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Robert Nowall
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Of course with Starbucks's plans for a franchise on every street in the world now on hold, brewing your own seems a better option.

I don't drink coffee...keeps me awake...


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I dont know... I once saw a thread get to page twelve. (it was something about star wars.)

but that was a long time ago. back in the Survivor era. we now live in the IB era.)


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Iberia?
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lol. nice one, IB.


lets keep up the posting! break the record!

maybe we should have a specific forum for records... (longest post, most helpfull critiquer, person with the most topics posted... stuff like that.)

but who would regulate it? and what would the rules be?

my random thought.


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to be or not to be, is that really the question?

death is the end, or a new beginning. it is horrible and beautiful, all at once. so strange, that we have no difference in the long run. only great men become immortal. Hitler, neapolion, alexander, ceaser, washington. they earned the title of immortals, somehting we can never hope to do.

100 years from now, you are either great or dead.

and so conscious makes cowards of us all.

Hamlets screwed, isn't he? After all hes done, god won't except him, and mankind will slander him.

now im depressed...


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Robert Nowall
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Didja ever have one of those days?
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Robert Nowall
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Hey, doesn't the guy in the Issue 11 IGMS banner look like Mike Huckabee?
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And is that McCain trying to get back in?
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Don't you people know anything? The guy up top is IB. I recgonize that scowl anywhere.
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*raises a eyebrow*
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*raises a flag*
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*raises a child that raises too many questions so gives up and goes back to writing stories*
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No, the hair is all wrong. And there's no scraggly-arsed beard.
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quote:
Hey, doesn't the guy in the Issue 11 IGMS banner look like Mike Huckabee?

And Richard Nixon.

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Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
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quote--- There is a drug that will help a person deal with their ADHD problem. It's called pot. You smoke tons of it and you won't care anymore.---end quote

damn right i hear that the goverment is going to legalise it. YEEEAA

i finly figured out how to set the time on the microwave. it took me 6 months to do so but i got it.

RFW2nd


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quote:
i finly figured out how to set the time on the microwave. it took me 6 months to do so but i got it.

Egads! Aren't you stationed at a missile range, RF? Six months, huh? Sounds like the time change fixed it for you.


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i am at White Sands Missile Range Nm. i cant beleave it has been 6 months already Oct to March. man how time flys when on meds (for my arthritis its a mild narkodic) man i love the missile museaum. i went there one night slightly drunk and picked a few locks and walked in the navy gun housing on display, climbed alL over the F-4 they have there. Good times, Good times.

anyone feel free to drop in i live at 411 zuni dr. just dont show up after 2100 on week days i will already be in bed. and any time on week ends is goood. just dont kick my room door in i sleep with 2 swords and a 1911a1

RFW2nd


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You know you're a writer when...
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you actually understand one of Extrinsic's posts.
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... you can't afford groceries.
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shimiqua
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...You find your self editing the grammer on a text message.
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...every shower results in hours on the computer.
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...when you are relieved to have insomnia so that you can use those hours more productively--staring at the ceiling and figuring out the next twist in your novel's plot.
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...only to find yourself frustrated because you can't find the time, energy, or focus you'd like to write those ideas properly.
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...when the voices in your head are really just characters, really, I hope.
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(lol)
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...when your kids fear letting you check their language arts assignments.
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Robert Nowall
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As I write this, I'm having a nosebleed.
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From writing? Or, did you pick too deep?
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...when you figure out what's going to happen next in the movie you're watching before anyone else does, and you can't resist spoiling it for everyone.
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...when youve killed five people and they havent even tried to arrest you.


even though your names all over it.


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...you'd rather leave home without outer garments than writing materials.
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Robert Nowall
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No deeper than usual. First time in at least a year.
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LoL kdw. I so do that.

... when one hundred thousand words adds twenty pounds on your scale.


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...shutting down your computer for 24 hours is harder than fasting for twice as long...
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...when you find yourself more focused on the way people describe things than what they're actually telling you, in daily conversation.
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…..When you are walking down the street on base talking to your self and random civilians ask are you writing a book?

RFW2nd


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...when you can't resist editing and re-editing Christmas Cards.
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Of course, figuring out what's going to happen in a movie can be a nuisance to writers as well, because after a while, people start asking you what's going to happen, and you have to say, "I don't know. I haven't seen this movie before either."

Two-edged sword....


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...you see a story in everything around you and you have to comment on it, and discuss it. Then your spouse says, "Everything's all about you, huh?" And you try to explain and you find words don't roll off your tongue, but they roll off your fingers quite nicely.
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...you can follow the plot of Jaws III without flinching.

And seriously, this is lame. new topic!


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Robert Nowall
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The online experience is a take-it or leave-it proposition with me. When I go on vacaction, I leave it, for up to two weeks.

Can't be bothered hauling a laptop along...one more piece of luggage to worry about, and an expensive one at that.


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Personally, I like it. It's fun to see that my neuroses are shared by others. Plus, I thought of a new one last night...

...you scrape the top layer of skin off your hand but get distracted wondering how you might scrape any other layer of skin...


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...and that gives you an idea for torture that brings a smile to your face...
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...which then tells you to call your little brother in for some "quality" time.
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...when you are jotting quick ideas down during every commercial.
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...when you have better excuses for stalling than your kids do.
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...when you meet people and start inventing their background.
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...when you wonder what secrets any home you see from the side of the road holds.
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...when you've got an equal number of on writing books as fiction on your nightstand.
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