On Mar 24, 2:25=A0am, "Ben H. Cramer" <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Joe Bruno" <jbr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 24, 12:35 am, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:44:53 -0700 (PDT), Joe Bruno
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> > >On Mar 23, 11:07 pm, "Ben H. Cramer" <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> "Joe Bruno" <jbr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> On Mar 23, 3:15 am, "Tilly" <fem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> > Eli Grubman wrote:
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> > >> > :: Do you suffer from "short girl syndrome", Tilly?
> > >> > ::
> > >> > :: Eli
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> > >> > Not at all.
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> > >> Your malady is one we have seen in numerous postings by deniers.
> > >> It might be called "overactive imagination", or, as American
sailors
> > >> call it,
> > >> "Bilge". For those unaware of it, bilgewater is the waste water
that
> > >> ac***ulates on the deck
> > >> of Engineering spaces aboard ****p.It is a combination of seawater
> > >> leakage and condensed steam
> > >> and it it is filthy and smells awful.It serves no useful purpose at
> > >> all, just as you don't.
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> > >> Twatty does suffer from a "small person" syndrome.
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> > >> She has to be the best at everything, has tried everything, is
smarte=
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> > >> than
> > >> everyone, owns the biggest, most expensive, fastest, brightest blah
> > >> blah
> > >> blah.
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> > >> I'm sure you get the picture.
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> > >Well, the average American is 5 feet 8 inches tall and I'm a little
> > >shorter than that.
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> > i.e. several inches shorter. Shortass.
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> > >In spite of that, I don't go about bragging about how great I am or
> > >tell anyone what material things I own or everything I've done unless
> > >it's somehow relevant to the conversation.
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> > >I don't buy anything expensive if I can help it.
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> > Well, that's Jewish at least.
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> > >I'm saving up to buy a house next year and, after that, a boat, since
> > >I miss being at sea.
> > >In a few years, I'll at last be the Captain of my own vessel and
> > >nobody but the fish will be around
> > >to argue with me. They don't talk much, so I don't expect of a
problem
> > >with insubordination.
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> > Your cat will talk back at you.
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> And the noises she makes are more intelligent than the ones we get
> from you.
> The best thing about being at sea is it's nice and quiet.
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Most of the time, unless there's a storm, it's very quiet.
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