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To: ransomnote

Yeah, the black eye thing.

I have to admit, it has me wondering.

A lot of these people seem to show up with black eyes.

How many black eyes have you had in your life?

I guess it depends on what one does for a living or hobby.

But I don’t think too many of these people are taking karate lessons.

Of course, they could be getting slightly beat up as a warning about what will happen to them or their loved ones if they are seen talking to the wrong people.

I’m pretty damn clumsy, but even I don’t get a black eye more than once a decade.


478 posted on 12/18/2020 5:28:47 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s usually not just a black eye, but specifically, the left eye that’s bruised.

It is believed to be part of an initiation.


484 posted on 12/18/2020 5:35:29 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Knock on wood.

It is coincidental that it happens often to those in high places. Always seems to be a certain eye too.


491 posted on 12/18/2020 5:45:18 PM PST by CJ Wolf (#wwg1wga #Godwins - What is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
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To: CheshireTheCat

“How many black eyes have you had in your life?”

Four for me, in my 50’s! Do I get a puhrize??


516 posted on 12/18/2020 6:18:43 PM PST by peteypupperdoo (Petey Pupperdoo)
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How many black eyes have you had in your life?

Two. As a Staff Sergeant at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Got into it with a couple of cowboys from Vinita at the Janis Joplin Concert in OKC in '69.

Showed up for work wearing shades and the First Sergeant could barely keep a straight face while he was chewing me out.

583 posted on 12/18/2020 7:22:18 PM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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