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  • #101
    Cindeye! Save your dranken for Saturday would ya!!!! Now we'll all have more funny stuff to talk about!!!
    Is minic a rinne bromach gioblach capall cumasach
    An awkward colt often becomes a beautiful horse .

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    • #102
      Puhlease... could we just Le tit be now? (I can say this, I invented the COTH word, le tit be.)
      ~Amy~ TrakehNERD clique
      *Bugs 5/86-3/10 OTTB Mare* RIP lovely Lady, I miss you
      *Frodo '03 Anglo Trakehner Gelding*
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      • #103
        Back to the original topic line, I would just like to say.....

        I FREAKIN' LOVE THIS BOARD!!!

        I mean really, not only do you get seriously good advice on a host of questions, moral support from great people, read touching stories, read funny stories, but get to watch a soap opera where people (and horses) come back from the dead?

        My Photo Albums

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        • #104
          This is why this is my favorite BB. I've worked four 12 hr days got called back to work tonight, came home trucked H2O to the ponies, took a shower, fed the dogs, and have to get up for work in 5 more hrs and I HAD to get on COTH before bedtime. And I'm Laughing My A$$ Off!!!!!!!
          Sure I'm afraid to sometimes post my opinion but you know what it's my opinion, your opinion and if you don't like you don't have to read it. Mostly it's informative, entertaining AND addictive.

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          • #105
            I'm just beginning page 3 and I have to say well said Coreene.
            "The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse" Lord Palmerston

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            • #106
              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> but, why would it be called both a cat shark AND a dogfish? Hmmmm... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Don't you know the story of the two cowboys that rode their horses to the waters edge? From their saddle bags, one popped open a Miller Lite and the other unscrewed the tequilla bottle. A few hours later, up swam some sharks. I think you can figure out the rest of the legend.
              "The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse" Lord Palmerston

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              • #107
                <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I FREAKIN' LOVE THIS BOARD!!!
                I mean really, not only do you get seriously good advice on a host of questions, moral support from great people, read touching stories, read funny stories, but get to watch a soap opera where people (and horses) come back from the dead? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> But you forgot about the entertainment value our fella posters have to offer the rest of us. Ahhhhhhhh...Creativity!
                "The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse" Lord Palmerston

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                • #108
                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Erin:
                  Show of hands, please... who else, even without administrator superpowers, has figured out that Happy Times is actually dancinglite?

                  Yeppers, would appear that that is the case.

                  <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                  I'm aghasted.

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                  • #109
                    It's 7 in the freakin' morning and I laughed so loud I woke the husband up. Oh, excuse me, I aghasted too.
                    Where's the glamour? You promised me glamour!

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                    • #110
                      Ooookay. So dancing lite posts an, er, controverial topic and then creates and alter to come to her defense when she starts getting slammed.

                      model citizen, zero discipline

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                      • #111
                        See? This is EXACTLY why I also love this board. You get drama, smack downs, trainwrecks, and all those other wonderful reasons that I initially stated in my first post.

                        Oh wait...should I even be posting? I AM a member of a "click". If anyone figures out which "click" I belong to, then would someone please enlighten me? Am I at least in the popular group or am I in the group with all the nerds?
                        Visit my farm at www.hiddenrockfarm.com

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                        • #112
                          Jester,

                          Its even a bit stranger than that. I did a search for HT as author. HT was not created to defend dl when dl got slammed. HT has been posting for several months as a normal poster in her own right.

                          I have always thought that alters were created for a special purpose -- to allow someone to post anonymously for a specific reason. But, evidently, HT was created months ago and has been posting simultaneously (see all of the Thanksgiving Day posts) on many different topics.

                          Do many people have multiple personalities under which they post in the normal course of things? I am too lazy to go to the trouble of even having one alter, so I don't know.
                          "He lives in a cocoon of solipsism"

                          Charles Krauthammer speaking about Trump

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                          • #113
                            You say nerd like it's a BAD thing. Personally, I prefer Geek. Capital G.
                            model citizen, zero discipline

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                            • #114
                              LH - the mind reels. But not only has she added a word to the lexicon, we can also accuse someone of pulling an HT.
                              model citizen, zero discipline

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                              • #115
                                I have had two alters. Both of which were created for a special reason... CHRISTMAS SECRET SANTAS!
                                ~Amy~ TrakehNERD clique
                                *Bugs 5/86-3/10 OTTB Mare* RIP lovely Lady, I miss you
                                *Frodo '03 Anglo Trakehner Gelding*
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                                • #116
                                  Since I was a big nerd and a geek in school I was actually quite aghasted to find out anyone thought I was a member of ANY sort of clique anywhere.

                                  So now I've been reduced to singing "Oh Happy Times" in my head all morning.

                                  Wait...I'm still aghasted. Uh, excuse me please while I go take some Gas-X.
                                  Visit my farm at www.hiddenrockfarm.com

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                                  • #117
                                    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Applesauce:
                                    Wait...I'm still aghasted. Uh, excuse me please while I go take some Gas-X. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                    model citizen, zero discipline

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                                    • #118
                                      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Oldenburg Mom:
                                      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>The nurse shark was first described by Bonnaterre (1788), as Squalus cirratus. The current scientific combination, Ginglymostoma cirratum was first assigned by Muller and Henle in 1841. Gynglymostoma is derived from the Greek words "gynglimos" = hinge and "stoma" = mouth. The species name cirratum is translated from Latin as curl. Synonyms used to refer to this species in past scientific literature are Squalus punctulatus Lacepède 1800, Squalus punctatus Bloch & Schneider 1801, Squalus argus Bancroft 1832, Ginglymostoma fulvum Poey 1861, and Ginglymostoma caboverdianus Capello 1867. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


                                      OMG! I've died and gone to word (and trivia) heaven!!! Thank you thank you thank you Critters Everywhere. You're my HERO.

                                      I'm committing this to memory as I type ... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


                                      OMom! I haven't read this book yet but I intend to...and I think you would probably like it as well!

                                      In Other Words
                                      If you must choose between two evils, choose the one that you've never tried before.

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                                      • #119
                                        Raisin Pooper. LOVE it.
                                        model citizen, zero discipline

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                                        • #120
                                          <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Erin:
                                          Show of hands, please... who else, even without administrator superpowers, has figured out that Happy Times is actually dancinglite?

                                          Yeppers, would appear that that is the case.
                                          <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                          Yep I figured it out. I wonder why dancing lite doesn't have the power to hide a little better what with her great werewolfie powers and all

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