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  • c_c
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    how's tricks?
    how's tricks?! peace.
  • iknowurider
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    Thanks for the link TL
    UFOINK! Cheezy I know, but I had to say it. PEACE
  • TigerLilly
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    how sad!
    www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2934219420080429********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
  • GrayFolded
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    RIP ALBERT
    Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland By FRANK JORDANS – 14 hours ago GENEVA (AP) — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971. For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention. "I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if people abused it," he once said. The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943. "I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness," he subsequently wrote in a memo to company bosses. He said his initial experience resulted in "wonderful visions." "What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures," he told a Swiss television network for a program marking his 100th birthday two years ago. "It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared." Three days later, Hofmann experimented with a larger dose. The result was a horror trip. "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror," he said, describing his bicycle ride home. "I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast." "The substance which I wanted to experiment with took over me. I was filled with an overwhelming fear that I would go crazy. I was transported to a different world, a different time," Hofmann wrote. Hofmann and his scientific colleagues hoped that LSD would make an important contribution to psychiatric research. The drug exaggerated inner problems and conflicts and thus it was hoped that it might be used to recognize and treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia. For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to drug an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people for 12 hours. LSD was elevated to international fame in the late 1950s and 1960s thanks to Harvard professor Timothy Leary who embraced the drug under the slogan "turn on, tune in, drop out." But away from the psychedelic trips, horror stories emerged about people going on murder sprees or jumping out of windows while hallucinating. Heavy users suffered permanent psychological damage. The U.S. government banned LSD in 1966 and other countries followed suit. Hofmann maintained this was unfair, arguing that the drug was not addictive. He repeatedly argued for the ban to be lifted to allow LSD to be used in medical research. Peter Oehen, a psychiatrist in the Swiss town of Biberist, says substances such as LSD and MDMA — also known as ecstasy — can produce results where conventional psychotherapies fail. "They help overcome the wall of denial that some patients build up," said Oehen, who met Hofmann and has studied his work. Hofmann welcomed a decision by Swiss authorities last December to allow LSD to be used in a psychotherapy research project. "For me, this is a very big wish come true. I always wanted to see LSD get its proper place in medicine," he told Swiss TV at the time. Hofmann took the drug — purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest — for several decades. "LSD can help open your eyes," he once said. "But there are other ways — meditation, dance, music, fasting." Even so, the self described "father" of LSD readily agreed that the drug was dangerous if in the wrong hands. This was reflected by the title of his 1979 book: "LSD - my problem child." In it he wrote that, "The history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken for a pleasure drug." Hofmann retired from Sandoz in 1971 and devoted his time to travel, writing and lectures. "This is really a high point in my advanced age," Hofmann said at a ceremony in Basel honoring him on his 100th birthday. "You could say it is a consciousness-raising experience without LSD." Funeral arrangements were not immediately available. Dead to the Core www.myspace.com/bongwizard
  • grdaed73
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    this has bothered me for years now, i need substantiation please. does anyone ELSE remember the boys being on "hootn'anny" or similar tv show, around workingman dead release playing "uncle johns band"? or how about some weird movie about a party, i think peter sellers and pia zoa(sp) were the stars, as the camera pans thru the door on thru the main room passing the live band playing, it pans the band members briefly and i swear my minds eye sees all the boys in late 60's glory and thats it, they're gone,pan to beach, no memory of the tune, pretty acidity stobes light show oil globs on walls. could of been around time they where living in lalaland, tring to pay the rent? validate me or flat out no way!
  • Phatty1976
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    Hey
    I just want to say hey. Been listening to the Dead since the very late 80's. Never seen a show, although I have seen JGB and Ratdog and The Dead without Jerry. Been to many shows while they played the Knickerbocker but just never made it inside. The music has meant so much to me throughout the years that it is hard to comprehend sometimes. That is all for now. "Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile"
  • Ami
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    CCj's uTube vid on p. 65
    too funny. I was there and they had a big screen, Franken & Davis were bizarro. That was a great run of shows. we were all jerry's kids that night. Ami
  • GratefulGigi
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    Went to a benefit ...Bike run
    Saturday for a 3 year old little boy with leukemia.....Wow they raised over $10,000 for the little guy....Bikers are so giving!!!! It was fun with a band and all..and lots of beer!!I never saw so many bikes in one place...so cool!!
  • deadheadkid
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    feel better man. have fun in siberia. wheres deadheadland? can i catch a ticket at an airport, or in my mind? or perhaps a music store. g2g history class just started.Peace The Kid
  • TigerLilly
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    You´ve been down, Badger. Had been wondering whether your mood was not so good.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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an open space.
