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by grayman
Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Feelgood story of the day
Replies: 33
Views: 18960

Re: Feelgood story of the day

stanky wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:17 pm i got started with Mark Twain.
Good choice.

Visited his West Hartford home back around 97/98.

https://marktwainhouse.org/
by grayman
Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:03 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global
Replies: 71
Views: 20097

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

arthwollipot wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:22 am
He is.

Well, indirectly, through the Catholic Church's aid charity, Caritas. Salvation on faith alone is a Protestant ideal. Catholics are and always have been about faith and charity.
I stand corrected.
by grayman
Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Feelgood story of the day
Replies: 33
Views: 18960

Re: Feelgood story of the day

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel about a banned religion that everyone secretly practiced. It involved putting your soles together with another person. It's done barefoot. Not a bad ritual, really. Helped that it was illegal. Gave it some punch it wouldn't have had otherwise. I was introduced to Vonnegu...
by grayman
Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:30 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 1239
Views: 440630

Re: Planet America

Pomerantz, who joined the Manhattan district attorney’s office in early 2021, revealed that lawyers “discussed whether Trump had been spewing bullshit for so many years about so many things that he could no longer process the difference between bullshit and reality,” according to The Beast. "N...
by grayman
Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:21 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global
Replies: 71
Views: 20097

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Fuck yes. A lot of dead people, and I see Turkey appealing for help. I'd be keen to help, on the stipulation Erdogan stops being a cunt and they stop bombing Kurdish villages. And stay the fuck out of Greece's face. I do not agree with imposing conditions on the provision of humanitarian aid. Help ...
by grayman
Sun Feb 12, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 1239
Views: 440630

Re: Planet America

Wyoming Limiting Child Marriage Sparks Republican Outrage

https://www.newsweek.com/wyoming-ending ... ge-1780501

I have sat in that chamber as a spectator. Not sure how I lasted fourteen years in that state.
by grayman
Sun Feb 12, 2023 12:57 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Humor (Subject to opinion)
Replies: 126
Views: 63155

Re: Humor (Subject to opinion)

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by grayman
Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:55 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 39157

Re: guns 2

sparks wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:43 am Couldn't see the article for the ads but brilliant anyway!
Try this perhaps:

https://sports.yahoo.com/lawyer-died-co ... 21257.html
by grayman
Sat Feb 11, 2023 11:01 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: guns 2
Replies: 137
Views: 39157

Re: guns 2

Pro-gun lawyer shot with own weapon by MRI scanner dies:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... nner-dies/
by grayman
Sat Feb 11, 2023 10:56 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Religion, of course
Replies: 23
Views: 7125

Re: Religion, of course

San Diego Catholic Diocese Faces Bankruptcy Over ‘Staggering’ Abuse Lawsuit Costs https://www.huffpost.com/entry/san-diego-catholic-diocese-legal-costs_n_63e785fbe4b07f036b9d47ed https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/63e7860025000033007dd505.jpeg?cache=0NOGbo83vt&ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&fo...