENTIES before I learned the art, and the benefits, of a good Manhattan.
When I think of all those wasted years . . . . .
Dad's idea of a cocktail was a flirtation of Scotch, splashed over ice, and then drowned with club soda. Thank God I found the right kind of crowd to hang around.
You're on the right track. Please keep doing what you're doing.
Do it for the children. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 9052
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 5:46 pm: |
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JB - this sounds like a case for DYFS. How can the boy learn if you don't even address stirring vs. shaking? Did it ever cross your mind to teach him about chilling the glass?
I'm dissappointed in you. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 1592
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 10:42 pm: |
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Peter Magic:
I suggest a restful vacation without the wife and with MOL. It must be tough for you and not to mention your wife. I would be upset if I was married to a man who complains so much about sex.
I suggest you try to be a ethernet cable in your next life. Internet connection and data running through you...the best of both of your worlds.
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Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 203
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 11:59 pm: |
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Bajou, I am not the one who brought up the sex. You did. Look back at the posts. All I was talking about was giving up communication with the outside world on our vacation to the Alps and you somehow connected it to Viagra. Where is the sex connection at all? Why do you and Psychomom equate sex with men to forcing them to give up the internet, TV, and telephone? Who spends all their time doing those things? A man can have both and I would be bored on a vacation that didn't include my wife. But we have had wonderful vacations in the past with occasional use of telephones, the internet, and a very little bit of CNN. |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 204
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 12:04 am: |
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Now to heat up that Veal Marsala! |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 5994
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 12:16 am: |
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Peter-
Marceles on Thursday.
Howie, did on Sunday and boy was he ticked! |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 205
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 12:59 am: |
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JTA, they got rid of Howie? Wow, Janelle must be really ticked off! Who was Howie up against? Thanks for the update. I can always count on you JTA but I had no idea you would watch that show or be up this late! LOL Guess I don't know you from just your posts. My wife and I were with friends we haven't seen since before we went away so I didn't get to watch it tonight. They always show some of it before they start the next episode so I will get caught up on Tues. Thanks again! |
Psychomom
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Username: Psychomom
Post Number: 575
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 10:36 am: |
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Magic Man,
Hey, all I said was romance your wife...you brought up SEX LOL...
and while we're on the subject, you only give it up 2x a day? what a Piker!!!
Just kidding of course. |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 206
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 11:32 am: |
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You women want to kill us men with kindness. Maybe distant relatives of the black widow spider. LOL There's a reason she's called the black widow. Her poor husband is consumed in the lovemaking process.
My wife can go on a ten mile hike up and down trails in the Alps and still have energy left for tennis or the other. I admire her energy but it is very hard to keep up with her! |
Psychomom
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Username: Psychomom
Post Number: 581
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 11:35 am: |
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Peter G. Magic,
You poor baby, I feel your pain. The sacrifices we make for those we love...tsk tsk tsk. |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 207
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 12:02 pm: |
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Overall, it was an enjoyable vacation. We did compromise. Every other day after our morning hikes, we would take scenic drives (my choice) and end up at dusk at a little restaurant or inn and have dinner with a glass of wine. Very relaxing. Then, every other day (her choice) we would play tennis in the afternoon or get intimate, depending on what the children were doing that day. They have as much energy as she does. Definitely not couch potatoes! Still, I would have liked, at the end of the day, to know what is going on in the world. At the same time, we both get awakened by emergency calls from the hospital when I am home so I understand her need for a break from communication. I just needed to vent. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 1601
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 2:25 pm: |
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Dear Peter:
You had a whole thread about how u need help because your wife jumps you too much. I did not equate anything. I suggested that your wife who cut you off from MOL might be bored with you wasting time and that you should instead:
I wrote:
However if your wife is that bored with your internet activity you might try paying some attention to her. I hear Viagra can help if it doesn't come naturally. Please call the doctor if your availability lasts longer then 4 hours.
Then you answer:
As previously posted, twice a day romancing my wife should suffice. But three or four times she got rid of the kids in the afternoons and we sexercised a third time. The woman is an animal! I lost ten pounds between the hiking and the romancing. I am starting to look downright anorexic!
And Again:
Then, every other day (her choice) we would play tennis in the afternoon or get intimate, depending on what the children were doing that day.
