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Big RR wrote:I won't either, but I've never been more tempted since Vietnam and the draft.
I've never been tempted before. Ever.
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I doubt anyone here will leave.

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I'm certainly not going anywhere! ;)
Personally, I don’t believe in bros before hoes, or hoes before bros. There needs to be a balance. A homie-hoe-stasis, if you will.

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The talented Canadians all come down here: Robbie Robertson, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Alex Trebeck!


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Don't forget Justin Bieber. :lol:

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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A friend of yours?

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You're my friend, rube and doncha ever forget it! :lol:

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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That's It

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In '68 I was in contact with a student peace union based in Toronto in regards to dodging military service. (When I was 19 I looked like a tall, skinny, pubic-hairless, middle school student.) Once I failed my humiliating Induction Physical and proudly earned my Selective Service System 4-F status I ended my contact with the group.

I'm glad I never had to make that decision. It would have been such a loss to my country.

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Canada has THE best snowmobile trails.

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I made some similar contacts a few years later Ray, but then the war was ending (although I wasn't entirely convinced what a reelected Nixon would really do--perhaps start it up again to avoid being the first president to lose a war?) and I was able to join ROTC and get around my low lottery number (reasoning it was pretty certain that in 4 years the war would be done). I'm honestly glad I didn't have to make the choice--and in 1968 it would have been a lot harder to see what other choices I had.

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joni Mitchell was a brilliant artist.

I was kinda devastated when I found out that she had abandoned her child to achieve success.

she would have been brilliant either way.

sad.

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oldr_n_wsr wrote:Canada has THE best snowmobile trails.

And frostbite clinics!


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wesw wrote:joni Mitchell was a brilliant artist.

I was kinda devastated when I found out that she had abandoned her child to achieve success.

she would have been brilliant either way.

sad.
Fuck you, wesw - you are such a piece of shit liar!

Giving a baby up for adoption when you are dirt poor & pregnant IS NOT ABANDONING it!
In an interview on CBC Newsworld's Pamela Wallin Live--broadcast, by coincidence, on Feb. 19, 1996, Kilauren's 31st birthday--the singer explained that she had no recourse but adoption. "I didn't have a penny," she said. "I had no money for diapers, or a room to take her to. There was no career on the horizon. Three years later, I had a recording contract and a house and a car, but how could I see that in the future?"
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When the fuck are you leaving this toxic place, already?!?! :roll:
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I agree, indeed, it is quite the opposite thing. and as an adoptive parent myself, I am thankful that there are people who have enough love for their child and enough courage to do this.

And FWIW, I believe she was something like 16 or 17 when she had to make this choice.

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No, she was 21 and married - a marriage that later fell apart.

Her daughter was adopted by wonderful people, had a great childhood with a sibling and many advantages, and is now a mother herself.

You can read all about it here: http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=91

Anyone who knows much about Mitchell's mental health and career/life trajectory would also likely acknowledge that her daughter was probably better off adopted.
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The one thing I like I about this thread, is that it gives me an excuse to re-post one of my all-time favorite YouTube videos:

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:lol: :ok
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Here's a collection of bloopers and outtakes...

They obviously had a lot of fun making the video:

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Anyone actually left yet?

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Everyone still here, then?

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