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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:01 PM
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Okay, here are the new rules about marriage.
In order to preserve its sanctity, if one has been previously married (i.e.is divorced), dated (euphemism for "had sex with") more than 2 people before marrying for the first time (And one must be the person you are marrying. We left a little wiggle room for youthful romps.), lusted after someone in your heart while being married (sorry, Mr. Carter), then you have failed the sanctity of marriage test and will never be given a marriage license and/or your present license will be rendered null and void. You can, of course, still serve in all the branches of government and make rules about others and about their rights and privileges in this area.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:02 PM
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1. Darnit...guess I'll never have that dream wedding!
At least I can keep my government job. :hi:
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:08 PM
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3. What, I never figured you for a "luster" or are there other skeltons you
want to reveal; wives in foreign countries, illicit affairs with some of those celebs that have been in Austin lately leading, illegal conga lines? Please tell all.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:09 PM
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4. I have "dated" more than twice, and I've never been married.
I missed the illegal conga line; it sounded fun, until the police showed up.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:12 PM
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6. Well, I am not sure whether to congratulate or chastise you. You do
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 09:13 PM by efhmc
realize that a white wedding is out. Edited to add: if you are allowed to break the rules and marry after all.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:13 PM
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7. No problem.
I'll wear a black tuxedo. :-)

I practice safe sex, if that makes things better. O8)
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:16 PM
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8. Well, I don't know. I have a strong feeling that you don't understand what
sanctity really means, safe or not.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:18 PM
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9. Yes, well...
...I have a clue as to what sanctimonious means. This is why I don't watch The 700 Club. :silly:
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:22 PM
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10. Okay, well that was a trifle amusing. You can have points for a good
spirit. Kidding aside, I have noticed that the people I know who scream about family values the most are the biggest repuke hypocrites. Too bad, they don't really believe in the sanctity of anything but a dollar bill.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:24 PM
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11. On that you are 100% correct.
:-)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:16 PM
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32. Yeah...sad, he should have never admitted to it.
;)
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:37 PM
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14. Oh, for shame, David,
what an amoral, immoral, sinner you are!!!!!!!!! Now go lash yourself 100 times with a wet noodle and sit in sackcloth and ashes for three days!

Sheesh, ya think ya know someone and here they go confessing to something like this! Who'da thunk it, especially where David's concerned (no, wait, don't answer that!)
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:40 PM
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16. Shall I wear a shirt with a big "S" on it?
And we ain't talkin' the Superman "S", either.
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:51 PM
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20. LOL!
Hey, if women had to go around wearing letter A's branded on them, then why shouldn't errant, straying gentlemen have the letter S stamped on their t-shirts?????
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:52 PM
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21. Hey now...I don't stray!
I'm loyal to the woman I am with at any particular time. O8)
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:59 PM
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25. That angel is starting to bug me. Are we suppose to be buying that
"sugar won't melt in my mouth" routine?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:00 PM
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27. I'm a good boy! Honest.
Promise.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:04 PM
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29. As I used to tell the young women I raised. Let's see if your idea and
mine of what is good is the same. I do not think so. Good for whom exactly?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:59 PM
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45. Good for everyone, I hope.
Except Republicans, I suppose. :-)

Mom and Dad did a good job with me. They deserve some serious thanks.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:07 PM
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50. You're right. You seem like a very moral, kind person to me. Kudos
to them. I like teasing you though.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:11 PM
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52. I am good teasing victim!
You are a good, just and moral person yourself. You raised some fine children, too. Smart, they are! :-)
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:21 PM
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55. Lovely words. Now that is a hard job. Just ask Babs Bush? Tee-hee.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:55 PM
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23. Well, what does it stand for?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:00 PM
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26. "Sex before marriage"?
Sounds good. :-)
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:01 PM
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28. You always help me with the things I don't know. I failed that one.
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Racenut20 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:04 PM
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2. Does don't ask don't tell apply here?
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:10 PM
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5. As the sole judge and jury, I will have to say no. WE WILL ask and then
we WILL TELL.
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:28 PM
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12. Tell first, before you ask.
Confession is good for the soul. And we can hardly wait (slobbers and rubs hands together).

Ahem, and by the way, is there some sort of grandmother clause for all the new rules?
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:34 PM
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13. No, as a grandmother I say no. I passed them all (well maybe some
semi-cravings. (My husband who is deceased was very jealous and so I have a hard time even writing that. He had been dead 8 years but I still am hearing a small roar over that revelation. Okay way too much personal info. Back to the subject at hand.) so you must also.
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:45 PM
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19. I cannot, for my fingers would be worn to bloody stumps.
I will leave it to the other sinners (and I am still waiting).

To you, efhmc, I'm sorry for that loss, and didn't mean to be flip (well, maybe a little, but not at your expense).

