From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

And all those years of my childhood spent wondering what  was being said in that song...No wonder my parents trashed the ole 45.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

Echolation:<BR>
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I would almost consider doing that, if it wasn't for the fact that I have a 3000-word essay due by next week (assigned yesterday!).  It's an argumentive essay and I have to find some topic, that I can somehow write for that long, to argue about.  Sounds like fun no? :-)<BR>
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Misti:<BR>
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If you really wanted to go to UCLA there are about a thousand scholarship programs.  You can get a scholarship for pretty much anything these days.  As for being bored in UCLA, it's a very tough thing to do, but it is possible. ;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

Jon - had a small party last night and we argued for 3,000 words plus infinity, let's say it was a high energy/laid back debate re: "are we who we are based strictly on genetic predisposition/patterning - versus - life choices, learned behavior, path less traveled, etc."  It was incredible to me how many thought it had to be either one way or the other. Echolation, I caught up on reading the subs page and saw that we'd written on the same theme the same day, wanted to make sure you knew I hadn't stolen your 'thunder' - we must have had the same [emotional] storm front pass through the same week?<BR>
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~ Madi 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

Madi<BR>
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Funny thing is, I was going to write about what you were arguing about at your small party.  Problem is, I think it's a mixture of both and in my essay I have to choose a single side, and I couldn't come up with enough positive and negative pathos and ethos to support myself on that argument.  But it is a good one, so, I think I'm just going to give it a try.  If I can't get past 2000 words then pray for me. :-)<BR>
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I really don't have any time for other comments about current works (considering I haven't read that many) but Micheal T's In a soft light was simply sweet.  I'll comment on more later, when I have the time and when my fingers heal from typing so much today. :-)<BR>
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Take care and all that good stuff.<BR>
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-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

Mark McNabb ~ I thought <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.01.14.20.33.16644">I THINK I'M GONNA  BE SICK</a> was pretty slick. (pun intended) Wonder who you were talking to, hmmmm? <BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

Golly Teej,<BR>
I myself was just wondering WHO Mark was getting sick over.  I was so pleasured with all his ee cummings posts -then, a deviation (you like that word, don't you Mark) to spewing from a pick-em-up truck.<BR>
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Why do all the good men have to be so damned bitter?<BR>
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Mark, Baby...don't be angry with me.  I'm not bad - I'm just drawn that way.<BR>
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Yours in a Night's Passion,<BR>
Jennifer
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=566">Mark McNabb</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

TJ, Rhet, et cet...<BR>
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That wasn't written to/for you, Rhet.  Just an old hillbilly folk song ("Trad." hahahaha ...what a maroon).  Not bitter, either.  Just words...<BR>
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:)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=566">Mark McNabb</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

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Gosh, where do you get all that "bitter" stuff?  Pure coincidence that they came one after another...really.  And you two (Teej and Rhetoric) are MY two fave writers here.  Gee, I kinda hoped that TJ would have dinner with me when I go to SXSW this March in Austin (maybe a little French bistro off 6th Street?).  And who knows Rhetorical One, you may very well bump into me at the moobees this weekend.<BR>
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Can't we all just get along?<BR>
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MMc
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=566">Mark McNabb</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

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Just cause I write GONNA BE SICK don't make me no prick.<BR>
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All mine in a night's passion?<BR>
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You must be a funnin' me too....baby.<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

TJ Holland...You betta watch out.  Mark McNabb is coming your way and he sounds HOT!  Let me guess...salt and pepper hair, strong build, luscious lips and piercing eyes?<BR>
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Am I close?<BR>
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TJ...if I were you, I would take him up on that French Bistro.  I am sure going to Columbus this Monday to see if I can catch me some of that McNabb.<BR>
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Have a good night all<BR>
The Ever-Comical Rhetorical One<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

I'm having a bad case of Deja vu, but the characters were all different...somehow.<BR>
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Those multiple personality post-ers should mind that they stay in character from one "identity" to the other.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

First we have Madi with her dinner party of environment vrs heredity and or free will vrs predestination then what of just plain old luck there? Heavy talk, what did you serve for dinner with it?<BR>
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Then we have who's doing multi personalitys now? Looks like the major ones have gone and well I gave it up long ago. ha ha. I always like the ones you can never guess. Clever so and so's<BR>
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Then it's TJ and McNabb sitting in a tree or is it Rhet and McNab out to din din? Or is this a bru ha ha?<BR>
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Oh Yes Deevaa, congratulations and great luck to you woman!<BR>
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Kev; Glad to see you back again Love123 hope it goes to the millionth before you are done.<BR>
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MichaelT; Your poetry gets better with every word you write. More please<BR>
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dev0n; How are you woman? Hope you are holding on tight and write some more for us.<BR>
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Rhet; Thanks for the comments. True, you can always get material from family gatherings..ha <BR>
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Laurel; I got lots of stories, it's been a rollercoaster and it's gonna roll on and on if I have any say..ha.<BR>
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Write on wonderful blender poets!<BR>
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bk<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

Mmmm...I'm all for lunch in a French bistro! You'd have to fly me in from Washington state though! <BR>
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Anyway, I'm confused about all this bru ha ha ha. (what the heck IS that anyway??) All I meant was that Just Some Girl had posted a comment that said "I think I'm gonna be sick." And then Mark McNabb wrote (or submitted) the poem. Figured it was connected. (Just like Some Girl's last comment may be as well.) <BR>
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Oh, ya, also......I, for one, don't care who has multiple personalities. As I told a new friend recently, I, myself, am a million different people from one day to the next. Feel free to be whom ever you'd like! (FYI: TJ Holland is the ONLY name I use here, if you are wondering) 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

re: free-will vs nature vs nurture: eh, like in almost any debate of importance, the answer's probably somewhere in the mushy middle.  I personally seem to have landed in, over all, a pretty amazingly good spot, in terms of where I am on a global fiscal scale, who I got married to, and with a fair dollop of booksmarts.  I can't really answer how much of that is good decisions on my part, good genes, good upbringing, or just being frickin' lucky.  Big chunks of each I think.<BR>
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You know, "linkcodes" are really kind of funny.  It didn't occur to me when I was setting up the system, but it's kind of like some wacky prison parody: so, 1210112042, what do *you* think of the warden? oh, he's the best one since we had 098703-23 running the place!<BR>
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Or something.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

"starring" at her grave should be "staring" at her grave<BR>
two Tylenol PMs later...goin'to bed<BR>
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=9">Madison</a><BR>
Date: 15 January 2002<P>

There was no dinner at the party B.K. - strictly Shiner Bock, Fat Tire, major margaritas, German Chocolate Shots (have to try these things to believe them) and Coffee layered in Baileys, Khalua & chocolate whipped cream with a cherry on top!  Must've been the chocolate. 
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