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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 30, 2008 13:08:51 GMT -6
My point was that I didn't know the background of the man, and its discovery was disturbing to me. If I find out someone down the street was a KKK member or any of the other possibilities you mention then, yes, I would most likely have the same reaction. I'm not much of a Pollyanna, but I don't like to think about the darker side of life.
I know exactly what you mean Goddess. Yes, the populace at large obviously contains all sorts of undesirables, but for example, it is only when the man next door is revealed as a paedophile that we regard him with revulsion. It is the discovery for sure about the unsavoury predilections of people we know personally that makes us ponder on just what sins other friends and neighbours may be harbouring. It is especially hard for you because with your unspoilt innocence and beautiful mind you expect others to be just as perfect. (4,132) 'Brilliant' Hunk
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 30, 2008 13:12:37 GMT -6
Bc,
I was speaking to cases in which a fugitive, may have escaped justice and submerged himself in a new community, and maybe reformed himself and even lived as a solid or exmplary citizen. When suddenly revealed, it comes as a shock to those who might know such a person. Sadly and even so, the victim still awaits justice.
I do understand your point about a person remaking himself. It happens. I once (at the request of a friend) guaranteed employment to a convict, as a required pre-release condition of his parole. It worked out well for both of us. His was truly a case of a young man (28 when I first met him) who came under the influence of a bad crowd. He had done 5 and a half years of hard time (as they say) on something like a twelve year sentence. At one point he even figured out how two other employees were stealing from my company and brought it to my attention.
I jokingly named him Chief of Security Operations after that, and interestingly, he took it seriously and very much to heart. I never had a better or more loyal employee either. He has his own small business now - building decks onto peoples houses and is doing well, even in a bad construction economy. Fair and honest treatment of his customers is how he did. Makes me proud to know him.
I also learned a bit prison lingo from him. Anybody got any squares?
M
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Post by bc on Oct 30, 2008 16:01:48 GMT -6
BS, I'm a forgive and forget kinda guy except I've forgot what I was going to forgive.
Known plenty of prisoners and even go to the BLM horse auction at the prisons about every year, but you will have to enlighten me about squares. When I was in high school, I knew a few square teachers.
bc, whose neighbors all have to be in the witness protection program while fooling me in to thinking they are normal.
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 30, 2008 20:06:41 GMT -6
Hunk - "...It is especially hard for you because with your unspoilt innocence and beautiful mind ..."Sincerely, M
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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 30, 2008 20:57:04 GMT -6
Hmmm. . . . I think the Broken One just lost his never-be-banned status.
BC, good post on the bottom of the last page. I have known others with a blot on their past, and it didn't affect me so. I think it is the violent aspect of David's past that threw me for a loop.
Hunk, brilliant, as always!
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Post by biggordie on Oct 30, 2008 21:28:15 GMT -6
bc:
A noble attitude, and one that more people should aspire to adopting.
Gordie
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 31, 2008 8:18:59 GMT -6
Diane - “…Hmmm. . . . I think the Broken One just lost his never-be-banned status…”
Sigh. Then so be it, oh Daughter of the Dawn’s Appearing Light, Sister of the Four Glorious Winds and earthly model of Devine and graceful presence through example of indescribable quality; though I may now sit in the chair of Damocles, or stand on the razor’s thin edge of existence; I stand true and firmly so, by way of steadfast loyalty and the single purposeness of the true acolyte of the Goddess of Valhalla’s Gates, and perhaps new record holder for the longest sentence ever posted here, as well as the only poster to have made, even in a minor way, baby vomit relevant to the discussions contained within any of these threads, for it could not be allowed to pass without comment, what I at once perceived as Hunk’s latest attempt at a suck-up, delivered merely as an afterthought and lacking in the full measure of sincerity that is yours by right, but used rather, to crassly inflate his suck-up count for purely personal goal of self-aggrandizement by way of fallow achievement, and furthermore, and having said that, I need not be banned, but would joyfully and without hesitation leap into the abyss at the slightest suggestion or perceived desire from creation’s true image of perfection.
BS
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Post by biggordie on Oct 31, 2008 9:42:50 GMT -6
"Purposeness? Puposeness" The real word is purpososity.
"Devine and graceful presence?" When was Andy EVER graceful? You shouls be banned for using Devine and Diane in the same post, if not for that lame excuse for a lengthy sentence, which has several errors in punctuation.
The abyss awaits........................................
Gordie
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 31, 2008 11:31:55 GMT -6
ALRIGHT! ALRIGHT!! I can only hope that your complaints are the understandably natural symptoms of a long night’s caffeine induced frenzy of nit-picking - on the final draft of your eagerly awaited book’s manuscript.
When writing in my clearly perfected Whitmanesk 'stream of conscientious' style, punctuation and grammar are secondary concerns. Furthermore, what IS the correct way to punctuate a monstrosity such as my last posting? I never got far enough in school to learn that - or maybe I had cut class that day, and was at the pool hall or somewhere other. As to the other issues, who says I can't invent words and phrases? Others have, and have been doing so for century upon century. I never claimed to be the next Tolstoy.
Divine or Devine - an innocent mistake. When I think of Diane, I naturally think in terms of Divine. When I think of Hunk, I think in clear terms of Devine. A perfectly understandable faux pas when addressing the one in grievance of the other.
CRITICS!! CRITICS! I drown in a sea of CRITICS!
BS
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 31, 2008 11:34:55 GMT -6
bc,
Square = cigarette
It's good to know a few of the terms. When I'm at the Blood & Brew road house, and casually drop a couple of them, the bikers assume I'm just one of the guys. Even without tatoos on my face.
BS
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Post by cefil on Oct 31, 2008 14:41:13 GMT -6
When writing in my clearly perfected Whitmanesk 'stream of conscientious' style, I believe you meant "MacLeod- esque stream of contentiousness" style, nez pah? cefil
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Post by bc on Oct 31, 2008 14:41:40 GMT -6
bc, Square = cigarette It's good to know a few of the terms. When I'm at the Blood & Brew road house, and casually drop a couple of them, the bikers assume I'm just one of the guys. Even without tatoos on my face. BS BS, so you hang with the Bloods, huh? I hang more with the Clowns subset of the Crips. Remember that when you "casually drop a couple of them", just don't bend over to pick them back up. Reminds me of when Keifer Sutherland was telling David Letterman about his recent 47 days in jail, Kiefer said he did drop the soap in the shower one time, David asked what happened, and Kiefer said that you know, soap is really overrated. You were probably also told what happens to someone who bets more "squares" in a card game than he can pay off at the designated time. That's grounds for something violent happening. I'm outa here. Got front row tickets to KU vs. K-State.
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Post by clw on Oct 31, 2008 15:17:10 GMT -6
Never mind, Michael. It was a perfectly lovely sentence. Just to attach relevancy, I'm reading My Life on the Plains and I think your sentence was even longer than one of Custer's best. Heady company you're keeping!
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Post by biggordie on Oct 31, 2008 16:26:33 GMT -6
Michael - you gotta have some colons in there, or clear your colon, or something. Two feet of my colon was removed one day while I slept, so I could use some.
What were we talking about?Oh yeah - My Life on the Plains. My life on the plains [no caps, it wasn't that important] began in 1956 [oh my!!] and basically came to an end in 1961, with a few visits from time to time. I remember once....................................
Gordie
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 31, 2008 17:35:46 GMT -6
clw - "...Never mind, Michael. It was a perfectly lovely sentence..."
AHHH, my Pal. We gotta meet up some day. I owe you a couple of drinks. What the heck, Gordie too. I probably owe him more than a couple by now though.
Michael
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