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Old Jun 23rd 2005, 1:05 pm
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I loved my Flamenco doll's, collection of them in by bedroom along with David Essex on my wall's.
Did you have a tartan scarf?
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Our front room had a cream vinyl corner type settee with my brown crochet cushion cover's I made at school, Mum & Dad were trying to be a bit posh them day's with Constable's The Hay Wain above the fire place
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Did you have a tartan scarf?
Of course!!! Alan was my man "swoon, swoon"
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She started doing Macrame and we had plants hanging from the ceiling in Macrame holders.
There was macrame everywhere here in the States too.... I still have some things different relatives made, but they're in boxes.
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There was macrame everywhere here in the States too.... I still have some things different relatives made, but they're in boxes.
The relatives or the things?
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There was macrame everywhere here in the States too.... I still have some things different relatives made, but they're in boxes.
You live in mississippi ...right?
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On the tv....
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You live in mississippi ...right?
Nah, Austin as in my info over there <-----

Mississippi? Oh, and sorry about your visit to the dust bunnies under your sofa last night. Hope you said hello to them for me.

Come to think of it, most of the rellies are in boxes, but some still live to strike again with a lovely gift made of woollen yarn.
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Nah, Austin as in my info over there <-----

Mississippi? Oh, and sorry about your visit to the dust bunnies under your sofa last night. Hope you said hello to them for me.

Come to think of it, most of the rellies are in boxes, but some still live to strike again with a lovely gift made of woollen yarn.
Thats ok, took a picture of me last night

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Thats ok, took a picture of me last night

lol.... and that picture is hosted by a computer at my alma mater.

The day objects begin to fly out of the computer at me is the day I leave the Internet.
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Thats ok, took a picture of me last night

Hey are you the guy that's been living in our Dumpster? It's awful 'round here in Houston, you hire a dumpster and five minutes after it arrives there's a guy living in it. One time I found a whole Mexican family who insisted they'd always been there and had letters from the DHS to prove it.

Course if you are really into 'dumpster diving' as it's known in the trade, you might want to check out this site:

http://www.dumpsterworld.com/

These are a bunch of strange guys who go around raking in dumpsters and then trade their finds on the internet. They even do Dumpster Diving Meet Ups - I wonder if you'd go there and find a bunch of hobos swigging wine from brown sacks. I know, I still can't believe it either...

I go there when I'm bored to make me realise my life isn't quite so bad because I haven't as yet been reduced to dumpster diving to get new stuff.

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Hey are you the guy that's been living in our Dumpster? It's awful 'round here in Houston, you hire a dumpster and five minutes after it arrives there's a guy living in it. One time I found a whole Mexican family who insisted they'd always been there and had letters from the DHS to prove it.

Course if you are really into 'dumpster diving' as it's known in the trade, you might want to check out this site:

http://www.dumpsterworld.com/

These are a bunch of strange guys who go around raking in dumpsters and then trade their finds on the internet. I know, I still can't believe it either...

I go there when I'm bored to make me realise my life isn't quite so bad because I haven't as yet been reduced to dumpster diving to get new stuff.

You have got to be kidding me! What a site I'm imagining all these people sitting at 1980's computers that they found in a dumpster, with shit stains all over them, , typing away in MS DOS...........oh no, hang on that's me
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You have got to be kidding me! What a site I'm imagining all these people sitting at 1980's computers that they found in a dumpster, with shit stains all over them, , typing away in MS DOS...........oh no, hang on that's me
It doesn't surprise me that today's dumpster diving hobos are computer literate actually. Most of them are probably Computer Graduates... I probably went to College with most of the hobos around here.

Hmmm if I don't a job soon, it's only a matter of time before I don my own set of dumpster diving flippers... :scared:

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The Water Margin - with the very sexy lady doing the sword stuff.

Odd trivia thing about Monkey is that Tripitaka was actually played by a girl called Masako Natsume who was a Japanese nude model - she really was bald due to Kemotherapy
Not true! She wore a skull cap.
She married long after Monkey and developed Leukemia later on.
She THEN received chemotherapy.
( Note: "Chemical Therapy"="Chemotherapy") I haven't heard of a treatment involving something called "Kemo" maybe you can show me where it is? )
but died of Cancer in her twenties.
Yes, She was 27.
for more, try: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/masako.html
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How odd to revive this.

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