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Old 07-21-10 | 04:45 PM
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A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "hey, why the long face?"
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Old 07-21-10 | 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Flatballer
I don't think you can get them in most bars, but every gas station around here sells 40s of cheap stuff. Mostly malt liquors, but Miller High Life and stuff too.
Well then, you need to tell him he's in the wrong forum.
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Old 07-21-10 | 04:48 PM
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stop bothering us. adults are talking.
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Old 07-21-10 | 05:26 PM
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A horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "hey, why the long face?"
One of my favorite all-time one liners.

Grasshopper hops into a bar, sits down. Bartender says "Hey, there's a drink named after you." Grasshopper responds, "There's a drink named Bob?"

I bet the bartender was an elitist.
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Old 07-21-10 | 05:42 PM
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A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks "Hey, where's Matthew?"
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Old 07-21-10 | 06:24 PM
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A business man is at a bar when he cups his hand to his ear and starts talking into his hand, pressing the palm as if he were making calls on a phone, etc.
The bartender asks, "What are you doing?"

"Oh, its the latest thing for elitists," said the man. "Ive got a cell phone embedded in my palm!"

After a little while the businessman gets up and says, "Please hold my seat; I'm going to the bathroom."

The man doesnt come back for along while, so the barkeep goes to investigate. He finds the guy spreadeagled against the wall, his pants around his ankles and a strip of toilet paper hanging from his butt.

"What in the H-E-L-L are you doing!?" the bartender shouted.

"Oh nothing," says the man... "just waiting on a fax to come in."
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Old 07-21-10 | 06:37 PM
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Conjoined twins walk into a pub in Toronto and park themselves on a bar stool.

One of them says to the bartender, "Don't mind us, we're joined at the hip. I'm Micky, he's Jim. Two Molson Canadian beers please."

The bartender, feeling slightly awkward, tries to make polite conversation while pouring the beers. "Been on holiday yet, lads?"

"Off to England next month," says Micky. "We go to England every year, hire a car, and drive for miles, don't we, Jim?" Jim agrees.

"Ah, England!" says the bartender. "Wonderful country ... the history, the beer, the culture..."

"Nah, we don't like that British crap," says Micky. "Hamburgers & Molson's beer, that's us, eh, Jim? And we can't stand the English; they're so ELITIST and rude, not civil and polite like us Canadians."

"So why keep going to England?" asks the bartender.

"It's the only chance Jim gets to drive."
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A skeleton walks into a bar and says, "I'd like a beer and a mop".
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Old 07-21-10 | 10:45 PM
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How about a guy walks into a bar and asks what the best beer, is but doesn't want to spend any money. Says he can drink a beer in an hour and wants to know if that is good enough for getting plastered.
An hour later, another guy comes in asks the same question.
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Old 07-22-10 | 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
An hour later, another guy comes in asks the same question.
And why would you hang at a bar like that?

It's more like if you guys went to a gay bar and complained every time a guy walked in.
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And why would you hang at a bar like that?
Why would YOU guys hang out a bar where the regulars yelled at you for incessantly asking the same question?
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Old 07-22-10 | 06:14 AM
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if you don't like it, make like a tree and get out of here.
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I thought it was make like a banana and leave.
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Old 07-22-10 | 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by halfspeed
Why would YOU guys hang out a bar where the regulars yelled at you for incessantly asking the same question?
Are you for real? The regulars? You are any more of a regular than anyone else? This is YOUR forum? People can only be part of this forum if they follow YOUR standards? Wow.

Given that logic, you are like the bully that has to take a grade over in school.

By the way, there are people that have been here longer than you that have no issue with the constant flow of new members and their "new to them" questions.

Wow, didn't have to flip a coin, your post IS the shining example of the OP.
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Old 07-22-10 | 09:36 AM
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you tell'em, Tulex.

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Old 07-22-10 | 09:58 AM
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Wow, this thread really grew legs!
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Old 07-22-10 | 03:40 PM
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I kind of enjoy some of the same questions asked by newbs, makes the place more lively and gives additional opportunities to help a fellow cyclist out. So, are the "regulars" basically the same as those crusty, old alcoholics who sit in the corner of a pub pissed at life?
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I kind of enjoy some of the same questions asked by newbs, makes the place more lively and gives additional opportunities to help a fellow cyclist out. So, are the "regulars" basically the same as those crusty, old alcoholics who sit in the corner of a pub pissed at life?
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On a serious note, why isn't it trolling when they come into 41 threads and stir things up? Go up into the 33 and do that and see what happens.
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On a serious note, why isn't it trolling when they come into 41 threads and stir things up? Go up into the 33 and do that and see what happens.
Their skin is too thin for BF?
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Old 07-22-10 | 03:54 PM
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On a serious note, why isn't it trolling when they come into 41 threads and stir things up? Go up into the 33 and do that and see what happens.
they actually report people up there. no one cares down here.
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Old 07-22-10 | 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by coasting
they actually report people up there. no one cares down here.
Mods pop into these threads all the time. Are you saying they can't do anything unless there is a complaint?

Mods, is that the case? We have to complain?
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Old 07-22-10 | 04:00 PM
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no idea. you need to sneek into the mod lounge and eavesdrop.
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