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joe you need a job dude!!! i kid brother, you are a lyrical wizard, as well as a gracious game show host!!! i really needed a lift the past few days and you did not let me down man. as i was reading HALR, dark star from 7/25/74 was playing on gdradio!!!! co-incidence, or something more?????? crazy man. nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
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yes, dear gypsy, I need a job, but the question really is: does a job need me? love and peace.
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"My advice is, do what your parents did! Get a job, sir! The bums will always lose! Do you hear me Lebowski? The bums will always lose!" Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket "The old man told me to take any rug in the house..."
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CCj - I am deeply honored, thank you - I think I now have the title of Mr. Potato Deadhead. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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The dude endures
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I was merrily shopping and getting into the christmas scene. I joyfully got in my car and backed right into someone's car, waaaa I did damage to it and mine car too, it really sucks and the guy was a big jackass and called the cops even though I stayed and gave him my name and #, his car was so beat up anyway it had been sideswipes down both sides, and hit on every corner ,now that I hit the only good part of his car.He should of let a nice girl like me go, but NO he went on a rampage of how his car always gets hit and how he is sick of people! So now I get to pay to have this iditots bomb fixed!! Merry Christmas to me :(
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Very well put. I know how you feel.I'm so sorry. I can't imagine some loser stranger going off on my like that! Positive Insurance Beams coming your way!! I bet Santa will give the idiot COAL in his stocking, hey now, his stocking probably has holes in it! Take it easy, & keep us posted PEACE
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Im 53 From Wigan Lancashire EnglandOnly got into the dead 10 years ago main reason not before was the dead always seem to bring out triple live albums too expensive to take a risk now got nearly all albums plus many live shows love jerrys guitar pm me if anyone interested in side talks
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christmas beamz and insurance beamz headed your way.
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grayfolded, good to see you back, buddy! I was JUST thining about you (like literally, dude)... fucking irony. I expect a book report on what you did during Christmas vacation and since your last post ages ago by Monday. peace. joe
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mucho of the credit should go to deadicated since he coined the phrase 'Dark HalR' Mr Potato Head Deadhead? an honourable title, better than my "Corpulent Caboose Joe" a la "New Potato Caboose" Lyrics: Bobby Petersen Music: Phil Lesh Last leaf fallen, bare earth where green was born Above my doorknob, two eagles hang against a cloud Sun comes up blood red Wind yells among the stone All graceful instruments are known When the windows all are broken And your love's become a toothless crone When the voices of the storm sound Like a crowd Winter morning breaks, you're all alone The eyes are blind Blue visions are all a seer can own And touching makes the flesh to cry out loud This ground on which the seed of love is sown All graceful instruments are known peace.
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New Potato Caboose in the Washington DC area. I saw them years ago in Philly.
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a virtual game that's extremely popular. Avatars; and some chic actually made a million $$ real currency on the game. Second Life or something like that.Any one here have an Alter-ego-Avatar? I'm keeping the kids away from that one, just for the fact I know nothing about it, for that matter, is it even a kids game? I could always google it. he he
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I have some friends who are really seriously into it. I personally don't see the appeal, but I'm not at all the target market, I don't think. I'm a text kinda girl and all that animated avatar stuff is way too much work! I tend to concur with your keeping the kids out. Yes, I think a lot of the media hype about predators lurking behind every virtual bush on the Internet is overblown and driven by various agendas I don't support at all. But STILL.
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Well said! I guess I'm really out of the loop, but where does real money come into play? Cass enjoys Nick.com & neo pets, which I'm cool with. Kramer really likes an online game called ruenscape(sp?). I was a little leary at first,but we keep the computer in the dining room and they each get and hour a day. They can split that up between video games or computer time. Before we put a limit on it, things got a bit out of hand. Now we have a chart made up, bc we got really sick of one of them saying "he's had his time, she's had her time"...... What a trip! Never a dull moment PEACE
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and I hope some Second Lifer will come along to correct me, you charge various enhancements on your credit card and people offer virtual environment-enhancing goods and services to make your online home just exactly perfect, for which of course they charge money. (If you believe the aforementioned media hype, commercial cybersex is quite the industry, for example.) Now me, I'd go YOU WANT REAL MONEY FOR SOMETHING THAT ONLY EXISTS IN SECOND LIFE??? ARE YOU INSANE??? But hey, I'm 60.
