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Unhyphenated American
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posted October 13, 2018 05:54 AM


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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Technically Adaptive
posted October 13, 2018 10:21 PMHide Post
 
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posted October 14, 2018 12:49 AMHide Post
"Sylvia's Mother" was a tear-jerker? I always thought of it as dry humor, especially since it was written by Shel Silverstein. I heard it most frequently on Dr Demento.

Sorry, it's true.


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Unhyphenated American
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posted October 14, 2018 05:11 AMHide Post


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Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M Nixon

It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice.
Billy Joe Shaver

NRA Life Member

 
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Eschew Obfuscation
posted October 14, 2018 04:27 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Floyd D. Barber:
[FLASH_VIDEO]<iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qZMUx2CfpXI" width="560"></iframe>[/FLASH_VIDEO]

Wow. Very interesting. My grandma lived in Homewood, IL too; just a few blocks from where that was filmed.


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posted October 14, 2018 08:59 PMHide Post
This comes to mind when I hear tear jerker.
Red Sovine - Teddy Bear

A generation of tough truckers had leaking eyes.
 
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Don't Panic
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posted October 15, 2018 07:48 AMHide Post
From the '70s file



Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOcEFXrsTQ
 
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Delusions of Adequacy
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posted October 16, 2018 07:11 PMHide Post
I had to take the tape with this one on it out of the car. Hard to drive when you can't see.




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posted October 18, 2018 06:05 PMHide Post
If this isn't the number one tearjerker of all time, it has to be in the top three.

George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2F9f2Cl6Y


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posted October 18, 2018 07:17 PMHide Post
Its lyrics were inspired by the death of Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a New York apartment building in 1991.

 
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posted October 18, 2018 09:40 PMHide Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIaU94SXj9Y


Goes with the Pat Metheny topic. This scene always crushes me.
 
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posted October 19, 2018 08:20 AMHide Post


Made two years before her diagnosis of cancer, four years before her passing.
 
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posted October 19, 2018 05:12 PMHide Post
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Made two years before her diagnosis of cancer, four years before her passing.



She was Gracious right to the final day. May She and her family be Blessed.
 
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Legalize the Constitution
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posted October 20, 2018 11:34 AMHide Post
Anybody who's raised a daughter...



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