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After John's wedding, we decided we would climb the mountain. Greg found his Midnight Mountain Club T-shirt in a box when they moved and he wore it that night. Eric had his buddy draw the design and we had about 10 of them silk screened in 1990. I think Greg's is the only one exists (and still fits.)Greg scanned the shirt and sent it to me. I was able to clean it up in photoshop and made a

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I've received a few e-mails for details on the bridge:1.7 miles in length3200 feet above the riverOnly single arch, wire suspension bridge in the tri-county areaFirst "living" bridge; interior is wheat, grasses and microbes for strengthThe bridge lifts 75 feet to allow the heavy boat traffic to passOnce open, the toll will only be $1.00 heading west and $5.00 eastBono, from U2, described the

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My good friend Anne is about to have a baby in the next few days. Here was my advice to her:Have a plan for the stuff you cannot plan for. My experience is that shit happens very quickly and the doctors are going to want you to do what they say. You need to know if you want the epidural and that they need to stick you not too early but not too late. You want pitocin? We didn't know we did

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Katie got me this card for my birthday. It's just.... perfect.

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Hi Holy Juan,I met someone recently. We dated for about a few months. The other day I asked her if she'd like to go to a Leaf's game. She declined. As I sat at home watching the game alone, my mind got back to the bars we used to hang out at. For sports bars, there sure were a lot of women with crew cuts. Anyway, since we've met the bedroom activity has been near zero, and with the bar thing and

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My friend sent me this memo from their company concerning dress code:Good afternoon everyone,There seems to be a lack of understanding regarding the (XXX Company) dress code. This email is to reiterate the policy and remind everyone you will be asked to go home on your first offense and not be a part of the Company for the second offense. You should re-read the handbook which prescribes the

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In 2004, Greg was a one years old boy and Homestarrunner.com only sold shirts for little boys and not for babies. But I bought Greg a shirt anyways, knowing that someday he would grow into it.And he did.

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There is nothing more fun than a drink with AllenExcept two drinks with AllenOf course three drinks is marvelousAnd the fourth is only the prequel to the next drinkThe fifth drink is the next drink and then there's the sequelThe sequel is the seventh drink and that's because there was a surprise ending where the sixth drink was kidnapped by my liver! And then it's one in the morning and time to

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I got an e-mail from Andrew S. with a link to a concept I had played with a while ago, but forgot about. Fun stuff:HolyJuan, Just wanted to pass along http://www.funnytranslator.comIt uses Google to translate any phrase from English to 56 other languages and back again, with often funny, usually bizarre, sometimes even insightful/ironic results. My favorite example so far is actually someone

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About two weeks before John's wedding, I called his best man and brother, Chris, to ask him if he needed any help with his Best Man speech. Chris said he hadn't started working on the speech, but that if he needed me to look at something, he'd let me know.The Wednesday before the wedding, I left Chris a message, asking him how things were going with the speech. I didn't hear back so I assumed

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My parents did something amazing once. Normally the stuff they did was one step down from amazing. It wasn’t their fault. We were not rich and they always bought what they could and not what we wanted. They bought the Sears Atari knock off when they could have bought the original. They bought the TI-99/4A computer when we could have had an IBM. They bought an Apple //c when we could have had

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It wasn't until after I gave $5 to the Andyman fund that it all became very real. I didn't know the guy at all, but it seems that many did or felt a strong connection to the man.So if you get a chance... drop his family a buck or two. Go to http://www.cd101.com/andyman/ and click on the PayPal link under his photo.I think some DJs of CD101 said it best... pretend like you are buying him a drink

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It seems like everyone has two or three stories about Andyman from CD101. He was everywhere Columbus and people gravitated towards his exuberantly friendly personality.I only have one Andyman story.A few months ago, my buddy Russ and I ended up at the My Morning Jacket concert. Towards the end of the show, I walked off to use the bathroom. The line was only a few dudes out the door and I

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News spread quickly this eventing in Columbus that Andyman had passed away. Here is the news from the CD101 website:"It is with much sadness that CD101 announces the passing of John Andrew “Andyman” Davis – programming director and beloved dee jay at CD101. Andy was vacationing with his family in Michigan and tragically drown on Saturday evening. Andy is survived by his wife, Molly, and their

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My friend John is getting married this weekend. I can only hope that at sometime in your life you get to have a friend as fiercely loyal and genuine as John. John is my friend for several reasons. I will only include the ones that will ensure that his wedding actually happens and that my divorce proceedings won’t:John wasn’t too upset when I literally stole a girl out of his lap at a party in

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I love these guys. Very fun video.

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I look forward to your appreciation!

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With budget cuts, "full breathing apparatus" means "holding your breath."Read the fat removal story HERE.

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That is all.

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The Baskin Robbins in Lancaster, OH was located at the corner of Memorial and 6th in what I think was an old gas station. That store had huge windows on two sides and from either roadway you could look in and see the employees screwing around. The guy that owned the competing ice cream store down the road once said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if I drove by and saw those kids fucking on the back

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As a youth, I was a curious lad and asked many questions. Usually they were asked as the family gathered around the dinner table so that everyone could hear. For years we had an expanding table in our kitchen that was extended during the holidays. After a time, that table got beat down by four kids and needed replaced. Dad, attempting to get his WoodCraft badge, built a table out of two by

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My family tries to get together every 4th of July. I love seeing my kids interact with all their cousins and transmit all the Ohio germs to Missouri and North Carolina.While the adults sit around at night, tales of our youth always seem to pop up. This year was no different. We talked about the bus this year.As kids, we rode the bus to school. We were the first stop of the day on a ride that took

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As I leave my house in the car, my road dead ends into the main street that runs through our neighborhood. There must have been some calamity with them crazy kids speeding thorugh the area on that main street because the city put up a speed detector with a large readout that says "SPEED LIMIT 25; YOUR SPEED XX" with XX being your speed. The radar is set up in such a way that it will clock my

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Years ago, I lived in Boston for the summer. I worked at the Boston Museum of Science and was quickly absorbed into the Marketing department as one of their own. I was always very good at quickly locating the people that like to drink.Their department and associated friends in the museum would go out for drinks after work on "Thirstdays" to one of several nearby bars. I was invited and was

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