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Aarrgh, not fair. I was trying to tell myself to skip the late night snack and go to bed. 
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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Interesting.
Off topic. I see a cat fight coming. You have the same avatar as AJC. 
http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/profile2760.aspx
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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Whenever I'm having a bad day I'll think of Mr. Mouben and remember how very lucky I am.
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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My pig had the longest tail anyone had ever seen 
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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grammargeek wrote:Darkness steals the light,
Quiet breezes comfort me;
Wish upon a star.
Wish upon a star
Letting sad thoughts fly afar
Peace will soon be yours
(for you gg)
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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cockpit...
and it's not what you're thinking 
"Cockpit," is pretty straightforward. The first "cockpits" were actual pits in the ground constructed (to the extent that one "constructs" a pit) to house "cockfights" to the death between game cocks (essentially very belligerent chickens). Cockfighting, a barbaric "sport" usually conducted for gambling purposes, probably originated in ancient China and remains distressingly popular around the world.
As a name for the scene of such grisly matches, "cockpit" showed up in English in the 16th century. By the 1700's, "cockpit" was being used as a metaphor for any scene of combat, especially areas (such as parts of Belgium and France) known as traditional battlefields. "Cockpit" was then adopted by pilots in World War I, who applied it to the cramped operating quarters of their fighter planes. Our modern sense of cockpit includes the entire crew areas of large airliners, which are usually fairly spacious and not, one hopes, the scene of conflict.
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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same artist,
same boy?
DESIDERATA
"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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grammargeek wrote:I think we need a ruling from FlashBack1968 about what to do when the rules of this game are not being followed. Does it all come to an end? Do we take the last line from the last haiku posted, even when it hasn't taken the last line from the one above?
Bomb them!...and then pick it up from the last correct post as BD suggests.
Here's one for musicwriter (just kidding musicwriter)
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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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Aarrgh 4 seconds
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"Never argue with an idiot, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience"
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