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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 06:46 PM
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Can you really catch more flies with honey?
Edited on Sat Oct-18-08 06:47 PM by billyskank
I'd have thought what you'd really need was a big stinking pile of shit.

:shrug:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 06:52 PM
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1. How was the dance?
:hug:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 06:54 PM
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2. Cool.
My ears are ringing and I'm aching (my feet most of all). The band were excellent and I got to dance quite a lot. I took a couple of pics.

:hug:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 06:55 PM
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3. Sounds like fun.
:bounce: <---- me dancing
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:01 PM
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4. That's you dancing?
I need to see your feet. Are you going left, right, back step, slow, slow, quick quick, letting me lead as I whirl you around?
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:06 PM
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9. No, I just bounce
up, down, up, down, up, down.

;)
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:07 PM
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12. *cough*
Something else just came into my head. I think it had better stay there. :blush:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:11 PM
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14. Isn't it past your bedtime?
:spank: :spank:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:15 PM
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15. Trying to get rid of me?
Edited on Sat Oct-18-08 07:15 PM by billyskank
Going in just a few minutes. Thanks for the spank. :)
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:19 PM
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16. Heh
That's not what it said the first time I read it. :)

Nah, I'm about ready to call it a DU night too. I have the back muscles of the torso still to draw for Monday. I have a letter to write too. ;)

Sweet Dreams!

:hi:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:21 PM
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17. Goodnight!
:*
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 10:46 AM
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22. you going to post the pics???
hello you!
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 10:50 AM
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23. Already done
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:03 PM
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5. ...
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:04 PM
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There is an xkcd for absolutely everything.
I still think a big smelly turd would be best though. :)
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:06 PM
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8. It would attract them, but it wouldn't catch them.
Therein lies the problem. :P
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:06 PM
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10. Not unless you devised a turd-baited fly trap.
:D
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:09 PM
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13. That would be even better than inventing a better mousetrap.
:thumbsup:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:04 PM
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6. Than vinegar? Yes, but why would you want to?

:shrug:

PS: You CAN catch more flies with shit than honey.

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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:05 PM
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7. So the aphorism ought to be
You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but excrement is best of all.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:07 PM
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11. execrably! n/t
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:25 PM
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18. "Honey trap".
"Here, every look is a mirror; here, every smile is a trap." -Front 242
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:43 PM
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19. Flies don't stick to shit.
Q.E.D
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 10:52 PM
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20. With honey? As long as you let me lick it off...
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 05:59 AM
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21. That sounds worth trying.
:)
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 11:26 AM
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24. heehee
a big old stinking pile of shit...:D that cracked me up.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 12:14 PM
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25. That's a typo. Actually you catch them with Money.
:shrug:
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 12:16 PM
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26. Obviously that is the way the Republicans see it too.
Or it seems that way...
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