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I smoked for years until many years ago now when I went cold-turkey while on deployment in the middle of the Indian Ocean when I was in the Navy...somewhere in the middle of 113 days straight at sea. Can't recall now why I picked that specific time and place to quit, but glad I did.
Cowboy: Why you doin' this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Cowboy: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ... I don't.
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Cowboy: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ... I don't.
I will be legally single in less than 44 hours.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Congratulations. I'm due in court in 2 hours and 15 minutes.Auleliel wrote:Congratulations or condolences?Cail wrote:I will be legally single in less than 44 hours.
So luck would be good too.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Any vehicle devoid of armor and staying power frightens the hell out of me. On the other hand, I've been to court only once and it was scarier. The system is not blind regardless of what people think. In fact it's farseeing, except it only sees what its mandataries, commonly ill-informed persons, choose to see.
Ardet nec Consumitur.
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[Syl]
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60 days in, the ship's store runs out of smokes, at least the good ones from the States. So you get stale ones. And your choices are Marlboro reds or Newports. That, or you get the family back home to mail you some, but who knows when you'll actually receive them (probably a day or two before pulling into port). Then there's money. If you haven't set up a SeaPay account (which was my case, since they did the set-up in port, and I was flown out to the ship towards the end of the deployment), or if you don't have enough money in it... you have to either join the bums on the smokedeck or stay off it. Or you could've just got tired of nic'ing during helo or refueling ops. Or maybe realizing that smoking two packs a day (what else are you going to do? work?) when the most exercise you've gotten in the last week is walking/climbing from your work center to the mess deck or maybe going up the mast if you're lucky... or on a working party if you're unlucky.Kil Tyme wrote:I smoked for years until many years ago now when I went cold-turkey while on deployment in the middle of the Indian Ocean when I was in the Navy...somewhere in the middle of 113 days straight at sea. Can't recall now why I picked that specific time and place to quit, but glad I did.
Go Navy.
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aliantha
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Gee, Syl, you sound like you're happy you got out.
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[Syl]
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You don't know sailors very well. I actually miss most of that stuff, especially since some of my best memories of being at sea happened on the smoke deck.
I actually miss most of that stuff, especially since some of my best memories of being at sea happened on the smoke deck."It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
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aliantha
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I was a First Class Girl Scout. (I've still got the pin! 
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aliantha
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Aw shucks, thanks. 
There are several awards for adults involved in Scouting, but I didn't get involved enough of the Service-Unit-level-and-above activities to be nominated for any of 'em. The folks who get those things eat, sleep and breathe Girl Scouts.
Being a leader gave me something to do with the girls, even (especially!) when they were teens; I stuck with it because otherwise there wouldn't have been a troop for my kids to be in. But I disliked (to put it mildly) the Scouting bureaucracy and resisted the efforts of those who tried to drag me into it.
The parents of the girls in our troop gave me plenty of props. That was enough for me.
There are several awards for adults involved in Scouting, but I didn't get involved enough of the Service-Unit-level-and-above activities to be nominated for any of 'em. The folks who get those things eat, sleep and breathe Girl Scouts.
Being a leader gave me something to do with the girls, even (especially!) when they were teens; I stuck with it because otherwise there wouldn't have been a troop for my kids to be in. But I disliked (to put it mildly) the Scouting bureaucracy and resisted the efforts of those who tried to drag me into it.The parents of the girls in our troop gave me plenty of props. That was enough for me.
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
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