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Rimbo

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  1. I don't get it why would i know what that is
  2. Andrew Jackson says "hi"
  3. Can be, yes. The problem here is that folks really, really want to skip the whole "innocent until proven guilty" mess. That they think Trump is somehow getting a benefit of the doubt no other person would get. Or that he doesn't DESERVE even the standard benefit of the doubt. The problem is that the minute you skip a step in a rush to throw the guy away, you make a martyr out of him. And the second you do that, you LOSE. They're already accusing the entire judiciary of being rigged, that these are kangaroo courts, a witch hunt. The worst thing we can do is give them any evidence to support that. Fortunately, most of these prosecutors and judges get that.
  4. I'll go all the way to the other side. We MUST defeat Trump in November and THEN lock him up. If the latter happens first, it will give his team everything they need to win the election. Martyrdom is fucking powerful. That's why it's so incredibly important that the courts dot every i and cross every t.
  5. I cannot emphasize enough that there is a message board out there where they commonly use the phrase "to Rimbo something up" and it actually means something
  6. No, I'm really not. I've gone full Derka many times in the past, and still struggle with it even now. Ditched hornfans long before the great Shaggy Exodus not because of all the reasons the rest of us left, but because I just couldn't deal with myself anymore. And I've definitely had some spats even with people here, where I just couldn't let things slide. I got better over time because I got older, I got more perspective, Surly got older and more mature, I more or less DROPPED some of the message boards I used to visit regularly (where my username is now a verb, just like Derka's is here) and, most of all, heavy use of the Ignore feature.
  7. It helps a LOT, though. I can see that this thread is giving me some new users to ignore, too...
  8. i don't even know where that is
  9. what happened to Loree was terrible. hornfans didn't have an ignore feature; surly does. this is WHY it has one.
  10. Clapton was the answer I gave. I still think that's the right answer. He was my guitar hero's guitar hero, and as far as I know, has not committed any war crimes nor several dozen rapes. And it's kind of an amusing story. (I did not impress him.) W was probably the answer he'd recognize. This was back when he was just the lowly owner of the Rangers, before he'd become governor. Cosby was doing a charity thing for a school in Amarillo. My high school string quartet was summoned to play boring shit while people ate and lined up for photo ops. He pulled us over at the end to let us have a photo, too. I'd been a massive fan of his, since long before his TV show, so it was a big deal to me. That motherfucker. Met Dandy Don because we were at the same hotel when my family was traveling in Bath, England. "Imagine coming all the way to England just to hang out with another Texan!" --Mom
  11. Derka, your reason for NOT ignoring Mo is not as good as why you SHOULD ignore him. The easiest way to deal with someone who tries to provoke you into responding... is to ignore them. You can literally enjoy a Motownhorn-free Surly by adding his name to your ignore list. Done! He can rail all he wants, but he'll no longer get the one thing he craves... your response. And he'll starve to death while he tries and tries and you just don't even see him trying. You should just do it already. You win nothing if you don't.
  12. I didn't even remember that I'd actually met the fucker when the kid asked. Of course, that's true for several dozen women who met him, too...
  13. I mean, there's bein' a dickhead, and bein' a dickhead. Whole dramatic thing reminds me of this famous Penny Arcade line. (The story behind it, more or less, is here. But it really begins here.)
  14. @shadow_operative -- just put the fucker on ignore already. @immamac -- you're being a dickhead about this. Both of you grow the fuck up.
  15. Oh, and I met the Vice President of the USA when he was the Vice President. But it's a testament to how low on the totem pole VP of the USA really ranks, that I didn't even think to list him. (Good guy, though. 10/10 would vote for in the 1984 presidential election)
  16. My kid's friend asked me who the most famous person I ever met was. After he went home, I thought about my answer, because he didn't know who it was. And realized at least one person I met, he probably had heard of. But I'm sticking with my first answer anyway. So who's the most famous person on the list?
  17. i guess even a blind squirrel writes Shakespeare twice a day
  18. I mean, aside from the fact he's arguing with someone who IS a source.
  19. At what point is he lying, and at what point does he really just not know?
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