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    gimme30 reacted to gwand's post in the thread Reading . Actual printed on paper books . with Like Like.
    I usually read non-fiction but most recently finished Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Fascinating read. Now I’m ready to watch the new...
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    gimme30 reacted to GaryE's post in the thread Reading . Actual printed on paper books . with Like Like.
    I grew up in a family where both my parents had grade 8 educations, as they'd gone to work young. They were both extremely intelligent...
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    gimme30 reacted to WhistlingBadger's post in the thread Tell me something funny with Haha Haha.
    That reminds me of my favorite Winston Churchill quote. Leaving a pub after having a few, he was confronted by a female member of...
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    gimme30 replied to the thread Howdy from cow town!.
    Just to add to the snark...An axle rod could also be called a shaft. You can draw your own conclusions on that one.😁 That is very cool...
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    gimme30 reacted to Innesfan's post in the thread Howdy from cow town! with Like Like.
    There's the rub. Most if not all of those pretty fish never would have been named for him without his bullying, bribing or extorting the...
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    gimme30 reacted to Innesfan's post in the thread Howdy from cow town! with Brilliant Brilliant.
    Also one of my favorite Axelrod stories! The cory was collected purportedly by the rasbora authority, Martin Brittan and Axelrod (I bet...
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    gimme30 reacted to WhistlingBadger's post in the thread Howdy from cow town! with Love Love.
    The only thing I know about Axelrod is that his name is fun to say (but of course, so is Innes) and he has a lot of really pretty fish...
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    gimme30 reacted to GaryE's post in the thread Howdy from cow town! with Like Like.
    Axelrod got done for tax evasion in the end. But he was a New York guy who parlayed fish selling into a multi-million business in the...
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    gimme30 replied to the thread tablet thoughts?.
    Agreed. I mean, I agree to agree with your agreeing with me. Hee hee! I like New Egg too. Tiger direct used to offer great deals, not...
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    gimme30 reacted to jaylach's post in the thread tablet thoughts? with Like Like.
    Quite often, at least with New Egg, the unit was returned as a duplicate gift or just not wanted. In my experience there is no way that...
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    gimme30 replied to the thread Attention Fellow Seniors.
    That sounds like pure bliss to me. Unfortunately I'm trapped in the middle of suburbia. It's like being surrounded by 1500 bass drum...
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    gimme30 replied to the thread The "dump tank" community tank.
    I'm not breeding anything other than incidental CPDs but in the past my culls became tasty live foods for bigger critters.
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    gimme30 replied to the thread Attention Fellow Seniors.
    Rock isn't dead, it's just morphed and you've got to dig for the good stuff. I like it crunchy so Alter Bridge, Live, Red Line...
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    gimme30 reacted to GaryE's post in the thread Howdy from cow town! with Like Like.
    Pearls. Throw them as you will, because some of us are swine on our bad days. The Axelrod book has its merits, largely because he...
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    gimme30 replied to the thread Howdy from cow town!.
    My ex would claim I'm a swine every day, good or bad. She's wrong. I wouldn't be any good on a BLT. That's the sort of mindset I don't...
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