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OK I'm not exactly new, but...

I haven;t exactly been a valued contributor. But that changes now. I'm fatherjack, I know hanhan and random_name IRL, and I suck =P HI!
01-19-2009 06:41 AM
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Guten tag! Willkomenn Pirate
01-19-2009 06:58 AM
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hey, how are you again? tee hee.

i guess i dont need to tell you to abandon your sanity Wink
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Yeah we are going to drive you insane. To save trouble just leave your sanity at the door
01-19-2009 10:24 AM
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thought criminal Wrote:Yeah we are going to drive you insane. To save trouble just leave your sanity at the door

we dont need to drive him insane. he already is XD

some of the time, at any rate.
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"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Ben Franklin

"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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Wigwams!

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lol @ hanhan.
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Ben Franklin

"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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Welcome to School Survival! Just remember, if you haven't been patted down for loyalty and love of school, or for sanity, please step to the left.
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Leave. The forums are full of fail and aids.
Dance, when you're broken up.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.
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Laugh this
01-20-2009 12:31 PM
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the forgotten Wrote:Leave. The forums are full of fail and aids.

they were worse beforehand.
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"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Ben Franklin

"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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