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> What a rush!
>
> I'm in Arlington, TX, using a friends laptop and dialup connection to
> write this.
>
> Sticking around for Katrina... not really up there on the
> Smart-o-Meter. That's for sure. I'm fine. My family's fine. My house
> is fine. My in-law's house is fine.
>
> All told, there was no point during the storm I felt in dire peril.
> However, the aftermath is a bugger.
>
> First thing I did when I got into the DFW metroplex was get my GSM
> phone's SIM card swapped out to a local (Texas) number. We're not
> going back. Well, not to live there anyway.
>
> For the past 2 years I'd been struggling finacially with unstable IT
> contracts that only last for weeks sometimes. So my wife and I are
> moving back to the big T for good.
>
> There is nothing left of New Orleans. At least, not for us. The place
> is devastated. And the funny thing is that being in Slidell right
> after the storm, you're in a total informmation vacuum. No news. No
> phones. No cell phones. No television... nothing.
>
> Which is why I'm driving back tonight to get my in-laws out. They are
> under the impression things will be back to normal within a month.
>
> It wasn't until I got into our hotel room and took a very welcome
> shower and plopped down on the bed with my two daughters and wife that
> I was able to view some of the devastation.
>
> You don't get the impression that things are that bad right at, for
> lack of a better term, ground zero. (Forgive the utilization of an
> overused phrase)
>
> My wife's parents' have no idea what kind of suffering is going on all
> around them. Slidell, at least the part we were in, got off relatively
> light. When we left, they were talking about "when the power's
> restored in a few days..." and "we'll just pile the branches here by
> the curb for when they come for pick-up..."
>
> My wife's a wreck having seen the whole picture and what we've left
> them in. But we were as naive and uninformed as they were. So I'm
> driving back tonight with my brother-in-law to convince them of the
> massive scale of things. There's nothing there for them. At least not
> for the next few weeks.
>
> I think my mother-in-law is afraid they'll be looted if they leave.
> Know what? That's a very high probability. But with no gas,
> electricity and water, and with pestilance mounting, what's a few
> material possesions in light of health and continued life?
>
> Frank, can Holland spare of few of those famous water-retaining
> lesbians y'all are so famous for? You know, the ones that Dutch kid
> was famous for sticking his finger into? What a perverted country!

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> Frank, can Holland spare of few of those famous water-retaining
> lesbians y'all are so famous for? You know, the ones that Dutch kid was
> famous for sticking his finger into? What a perverted country!

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> What a rush!
>
> I'm in Arlington, TX, using a friends laptop and dialup connection to
> write this.
>
> Sticking around for Katrina... not really up there on the
> Smart-o-Meter. That's for sure. I'm fine. My family's fine. My house is
> fine. My in-law's house is fine.
>
> All told, there was no point during the storm I felt in dire peril.
> However, the aftermath is a bugger.
>
> First thing I did when I got into the DFW metroplex was get my GSM
> phone's SIM card swapped out to a local (Texas) number. We're not going
> back. Well, not to live there anyway.
>
> For the past 2 years I'd been struggling finacially with unstable IT
> contracts that only last for weeks sometimes. So my wife and I are
> moving back to the big T for good.
>
> There is nothing left of New Orleans. At least, not for us. The place
> is devastated. And the funny thing is that being in Slidell right after
> the storm, you're in a total informmation vacuum. No news. No phones.
> No cell phones. No television... nothing.
>
> Which is why I'm driving back tonight to get my in-laws out. They are
> under the impression things will be back to normal within a month.
>
> It wasn't until I got into our hotel room and took a very welcome
> shower and plopped down on the bed with my two daughters and wife that
> I was able to view some of the devastation.
>
> You don't get the impression that things are that bad right at, for
> lack of a better term, ground zero. (Forgive the utilization of an
> overused phrase)
>
> My wife's parents' have no idea what kind of suffering is going on all
> around them. Slidell, at least the part we were in, got off relatively
> light. When we left, they were talking about "when the power's restored
> in a few days..." and "we'll just pile the branches here by the curb
> for when they come for pick-up..."
>
> My wife's a wreck having seen the whole picture and what we've left
> them in. But we were as naive and uninformed as they were. So I'm
> driving back tonight with my brother-in-law to convince them of the
> massive scale of things. There's nothing there for them. At least not
> for the next few weeks.
>
> I think my mother-in-law is afraid they'll be looted if they leave.
> Know what? That's a very high probability. But with no gas, electricity
> and water, and with pestilance mounting, what's a few material
> possesions in light of health and continued life?
>
> Frank, can Holland spare of few of those famous water-retaining
> lesbians y'all are so famous for? You know, the ones that Dutch kid was
> famous for sticking his finger into? What a perverted country!
>

