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By the time Pike has a daughter of marriageable age, 20k will probably be worth more like 2k. At any rate, he'll agree with the moron, won't he, seeing as how the parents of the bride will likely still pay for the wedding? ;)— November 13, 2009 7:27 p.m.
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Oh good, then you like my wedding plan? I think this could become a lucrative biz! Whoa, watch your palette there, CF. Don't want to attract the palette patrol ;)— November 13, 2009 7:15 p.m.
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Total copout? Did you see the dress? ;)— November 13, 2009 7:05 p.m.
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re:#3: Ok, I guess I'm enough in love to forget about the canary. How about a super spy decoder “ring” instead? http://javascript.internet.com/games/decoder-ring… And a picture of a simple Marchesa gown will do… http://www.celebritybrideguide.com/kate-hudson-mo… See how cool and inexpensive Internet weddings can be, darling? We don’t have to feed our guests with a cake—all we really need is the topper: http://family.webshots.com/photo/2078866040100162… Now, we just have to wait until everyone is allowed to. ;)— November 13, 2009 6:09 p.m.
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Why thank you, Puppy! Good to know the three-headed Cerberus of hell won't be preventing my crossings. ;) PS: I'm not certain about a *total* open border policy, and not sure why I am accused of being a propagandist, when I am so often sitting on the fence, looking from left to right and back, like the crossing guard always told us.— November 13, 2009 5:23 p.m.
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Thanks, NotQuiteADiva, and can I just say it's nice to see you back? ;) "relapse is only a symptom and not a moral failure as some might like to attest – would you blame an epileptic for having a seizure as a moral failure?" I think monaghan might retort that drinking (and subsequent pain caused to others by the drinker) was at least at one time a choice, whereas epilepsy--safe to say--not chosen by anyone. However, your points still stand, NQAD; whether or not it was once an easy choice to make it alkie or non-, choice becomes a difficult matter, and increasingly disappears--in some cases--altogether. We can talk about the predictable features of the "disease," but if we blame one drinker, like some kind of morality play's "Everyman" for all the failures of drinkers in general, we are forgetting some basics of humanity, and that people are complex individuals with their OWN failures and their OWN achievements. I say therefore to monaghan, call it maudlin (yes, the word crossed my mind as I wrote my last post), but the sentiment is genuine, as is the hope--if you can find some left in your heart to offer.— November 13, 2009 4:43 p.m.
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I want a canary diamond, please ;)— November 13, 2009 4:30 p.m.
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I'll drink to occam's earnestly organized odes, and Mr. Bauder's dashingly pithy brevity, and Burwell's kinky cruelty fetish--and--OH YEAH, maybe a toast or three to NOT having to vacate CNN every night around the same time, once that self-righteous little man starts whining about border security! One of those rounds is on me, Cuddles ;)— November 13, 2009 4:11 p.m.
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re: #17: That's a bit more human in tone, and I'm sure many of us can appreciate how hard it is to live with loved ones who are alcoholics, or to have grown up around them. But Mr. Brizz is not responsible for the pain you've been caused, so why try to add to his, just when he clearly needs the support of friends and readers, to whom he has indeed given great gifts of starkly honest humanity? We all give when and where and how we can--and Mr. Brizz's way of giving back to the community has been more than generous; you'll find that regular readers, especially those of us who do write some, can attest to being enriched by his sharing some of the deepest of his despair, his sometime gallows humor, and his seeming endless supply of those little sparks of hope of '...can't go on, I'll go on.' I hope you can see this, monaghan, and not judge so harshly--and I hope for peace for you and yours. SD— November 13, 2009 3:58 p.m.
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re: #9: Just wait till I get all plosive ;)— November 13, 2009 3:40 p.m.