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   M Smokey said, 7 months ago

   With me, it works the opposite way.

   I want to be with you always, even though I find you repulsive.
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   Buzza Wuzza said, 7 months ago

   wonderful nonsense, i dig this strip a lot
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   Three Steps Over Japan said, 7 months ago

   Donna: “Chalk that one up as a con…”
   Dewy-eyed pessimists – more proof that there is no god.
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   Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

   Self-diagnosis is a bitch! You’re right, Mona: Heeeeeee!
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   Peabody-Martini said, 7 months ago

   And part of her character is she doesn’t believe in sentiment. Most of the time anyway.
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   Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, 7 months ago

   Aww
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   joe said, 7 months ago

   At least she didn’t say it out loud in front of her therapist .
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   billdi said, 7 months ago

   very talented smoker
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   fritzoid said, 7 months ago

   This reinforces something I was thinking yesterday…
   

   
   Ben Franklin had a young friend (maybe a nephew) who was torn by the decision whether or not to marry a particular woman, and Franklin (ever the pragmatist) advised him to make lists of the factors favoring each side of the argument (as far as I know, he was the model of all such lists). Franklin believed that this was the only sensible way to make such a decision, i.e. calmly, rationally, dispassionately (what I call “Vulcan courtship”).
   

   
   The author of the book where I read this story followed it by saying that he had himself once made one such list. But when a comparison of the pros and cons showed him that the RATIONAL thing to do was not to marry her, he found himself wishing so strongly that the numbers had fallen the other way that he figured marrying her MUST be the right thing to do. The argument (which the book developed far more fully) was that very often our “guts” are simply smarter than our brains, and a snap decision is as likely to guide us properly as a “reasoned” one (if not moreso). Or, as Hamlet says,
   And praised be rashness for it, let us know,
   Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
   When our deep plots do pall.
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    Chikuku said, 7 months ago

    Marry the one you cannot live without.
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    K M said, 7 months ago

    @Three Steps Over Japan

    Hope springs eternal — more proof that there is a God.
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    jOhndrAkE (vowelsUP,consonantsdown): Vulcan: Live long and prosper. Romulan: Live strong and dominate. said, 7 months ago

    In Star Trek , Spock’s father needed blood from Spock for an operation. During recovery the two were in sick bay discussing how emotionally and irrationally Spock’s mother behaved. Finally Spock asked his father why he decided to marry her and his father replied that at the time it seemed the logical thing to do.
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    runar said, 7 months ago

    @fritzoid

    When I need to make a yes/no decision (or any other with a binary result) I flip a coin. There’s no need to see what actually does turn up – as soon as the coin is in the air, I realize which result I want to see.
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    fritzoid said, 7 months ago

    @runar

    I like it.
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    Ron said, 7 months ago

    Long distance relationships can be the best…
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