DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
Members' Mausoleum => Games => Topic started by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 18, 2005, 05:25:39 PM
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I'll get the list started:
1.) You've replaced all the framed photos of your family/friends with autographed pictures of the DS stars.
2.) Whenever you enter the small entryway of your house/apartment, you fantasize that you're actually entering your grand foyer.
3.) You find that you have the strange desire to wear pajamas or a nightgown over your clothes rather than getting undressed first.
4.) You find yourself incorporating bits of your favorite DS dialogue into your everyday conversation. (Listen here you, cheap, insufferable pig... ;))
5.) You have the uncontrollable urge to wear bows in your hair.
6.) You go to bed wearing your shoes.
7.) You obsess over the DS characters' sex lives more than you do your own.
8.) Whenever you buy a new outfit you find yourself wondering how your favorite DS character would accessorize it.
9.) You frequently don a black wig and think that it alone completely hides your true identity.
10.) You steal some of your kid's Playdough, make a crude fetish doll, and recite incantations over it while staring into a lit burner on your gas stove.
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11.) I frequently drink a bubbling chemical concoction just before going out at night, just for that extra little jolt it will give my evening.
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That first one "You've replaced all the framed photo of your family/friends with autographed picture of the DS stars" took me for a loop. That's exactly what I've done.
Now I'm scared.
[scrdy]
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12.) When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.
::)
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13. When you're sure you left something in a certain place and the next day it seems to have vanished, your first thought is: "It must have disappeared into Parallel Time."
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Hey, what a fun topic!
Other signs: making jokes about DS characters, having wild dreams about certain characters, imaging your life being different in parallel time, being on DS message boards every day, a terrible desire of wanting to saty at home and watch the DVD's instead of going job-hunting, going all crazy when one of the actors are featured in other shows( i.e. Grayson Hall in The Night of The Iguana),
and the ultimate sign: the desire to live in Collinsport instead of the real world
I still have to control my DS addiction by job-hunting daily and trying to think about what's occuring in the world
Love, dvlvan26
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14.) When saying bedtime prayers, your kids don't begin with, "Now I lay me down to sleep." Instead, you hear, "Oh, great god Rah..."
:o
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# 15.....your basement rec room has the same crab-pots-and-fishing-nets motif as the interior of the "Blue Whale"......including the Muzak versions of 60's pop hits on the juke box. ;)
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16.) You insist that every family member have a portrait painted of them.
17.) You've duplicated and installed a door just like the one between the foyer and the living room.
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18) All you want for X-mas is a silver tea service, just like Liz! :D
19) You reinact your favorite scenes with your own DS dolls...
20) You never leave the house without your trusty hand bag and shiny medallion...
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21.) You..find yourself...leaving...strange pauses... between words... as if reading ... from... an invisible ... TelePrompTer!
22.) You find yourself staring off into space while music cues inaudible to others draw to a thoughtful conclusion.
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23.)when you start brushing-off friday evening plans so you can go home and watch d.s. until all hours.
24.)when you have the irresistable urge to take a photograph of your favorite character to your local fabric store and have it silkscreened on to a pillow(and i mean it).
25.)when a plot development you dislike occurs it makes you miserable for days(more so than something bad really happening in your own life). ::)
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9.) You frequently don a black wig and think that it alone completely hides your true identity.
Hysterical!
26) You enter rooms quietly and ask, "Did I startle you?"
27) Your idea of a fun date is to be tied to a tree.
28) You refer to your ancestors as "incestors".
29) Your favorite sport is cliff diving.
30) You construct your house so that the walls and bannisters move.
31) You stress that your significant other will suddenly disappear into another century.
32) You stock up on bricks and cement in case you might need them some day.
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12.) When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.
How did you know? [scratch]
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33.) When passing old gothic and run-down mansions you think dreamily "the old house" and expect Barnabas Collins to come looming out. (I have actually done that a few times. :))
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This is a grand topic!
34.) When speaking to some one... you suddenly turn your back to them, look from side to side then turn and say "because I wish it"
35.) You refer to parts of your house as the east and west wings.
36.) You tell strangers that you let the staff go 18 years ago.
37.) You find yourself refering to who ever does the yard work as Matthew.
38.) When your children are angry with you... its time to check the bleeder valve.
39.) You find yourself speaking to the Widows on very windy days.
40.) You wonder why everyone dosen't have black, green or blue candles around their house.
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12.) When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.
How did you know?
"I cannot tell you that. I just know...."
