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C'mon ER
Is that a tennis reference?? Here???
mcfly —
12/21/2012 12:08:10 PM
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C'mon yourself...this is Flame. There's zero love here!
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Making it up, eh? And you two, of all people, are going to call me on it?
- ER -
12/21/2012 12:04:54 AM
It only took one person and the invective got quite personal.
- bowser -
12/22/2012 6:27:34 AM
Would you like to name the name?
- MaryAnne -
12/22/2012 2:41:07 PM
Not being shy, and not wanting to hurt any feelings, - - -
- bowser -
12/22/2012 3:02:02 PM
Let's be honest...
- SDAI-Tech -
12/22/2012 11:41:57 PM
Just sayin'
- MaryAnne -
12/22/2012 3:15:23 PM
I'm not sure what is going on here, and I'm uncomfortable with it.
- bowser -
12/22/2012 5:31:58 PM
Um.
- MaryAnne -
12/22/2012 7:41:37 PM
"Stalking?" "Hijacking?"
- TB -
12/22/2012 6:03:21 PM
I take exception to the 'looney progressives" characterization.
- MaryAnne -
12/22/2012 8:48:28 PM
Re: I take exception to the 'looney progressives" characterization.
- TB -
12/22/2012 10:28:10 PM
Your threat of departure is apparently happening at the same time as a return of a number of exceptional zoners.
- BuckGalaxy -
12/22/2012 3:38:25 AM
Re: Your threat of departure is apparently happening at the same time as a return of a number of exceptional zoners.
- TB -
12/22/2012 3:40:31 AM
I don't get the analogy...?
- BuckGalaxy -
12/22/2012 7:15:44 AM
Re: Making it up, eh? And you two, of all people, are going to call me on it?
- Jody -
12/21/2012 3:12:04 PM
C'mon ER
- RobVG -
12/21/2012 4:12:28 AM
Is that a tennis reference?? Here???
- mcfly -
12/21/2012 12:08:10 PM
Can't have zero love in tennis
- Tony -
12/21/2012 6:43:15 PM
Tony??
- mcfly -
12/21/2012 8:48:59 PM
Could be
- Tony -
12/25/2012 4:43:09 AM
Most of us really enjoy the way you demolish their BS so thoroughly.
- BuckGalaxy -
12/21/2012 3:56:42 AM
And...
- mcfly -
12/21/2012 12:28:42 PM
Just follow the NRA's advice, ER...
- mcfly -
12/21/2012 3:40:14 AM
Quotation marks make all the difference
- Robert -
12/21/2012 1:30:21 AM
Re: Quotation marks make all the difference
- TB -
12/21/2012 2:47:25 AM
Do you guys just flip a coin to choose between Flame and CurrentVents?
- Robert -
12/21/2012 1:26:39 AM
Re: Do you guys just flip a coin to choose between Flame and CurrentVents?
- TB -
12/21/2012 2:46:06 AM
Re: Do you guys just flip a coin to choose between Flame and CurrentVents?
- Jody -
12/21/2012 1:36:36 AM
So, is it still always like this, or is this a special party because I came back?
- MaryAnne -
12/21/2012 12:16:07 AM
You're really back?
- RobVG -
12/21/2012 4:32:14 AM
Seems so.
- MaryAnne -
12/21/2012 5:41:51 PM
You lack nothing, Mary Anne
- mcfly -
12/21/2012 8:53:10 PM
Calling someone a liar often triggers an emotional response.
- alcaray -
12/21/2012 4:00:17 AM
Re: Calling someone a liar often triggers an emotional response.
- TB -
12/21/2012 2:37:38 PM
Calling someone a liar has nothing to do with what the callee knows.
- alcaray -
12/21/2012 8:00:43 PM
Not using the noun, no. "Making stuff up" is untruthful behavior.
- MaryAnne -
12/21/2012 5:40:08 PM
Interpretation:
- TB -
12/21/2012 5:58:29 PM
Presenting conflicting evidence is the right way to do it.
- alcaray -
12/21/2012 8:04:24 PM
At some point, "conflicting evidence" has to be sorted out to eliminate the conflict.
- TB -
12/21/2012 8:15:18 PM
Well sure. But the discussion is really about something else.
- alcaray -
12/21/2012 9:57:46 PM
Probably different bodies of knowledge, tempered by different life experiences.
- MaryAnne -
12/21/2012 6:13:32 PM
Not always.
- TB -
12/21/2012 1:18:08 AM
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