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> My wife's parents' have no idea what kind of suffering is going on all
> around them. Slidell, at least the part we were in, got off relatively
> light. When we left, they were talking about "when the power's restored
> in a few days..." and "we'll just pile the branches here by the curb
> for when they come for pick-up..."

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> Quench your thirst for seeing a hurricane?? :^)

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> I don't think anyone
> has the big picture at this point. They are calling Katrina possibly
> the third worst hurricane to hit the states on record back to 1851.

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> Smeghead's last words before the Sword of Azrial plunged through his
> body were:
>
> How can they be like that? I am no where near the storms and I'm being
> effected. Refineries and rigs got XXXXed, hard, and they are saying 2
> months till those are gonna be back up. Because of that gas prices
> shot up atleast 60 cents overnight, and climbing higher and higher by
> the hour. My point is, if a multibillion dollar industry is saying
> it'll be months before they can get back to work, what chance does
> anyone else have to be back to normal quickly.

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> Anyone else feel like a 10-ton weight was lifted off their chest
> when Smeggy posted?
>

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> One day, while skipping through the forest, I heard the voice of "Miracle
> Smith" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> coming from a tree, and thought, "Man, this
> is f*ed up," but carried on the following conversation anyway:
>
>
>
> nope. i dont automatically assume that any people i might know near an
> accident/disaster died.

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> btw smeg, if things go as ive planned, i fully intend to molest you down in
> dallas next january or february.

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> What a rush!
>
> I'm in Arlington, TX, using a friends laptop and dialup connection to
> write this.
>
> Sticking around for Katrina... not really up there on the
> Smart-o-Meter. That's for sure. I'm fine. My family's fine. My house is
> fine. My in-law's house is fine.
>
> All told, there was no point during the storm I felt in dire peril.
> However, the aftermath is a bugger.
>
> First thing I did when I got into the DFW metroplex was get my GSM
> phone's SIM card swapped out to a local (Texas) number. We're not going
> back. Well, not to live there anyway.
>
> For the past 2 years I'd been struggling finacially with unstable IT
> contracts that only last for weeks sometimes. So my wife and I are
> moving back to the big T for good.
>
> There is nothing left of New Orleans. At least, not for us. The place
> is devastated. And the funny thing is that being in Slidell right after
> the storm, you're in a total informmation vacuum. No news. No phones.
> No cell phones. No television... nothing.
>
> Which is why I'm driving back tonight to get my in-laws out. They are
> under the impression things will be back to normal within a month.
>
> It wasn't until I got into our hotel room and took a very welcome
> shower and plopped down on the bed with my two daughters and wife that
> I was able to view some of the devastation.
>
> You don't get the impression that things are that bad right at, for
> lack of a better term, ground zero. (Forgive the utilization of an
> overused phrase)
>
> My wife's parents' have no idea what kind of suffering is going on all
> around them. Slidell, at least the part we were in, got off relatively
> light. When we left, they were talking about "when the power's restored
> in a few days..." and "we'll just pile the branches here by the curb
> for when they come for pick-up..."
>
> My wife's a wreck having seen the whole picture and what we've left
> them in. But we were as naive and uninformed as they were. So I'm
> driving back tonight with my brother-in-law to convince them of the
> massive scale of things. There's nothing there for them. At least not
> for the next few weeks.
>
> I think my mother-in-law is afraid they'll be looted if they leave.
> Know what? That's a very high probability. But with no gas, electricity
> and water, and with pestilance mounting, what's a few material
> possesions in light of health and continued life?
>
> Frank, can Holland spare of few of those famous water-retaining
> lesbians y'all are so famous for? You know, the ones that Dutch kid was
> famous for sticking his finger into? What a perverted country!
>

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> nope. i dont automatically assume that any people i might know near an
> accident/disaster died.