[Candle]
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41.) When afflicted with a sore throat, you wish that Lara Parker could pass her hand over your throat to cure it- as Angelique did for Barnabas in 7595! (This happens to me all the time!)
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42, When you actually consider spending 150,000. more than you can afford on a home because it has a turret and a secret room.
43, When you are remodeling your home and insist that your architect create a secret panel to a secret room in your new floor plan.
44, When you find yourself humming the opening theme (Collinwood) everytime you see a structure with a turret.
45, When for the last 40 years, every time you go to the ocean you hum the title theme while viewing waves crashing on jetties or rock formations.
46, When you can't resist tugging on your chandelier just to hear the crystals clink.
47, When you actually take off one of those crystals and start chanting, "Find the center".
48, When you gave yourself Barnabas bangs for your 5th grade school picture.
49, When you use your two hands to push up your long hair into a mock-Liz hairdo and go around proclaiming, "Because I choose to do so!"
50, When as a child you would try and make your little brother dream about DS by acting like Barnabas and mock-biting his neck while he lay sleeping.
[blshy]
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47, When you actually take off one of those crystals and start chanting, "Find the center".
[laughing6]
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43, When you are remodeling your home and insist that your architect create a secret panel to a secret room in your new floor plan.
Yes! Yes!! [hello]
49, When you use your two hands to push up your long hair into a mock-Liz hairdo and go around proclaiming, "Because I choose to do so!"
ROFL [lghy]
(dom - I'd pay good money to see you do this)
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I LOVE dom's list. Never thought about things I actually DID when I was young because of Dark Shadows. Duh!!!
Signs you might be addicted to DS:
51.) When you have a choice between two high schools you can attend, you choose the school that is housed in an old gothic structure - even though it's 8 times farther from your home than the other school.
52.) Your parents are looking at houses to move to and you keep pushing for the one that has an old grave yard adjacent to the back yard.
53.) You light your bedroom with nothing but candles because you live in the Old House.
;D
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54.) You wish porkchops where back in style.
55.) When you have a bad day you console yourself with the thought that at least paper cut outs of ghosts weren't chasing you.
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48, When you gave yourself Barnabas bangs for your 5th grade school picture.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! thanks for the smile honey :-*
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56. When your little sister used to tell on you, you'd snarl, "You BETRAYED me!" when you found out.
57. You started wearing a pentagram, a cross, and an anti-witchcraft amulet... just in case. [confused2]
58. You got a coffin, rubber bats and fake spider-webs, then used them as "furniture."
59. You didn't think twice about spending crazy money you didn't have on things like the Barnabas cane, DVDs, bubblegum cards, Joesette's music box, etc
60. You get way too excited when you run across a DS reference in an unrelated source - book, cd, movie, tv show, etc.
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61. You start splicing your favorite characters together. Man, I would NEVER do that! *nervous laughter*
62. You add the words "Dark Shadows" to every conversation just to see if you've found another fan. (easy one. hope it wasn't taken) :)
~DJ
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63.)when you see a woman...any woman...with long,lustrous black hair and you immediately picture her in a sleeveless dress walking across the foyer of collinwood.
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64.)when you meet a rather serious,intense older lesbian in a bar who's name happens to be "victoria" and you proceed to bore this poor woman nearly to tears with a tipsy description of the d.s. character's background and mannerisms and hairdo and various storylines until she drily tells you that she's nothing like that and abruptly changes the subject.
65.)later...when the topic of conversation addresses serious issues of homophobia you clumsily try to re-introduce the show with the story of how barnabas had to bite willie loomis on the wrist because the network thought that having him bite him on the neck was too homoerotic. ::)
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12.) When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.
Considering I don't have breakfast, yes! I usually check it within the first five minutes of waking up though. XD
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66. When, in spite of the studio's glorious history, the sight of the MGM logo immediately calls to mind the two DS movies.
67. When you remove the sleeves from all your garments...
68. When you see a woman driving a car and remark, "Hey, that looks like Cavada Humphrey!" (True story, by the way...)
69. When you have enough awareness of Cavada Humphrey that you notice women who resemble her.
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70. You hang around the docks at night hoping to meet up with a man with a cane
71. You become your own greatest work of art
72. You have a junk drawer filled with silver bullets, crucifixes and holy water
73. You have theme music for yourself that you play whenever you are around someone, just so they know you are there
74. You have a really crappy portrait painted of yourself which you hang in your house and hope it gives you immortality, but are secretly afraid that someone will steal it and tell an artist to age it 200 years
75. You name your pets after DS characters (I have)
76. You name your children after DS characters
77. You change your name legally to that of a DS character
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78.) When you won't allow any talking in the house when watching Dark Shadows. My kids think I'm a little obsessed
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79. When you insist on taking Barnabas as your confirmation name.
