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  • Woohoo!!! Vacation starts in about 7 minutes. Meeting my wife's parents, her brother and another close family friend for a long weekend in Chicago. 16 people in all. If you live in the Chicago and see a large group of people that appear to be a dysfunctional family, it is likely us. See you all late next week.

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  • Sean Lange (8/9/2012)


    Woohoo!!! Vacation starts in about 7 minutes. Meeting my wife's parents, her brother and another close family friend for a long weekend in Chicago. 16 people in all. If you live in the Chicago and see a large group of people that appear to be a dysfunctional family, it is likely us. See you all late next week.

    (Knowing Sean won't see this as it's now about 25 minutes since this was posted)

    /Sigh

    My next vacation doesn't start for 291 days, 23 hours, 22 minutes, and 55 seconds...

    Jason

  • Sean Lange (8/9/2012)


    Woohoo!!! Vacation starts in about 7 minutes. Meeting my wife's parents, her brother and another close family friend for a long weekend in Chicago. 16 people in all. If you live in the Chicago and see a large group of people that appear to be a dysfunctional family, it is likely us. See you all late next week.

    I'll warn everyone I know in Chitown to stay off the sidewalks. @=)

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  • Sean Lange (8/9/2012)


    Woohoo!!! Vacation starts in about 7 minutes. Meeting my wife's parents, her brother and another close family friend for a long weekend in Chicago. 16 people in all. If you live in the Chicago and see a large group of people that appear to be a dysfunctional family, it is likely us. See you all late next week.

    Enjoy yourself. Try to avoid getting mugged by a 30s gangster selling moonshine.

    Nice city, summer's when to visit though. Never winter. Gods, never winter.


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  • Evil Kraig F (8/9/2012)


    Sean Lange (8/9/2012)


    Woohoo!!! Vacation starts in about 7 minutes. Meeting my wife's parents, her brother and another close family friend for a long weekend in Chicago. 16 people in all. If you live in the Chicago and see a large group of people that appear to be a dysfunctional family, it is likely us. See you all late next week.

    Enjoy yourself. Try to avoid getting mugged by a 30s gangster selling moonshine.

    Nice city, summer's when to visit though. Never winter. Gods, never winter.

    I found it pleasant this last December when visiting.

    I also saw plenty of dysfunctional large groups;-)

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    Evil Kraig F (8/9/2012)


    Sean Lange (8/9/2012)


    Woohoo!!! Vacation starts in about 7 minutes. Meeting my wife's parents, her brother and another close family friend for a long weekend in Chicago. 16 people in all. If you live in the Chicago and see a large group of people that appear to be a dysfunctional family, it is likely us. See you all late next week.

    Enjoy yourself. Try to avoid getting mugged by a 30s gangster selling moonshine.

    Nice city, summer's when to visit though. Never winter. Gods, never winter.

    I found it pleasant this last December when visiting.

    I also saw plenty of dysfunctional large groups;-)

    You must be part Narwhal or something... 🙂 Remember, I choose to live in a desert. :w00t:


    - Craig Farrell

    Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.

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  • All Hail The Thread

    I apologize for getting really snarky on that post I just made. Please forgive me, but I just had to do it.

  • Lynn Pettis (8/9/2012)


    All Hail The Thread

    I apologize for getting really snarky on that post I just made. Please forgive me, but I just had to do it.

    Which post?

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  • I thought we were all being snarky on The Thread.

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  • Brandie Tarvin (8/10/2012)


    I thought we were all being snarky on The Thread.

    nope, just you

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  • jcrawf02 (8/10/2012)


    Brandie Tarvin (8/10/2012)


    I thought we were all being snarky on The Thread.

    nope, just you

    < snark > yeah, right! < /snark >

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  • GSquared (8/8/2012)


    I'm sure I can easily get quite a bit more verbose than a phone book. Hyperloquacity is one of my specialities. Along with paragraphs that are WAY too long, composed of sentences that are complex, generally because of multiple, sometimes even nested, parentheticals, often obfuscated by erudition, frequently taken to a brobdingnagian extreme, combined with a tendency towards both spleling and otter errors.

    Getting more verbose that a phone-book is of course completely acceptable when it's done to annoy, particlularly when the hyperloquacity presents itself in the form of verbose pedantry carried to ridiculous extremes, and expecially when provided with a good (or great or even brobdingnagian) dash of erudition, and spieling errors too are acceptable in polite society (since after all, lengthy and extravagant speech, even when written, is much improved by the accidental inclusion of a few mistakes to amuse the audience) but otter errors (like omitting to capitalize his 'O') are completely verboten since commiting Otter errors is likely to upset the rather violent decendants of some rather violent Norse and Icelandic types and there is no remaining Andvaranaut with which to placate them, since Tolkein took over fate and had a hobbit destroy the ring by depositing it in a volcano.

    Tom

  • Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

    See the løveli lakes

    The wonderful telephøne system

    And mani interesting furry animals

    Including the majestic møøse

    A Møøse once bit my sister ...

    No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

    Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

  • jasona.work (8/10/2012)


    Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

    See the løveli lakes

    The wonderful telephøne system

    And mani interesting furry animals

    Including the majestic møøse

    A Møøse once bit my sister ...

    No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

    Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

    Those responsible for sacking those responsible for sacking those responsible for the credits, have been sacked.

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  • GSquared (8/10/2012)


    jasona.work (8/10/2012)


    Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

    See the løveli lakes

    The wonderful telephøne system

    And mani interesting furry animals

    Including the majestic møøse

    A Møøse once bit my sister ...

    No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

    Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

    Those responsible for sacking those responsible for sacking those responsible for the credits, have been sacked.

    And those who have been sacked have returned to their "huge tracts of land"

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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