12-06-2002, 08:17 PM | #121 |
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*prepares the noose* And I CALL myself and KING FAN! *stand on a rickety chair, *Note: Dog too is being hung** Any way, I'm not seriously gunna kill my on-line self, *Looks at the floor, slips, SNAP of neck, face turns blue...dies*
O Captain! my Captain!
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12-06-2002, 08:18 PM | #122 |
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Okay, Aeryn, that was just scary!
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12-06-2002, 08:29 PM | #123 |
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O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red, For on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
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12-06-2002, 08:31 PM | #124 | |
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12-06-2002, 08:37 PM | #125 |
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I love that poem!!
I'll read it ALL to you! Here goes: (Takes a long drag off of the..."cigarette"...) O Captain! my captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But-O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the desk my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up -- for you the flag is flung -- for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths-for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father ! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still. My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won: Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! but I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. By Walt Whitman, about the death of Abraham Lincoln. . Edit: the thing didn't take my form, so I had to read do the poem. 2nd Edit: I'm gunna cry! No.
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12-06-2002, 08:48 PM | #126 |
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Yup, just as I suspected (intrestin' poem tho' )
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12-06-2002, 08:54 PM | #127 |
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Yeah, it really is, but it didn't make me cry, I cried over a poem once. Yech. I'm an idiot
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12-07-2002, 12:20 AM | #128 |
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Aeryn, maybe you should consider giving up caffeine?
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12-08-2002, 07:14 PM | #129 |
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*covers ears* NO YOU BLASPHEMER! YOU MUST WEAR THE SCARLET LETTER "B" NOW!! BURN HER AT THE STAKE!!!
, as you can see, that is out of the question. You must know that caffiene is the best thing that EVER happened to me! I have a boring life.
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12-09-2002, 01:41 PM | #130 |
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It may interest fellow ex-smokers that caffeine is something you DON'T have to give up.
As long as you are not pregnant and have no existing cardiovasular disease, four cups a day may even help to prevent Parkinson's Disease. Also, moderate, regular intake of alcohol can prevent heart disease! Now, I can do the "regular intake" part; all I need to do now is master the "moderate" bit cheers! d. |
12-09-2002, 10:58 PM | #131 |
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I'm doing a debate in school involving smoking and here's something I came across. It's a list of all the additives that the 5 major American cigarette companies put into cigarettes. I think you might be surprised. http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/druginfo/additives.html
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12-10-2002, 11:23 PM | #133 |
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I'll have to look into that Dunadan. In the meantime, here's something else that I found: a list of 'ingredients' in secondhand smoke. http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/Seco...ondhand_ti.cfm
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12-11-2002, 12:03 AM | #134 |
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Blech. Ta for that Khamul, I think.
*wonders how much of that chemical crud is still in his system and lungs* The stuff in the 'baccy is bad enough but when you also think that the paper has been bleached and then treated with Salt Peta (sp) to keep it as dry as possible ........... no wonder my chest used to ache Of course thats not even metioning the filter-tips.........goodness know what was in them, I've heard rumours of fibre-glass *wanders off muttering and looking for his nicotine chewing gum* |
12-11-2002, 12:34 AM | #135 |
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Yeah, I wonder how many people would smoke if they knew what companies put in the cigarettes.
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12-11-2002, 01:25 AM | #136 | |
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I have never had one cigarette in my life, even though some of my friends smoked. It probably isn't good for my asthma anyway.
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12-11-2002, 01:34 AM | #137 |
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I can't fathom how excruciating that must be... to begin such a habit at (often) an impressionable age, only to wish that you had never started... before, I'd assume smokers were unintelligent... I'd think things like "come on, knucklehead... you're paying for a shortened life", but now it pains me to know that many of you realize that yourselves, and do try to break that habit. I wish you the best.
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12-11-2002, 01:49 AM | #138 |
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Ta Nibs, tho' you were probably right with the "knucklehead bit"
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12-11-2002, 02:21 AM | #139 |
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Until then, good luck. Live long and prosper.
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12-11-2002, 05:00 AM | #140 |
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I started smoking because I couldn't believe it was legal. There was this tremendous buzz, and I thought that smokers went around in a blissed-out haze all the time. Also, when we're young, we don't believe that the consequences will happen to us, or if they do, we'll be 60+ at the time, which seems like nearly dead anyway when you're 13.
Of course, the buzz disappears pretty quickly, and, like heroin, you end up needing it just to feel normal. Why do people smoke? The same reason they eat. There are some chemical receptors in your brain which nicotine carves out for itself. As I said above, the tobacco companies know how to optimise nicotine's ability to satisfy this craving. It is powerful stuff, believe me. |
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