It’s got nothing to do with the pinched nerve I mentioned last week, but I’m going in the hospital today for a surgical procedure. I’ll probably have about a three-day stay there after which I’ll be sent home to recuperate, which should take about as long as I need to ditch the pain medication. Obviously, I can’t say you’ll see much blogging production out of me for the next week or so, but I shall return.
Hey, it could be worse. The surgery was originally scheduled for August 26th. And like weddings, you just don’t schedule major surgery in the fall in the South. I will be at the opener, by Gawd.
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Hope everything goes well, Senator.
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Good luck and best wishes Supreme Commander.
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Get well soon. We need you at your best during fall camp.
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My thoughts and prayers are with you. Let us know if we can do anything to help.
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Do what the doctors say, Senator. We’ll try not to trash the place completely before you get back.
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Best wishes and get well soon!
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Well if you’re high as a kite, then Media Days will make sense more so to you than anyone.
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Also wishing you a speedy recovery!
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Get well fast and enjoy being the reader for a few days.
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Take care , Senator. Hope all goes well.
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Hope all goes well.
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You have my thoughts and prayers also. We’ll certainly miss you.
Concerning pain meds…see , “Cojones, a Half Century of Herbal Pain Management.”.
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Woof woof. get well soon
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daaannnng dude….fast recovery to you! GATA!!
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Last time I was in the hospital for three days I drew a male nurse. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Even though I was in ICU there are just some things I had to do for myself. ;-). Get well soon and hope you draw a good looking, professional female nurse to ease you stay.
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“Last time I was in the hospital for three days I drew a male nurse.”
If you can transition that skill into a still life of a recruit’s head and/or face, there may be a voluntary spot for you on the recruiting staff
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Dammit DIF I did not “Draw” a picture! I drew the short stick. Instead of a healthy female nurse, I was assigned someone with a beard. Which meant that as long as I could reach for my clicker or my John Henry I was fine and would be handling my own sponges one on one. I felt as if my promotion to ICU deserved a different status… as I was the only one that was awake or not on a ventilator. None the less apparently I was “frocked” and my promotion devoid of the benefits of a raise. I can’t prove it but… some of the personal talked like they were from outta state.Just sayin’
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We’ll get a green non contact jersey ready with your number. Get well soon.
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Well, we were going to get you a green jersey with Reggie Ball’s favorite number on it, but, I can’t find a character for ‘Threeve’.
Rest up, and get back before Clem(p)son.
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Blessings to you sir
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My thoughts and prayers are with you. Get well soon sir.
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God speed
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Get well soon Senator. We need you for opening day.
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You’ll be back in no time.
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Take care Senator. Hope all goes well. We all know it’s “hard to keep a good man down”!
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Get better soon.
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Two breakdowns in two weeks, the body does begin to malfunction over time….seems you have arrived. Hope all goes well for you this week. SEC media days should keep you entertained as you recuperate.
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Best of luck to you in your recovery, Bluto. We’ll be here when you get back. 🙂
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Wishing you a speedy recovery. We’ll all be looking forward to your return.
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Senator.
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Thoughts and prayers, Senator.
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Get well soon Senator, and enjoy the pain meds.
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I’ve contacted the UGAAA and there will be no kickoff until you’ve recovered and been removed from the DL.
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Wishing you a speedy recovery. Get up and moving as soon as they’ll let you. It always helps.
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Get well soon, Senator. We’ll be here when you get back, trying not to fight amongst ourselves.
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Best wishes for a quick and painless recovery!
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wow. This is what happens when you even possibly allude to Mudcat’s car in a post? Malcolm Mitchell probably needs to be careful while he’s folding his laundry this summer.
Here’s to an uneventful procedure and a speedy recovery!
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Best wishes and tell the Anitheosiogist that any clown can put somebody to sleep, now waking them back up – that’s the mainline art job!
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You need to catch up on your medical literature. This reference has been iconic through the years. Please read and let me know if it helps:
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol.93, p 1357
au. J.S. Greenstein
Take your time with the graphs and references. Some are Old Testament.
Smoke’em if you got’em.
