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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:03 AM
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If George W. Bush is a "shrub", John McCain is a...
...corpse flower?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:06 AM
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1. McCain WISHES that was an accurate representation... nt
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:07 AM
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3. Visually it isn't, but the smell...*whew*! n/t
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:07 AM
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2. compost heap to keep the shrub alive.
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rusty_parts2001 Donating Member (728 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:17 AM
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4. sack of sh*t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:19 AM
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5. Sucker off of the Shrub. nt
Edited on Thu May-08-08 08:19 AM by blondeatlast
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DB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:34 AM
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6. stub of a shrub
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rsmith6621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:36 AM
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7. Remember McShame


....has a black baby....
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dembotoz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:38 AM
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8. driftwood
washed up and washed out
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:38 AM
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9. "Flight Risk"
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:29 AM
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20. (good one!). . . n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:58 PM
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48. Ouch--but good one!
:rofl:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:43 AM
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10. Another one of the PNAC's Dangling Dingle Berries like the pRez.
And GI-Joey LIEberman's best and prolly only friend in the whole wide world.

I look for a McCaine/LIEberman nightmare ticket!
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 08:44 AM
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11. United States Senator from the state of Arizona
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:06 AM
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13. This is the second or third post in which I have seen you defending McCain--
It will be interesting to watch your continued folly.....
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:11 AM
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15. I think by calling him Senator from Arizona, we're not calling him President. n/t
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:16 AM
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16. No, this poster has been making "corrections" in other threads to let us know
that McCain is a war hero who defeated the "communists".

I'm keeping my eye on this one. Methinks he is stirring up trouble...perhaps I'm wrong...
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:19 AM
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18. Okay, never mind then. n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 04:15 PM
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51. Exactly--I've never seen a post from him with anything but praise for our GE oppnent.
Nor have I seen him weigh in on any other subject, either.

Things that make ya go "hmm..."
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:54 PM
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22. I am not defending this man
He is a Senator from Arizona, that is sufficient title for him. Just as I use the term Senator Clinton, or Senator Obama. Much to your dismay I also refer to the current White House occupant as President Bush. When I was growning up I was taught that elders and seniors are addressed by their title.
Sorry that you find this offensive, but that is the way it is. I do not see much point in the practice of some users of this forum to engage juvenile name calling. JMO
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 04:14 PM
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50. Fine, but you've been defending even his most anti-Veteran votes and boneheaded moves for at least a
month.

Call him as you wish, but if you think he'd make a good leader for our great nation (once and future, anyway), do it somewhere else, okay?
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 07:30 PM
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57. Please take a few minutes
and list his most anti-Veteran votes and boneheaded moves that I have defended for the last month.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 07:38 PM
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58. Codswollop. That's exactly what you're doing. It's a habit with you and we've all seen it.
Edited on Fri May-09-08 07:39 PM by dicksteele
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:17 AM
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17. Land of Eve Mecham (the pickinini dude) Slimey Simmington liar theif, and pal Keating.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:59 PM
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49. If you put "Retired" in front of it, maybe. nt
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:03 AM
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12. Bristlecone Pine
I believe the oldest one is 4789 years old. That's pretty close.
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El Pinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:10 AM
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14. I've never called him "shrub" - that sounds like a term of endearment.
Edited on Thu May-08-08 09:11 AM by El Pinko
I hold Bush in profound contempt, so I call him POS Bush or just POS.

I never call him anything else - well, maybe "sonofabitch" now and then.

I used to call him "Dumbya", but that was before he became a mass-murderer.


For now, McCain's nickname is "The Asshole".
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east texas lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:48 PM
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35. Shrub is a Texas thing he earned while steadily fucking up when he was our Gov,
It sure as hell doesn't we liked him (well most of us).;-)
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 04:19 PM
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52. IIRC he named his oil company Arbusto, which Molly Ivins pointed out translates to "Shrub"
God rest her soul.

Hekate
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:25 AM
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19. McMulch
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 09:29 AM
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21. We don't have to slime McCain to defeat him
Sliming a decorated war veteren is what they do, not what we do.

