Klemperer: My people have always been lovers, not fighters. =^_^= And we have short attention spans, too. In fact, I've even forgotten I was about to battle pHz.
toine: Has a subway car door been airbrushed out of that picture?
Yet another reason why kvr is the way coolest
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- KVRist
- 231 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from Network XXIII
I say bring back dueling banjos! 
But we have to do it naked and plaster mayonnaise all over our bodies!
But we have to do it naked and plaster mayonnaise all over our bodies!
an autumn leaf
on the open lotus ~
pond turns brighter ~
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5703 posts since 8 Dec, 2004 from The Twin Cities
Ah Aaron Burr.Bassballjg wrote:What a short memory you have for being the father of history. You forget the Hamilton-Burr affair, not to mention the demise of Stephen Decatur, and the Ric Flair of affairs of honor, Old Hickory himslef, General(he insisted on that title and not Mr President)Andrew Jackson, who was in at least 2 duels I can think of.herodotus wrote:Americans don't duel.Klemperer wrote:Duel is great. You surely have a story about duels in your family, Meffy.
That's a barbaric European practice.
Americans have people shot.
What would have happened if he had managed to start his own republic?
One of my favorite 'what if' scenarios.
But I was just trying to bait our European friends, who sometimes seem to think we are all rednecks who just like to spit snuff out the window of our gas guzzling SUV's on the way to one of our many book burning parties.
Do they not know of the noble and heroic struggles of the people of Croatan??
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- KVRian
- 1313 posts since 29 Mar, 2002 from Salt Lake City, Utah - U.S.A.
Could have been, I'm not sure. One thing that is sure though, is that if you listen closely while viewing the picture and envisioning KVR, you can hear Putte's song "A Lotta Love Around" like a freight-train in the distance.Meffy wrote:toine: Has a subway car door been airbrushed out of that picture?
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Yes! They do not. *puzzled* Or something.herodotus wrote:Do they not know of the noble and heroic struggles of the people of Croatan??
I'll tell y'all this -- it's no easy thing finding nice, complete whelk shells on the beach. Most of them have a hole worn through the broadest rounded part. But we Croatanians persevere, no matter how slowly we must amble!
And stuff.
Oh, well, I always hear Putte's etc... :-)toine6 wrote:if you listen closely while viewing the picture and envisioning KVR, you can hear Putte's song "A Lotta Love Around" like a freight-train in the distance.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Um... the invitation said if we didn't show up you were supposed to start without us. 0_:-) Yes, that's it.lunarhalo wrote:I'm waiting on that mayonnaise......
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
I used to say that about myself . . . then I thought back over my life and realized that it's always been a lot easier to pick a fight than to pick a love affair. So tried to be a fighter instead. In the end I just had to face the facts that I'm too much of a wimp to be a fighter and too old/fat/poor to be a lover . . . so I guess that just makes me a musician.Meffy wrote:My people have always been lovers, not fighters.
Oh, and . . . Mmmmmmmmm. Mayonnaise!
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- KVRAF
- 3528 posts since 18 Apr, 2002 from British Columbia, Canada
you do other things then?herodotus wrote:
But I was just trying to bait our European friends, who sometimes seem to think we are all rednecks who just like to spit snuff out the window of our gas guzzling SUV's on the way to one of our many book burning parties.
oh right... the good ol' 'tracktor pull'.
imagine the pure ecstacy of holding a book burning AT a tracktor pull....!
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- Pick Me Pick me!
- 10251 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from a state of confusion
roughly half the people respect one another and just want to get along.. the other half want to argue over everything so much that ben had to make a special place.. the problem (imo) isnt really arguing so much as it is arguing without point.. there is no point in arguing over a topic (such as politics) in which everyone already has a position. thats why they're in the HP arguing over it. nothing ever gets done. too bad it took me awhile to figure that out.
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
That's BS I don't agree with you at allVitaminD wrote:roughly half the people respect one another and just want to get along.. the other half want to argue over everything...
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
All kidding aside, I think the problem is they aren't really arguing per se (as in exchanging reasons given as proof and/or rebuttal to a position or opinion), but rather simply bickering (as in petulant quarreling). The art of debate--logical point and counterpoint in support of a position or opinion--is largely absent whenever two or more parties can converse with annonymity. It almost always degrades into emotional bashing.VitaminD wrote:... the problem (imo) isnt really arguing so much as it is arguing without point..
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5703 posts since 8 Dec, 2004 from The Twin Cities
I met my wife at one.spoonboiler wrote:you do other things then?herodotus wrote:
But I was just trying to bait our European friends, who sometimes seem to think we are all rednecks who just like to spit snuff out the window of our gas guzzling SUV's on the way to one of our many book burning parties.
oh right... the good ol' 'tracktor pull'.
imagine the pure ecstacy of holding a book burning AT a tracktor pull....!
There was a strange moment when I realized that my own "Persian Wars" was among the books to be burned.
But then I just threw it into the fire and yelled "YEE-HAW" and I haven't looked back since.