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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 19, 2015 at 10:27 am
The heathen motto:
Eat, drink and be merry. For tomorrow, we fry.
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 19, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Stimbo,
I apologize, I will pay better attention in the brief time I have left.
So you ( I forgot your resident prophet status, sorry), Abaris and Chuck can be counted on to hold down the prophetic fort?
Does seniority count?
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 19, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Hold down the fort? Is it an inflatable one or something? The idiom is "hold the fort".
Seniority doesn't count for me. Does it for you?
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 19, 2015 at 8:12 pm
4 days left, prof.
What are you doing for your last days on Earth?
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 20, 2015 at 12:46 am
(September 19, 2015 at 3:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Hold down the fort? Is it an inflatable one or something? The idiom is "hold the fort".
Seniority doesn't count for me. Does it for you?
Hold down the fort is a pretty common expression on this side of the pond.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 20, 2015 at 8:41 am
So I'm given to understand.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 20, 2015 at 8:44 am
That phrase is used almost exclusively in soap operas.
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RE: Rapture September 2015
September 20, 2015 at 8:47 am
There was a sitcom once called "Holding the Fort". Did Peter Davison's career almost die in vain?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