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Its your sense, not your age, bc you are Right ON! I don't get it. Well, I know there are plenty of things I dont get. Here's one that 's bugging me: Cassidy is 8 yrs old. All of her little friends have gotten cell phones for Christmas. Well now, she's got her panties in a wad ~thanks nannie for that gem~ & I told her she can use our telephone whenever she likes. If she were a latchkey kid or a driver perhaps, but 8. Get REAL - just trying to pacify those damn kids, that's what I think Hells bells!
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Is that for real? Wish I would have thought of it, you get money for nothing. Well the very positive aspect to me seems to be that maybe people would spend their money on virtual stuff and will stop buying all this real stuff and overloading our planet with junk and garbage. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Man,That IS a very positive way of looking at it! Very Impressive. Still, wierd game, but nice twist on it Hal R PEACE
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I rarely set foot in a shopping mall, thank God, but had to over Christmas due to failing to shop online in a timely fashion. I am just appalled at the endless amounts of useless crapola and the constant pressure to buy it.
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saw my rant a while back, but shopping is not for me. It makes me sweat, even if I'm not spending money.I saw they now offer Decorative on your hip Pepper spray holders that will also carry you ipod (under new inventions on msn) Crapola, great word!
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Guglielmo Marconi, as the inspiration of that word, marye. "All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."
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hey, does everyone else suddenly see the number of posts? and number of shows, when joined under the screen name. shucks, 866 posts; shows how much time I am sitting on my fat ass in front of the 'puter. OK, I need to get out more. off to the pool hall tomorrow! gotta huslte up some travel cash. peace.
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The envelope please - Most posts by an nonmoderator goes to CCj formerly know as CCJoe or to some around these parts, backwards CCJoe. With a grand total of 866 total posts. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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"There ain't a winner in the game, he don't go home with all, not with all" if only... if only it were true that I saw 866 shows... so I still feel like a loser. Bruiser If I saw a show for every post that I have drawn I could tell tall tales all night feelin' very keen Don't you count the posts baby cause that really blows And you know I'm only running from the cold All the shirts in my closet ain't got no collars And I ride all over this great wide land You can reach out and pick up a four leaf clover But I'll always win a game against THE MAN Last fair hustle in the country, sweet Susie Last fair hustle in the town Put your gold money where your game is baby Before you let me leave this old town Don't you count the posts baby cause that really blows Well I know almost nothing that you won't ever know Don't chew gum or a piece of hard toffee Gonna play with some suit and make'm feel woe Everybody's dragging but this cue is mine I can tell the 8 or 9 ball by the way they shine Pot the 9 ball on a clean hard break Well I got no chance of losing this time Well I got no chance of losing this time
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"And I came out in second place" I just noticed bob has more posts that I do, hal. so he deserves the accolade, not I. peace.
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OK, kids. it is just about that time for me to hit the road again because, I like to move it move it! gotta get out of this cold rain and snow to where the suns so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles fill the sky see y'all in a few months! just remember: "Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe Singing yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Singing thank you, for a real good time" love and peace. oh, and LET'S GO GIANTS!!!!!!
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Have a great trip ;-} "If the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?"
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THERE AINT NO TRUTH,THERES ONLY HONESTY! Yves KLEIN(french painter)
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thanks GRTUD, dude, in the transit lounge now, I'll be back with the cats under the stars in about an hour or so. peace
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Safe travels man...Knock in the brass tacks, cover up your tracks Jack, You ain't nowhere till you can pay your own way back. What else do you lack to make it right, But cats down under the stars tonight. Peace :) Gigi
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thanks people for the kind wishes and private messages. it is really slow to log on for me. ) -; all I will say now is: a 6:30 AM kick off, but a pretty big screen TV! plenty of kindness with the folks watching the game. love and peace.
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and don't you run off, no more, CCj! Happy Trails, man! "If the forms of this world die, which is more real, the me that dies or the me that's infinite? Can I trust my habitual mind, or do I need to learn to look beneath those things?"