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> One day, while skipping through the forest, I heard the voice of
> "Miracle Smith" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> coming from a tree, and
> thought, "Man, this is f*ed up," but carried on the following
> conversation anyway:
>
>
> nope. i dont automatically assume that any people i might know near an
> accident/disaster died.

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> DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> I didn't think any such thing! You XXXXing XXXXXXX!
>
> XXXXing dick! You macho males think worry is SO below
> you. What? Are you afraid genuine concern will turn you gay
> or something?
>
> You think you look XXXXing cool being silent the whole time,
> then come out and say "Oh, I knew he was okay"?
>
> You XXXXing XXXXXXX. I HATE you right now. XXXX off and die,
> biggie.
>
>
>
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> worry isnt below me, mostly unreasonable worry, however, is.

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> DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> *Unreasonable*?!?!?!?
>
> Mother god, you're an idiot.
>
>
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> DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> *Unreasonable*?!?!?!?
>
> Mother god, you're an idiot.

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> One day, while skipping through the forest, I heard the voice of
> "Miracle Smith" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> coming from a tree, and
> thought, "Man, this is f*ed up," but carried on the following
> conversation anyway:
>
>
> and youre (apparently) a man hating overreacting psycho. whee.

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> Miracle, chill.
>
> As I said, initial deathtollwas posted as 50 in New Orleans itself,
> most devastation around the coasts. He'd already said he'd be in
> higher ground, in a house not made of straw or sticks, further away from the
> coast.
> While he was, of course, in a risk zone, the odds of him surviving the
> thing without harm or injury were damn near certain.
>
> Good news that he's alright of course, but it wasn't like we were
> dredging for his corpse when he popped back in here.
>
> I just don't worry easily, and always approach things from the
> positive end.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> XXXX you and the horse you rode in on, you needle-dicked
> bug XXXXer.
>
>
>
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> And I will not apologize for, or attempt to explain, my deep
> concern for Smeggy and his family. I will, however, disagree with
> the cavalier (imo) position that there was no need for worry.

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> We're all okay and I'm now on a friends DSL connection and my own
> computer in a north Dallas neighborhood.
>
> My in-laws are out. My kids are fine and everything will work out.
>
> But, man... am I EXHAUSTED. I'm dehydrated and spent the night puking
> and dry heaving. Don't know why. I figure it's because I've hit the
> limit of my endurance. My ribs and abs are going to be sore tomorrow
> just from my stomach trying to turn itself inside out.
>
> I haven't slept soundly since Saturday, the 27th of August. 1 hour
> catnaps at the most.
>

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> I didn't know you had kids.

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> Yeah. Hurricanes... they're so pass‚.
>
> [*] Flood
> [*] Tornado
> [*] Blizzard
> [*] Hurricane (Actually a combo of the first two!
> [ ] Earthquake
> [ ] Tsunami
> [ ] Volcano Eruption
> [ ] Locust Swarm
> [ ] Sand/Dust Storm
>
> 4 down, 5 to go! I just hope the last 5 aren't simultaneous.

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> But not to worry, we can continue to feel safe at the airports as all that
> Homeland "Security" pays for TGA employees to feel us up and take our nail
> clippers away. That's a *much* more important use of tax dollars!

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> One day, while skipping through the forest, I heard the voice of
> "Miracle Smith" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> coming from a tree, and
> thought, "Man, this is f*ed up," but carried on the following
> conversation anyway:
>
>
> thanks for reinforcing my point.

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> That's your call. Others make different ones.

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> We're all okay and I'm now on a friends DSL connection and my own
> computer in a north Dallas neighborhood.
>
> My in-laws are out. My kids are fine and everything will work out.
>
> But, man... am I EXHAUSTED. I'm dehydrated and spent the night puking
> and dry heaving. Don't know why. I figure it's because I've hit the
> limit of my endurance. My ribs and abs are going to be sore tomorrow
> just from my stomach trying to turn itself inside out.
>
> I haven't slept soundly since Saturday, the 27th of August. 1 hour
> catnaps at the most.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Yeah. Hurricanes... they're so passé.
>
> [*] Flood
> [*] Tornado
> [*] Blizzard
> [*] Hurricane (Actually a combo of the first two!
> [ ] Earthquake
> [ ] Tsunami
> [ ] Volcano Eruption
> [ ] Locust Swarm
> [ ] Sand/Dust Storm
>
> 4 down, 5 to go! I just hope the last 5 aren't simultaneous.

