Re: Doonesbury

[DGDevin]

Of course, I agree, I wasn't suggesting *all* felons should be able to get their rights back.

I wouldn't pay a dollar for Lady Gaga tickets and all her recordings thrown in. But I have to admit, after watching the profile of her on 60 Minutes last week I'm forced to admit there seems to be a keen mind behind that persona she's created. She making money too fast to count and yet keeping her private life, well, private. If she wants she'll be able to parlay that fame into just about whatever she wants to do too, she's in control of her career in a way a lot of previous pop-tarts have not been. I have no use for her music, but she seems to know what she's doing and has the world beating a path to her door on her terms.

[Robatoy]

LOL.. Devvy is looking for respect. He wants to be admired. Problem is, that the only way he seems to be able to elevate himself, is by standing on somebody..IOW, he tries and tries. NOW he's trying to pull rank by claiming to be the NON-PLUS-ULTRA Newsgroup dawg!

How insecure can one be?

[Markem]

alt.usenet.kooks

Perhaps you should mosey on over there, you could get mominated for an award!

Mark

[DGDevin]

Advice from anonymous g-mail accounts--sorry--not worth much.

[Bob Martin]

Smoking is a habit, not an addiction. I stopped dead at the end of 1975, after 20 years of 30-40 per day, and haven't had one since.

[CW]

Some, like anything else, don't get addicted but those are in the minority. I smoked for many years then switched to Copenhagen for about ten years. Chewed at work and always found those that walked around spitting in a can disgusting. I swallowed it. When I quit, I had serious withdrawal symptoms.

[HeyBub]

Not necessarily.

When you're young, you go to the doctor when you get sick.

When you become old and decrepit, drooling and incontinent, you go to the doctor to keep from getting sick.

[Larry Jaques]

Smoking is a habit while nicotine is an extremely addicting substance. I quit in '88 and haven't ever been stinky again. ;)

-- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson

[DGDevin]

Oh hardly, but I was around to see the really serious trolls do their work, so I developed a thick enough skin not to get all teary over someone flaming me. It's just pixels on a screen, to take it as personally as you are is, well, a bit odd. Maybe you were teased a lot at school when you were a kid or something and you never got over that.

Again, you're following me around calling me names, but you insist I'm the one who qualifies as an asshole--perhaps at some some the irony of that situation will occur to you.

[RicodJour]

I'm experiencing a serious gag reflex just thinking about swallowing chew/snuff fluid.

R

[Robatoy]

There.. you had the last word. Happy Fuckface?

[Larry Jaques]

Grow up and stop feeding the trolls.

-- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson

[CW]

I'm experiencing a serious gag reflex just thinking about swallowing chew/snuff fluid.

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Point is though that others around me didn't have to see it.

[Robatoy]

=A0 =A0 -- Storm Jameson

Ya tinks heza troll?

[DGDevin]

There is massive medical evidence that it is indeed an addiction, with clear bio-chemical impact on the brain.

Some people are more susceptible to addiction than others, just as some people are more likely to have heart attacks or get cancer or lose their hair. I can think of a couple of friends who kicked addictions like drinking for a decade or more and then were drawn back into that self-destructive spiral, so it sure looks to me like for some people it isn't just a matter of willpower.

[RicodJour]

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Oh, I understand your reasoning, but, man, talk about taking one for the team!

I only dabbled in chaw and snuff back in the day, and if any little bit of it went down the old gullet, I'd feel like I was going to puke. Do you remember if there was somebody around that you didn't want to offend the first time you, err, decided not to spit?

R

[CW]

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Oh, I understand your reasoning, but, man, talk about taking one for the team!

I only dabbled in chaw and snuff back in the day, and if any little bit of it went down the old gullet, I'd feel like I was going to puke. Do you remember if there was somebody around that you didn't want to offend the first time you, err, decided not to spit?

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No, I just didn't want to look at it. I've always had a cast iron stomach. Never bothered me in the least.

[Robatoy]

Lemme guess.... they were hanging with you at that time?

[Lobby Dosser]

For YOU.

Lucky you.