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79. When you insist on taking Barnabas as your confirmation name.
Rainey spits tea all over her monitor, [lghy]
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79. When you insist on taking Barnabas as your confirmation name.
80.) When you name your first-born son, "Buzz"!
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Here's a sure sign you're addicted to ALL THINGS DS:
[size=8]HOORAY!!!
IT'S BOB THE BARTENDER!![/size]
DS related/relation/cousin :-* :-* :-*
In a good mood,
Patti
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81. You begin each day by reciting a "voice over" of what transpired in your life the day before. (And it's severe when you preface it with, "My name is Victoria Winters...")
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82.) When pulling up to the stop light on the exit ramp from the expressway, roll down the window, turn up the opening theme for Dark Shadows and cast a quick glance at car next to you to see if they recognize the theme.
Once, I got the 'thumbs' up from the driver in the other car.
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83.) Singing along with Maggie (or Maggie and Sarah's Ghost) London Bridge is Falling Down.
84.) Drawing sketches of DS cast-members like I did.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Hr_A-all-new-KLS-drawing%21.jpg)
One of my sketches of KLS I did myself :)
85.) Watching lots of DS episodes.
Spencer Karter
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Very good sketch!! :)
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Who knew we had so many artists in this crowd? Now all we need is someone who owns a gallery who can mount an exibit of Dark Shadows inspired art work....and we can all show up for the event!! :D
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Now all we need is someone who owns a gallery who can mount an exibit of Dark Shadows inspired art work....and we can all show up for the event!! :D
Well, SimonMagus has the next best thing--an online gallery of artwork: http://groups.msn.com/TheDarkShadowsofSimonMagus/shoebox.msnw He's always looking for new contributions.
ProfStokes
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79. When you insist on taking Barnabas as your confirmation name.
hey i took angelique as mine :D
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I recently had a cashier at the supermarket with a name tag "Angelique." I asked her if she was familiar with DS. She said, "no." I told her that a major character was Angelique and said maybe her mother was a fan. She knew she was named after someone on a television show. I forget which show she said, but it was something that I'm sure didn't have an Angelique. She said all she knew was that it was from a TV show, and I said that I bet it was DS!!
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81. You begin each day by reciting a "voice over" of what transpired in your life the day before. (And it's severe when you preface it with, "My name is Victoria Winters...")
[laughing6]
This gem kept a smile on my face for a full 5 minutes. (Rare occurrence these days.)
[a1f5]
PSÂ I love you Sandor
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;D I love this!
86. You never go anywhere overnight or on a trip without your Dark Shadows DVD's.
87. You always wear your Barnabas pendant to special occasions.
88. You collect all the DS Fest tee's even though you don't always get there. :'(
Misty
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89. You refer to the addition on your house as "the East wing." (guilty as charged)
90. If you feel you've been wronged, you ask yourself "what would Angelique do?"
91. Your preferred way to make an entrance is to step out of a dark corner.
92. When a salesperson or server lets you down, you tell them, "You have the power to give me what I want, but you refuse. You will be sorry!"
93. If there's a conversation behind closed doors, you must stop to listen from the other side.
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91. Your preferred way to make an entrance is to step out of a dark corner.
But, of course. [lghy] IS there ANY other way to make an entrance? [wink2]
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94. You have more screen captures of the show than photos of your own family...  :-[  :P  ;DÂ
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95. You must crochet a "granny square" afghan for yourself. (guilty)
Misty ::)
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94. You have more screen captures of the show than photos of your own family...  :-[  :P  ;DÂ
Guilty!  ;D ~DJ
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75. You name your pets after DS characters (I have)
76. You name your children after DS characters
77. You change your name legally to that of a DS character
[laughing4] Yeah those would do it!! I knew someone had to think of this.
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94. You have more screen captures of the show than photos of your own family... :-[ :P ;D
Guilty! ;D ~DJ
I KNOW that's true for me too. [rofl10] [a1f5]
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12.) When you get up in the morning you logon to DS Forums before you've even had breakfast.
::)
I guess I am addicted then. [ghost_wink]
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96. You name your car after a Dark Shadows character.