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"No place left to go, ain't that a shame? So many roads I tell you New York to San Francisco So many roads I know All I want is one to take me home From the high road to the low So many roads I know So many roads so many roads From the land of the midnight sun Where the ice blue roses grow Along those roads of gold and silver snow Howlin' wide or moaning low So many roads I know So many roads to ease my soul" hunter
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You are quite a trip! You and your Lady relax & take it easy Peace rider
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to Philly 3/30 Tower Theater!!!!! Tix go on sale tomorrow...I think :/
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not exactly sure where to post this, but I'm pretty sure this is the right place. For all who dont know, I'm a sixth grader, and I promptly display that I'm a dead head...(writing about the dead in journal...wear shirts with "dancing deady bears") so she came up to me about 2 weeks ago and said that her boy friend was looking through his basement and found a box of dead live recordings. She snatched one out for me and gave it to me...here's the stuff written out on it (stuff in parenthesis are my comments): LIVE DEAD (kinda ironic) Boston 1 9/30/93 Sunshine Spoonful Canoyman El Paso Broken Arrow Stagger Lee Easy Ans. Dont Ease Brokedown JARHUNDERT HALLE 4/26/72 COMES A TIME SUGAR MAGNOLIA (appeared in capital on tape) ---------------------------------------- I'm not a real hard core dead head and only know a few of their songs, but they are my favorite band. The only song I know on it is sugar magnolia, and I dont know what the last part in capital means, with the second date and all... I'm about to check the tapers section to get a better sense of the songs. Any suggestions as to which ones are real good would be greatly appreciated...I havnt listened to the tape yet because my parents are divorced, and I'm going to be with my mom for another week or two, and my mom doesnt have a tape player at her house...the only one I know of is in my dad's car (which is pretty old).
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you can look up the details of the two shows on your tape here on this site through 'SHOWS AND LYRICS', select the year of the show and click on the date. It should show the venue and setlist JA(h)RHUNDERT HALLE is a concert hall in Germany where the Dead played on 4/26/72 You can buy an official CD of selections from that show if you like it, called '100 Year Hall' I suggest you get your hands on some more of those tapes, but as to what is good and what is not....well that is of course entirely up to you!
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These are real notes written by parents in an ALABAMA school district. Spellings have been left intact. 1. My son is under a doctor's care and should not take PE today. Please execute him. 2. Please exkuce lisa for being absent she was sick and i had her shot. 3. Dear school: please ecsc's john being absent on jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33. 4. Please excuse gloria from jim today. She is administrating 5. Please excuse roland from p.e. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip 6. John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face. 7. Carlos was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part. 8. Megan could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins. 9. Chris will not be in school cus he has an acre in his side. 10. Please excuse ray friday from school. He has very loose vowels. 11. Please excuse Lesli from being absent yesterday. She had diahre dyrea direathe the sh.... 12. Please excuse tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea, and his boots leak. 13. Irving was absent yesterday because he missed his bust. 14. Please excuse jimmy for being. It was his father's fault. 15. I kept Billie home because she had to go Christmas shopping because i don't know what size she wear. 16. Please excuse jennifer for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it monday. We thought it was sunday. 17. Sally won't be in school a week from friday. We have to attend her funeral. 18. My daughter was absent yesterday because she was tired. She spent a weekend with the marines. 19. Please excuse Jason for being absent yesterday. He had a cold and could not breed well. 20. Please excuse mary for being absent yesterday. She was in bed with gramps. 21. Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover. 22. Please excuse brenda She has been sick and under the doctor. 23. Maryann was absent december 11-16, because she had a fever, sorethroat, headache and upset stomach. Her sister was also sick, fever an sore throat, her brother had a low grade fever and ached all over. I wasn't the best either, sore throat and fever. There must be something going around, her father even got hot last night. Now we know why parents are screaming for better education for our kids. "Where does the time go?"
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I Had to call the girl from upstairs; down to read this GEM! ( or should I say Jim, Gym, Gim ha ha ha )What a trip! I can't decide which one I like the best. Maybe #6 & #16 Thank You kindly PEACE
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Deadicated. Thanks for sharing that belly laugh!********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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Here's one for you....Cosmo the deadhead is at the end of his rope. He's broke, half a continent away from his folks and he needs to get home. All he has left is his dog, Astro. He spies a likely yuppie couple on the way to their Porsche. He says, "Excuse me, I'm broke and I want to sell my dog for bus money. He's special dog, he even talks! Ask him something." The man seems appalled, but the woman is itrigued. "Oh Dale, that would be so kewl! OK, doggie, what's your favorite dead song?" Astro barks "Wharf, wharf, wharf". The couple laugh at this and leave, without buying Astro, of course. Astro looks at Cosmo and says, "maybe I should have said Playin'?"
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I love it. classic one about the dog but never heard that variation before. lightened up my day.Thanks. Peace, Kid
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hey you guys,i just stumbled upon a great digitally remastered REN-STIMPY classics.does anybody of u remeber them.....such total anarchy...:-)(-:
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meanwhile in a small ct town, local boardingschool students are dancing in the streets after being granted a much needed free day. Locals say the party tends tolast weeks after. Considerded on par with Christmas and new years, this celebration is bigger than spring break. Thanks for tuning into the random report. Now back to jim inthe news room.