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> "Adrian Ng" <spam.ng@btopenworld.com> wrote in news:df9tgo$o0f$1
> @nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com:
>
>
> http://ali_gator_baby.tripod.com/washup.htm
>
> (Then click the Gallery link at the bottom.)

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> DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> You have confused "man hating overreacting psycho" with
> *madder than hell*, XXXXtard.
>
> I'm not talking to you anymore. More than anyone else I've
> encountered on Usenet, you have pissed me off the most.
>
>
>
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>DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> I didn't think any such thing! You XXXXing XXXXXXX!

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> XXXXing dick! You macho males think worry is SO below
>you. What? Are you afraid genuine concern will turn you gay
>or something?

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> You think you look XXXXing cool being silent the whole time,
>then come out and say "Oh, I knew he was okay"?

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> You XXXXing XXXXXXX. I HATE you right now. XXXX off and die,
>biggie.

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> Frank van Schie wrote:
>
>
> True. Then there's the cretin who calls himself DEbig3.

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> damn, im good.

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> Two little girls. 4 and 1 years of age. Almost only had a 1 year old.
> Right about the time I posted the beginning of this thread from my
> other friend's house, my daughter, Kate, got ahold of a Coke bottle
> with a purple liquid in it.
>
> She was coughing and gagging and my wife and I couldn't figure what
> was wrong. Then she got really lethargic.
>
> Our friends are a couple without children, so their place is NOT
> childproofed.
>
> Anyway, before I took off on my bleary-eyed 2nd trip between NO and
> DFW it went something like this:
>
> Allison: "I saw her drink this and took it away from her."
> Hasty questioning of our hosts as to the contents.
> Lamp oil or something. You stick a wick in and light it.
> Emergency room.
> Wait.
> Impatient barking at woman behind counter. "Is this shit prioratized
> in any way?! I think my daughter has been poisoned!"
> Asked to wait.
> Demand number for Poison Control.
> Wrong number given.
> Jump strait to 911 via cellphone in emergency waiting room.
> PC calls hospital and make direct demand to see my kid.
> Short wait.
> Bloodpressure, heart rate, respiration monitor hookup.
> Chest x-ray.
> Wait.
> Everything looks fine.
> Observation.
> Everything looks fine.
> Release.
> Long-assed road trip.
> Gather the old ones.
> Long-assed road trip back.
> Extreme exhaustion and dehydration.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> "Miracle Smith" wrote:
>
> Tried XXXXing XXXXXXX. Wife's not into that. She keeps saying no.

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>
> Well, no one is posting inanity that D can respond to by calling them
> XXXXtards, so he's had to be on the quiet side for a while.

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>
> XXXX off what? Never had a XXXX that I thought would end in me dying.
> But interesting proposition.

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> Sorry, had to lighten things up here. Being a prevert is the best way
> I know to do that.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> Dude. Re-read his original statement. It was innocuous.

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> This is (I believe you say) totally out of left field. Or right
> field. I don't know, I don't play basketball.

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>^,,^< Miracle

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>
> Well, it didn't come off that way to me. I felt he accused me
> of thinking Smeggy was dead, which so horrified me I went straight
> to white-hot angry. Zero to XXXXX in a nanosecond, remember? ;)

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>
> It's alright, I plonked him so I won't keep poking him with a
> sharp stick. I figure the way my luck goes, in real life he's Smeggy's
> brother, or brother-in-law, so better to stop before I piss off everyone.

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> Besides, my energy is better directed at relief efforts for those
> affected by Katrina. We Yumans collected $64,000 on Thursday.
>

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> Miracle Smith wrote:
>
> Right, or you lighten up. Might also work. Ah damnit, I said I'd drop
> it, didn't I?

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> The guys at SomethingAwful collected 20000 dollars in 7 hours. PayPal,
> where they were collecting, did the only logical thing:
> http://www.somethingawful.com/

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> DEbig3 wrote:
>
>
> You have confused "man hating overreacting psycho" with
> *madder than hell*, XXXXtard.
>
> I'm not talking to you anymore. More than anyone else I've
> encountered on Usenet, you have pissed me off the most.
>
>
>

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> Why did you guys stop?
>
> KEEP GOING!!!!

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>^,,^< Miracle