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This was for the Senator, Large, but feel free to peruse. Took too long to look up the ref – thought it was the blog page bottom – and it ended up here.
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😉
Cojones Says:
July 11th, 2014 at 11:06 AM
Someone here doesn’t have any sense of humor. This was known to me in the 70s and was written specifically for “The Pill” researchers. I worked for a company that made birth control pills and birth control devices. PhDs in Pharmaceutical Science raved at this humor. I couldn’t remember the reference, so I Googled it. Have no idea why the original article didn’t pop up.
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Unbelievable. We have crossed paths. I first read it at the same time and in the exact same setting (same industry, same “The Pill” company and given to me by the same PhDs with a sense of humor). Chicago?
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If he says Ferkessédougou, I’m not believing it
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Their hospital looks like a Mayo Clinic when compared to Belize. In Belize City the sidewalk/walkup slabs individually look like an earthquake rearranged each one. The two stories are characterized by laundry lines on each balcony with long lines of laundry hanging across the courtyard below. I was told locally that ,when anyone got admitted, patients then became squatters and began living there. The U.S. Embassy is shuttered and with iron bars on all window and door openings. A long gray ghetto is across the street from both.
If you get sick there, get flown out. To Ferkessedougou.
Feeling any better now, Senator?
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“The U.S. Embassy is shuttered and with iron bars on all window and door openings.”
A bad case of Belizeghazi?
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Try their archives (since it was written in the late 60s).
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Rub some dirt on it & get well soon Senator, look forward to your return…
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Hoping you’re up and at ’em real soon! Take good care..
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Pre-Season surgery? Here’s hoping you will be ready for full participation during camp and through the season.
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Good luck, Senator!
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Get well soon. Need you out of the pool and back to mat drills by mid-August. New sheriff is in town this year.
Until then, many Peaceful, Easy Feelings during your recovery. 😉
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lol – You know he won’t let you doooooowwwwwnnnn”
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Not the f*ckin’ Eagles, Man! And a speedy recoup to you goodly Sen.
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If anything should drive him out of recovery quickly, it would be the Eagles.
Like Manuel Noriega back in ’89, he’ll be Already Gone in no time.
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Hope you survive obamacare mate! Remember – they can only kill you once.
Cheers .. God bless.
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Good luck and God’s blessing on you Senator!
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My prayers and thoughts are with you, my friend!
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We’ll try to not spill anything on the carpet, Senator.
Thoughts and prayers are with you. Get well soon.
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That carpet really ties the room together
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Best wishes, sir. Get well soon.
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We look forward to your full recovery, Senator. In the interim, my productivity should go up 10%.
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Do we pray for the Senator or the Doctor…I always get confused about this.
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Prayers and thoughts for a complete and speedy recovery, man.
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Time to sell the scooter
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Best wishes and a quick recovery, Senator.
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Good luck with the procedure and the recovery.
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Good luck Senator. Hope everything goes well.
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Too many articles about your health. Please get back to reporting Dawg news.
/that guy
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May the sunshine of risk management shine brightly on you, your surgical team and your post-op care coordinator. Be sure to check your itemized because I saw on a TV documentary once that what leaves the candy machine may not stay with the customer
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Best wishes, Senator. ‘Preciate all you do. We’ll be right here when you come back, mocking the trolls and fretting about the secondary.
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Tomorrow’s partial thread:
We’ve lost a good BBall player. Adios, Brandon.
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Best of luck Senator. I’ve had the joy of a three WEEK hospital stay and have made it a personal goal to never go back again. Here’s hoping nothing too interesting happens in the SEC while you’re on the DL. Your snark would be missed were that the case.
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Thanks so much for all you do here! All the best for a swift and comfortable recovery!
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Praying that God will use the surgeons, Drs, nurses, techs, et al as instruments of healing in His hands for a full & speedy recovery! Sounds like you are taking upon yourself the 2014 injuries meant for the Dawgs that we might enjoy an injury free season. The ultimate in a sacrifice for all of DawgNation!
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On an admistrative note, who is going to do the Kang’s show prep? That dude might as well take some vacation time.
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Chunk’s material will surely suffer during this period of downtime.
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Godspeed, Bluto.
