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Young and "hot as hell" is relative when you're looking at a picture of a rust-golden dragon which could easily pass for 1,500 years old... and I have read his stories...they're actually quite good.

Careful...I've heard things...

Or that if they're the same, it's different in intensity between one and the other?

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Been to Canada, and perused my fair share of wine lists...when we're travelling, I don't mind a drink now and then. Ninety-nine percent plus, of Canada's wine selection is imported, and the part that isn't imported is not from large wineries, but smaller, local concerns producing limited varieties and quantities for local restaurants in their own area. Combine this with a short growing season (brr!) and cost becomes an issue. Even accounting for USD to CAD, the prices are higher for wines from as close as California...one of my favorites is about USD17 locally, and was CAD34 (at the time equivalent to about USD50)...so things like shipping, duties, VAT and sales tax add up quickly.

Depending on where we visit in your country, you guys do pretty well at that, too! Apologies for not continuing the words...I hadn't finished my double espresso yet... Published Works

Yeah...'uh, wasn't Canada a French colony to start out? Then got purchased by the english King at some point? (Which means they were sold out by France) Poor little Canada, not wanted by mother France...tsk, tsk, tsk! Don't take it wrong...it's pretty up there...but too damn cold in the winter time for my--now--aging joints...

Bah! That just proves that the Canadian pioneers were too lazy, or too outnumbered, to declare their independence earlier...

Cheeky kids!

*switches to American spelling (sorry)* Analyzed Statistics

JSmith, at this point, get some sleep...does she have AAA? Let them post her bond for her. You get some sleep.

What wishful thinking? I'm a practical guy...you should try it sometime... It can be somewhat rewarding at times.

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You're lucky that you can get her out as quick as bail is set, the next day. In California, DWI offenders are held for a minimum of 48 hours...then bail is set, and it usually takes their families another 3-4 days to make bail...so they're in for a week, easily. If she is still living with your parents, there's no reason they shouldn't know, especially if they're going to be receiving mail in their mailbox from the court system. And, since you and your friends are making her bail, you all now have a vested financial interest in making sure she goes to her court dates. Really it should, don't feel too bad, she has every means to be responsible and now you are going out of your way to bail her out. it's more than i would have done. Chris, the sitting will do her some good, hopefully, but hope that your words never come back to haunt you. It's not a fun place to wake up--it made my mom go into the St. Joseph's Hospital detox program the day she was released from the drunk tank in 1978...and they stopped her 2 blocks (1 minute) from home.

Mini-golf after a couple shots, huh? I've bowled after having a couple shots...it helped me to focus...but we're using a bigger ball, too. I don't know if that's a fair comparison since the one time I had 12 strikes it spanned the ending of one game and the first 8 frames of the next instead of being all together...um...oh, yeah, the thing that did me in, there, was a 4-6-7-10 split...and my ball rolled clean through the middle. Baby, and Honey? I call Rob "Honey"...I call the cat, "Baby"...or (puts on Gollum mask), "My precious!"

I consider sleeping in as not having my cat wake me before I get the wakeup call from our voice-mail system... and I'd put the office on the "do-not-disturb" feature of our phone company features, at least until I go back in...except our office is just across the hall from the bedroom...and I'm addicted to sites like GA...

Great to hear you've made such a wonderful change! Hopefully you and Dan will start writing again soon...

I've given up on the "straight acting" label...it just never works...the guy would be jeans and a t-shirt guy, and so effeminate that it'd just kill the mood...conversely, my biggest turn-on was a guy, smaller than myself, who looked effeminate, but only acted very shyly, who was quite well-endowed and knew very well what to do with it...just my luck he was looking for leather guys... Some years later I learned to "go out" with someone for a show or dinner or something social just to see if there was common ground...there are a lot of nice people out there, but the label straight-acting really would only apply to someone who would only date the opposite sex...

I wasn't going to say anything, but since most writers write from experience, and your stories are rather, 'er, 'um...detailed...I wasn't going to suggest your level of "personal skill" in these matters... *ducking and running for cover*

Oh, come on, Phantom, you've seen more in magazines...

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I second your idea hh5...but don't forget the abandoneds and throwaways, too...

That the powers that be that this isn't an athletic group...

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