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08-21-2006, 09:34 AM
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Laying down the law
Some of you might find this Craigslist post hilarious as a parent...or somewhat disturbing.
http://bristol.craigslist.org/about/...184295834.html
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08-21-2006, 09:57 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
Too bad he didn't post an update on how it's going. Those are a lot of demands that someone has to monitor. Good luck buddy. 
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08-21-2006, 10:10 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
Perhaps so, but I like to see a father acting like one....
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08-21-2006, 10:23 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
I love it! Unfortunately, next stop for this poor SOB is divorce court, where he will be eviscerated.
Men have allowed themselves to become a giant teat from which the rest of life forms can suck.
Ha
PS: In case any of you are wondering, yes, I had a* marvelous weekend.* :P
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08-21-2006, 10:27 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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Originally Posted by HaHa
I love it! Unfortunately, next stop for this poor SOB is divorce court, where he will be eviscerated.
Men have allowed themselves to become a giant teat from which the rest of life forms can suck.
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Bad Mikey!
Or maybe it is the men sucking from the giant teat?
http://early-retirement.org/forums/i...p?topic=8867.0
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08-21-2006, 10:38 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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Perhaps so, but I like to see a father acting like one....
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If he'd been acting like a parent, let alone a "father", for the last 17 years he wouldn't be acting like this now.
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08-21-2006, 10:38 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
Well Martha, these guys must be lot cuter than me, or better in bed, or something- 'cause I ain't never been offered any of that sh*t. * 
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08-21-2006, 10:40 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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If he'd been acting like a parent, let alone a "father", for the last 17 years he wouldn't be acting like this now.
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And like a husband.
It looks like he just merrily went off to work everyday.
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08-21-2006, 11:06 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
That is one screwed up family. Nothing he's trying to do now is going to fix it... in my NSHO
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08-21-2006, 11:15 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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Originally Posted by Martha
And like a husband.
It looks like he just merrily went off to work everyday.
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Perhaps so, but then again there were allegedly TWO adults in that family. Based on the posting, it sounds like there was only one....and he was too trusting.
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08-21-2006, 04:49 PM
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Re: Laying down the law
When he called the DW "the wife", I wrote him off.
Kids are pretty well set by the time they are 3 or 4.
This guy was AWOL more than a decade ago.
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08-21-2006, 09:27 PM
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Re: Laying down the law
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When he called the DW "the wife", I wrote him off.
Kids are pretty well set by the time they are 3 or 4.
This guy was AWOL more than a decade ago.
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ive gotta know...and i can tbelieve i havent figured it out...whats DW mean? I assume w is for wife, d is for....dear? lol!help...im lost!!!
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08-21-2006, 09:55 PM
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Re: Laying down the law
You've got it. (Dear)
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08-22-2006, 05:42 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
Yes dear or any other "d" word you'd like to use depending on your mood or hers 
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08-22-2006, 10:11 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
I guess one might be a bit skeptical of the entire story in that the copy didn't appear to make an arrest after finding the pot. Then again, the original Craigslist post did come from California. 
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08-22-2006, 10:13 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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I guess one might be a bit skeptical of the entire story in that the copy didn't appear to make an arrest after finding the pot.* Then again, the original Craigslist post did come from California. |
I am under the impression that MJ posession under a certain quantity results in a ticket, not an arrest, in many jurisdictions, no?
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08-22-2006, 10:28 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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I guess one might be a bit skeptical of the entire story in that the copy didn't appear to make an arrest after finding the pot.* |
Pot is illegal in California?
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08-22-2006, 11:56 AM
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Re: Laying down the law
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Pot is illegal in California?
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The humanity...
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08-22-2006, 12:00 PM
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Re: Laying down the law
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I guess one might be a bit skeptical of the entire story in that the copy didn't appear to make an arrest after finding the pot.* Then again, the original Craigslist post did come from California. |
There were a few comments in the article that made me wonder whether it was somebody's exercise in creative writing, but on the other hand this is a big world and it takes all kinds 
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08-22-2006, 12:05 PM
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Re: Laying down the law
I once read something similar, perhaps not as dramatic, on an ebay posting selling a car. I think it was written by the kid's mother, and was quite humerous... and generated a lot of hits, too.
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