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97. you all of sudden "don't understand"
98. you sometimes think in your head, but your facial expressions are a little off beat with your words.
99. you hear dark shadows scores in your head as you do things, such as hear a noise and look in the areas where it came from.
100. you can play silly games like this and even go to 101
101. have a brandy snifter handy at all times.
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102. you go to any fast food joint and order a lobster roll and a container of coffee
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79. When you insist on taking Barnabas as your confirmation name.
Guilty as charged. And proud of it. [blshy]
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But I do live in Collinsport.
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99. you hear dark shadows scores in your head as you do things, such as hear a noise and look in the areas where it came from.
Guilty. Does that make me insane?
103. You've shied guests away from a room you don't want them in by telling them that it's the Parallel Time room.
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104. You walked around saying "PARALLEL TIIIIIIIIIIME" ala Grayson several times a day!! [ghost_cheesy]
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105. Your door knocker is a lions head just like the one in the Collins crypt.
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106 Instead of using family and your children's names as passwords, you use Dark Shadows themed passwords. That way you do not forget.
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Please be careful to pay attention to the numbers that have already been entered into the list when adding your own. The mods have already had to renumber the entries in several posts because a poster accidentally reused a number or numbers and, not realizing that, subsequent posters were also off with their entries.
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Bleh, I think that was my fault; I think I missed Devlin66's post and started with 102 when I should have done 103. Sorry. [embb]
107. You begin to believe that someone who's only a psychologist can run a mental institution.
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108. You LOVE all incarnations of Dark Shadows (on film) that you have had the privilege of seeing.
109. You incessantly change your avatar.
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110. Whenever there's a potential problem, you get incredibly stressed and repeat to yourself, "Tonight must go nothing wrong."
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111 You have put in your will that you want your casket chained shut.
112 You put in your will (I have) that you want Jonathan Frid's reading of "When I Am Dead" played at your passing.
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Just a little note to Borgosi. I have had the same thing put in my will. I want WHEN I AM DEAD read at my funeral or played either one. ;)
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I was going to record myself reading it with Cobert's music to have it played that way but my wife said she didn't think she could handle that. That's when I went with the original recording.
113 When you have a costum credit card made with a picture of Collinwood on the front.
I have one [ghost_smiley].
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114. When faced with one of life's problems, you think to yourself "What would Willy Loomis do?".
115. Crawl into bed, put in a Dark Shadows DVD Volume at random and put the TV on 180min sleep cycle.
116. Say to your wife in your best Magda impersonation... "I cannot mow the lawn now... King Johnny is looking for me! He will kill me if he finds me!" (Unfortunately it sounds more like a Béla Lugosi impersonation)
RQ.
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[pointing-up] LOL
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112 You put in your will (I have) that you want Jonathan Frid's reading of "When I Am Dead" played at your passing.
Lol. I think I will put that in my will and also add the poem "I thought she'd never shut up."
nancy
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114. When faced with one of life's problems, you think to yourself "What would Willy Loomis do?".
If someone is using Willie as their role model, they might have worse problems than being addicted to DS! [ghost_cheesy]
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If someone is using Willie as their role model, they might have worse problems than being addicted to DS! [ghost_cheesy]
[pointing-up] [rofl10]
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Goll-eee! It's the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate and it's wearing Barnabas' ring! *faints*
G.
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The (http://www.dsboards.com/SMF/Smileys/classic/Bpointing-up.gif) graphic comes to us thanks to our very own CallieWL. [ghost_smiley]
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If someone is using Willie as their role model, they might have worse problems than being addicted to DS! [ghost_cheesy]
Probably King Johnny would be a worse role model...
Problem #1 - What would King Johnny do? --KILL 'EM.
Problem #2 - What would King Johnny do? --KILL 'EM.
Works every time!
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Yeah, King Johnny might be a worse role model. [ghost_wink]
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dark shadows rules ! [ghost_tongue2]
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It's good to see you posting, emssherill!
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Welcome esmssherill and like M said it is great to see your here posting an active! :)
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117. You’ve just re read through this thread again so you don’t make a duplicate entry.
118. You have a box on the wall labeled emergency tranquilizers and it’s empty.
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117. You’ve just re read through this thread again so you don’t make a duplicate entry.
118. You have a box on the wall labeled emergency tranquilizers and it’s empty.
Both are awesome and true! Think I'd have a pill box to keep with me. A good valium prescription from the good Doctor Hoffman. "Take as needed" [snow_laugh]