I made a suggestion but you ran with it. I never mentioned se*, se*ercised once, twice or three times or the word intimacy in my post but you did so enough said...enjoy the Veal Marsala...one of my favorite meals. |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 208
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 4:51 pm: |
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Bajou, let's get back to topic. This thread is about going away on vacation and cutting off communication with the outside world. Dave or Jamie killed the other thread you are talking about so let's drop it. I'm sorry I let you get me off track again and back onto that old thread. |
Onyx
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Username: Onyx
Post Number: 136
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 - 6:37 pm: |
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Peter - How can anyone take you seriously when you clown around so much on MOL? Especially with all the jokes about sex.
Bajou - The US is still very sexist. If a woman wants a lot of sex she is a whore but for a man it is considered natural. If a husband complains that his wife expects too much sex it is funny and the focus for jokes but if a wife complains that her husband wants too much sex it is battery or even rape. I read that other thread and I am glad it was killed by whomever! |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3779
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 9:37 am: |
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Holy moly. Talk about threadkill. |
Sandi and Paul
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Username: Momsandi
Post Number: 123
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 10:20 am: |
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It is a serious issue. There is often incompatibility with husband and wife over the frequency of intimacy. However, I agree with Onyx that the thread became a joke, especially from singles. Sometimes the wife wants more frequent contact, sometimes the husband. If unresolved it leads to the partner who is rejected feeling inadequate and eventually divorce. Does anyone really believe that the husband and wife ALWAYS want intimacy at the same time and to the same degree? Peter, I am envious. I would love to have gone to Europe this summer and I think a scenic drive with the family followed by dinner and a glass of wine is much more romantic than the other mentioned activities that can as easily occur at home (except the hiking that also sounds like fun but I could not have gone ten miles at one clip! gasp! ). |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 209
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 10:29 am: |
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That said, Peter, I side with your wife on communication and vacations. If you are awakened frequently during the nights when you are home by urgent messages, she has the right to expect you to live for two weeks without MOL, computers, and telephone calls. There is enough enjoyment to be found in the Alps. Get back to nature and forget the outside world when you are away. |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 210
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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Yes, Mrs. Magic, you were right. end of thread as far as I am concerned. |
Sandi and Paul
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Username: Momsandi
Post Number: 124
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |
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Peter, are you okay? That was really weird. You don't usually act like you are talking to yourself on MOL. You should be relaxed and rested after your vacation but you sure don't sound right! Hope nothing is wrong. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 1613
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 4:40 pm: |
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Ahem Peter...I think you are talking/typing with yourself... |
Peter G. Magic
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Username: Pmagic
Post Number: 211
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:35 pm: |
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I was upset, Bajou. This morning someone showed my wife some of the threads where I had ranted. She is really upset with me. |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 9090
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 - 7:57 pm: |
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That's very, very wrong and against The Code.
MOL is like Vegas. What happens here, stays here. If the whiney tattle-tale can be identified, I vote that the person is banned for life. Or shot. |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 1620
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 12:14 am: |
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It wasn't me..I swear.
I think that someone is jealous. Please Mrs. Magic...this is all in good fun and your husband is viewed as the luckiest guy in town.
Come on whoever you are. Why would you cause a problem in a marriage over some joking threads on a town website that people use to vent and goof off. None of the stuff typed here should ever be taken serious or should be taken truly personal. Remember sticks and stones will break your bones but MOL (overuse) should only get you fired.
Please except my apology Mrs. Magic if my posts should have contributed to any upsetment within your family. I am sure all posters (including your hubby) feel the same.
Now tell that busybody that rubbed this in your face to stay out of your life and out of MOL.
Vegas, baby!! |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 9093
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 7:30 am: |
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Anyone remember the dipwad who showed Brett's Wedding blog to his fiance? It was such a great, fun thread. He teased a lot, but the overwhelming theme was just how crazy-in-love he is with her. Didn't matter; he had to delete it.
People who do these things are very, very small.
BTW - Baj. Not everything is a joke; Brett and I are going to get married some day and Mem is looking to become a Stalker. If I had more time, I'd give more details on the Truth About Jello, too. |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2632
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 7:54 am: |
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I remember him  |
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