Semi-cravings? Hm-m-m.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:53 PM
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22. No, reason to be sad. I really miss him but he would find all this amusing
and as Houston people we already knew and hated the bushes probably before some of the babies here were born. Obviously, I wanted to poke fun at all those RWers who are such hypocrites about marriage and the "family". As I've already alluded to, I knew countless of them white males) that dumped the first wife and children after they made some bucks to get a new model. They were all such church goers and fit all the weirdness and hypocrcy that is going on now. So lets laugh at them and their insane ideas of marriage.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:38 PM
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15. I think only married people should be able to get a license
If you disrespect the institution of marriage so much that you aren't already married then there's no reason to trust you with the right to be married.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:41 PM
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17. Excellent reasoning and we will add that bit of wisdom to the list of the
sanctity requirements. Thank you.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:42 PM
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18. I'm glad you see the truth of the logic in it
and you are welcome
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:56 PM
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24. Of course I do, wisdom always shines.
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:12 PM
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30. Well, we need some Windex here, for I have some proposals.
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 10:16 PM by put out
Since my marriage has been a paragon of virtue and perfect love, and I myself have been without fault and beyond reproach in every aspect of my married life, and before that, and in fact, since I was born, I have some ideas.

No, I don't.

My edit: Those clueless, uptight, controlling, unkind, unaccepting, jerks who wish so desperatly to circumscribe every intimate decision consenting adults make, well, they don't have any good ideas either. Only the ideas that hurt other people. Jerks.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:16 PM
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31. Drat, I was agog with anticipation at the thought of such pearls of
knowledge being shared with me and others. Oh, well, c'est la vie. (OMG, please do not tell the bushies I wrote a French phrase.)
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:23 PM
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35. I will tell, because you didn't have the patriotism to misspell it.
See my post, good old American misspelling.

I can't even use smilies, that's just how American I am.

Like this thread, by the way. Thank you, or as you non-Americans like to say "mercy bowcue".
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:29 PM
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37. You are most certainly the most American of us all and I am very
honored and proud to know you. (I am curtsying. Oh no, another very unAmerican thing to do, unless, of course, one comes upon a member of the royal bush dynasty.)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:18 PM
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33. So, who gets my kids then? The one of us who "dated" least?? Or
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 10:20 PM by MrsGrumpy
do I surrender them upon my entrance into the marines...?

MrsGrumpy a marine....oh my...giggle, gasp...snort...



and no, I'm not telling which one of us had more "dates"...
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:20 PM
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34. Your children will be sent to a moral retraining camp
and will be paired up with a mate selected by the government based on properly moral algorithms so they might lead a fruitful and decent, non-democratic, life.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:24 PM
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36. Good answer but where is your government approved non-sanctified
marriage disassembling license?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:34 PM
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38. Oh man is MrG going to be shocked when he wakes up and finds
himself disassembled. I should have known better. No room for forgiveness? It was a very lonely time in my life....
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:40 PM
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40. Sorry, I do not make the rules. I am just here to enforce the SANCTITY of
marriage.
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:01 PM
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48. You might want to use a tarp for the disassembling.
And you could also think about turning the stereo up to 11.

Thus, you may be able to keep your marriage sanctified.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:09 PM
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51. I like the way you think. You are a natural with this.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:35 PM
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39. Well DAMMIT all to hell! That just SUCKS.
Thanks a LOT.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:43 PM
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41. Cursing will definitely not get you on the SANCTITY list. of any kind.
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 10:44 PM by efhmc
I am sorry for any inconvenience but we must preserve the SANCTITY of MARRIAGE or we are doomed as a nation. Edited to add: and as a society.
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:44 PM
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42. This sucks.
Edited on Tue Mar-30-04 10:47 PM by Triple H
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:58 PM
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44. You should have thought about this before you became unfit to follow
in the footsteps of those strong believers in marriage like those individuals in our government making these much needed laws in our behalf.
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:59 PM
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47. Damn those laws!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:59 PM
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46. I don't think there is anything in the rules about nut lovers...
hmmm...;)
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 10:47 PM
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43. Screws me all to hell...
Married and divorced twice and been with at least 45 women...

I'm not sure about guys and livestock, I used to drink a lot and some years are a bit fuzzy....
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:05 PM
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49. Well you know perhaps there is a place for you in helping to make
rules and laws for others. You can become a hypocritical repuke and make laws telling others what is right and wrong for them as individuals. Doesn't that sound like fun? (Every DUers' dream.)
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:11 PM
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53. Well I would have qualified initially
Oh shoot, no I wouldn't. It included the one I married. Missed that. Do you promise though that it renders it null and void now? Wow, that makes life much simpler.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:16 PM
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54. Well, we all qualified initially, but we might need to go back a spell.
Yep, no sanctity, no marriage. You might want to think about separate home because once that sanctity amendment passes, you will be a goner.
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put out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 11:36 PM
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56. Roomies, anyone? I have a microwave and my own futon. n/t
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