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All this $h! makes me shudder. Babies = $ and if a divorce comes down the pike, then more $$. Not that having kids is a bad thing. It can be a good thing...when done right. What's done right? Everyone's definition is different. To me, it means finishing up whatever schooling or training you want to go through, making sure your job is in place and then doing it. Nowadays, that would mean anywhere from age 28 to 32. It seems like so many young girls look at the whole baby thing as a crutch for their self-esteem. They don't have bigger goals in life so that's the pinnacle for them. It's a person and you can't send him/her back. The sad thing about our society is that those who can afford to have kids and might even be good parents aren't doing it (like a lot of my friends) and those who shouldn't be having kids are doing it (and I know people like that too). It's not necessarily a tragedy (BV's cool) but it is definitely an uphill climb. No thanks.

Foreign professors made for great "impersonation" material. For teaching purposes, I didn't find them too effective. Since I went to a small university, I did not get TAs. We got the real deal. We had a business calculus teacher...she was Chinese. Her thoughts about calculus were like what you would find in fortune cookies. "Integrar is rike engine" "Differentiar is rike transmission" And on and on. Took my grade.....and RAN.

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1. 98 Intrigue sedan - 3800 V6 engine (only powerplant available that year) 2. 82 Cutlass Supreme Brougham or Calais coupe 4.3 litre (260 c.i.) 2 bbl. Olds Rocket V8 (also the 84 and 87 Cutlass Supreme Brougham coupes, same platform, slightly different grillework each time) 3. 76 Cutlass Supreme Brougham or Salon coupe My parents have had both 2. and 3., and eventually handed down both of them to me.

How badly are LaCrosse sales down? Where does one get this info - you know, tabulations on GM sales by division/model/etc?

Really? A hot selling Buick in Subaru land? Which dealer did you go to? I bought my current car at Jim Weston on the East Side. Most of the BOP agencies in Portland were very reasonable to deal with except for those Thomason dealers which are everywhere on McLoughlin.

No, but I'm no authority. I have a ton of flaws. Everybody that's in a pastoral capacity is flawed in some way. I just do the best I can in this regard. Everyone can also do the same. As long as you KNOW you are fallable, that actually gives you a good base to work from.

NOS, I'll pitch in your SAT score divided by 1,000 toward your college education.

Please tell us you're NOT getting older....you're getting BETTER.

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on-clayv The French would say on-clauv But, thank God, we're not French. :AH-HA_wink: to our Quebecois friends on the board.

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I won't say I never do it. Sometimes my "soft spot" gets affected and I will throw the remaining change or that rare dollar bill into the jar when I go up to the counter at a Starbucks or a pizza place. Tips are for table service. Until the last 5 or 10 years, I rarely saw tip jars at places where you walk up to get your coffee, tea, sandwich or pizza. Now they are everywhere. I don't really dig it and, if you use a credit card, there's that space for a tip that you either fill in or zero out in front of them. Talk about being put on the spot. I will only drop in money 10 % to 20 % of the time. That is if they are genuinely friendly and attentive or if they were generous with a portion. Run of the mill service means the pocket change is mine. Now, when I lived up in the Northwest, there was this transplanted Italian chick from the Northeast and she would ALWAYS put extra goodies in the bag. Her and I had a great rapport and she said I made her feel less homesick (even though I'm from L.A.). You bet I would tip to the tune of about what that cost.

Flybry, you 'da man!

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So, buy a GM car with final assembly at the Oshawa plant and tell your douche bag friend(s) your are driving Canadian (where's that Canadian flag icon when you need it?)But hang onto the G6 if you like it!!! Hey, do you know how much CRAP I had to endure growing up in Southern California because I chose to drive a Cutlass Supreme? Let's not go there! Hang in there!

Flybry:I know Florida WELL. I love it. I have cousins (who I don't particularly like, though, in Dade and Broward counties). For some reason, I always assumed you lived on the Space Coast (Cocoa/Vero/etc.) but you live on the West Coast. I know that Rivieraranch and Harry (emh-emh) live closer to my cousins, as they have indicated that in their posts. At any rate, I think of Florida and I think of dance music...I swear, compared to any place else I have ever been, you can't channel surf without hitting dance music. It seems as thought the synthesizer is the sound of Florida. I like the pix you posted. We just need the Sunshine Skyway Bridge (beautiful design) to top it off!

You cheater!!! :AH-HA_wink: That's a photo montage. That bridge (God knows which, but not the Verrazzano, the GW nor the Brooklyn) AND that part of the skyline do NOT backdrop Lady Liberty.Show us some hum-drum L.I. suburbs instead!

Never made it up there when I lived in Atlanta. How far is it? I always went the other direction -- to Florida! Really, I though the South was conservative. They have earthy-crunchy granolas living in Asheville NC? I thought they were limited to Berkeley, Eugene, Olympia and Bellingham...oh yeah, and Boulder.Is Andie McDowell granola too? She looks like she could be earthed up to go that way. I have a cousin in Italy who is virtually her double...no lie. Lauren, did you just join up on the site?

Is that PV or Hollywood Riviera (Redondo Beach)? Nice.

Hey, Chargerino - that's a neat piece of Romanesque architecture one sees in the West...often in mining and Gold Rush towns, stretching all the way to Northern California. And those trees behind it, it looks very scenic. Evidently, you live in a very picturesque area.

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