The "Choose Life" license plate IS a pro-life message

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This is so Paul doesn't further pollute the Brutal Doom thread.

Pro-abortion activists fought it because they thought it was a pro-life message!

Right. Because it is. It has never had anything to do with 4/20/99, you lovable, confused invalid.

[Casual Observer]

This is so Paul doesn't further pollute the Brutal Doom thread.

Pro-abortion activists fought it because they thought it was a pro-life message!

Right. Because it is. It has never had anything to do with 4/20/99, you lovable, confused invalid.

I'm confused. What does abortion have to do with Columbine? Except of course the fact that the assholes who bleat about abortion also are super pro machine gun.

[Jizaboz]

[Tdarcos]

I don't get it. When a Colorado License Plate shows the state flower - the blue Columbine - and has that message I'm thinking it's related to the killings at the school. And I happen to be pro-choice. Probably Rabidly Pro Choice, and until Andrea pointed it out to me, mentioning "Choose Life" in combination with the columbine made me think of the school, not abortions.

Now, would it be the same if it showed the school building?

What if it said "Stop the killings" after the columbine, are you going to think they're referring to school shootings, or is it still referring to aborting fetuses?
Or maybe it means they object to killing flowers. Which happens when those poor living creatures have their lives snuffed out when their heads are brutally decapitated, or they are aborted, and ripped out of the ground!

[Flack]

Who sent Paul the THC gummies?

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I don't get it. When a Colorado License Plate shows the state flower - the blue Columbine - and has that message I'm thinking it's related to the killings at the school.

You are the only person in the universe to come to this wildly and obviously incorrect conclusion.

[Casual Observer]

Who sent Paul the THC gummies?

Is this possible? Being in CA which is one of the states where I can buy this stuff, I'd love to send him some gummies or chocolate and see what happens. I wonder if the USPS is still checking packages for such things.

[Tdarcos]

I don't get it. When a Colorado License Plate shows the state flower - the blue Columbine - and has that message I'm thinking it's related to the killings at the school.

You are the only person in the universe to come to this wildly and obviously incorrect conclusion.

Andrea was the one who pointed it out to me and even she thought it was a ridiculous reach.

[Billy Mays]

Andrea

Who's Andrea?

[Jizaboz]

Andrea

Who's Andrea?

His sister. FFS Mays, study up on your TDarcos lore!

[Billy Mays]

Oh, I knew he had a sister but I didn't know her name was Andrea. He should get her to post here on JC. That and/or his brother. I bet if ICJ created a NSFW base then Tdarcos' brother would join.

[Casual Observer]

Oh, I knew he had a sister but I didn't know her name was Andrea. He should get her to post here on JC. That and/or his brother. I bet if ICJ created a NSFW base then Tdarcos' brother would join.

Family members are generally not allowed/encouraged to join the JC community. There is a long history of that not going well (Blue, Vit, ??).

[RetroRomper]

haptic, savvy

[RetroRomper]

The single person Jolt Country will never regret having, is Mr. Alex "Wheelies" Gray.

[Billy Mays]

Family members are generally not allowed/encouraged to join the JC community.

Oh, damn. I had this image of The Three Tdarcoses and pinback playing the part of the stuck up old rich guy.

[Tdarcos]

Andrea

Who's Andrea?

Andrea was my dear, dear friend, who I knew for 14 years, who, coincidentally, lived in Colorado. We were about as close as two people who never met in person can be. I met her on line, first, either she saw my profile or I saw hers, and we started communicating, first by e-mail, as she had been burned by previous relationships. Then we had phone conversations and at first she was wary because my phone number showed it belonged to someone else. This bothered me, until I explained that I knew why. I wasn't getting phone service from Bell Atlantic, I had switched to Starpower once alternative dial tone providers became available. And after what had happened I could believe anything.

When I moved to Virginia and moved in with my sister, the only way I could get DSL was to use Bell Atlantic, but shortly later Starpower offered service there, so I switched. The technician from Starpower and the one from Bell Atlantic knew each other. The Starpower tech had retired from Bell after over 20 years.

I had to have the techs come out because somebody - I suspected Bell Atlantic - had screwed up, the new Starpower line could place calls, which Caller ID showed the correct number, but when someone called that number, it rang on the Bell Atlantic trunk. I chalked it off to the idea of competing local providers was new, and while I had had it a year earlier in Maryland, that's where Starpower was simply buying Bell Atlantic's service in bulk and reselling it at a discount, in this case, Starpower was actually providing dial tone and DSL themselves; they actually had their own switch, but they leased dry copper from Bell Atlantic

So I figure anything she could see showing who had my phone number was probably the previous customer. She trusted me a little, so I sent her a small birthday present. But she was arfaid to give her address; she wasn't sure if I was normal or weird. (Everyone here knows which one I really am.) So I said, "Fine, just tell me the city and the zip code, and I'll mail it General Delivery," which she had never heard of.

General Delivery is where something goes to the post office and is held for pick up. Mostly it's for people without a permanent address or don't have one yet. So she goes to that post office, says they're supposed to have a package for her in General Delivery, and after she shows ID, they give it to her. Eventually I won her over and she gave me her home address, and we also wrote regular snail-mail letters.

We shared private details that we never told anyone else. She told me things I don't even think she'd share with her toothbrush. She was the smartest person I have ever met, in fact I admitted she was probably smarter than me. (That was a big admission on my part.)

There are friends (1) you know; (2) whom you like; (3) friends you'd help move or do favors for; (5) ones you'd loan them money; and then the highest level (6) that you'd give them a kidney. And she was in that last category. I cared for her that much.

I could say so much about Andrea but I will just say she was my best friend, primus inter pares, and I loved her more than life itself. And she loved me. And I was privileged to know her for the last 14 years of her life. And I will miss her for the rest of mine.

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It is fitting that your most heartfelt expression recalling your most trusted friend and one true love was mostly minutiae about regional phone service and postal delivery options. I'm sure she'd have had it no other way.

[Billy Mays]

Andrea was my dear, dear friend, who I knew for 14 years,

Oh yeah, I remember we talked about her in your outlived thread:

I thought about the fact I would never again hear her saying "Paulie-olly-olly," on the phone.

She was probably having a stroke.

Another gift that flew under the radar, you ungrateful bastards.

[AArdvark]

I laughed when I saw that the first time, I just dint want to hurt Paul's feelings

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Who sent Paul the THC gummies?

Is this possible? Being in CA which is one of the states where I can buy this stuff, I'd love to send him some gummies or chocolate and see what happens. I wonder if the USPS is still checking packages for such things.
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I'd chip in for that.