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....hopefully, none of us on CS will recall the days of real live Vaudeville shows. A pretty wild, often raucus, and very non-forgiving time to be a stage artist. Rarely, after coming on stage, a new performer, often a waif-like member of the weaker sex, would freeze on seeing the Globe Theater pit style crowd, or merely be so bad, that the catcalls and ripe veggies began to fly. Usually, two alert stagehands, typically of the stronger sex, would then extend a 20 foot long large pole with big hook on the end, sort of like we see in swimming pools where kids are these days---and then tug her back behind stage. It even worked after he fainted. So it often is for many of us here on CS, in a variety of ways. For me, "social smoker" in the profile gets the hook, for many more than health reasons. Or how about when a response begins with "handsome" or "beautiful", both of which are completely appropriate in time? And, let's go to private mail right away. Most helpful for automatic vetting.

.....the world's most intelligent and educated president, affirmative action Hussein O., who knew that there are 57 US states, and they speak Austrian in Austria, can do. Our tight minded candidate, one Joe Biden, possible next president, now that Mishugana Bernard is working a new job under a bus, continues to add gravitas and lucid phrases to the catalogues of world shattering POTUS' sayings. Forget about the lies, many plagiarisms and distortions, which have been going on since the 80'S, such as comments on his family heritage of working the English coal mines, or, the driver who killed his wife and child, or, or, or... He is now helping to clarify what former presidents really meant. And brilliantly, is doing so with only one recently minted phrase. Examples: Four score, and seven years ago-- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask--- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING. December 7, 1941, a day that will live in--- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING. Ich bin ein Berliner--- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING. The only thing we have to fear is--- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING. Mr Gorbachov, tear down that--- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING. Should he become president, we'll no doubt have many more, to add clarity to what former US presidents all said. And he'll tear up that ineffective racist Trump on any debate stage. Very much tear him up. VERY--- a, GO, YOU KNOW THE THING.

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How to cope with life pressures how to stay stress free

I moved from one city 100 miles south to another city about two months ago. I actually moved to the town of my birth on the gulf of Mexico coast line.

I love my place, it's even located in my old neighborhood and the community has many of my friends from 40 years ago. I'm off track. Yesterday I drove back to Orlando, the town I just left to see an old friend and then to go out to a fine dinner with my co-workers last night. It was wonderful.

When asked how I'm doing, I said everything is falling into place with the exception that I haven't figured out what volunterring I wanted to do yet. Next thing I know the boss said while I'm trying to figure it out to go ahead and figure out what the company should do like for the holidays. We always take on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter sponsorship to hardships.

Well rats if I can't figure out what I want to do why would you make me have to figure out a larger problem on the same scale? Challenge accepted. ugh

Ideas for me in one city and ideas for a group in another. I'm pretty thankful for Google about now.

Its almost midnight lol. fk, sleep has been hard to get lately.

.... It's quaint to hear the claims of privileged, self loathing, white guilt libs. Walls don't really work. And it's true, in part, if by working, one expects 100% efficacy. But they can be partial barriers, allowing more effective patrolling of the more vulnerable places. Yet, there are walls, and then there are W A L L S. Still a few East German STASI border guards about for guidance on making serious walls. To do it right, there would be loud warning sounds/lights, berms, moats, mine fields and automated heat sensor guided tower machine gun nests. Really not much more expensive than lesser secure barriers, and may even be more cost effective. After a few bodies, word gets out. No more approaches. Oh sure, folks world wide will piss and moan. But they already hate us. How convenient?

It must have been last year when I flushed too much paper (among other things) down the toilet and clogged the entire sewer pipe. I bought a 50 foot plumbing snake and lots of drain cleaning chemicals to get the pipe open again. Doing the work manually took a few hours but the job was done. A few weeks ago the plumbing back-up happened again. I tried for 30 minutes with the snake. Having no luck and not wanting to fight with it, we left Miami for the condo and put off the project for the following weekend.
I decided to rent a 75 foot power feed unit from Home Depot. This thing was pathetically slow and I got about 60 feet into the drain line and it was still clogged. Setting the power feed to retract the coil jammed the mechanism and it would not retract. A call to Home Depot and they told me to wrap the coil as best as I can. I had to pull the coil out by hand (with rubberized gloves) and at the end of the snake was a chunk of 'something' that I originally thought was a clog of hair! Close observation revealed it was thin long roots. There are no trees in the area where the underground pipes travel. I know the old drain pipes are made from clay/pottery in sections about 6 feet long and the joints were sealed with tar. Over the years, the ground settles and water seeps into the soil. That's what attracts roots to grown to the water source and enter the pipes usually cracking them if this goes on for any length of time. So, I knew the reason as the paper (and poo) snagged on it's way to Washington D.C.

Using a few feet of copper wire wrapping I was able to get the coil around the outside of the machine and back to the store. They were nice to allow more time for the rental and gave me another machine that had a power feed at least 10 times faster than the broken one. We got back to the project and this time I added a cutter head attachment that's designed to shave off roots inside the pipe. The company who hires out to clean drains with a drain auger is Roto-Rooter. This is similar only cheaper as I'm doing it myself.

Less than 30 minutes with the new machine cleaned the clog. I ran it back and forth several times to be sure to scrape away as much of the roots as possible.

This weekend I gave it the ultimate 'poo down the pipe' test and all went well.
No worries!

when fear counts your heart beat
when tears are an incessant flow
when hope has left you in despair
when you are so tired, like the dead
when love ends in betrayal
when hate keeps its sting on you
when a friend rejects
when an enemy strikes
when your breath turns into gasps
when your eyes are blinded in pain
when there is no way ahead
when all doors are shut
when there are no windows even
when the sun blazes furiously hot
when not one clouds floats by
when the sky is dead black
when the stars hurt by shining so bright
when the air itself is so still it stifles
when you are spent out to the bone
when you are cold and all alone
when there is no cheer nor comfort
when you have hit rock bottom, laid out
when mind is buffeted around
when your heart is stops in frozenness
when your life is a void
when you cant remember the time you smiled
when dreams wake you in their grotesqueness
when the ache is dull unceasing
when every one has abandoned you
when panic flows thru your veins
when grief chills your blood
when you in a corner shrieking
when you know inside you're dead


Then you let go----
then you start to see around
then you look at people suffering
then you tend a bird's broken wing
then you drag yourself to reach out
then you learn the art of giving
then you have to begin to forgive
then you want to turn towards light
then you see shadows slinking away
then you look for the chinks in the shut doors
then you watch out for the stars in the day light
then you receive moonlight on your face
then you welcome twilight with a smile
then you grow inside your heart a flower
then one by one you put back your pieces
then you care enough to want a warm clasp
then you give up the emptiness
then you accept the inevitable
then you learn not to expect anything
then you start to play your appointed role
then you realize that you can understand everything
then when you do that,

you let it all go its own way
bow your life away in submission to the ONE.

The woman who mistakenly used Gorilla Glue to fix her hair thinking it was the hair product Gorilla Snot has finally come to 'grips' with the whole episode.
A plastic surgeon was able to concoct a solvent for polyurethane and the whole process was 4 hours.