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Penis reduction is SOOO much easier these days. Get well soon.
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If this is true, Senator can I have the excess added to mine? Please!!
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Good luck, sir.
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Best of luck to you! It’ll be boring without your posts and the replies.
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Get well and rest up and be ready to go August 30th. We need ya healthy for the whole season.
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Have a safe and successful operation, Senator – the entire Cosmic Dawg Brigade, including the Cosmic Dawg Band, the Cosmic Dawg Dancers, the Cosmic Dawg Youth Trail Scouts, the Cosmic Dawg Picnic Operation Support Team, and the Cosmic Dawg Legal Defense Fund will be sending our thoughts and prayers.
Seriously, we’ll all be pulling for ya.
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what? No web page? No Twitter handle? how 80s! 🙂
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lol
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If the hospital meds don’t help, you can always reach out to Nick Marshall.
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just make sure Nick re-routes his delivery so as not to travel through Reynolds. When I heard he’d been stopped, my first thought was “I wonder if Nick was jake braking?”
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Are manual transmissions available for Dodge Chargers? I only thought they came with the ‘legendary’ Mopar TorqueFlite ™ automatics (if a Chrysler automatic can be legendary) but maybe even the downshift of that is capable of jake braking but if so, he certainly would have got a stern talking to
“The Reynolds, Georgia police chief says he had a stern talk with Marshall.
“I explained to Nick that I was really disappointed in him,” Chief Lonnie Holder told WRBL News 3. “I told him that there are a million kids that look up to him. He is a role model whether he wants to be or not. I was disappointed that we have athletes out there doing that. I explained to him that we are not going to treat him any differently. I was disappointed in him. I hope he learns from his mistake and this puts him on the right path.”
Holder says Marshall was very somber in his reply.
“He was very regretful,” Holder explained. “He was very respectful. He was very apologetic. He seemed like he was disappointed in himself. He did get a little teary eyed as we had the conversation. I think sometimes what those kids need, they need somebody to talk to them and say, hey, you made a mistake, don’t let it happen anymore.”
http://www.wrbl.com/story/26004840/police-chief-who-cited-nick-marshall-speaks
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I’ve handled plenty of cases in Taylor County over the years. I don’t recall anyone in Reynolds getting released with a citation for a misdemeanor marijuana charge before. Make of that what you will.
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Respect for Lonnie is a good thing when it comes to the scales of justice that weigh weed?
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Good luck, senator. Hope all goes well and you have a quick and painless recovery!
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Praying for complete healing for you.
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Gotta take care of yourself. We understand and will miss you.
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This sounds awfully suspicious. Is this a precursor to taking a “Medical Hardship Scholarship” to free up space on this blog? Don’t do it-no matter how much pressure they put on you!!
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I hope everything goes well.
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Good luck and take it slow, mon. But don’t stay longer than you need. Looking forward to the next post.
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Best wishes for a successful surgery and a quick recovery, Senator.
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Get well soon, Senator! Thanks for all you do.
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Best to you. Enjoy the opiates.
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Well played, sir. See your addiction and raise you an alcohol problem. Have a Harry’s cocktail, Senator.
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If you like the Cuban Piña Colada and getting caught in the rain but don’t like restraining orders, K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the ’70’s continues on the station where the ’70’s survive
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Uh-hunh, hunh.
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Will certainly miss your wit this week but praying for a expedited recovery!
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Get well brother Bluto. The fraternity is a better place with you in it.
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Shit, he’s a Georgia fan, of course he has a pre-season injury.
Get well quickly, please. We sho as hail need yo calm leadership.
I feel rudderless, like, already.
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Get well and don’t listen if anyone from BALCOR says they have meds that will speed up recovery.
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Pics or it didn’t happen 🙂
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Get better soon, Sir. We’ll look forward to having you back.
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I am lost in the abyss of no Senator posts….awash in emptiness…
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I can help. As of now, I am in control here, at Get the PIcture, upon the return of the Senator Blutarsky and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
Please add your comments: Last Man Standing is—>
Marky Ramone (born Marc Steven Bell, July 15, 1956)[1] is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer of the punk rock band the Ramones for 15 years. He has also played in other notable bands including Dust, Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, and The Misfits.
