From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1348">blakey</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Star of David, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.04.45.12734">Happy Birthday, Baby</a>: This touches a very tender spot in my heart because I have been on the receiving end of this type of message. Your words are helpful in the healing process. Thanks for sharing.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Star of David, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.04.45.12734">Happy Birthday, Baby</a>:<BR>
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Oh, how well I know this.  I wish I could've written this, because it hits very close to home, in many ways.  Beautiful write.  Thank you so much for sharing it. :-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Star of David, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.04.45.12734">Happy Birthday, Baby</a>:  One day you will not even know it's his birthday.  It will pass you by, and you may remember later.  The day I realized I had forgotten to mark her birthday was a very good day for me.  It ony took four years.  Jim
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

jwb71913, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.17.13.22788">Yes Virginia, there is a 'Kirk'</a>:<BR>
always on time? now I know it's fiction... ;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

jwb71913, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.17.13.22788">Yes Virginia, there is a 'Kirk'</a>:Very Clever jwb cute and true.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Thanks bk,  I have trouble with solipsism, 'e' or not.  Kirk is real because he takes the time to bring us together in our pain and glory.  How many different sides of romance has he helped us see?  Personally, the Blender has done more for my sanity than thousands of dollars worth of professional help.  Thanks Kirk, you're a freakin' e-god.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

The above is shameless lobbying for a front page pick.  Hehe.  Actually 'Kirk' should remove that poem for being 'off-topic'.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">rennielorca</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

jwb71913, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.17.13.22788">Yes Virginia, there is a 'Kirk'</a>: to the contrary, cuzin jimbeau, this is, this reflect the very essence of blenderism :-). Happy Halloween! ...... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Rennie,  Ha I was just thinking about you.  Posted a cruising piece.  Not that we're of a certain age by any means!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

lilla, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.13.20.24453">heLL iz perFect</a>:<BR>
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Just remember, where there's a fire there's smoke, and where there's smoke there's a BBQ.  Hell can' be that bad, all my friends are there waiting for me.  Tailgates down, Roll Tide
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">rennielorca</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

"reflects" to correct a previous post...and then an observation on the Happy Birthday, Baby (and more, like Kirk's existence): <BR>
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On remembering birthdays: I think we all need to remember certain birthdays, family, friend, lover, foe, and anniversaries for as long as possible. Each may remind us of why we are with someone, or why we finally had the good sense to quit torturing ourselves with something that wasn't working. Something rare, I watched a Dr. Phil show today where he told a highly dysfunctional couple they didn't need to be together. That their marriage was dangerous, and to get away from each other. There are those we should leave before we/they destroy one or both, or destroy an important part of ourselves/themselves. The loss, which is usually the ability to love unconditionally, is monumental. Love yourself first, and enough to say that you are loved by someone (yourself), and then you can one day be loved by someone else. Love yourself enough to "fix" yourself. I believe the person that realizes this is rich beyond measure. A half-truth is often called a lie, and clinging to someone we don't totally love is lying to the person we should love first (ourselves). The other side of that coin is loving and not telling someone you love them. A mature person can be glad someone loves them even if they don't want to be that person's lover. We can learn to appreciate others who truly care for us. Tell enough people you love them, as you would in real friendship, and one day there may be a spark, some chemistry that's real with one of them. In a chemistry lab, putting things together that don't belong together usually has a reaction we won't appreciate. IF someone is truly interested in you, they won't leave you alone once they know you are also interested. IF they aren't contacting you and you won't leave them alone, then you've probably taken the first step toward madness and not be a candidate for love with anyone, including yourself. Okay, over the years here, I see Kirk as someone who understands these parameters. Yes, he has weight and takes up space, and pays the rent on the space we use here. The mass, the rest of us know he matters, we just don't make him the focus or target of our attention when others aren't paying attention to us. Well, not too often, that is :-) ...... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">rennielorca</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Willie Survive, about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.20.29.26255">Teen angst revisited</a>: musing on something else while you were posting, jims. My parents put me in a new Mustang, top down, and then signed me up for every class in town so that I had a destination and obligation almost all waking hours. That worked until I was old enough to move away from home and could climb up on the back of a Harley, but the guy was older and wanted to take up where the parents left off, so I signed back up for more classes. Lots of folks in those classes, so not exactly reclusive--no? ...... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Rennie,<BR>
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I was in McClard's the other day and saw a gentleman of a certain age with his 'niece'.  She could not recognize Bill Clinton's picture.  Guess she needs to go back to school,huh?  He did have quite a nice Harley though.  Dr. Phil has rated more than one mention in my previous posts, notably the ones about the dangerous relationship I was in several years ago.  I was days late in remembering her birthday and was glad of the fact.  As far as the shotgun approach to  love, I disagree.  Set sights firmly upon a target, then if you can't hit it go back to the blind and wait.  Sooner or later another pretty duck will fly by.  Well-0, maybe a shotgun is best for ducks.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

ELVIS PRESLEY., about <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2007.10.31.21.36.9613">Fever</a>: Funny I always hear Peggy Lee singing this one ha. Great old song.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Yeah but she don't wiggle when she says it.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1139">jwb71913</a><BR>
Date: 31 October 2007<P>

Sorry, I missed the credit:  - Words and Music by John Davenport - and Eddie Cooley<BR>

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