Attack his policies and his record, let him hang himself in the debates.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 06:56 PM
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23. Telling the truth about someone is not sliming him.
McCain has chosen the life of a politician. (Isn't this what he fought for? The freedom to choose his own fate?) He is also an adult and I would think he could withstand some scrutiny.

No one is forcing him to sidle up to his Republican masters. The purpose of this thread is to find a way to remind people how similar he is to the current administration. If saying he is willingly adopting nearly every position of this failed bunch "sliming" him, then I say slime away; he's earned it.
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:23 AM
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42. Here's the way I see it.
I have to proclaim that I despise the Bush cabal with a cold intensity that seems to be limitless. I am SO ready at any moment to issue forth the most vile epithets I am able to conceive. And the "Bush Cabal" includes McCain.

But noonwitch and Thothmes have very valid points.

So you see, I agree with you wholeheartedly, but they're right, too.

Cheers.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:37 PM
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55. Agreed.
We don't have to stoop to the GOP's tactics, but scrutinizing things is not a GOP tactic.

McCain may have been in the military, he may have relatives who were also in the military, those relatives may have and may be serving honorably in the military, but he dishonors his own service with his rejection of the Webb G.I. bill, his silence during the swiftboating of John Kerry and his blind obedience to his party's masters.

To say that is not disrespectful.
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 09:39 PM
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60. Actually I think I misread your prior post.
I thought you were kinda saying it was alright to use vile language in those cases.

You weren't.

So I really didn't need to make that distinction myself as you had already made it.

Have a wonderful weekend.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 03:10 AM
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61. Thank you and have a nice Mothers' Day. n/t
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 07:23 PM
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24. McCain is of the "creeper" variety of plants, like the Virginia creeper
or Japanese creeper.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:38 PM
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25. Ha, Ha! Perfect!
Cannot stand on its own, takes the shape of its host!
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:39 PM
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26. Grampa off his rocker.n/t
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:40 PM
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27. McCain looks a lot like Elmer Fudd, who hunts wabbits on Bugs Bunny
cartoons.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:41 PM
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28. an arizona mountain shrub eating for life sustenance old goat (the pet variety)
Edited on Thu May-08-08 10:42 PM by lonestarnot
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:43 PM
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29. An aphid.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:30 PM
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32. Those things are annoying! n/t
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smokey nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 10:45 PM
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30. Tree stump.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:06 PM
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31. a stumpy, stunted McBush
Edited on Thu May-08-08 11:06 PM by L. Coyote
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InkAddict Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:34 PM
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33. Scale - one prevents it by application of dormant oil spray n/t
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7408.html
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:39 PM
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34. Weed (not the good kind)
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:48 PM
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36. a growth, a blight, or most charitably-
Edited on Fri May-09-08 12:00 AM by kenny blankenship
a lichen ( a growth composed of fungal and photosynthesizing symbiotes )
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:50 PM
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37. Amorphophallus?
Quite fitting.
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-08-08 11:53 PM
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38. Glub
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 01:18 AM
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39. Piece Of Shit.
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 01:21 AM
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40. vegetable
a turnip
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halliburtonsux Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 02:14 AM
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41. Insane McCain is... a(n) a**hole.
n/t
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:33 AM
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43. A splinter.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:12 PM
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46. Oh, that's a good one! n/t
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seasat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 08:12 AM
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44. Prune
Edited on Fri May-09-08 08:12 AM by seasat
A dried fruit that, while sweet tasting when consumed, makes you want to quickly crap it back out.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 08:15 AM
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45. a wannabe.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 03:19 PM
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47. McShrub with a side of lies and extra war n/t
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 04:21 PM
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53. A scab...nt
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Holly_Hobby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 05:11 PM
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54. How about...
Half-dead shrub?

Firewood?
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:47 PM
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56. brick...nt
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 08:17 PM
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59. ...cactus.
From Arizona, and prickly as all get out.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 03:28 AM
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62. McCain is a potato. You think I'm joking? Try the link!
http://www.potatoparade.co.uk/
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