Tribute to Bluto: I Wanna be Sedated
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Is that you Alexander? Always someone who cannot wait until the body is cold to step up and take over.
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I’m just trying to fill a void… Work with me Mac.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/jul/17/val-kilmer-doc-holliday-tombstone-role-model
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No one could have predicted that the generalissimo would put himself in charge
“The question hanging over the Situation Room was whether all this was a Soviet plot that could lead to war. That very day, a Soviet invasion of Poland seemed a real possibility. And Soviet missile subs were moving in, closer to our coast than usual. Mr. Reagan was headed to surgery and would soon be unconscious….
Over the next few hours, three men would assert control of the Situation Room and U.S. nuclear forces. When it was clear the president was unconscious, Haig famously declared himself in charge.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-day-reagan-was-shot/
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No one could have predicted? It looked so orchestrated that you wonder if he wasn’t working with Jodie and Hinckley directly. It does beat going the 2 and 1/2 year sausage-grinder route in our silly process.
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Thanks for the Jodie and Hinckley heads up because until I read that, I thought this was Squeaky Fromme whose “story is one of nine told in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical Assassins. She appears in a duet with John Hinckley, “Unworthy of Your Love”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Fromme
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“lost in the abyss of no Senator posts….awash in emptiness…”
In the meantime, caveat that with some cheer up sounds during vaca
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Please get well soon. We’re getting the DT’s out here from the withdrawal buddy. 🙂
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Get well soon, you have and will be missed.
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Get well soon.
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I blame Bobo.
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This really sucks. What the hell are we supposed to do for these four or five days? Spurrier is probably somehow plotting our demise and we don’t even know about it because the Senator is being held against his will at the obamacare death camp.
And furthermore, I had just upgraded to the premium Senators subscription, the one with the cheerleader pictures.
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What?
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Whut?
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Ok… you’re up. Pay no attention to Mac.
Let’s see your fast ball.
😉
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I feel better and a little less threatened now that I know she’s an apex predator alpha warrior. Inspired by her workout routine, I built up the courage like Kacy to go after it and told myself to drop and give me 5 and almost but not quite completed those pushups
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MOre stuff….
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/jul/17/val-kilmer-doc-holliday-tombstone-role-model
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“Val Kilmer’s Holliday is smaller and unmistakably sickly. He has a vampiric pallor and constantly coughs, stumbles and sweats. He’s dying of tuberculosis, but he’s still the fastest gun in the west.”
Think how much faster Top Gun’s buddy would have been had he not had the croup
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Get well soon!
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I’m drinking the kool aid from SEC Media days. I need a slap back to reality!!!
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Little late on this, but hope you’er doing well and have a quick recovery.
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So did you coordinate your surgery with the O’Bannon trial too? Get better soon.
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Come on man, first three day break we have had from O’Bannon in over a year. Was finally able to focus on field related issues of football for a change. I am actually starting to like, and believe, in the Kool Aide. The team and staff seem to have a quiet confidence that has me dreaming of Atlanta.
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I had a dream too. I dreamed I was as light as the ether- a drifting floating spirit visiting things to come. The shades and shadows of the people in my life wrestled their way their way into my slumber. I dreamed that O’Bannon had voluntarily dismissed his complaint. And then I dreamed on, into the future, to a Christmas morn in Arizona watching Hudson’s progress from afar, taking pride in his accomplishments as if he were our own. Wondering if he ever thought of us and hoping that maybe we’d broadened his horizons a little even if he couldn’t remember just how they got broadened or why there were so many little kids around and how did they get over that wall. And it seemed real. It seemed like, well, a Kool-Aide infused sugar-high dream. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all fans are strong and wise and capable and all players are happy and beloved. I don’t know. Maybe it was Utah.
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You are just dreaming about getting to Zona so you can build a campfire for all those squatters streaming across the border (which doesn’t appear to be an actual border any longer.
PS–I prefer—-Maybe It Was Memphis.
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Pam’s going to need a bigger guitar because they’ll be streaming across the Mississippi
all the way from Memphis
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Prayers for a speedy recovery and hope you a feeling better soon!
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