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Sanctimonious Smoking Nanny
Denver Post ^ | January 10, 2005 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 01/10/2005 10:52:26 AM PST by aynrandy

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To: exnavychick
He always shows up for the party! LOL

He must be a lonely soul, is all I have to say. Being beat up is one way of getting attention, I guess. :(

121 posted on 01/10/2005 4:24:31 PM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: Judith Anne
Has anyone ever seen cinFLA, this thread's poster, and VRWC_minion in the same place? (I'm not sure I got the names right....I'm going to go see if cinFLA is still on the forum...)

I think Wild Turkey is one of these two.

122 posted on 01/10/2005 4:25:41 PM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: Gabz

Oh, man oh man! That would be absolutely hilarious to see!

Busybodies walking out in a kerfuffle everywhere! ROFL!!!


123 posted on 01/10/2005 4:26:26 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Gabz
Hay no fair asking to be left alone and then pinging me:-)

My quote of your post was in now way intended to misquote you, and I apologies if it was taken that way. However, I must say that their is a tendency in these threads to use a FReepers name but not ping him. That's a violation of the unwritten rule as I understand it.

124 posted on 01/10/2005 4:27:47 PM PST by Wheee The People (Oo ee oo ah ah, ting tang, walla-walla bing bang. Oo ee oo ah ah, ting tang, walla-walla bing bang!)
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To: SheLion

I think you're right, the posting style is exactly the same. I vote we just laugh at them, and make fun of them behind their backs when they hit the smoking threads. ;-D

If we get annoyed or irritated with them, then the wrong person is suffering. I vote we make them the object of ridicule.


125 posted on 01/10/2005 4:28:20 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Wheee The People
That's a violation of the unwritten rule as I understand it.

Not anymore, not on these threads. You're a sissy. Quit whining.

126 posted on 01/10/2005 4:30:16 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Judith Anne
>I>What a neat bunch of folks here! Nice to see everyone. ;-D

Back at you! :)

127 posted on 01/10/2005 4:31:07 PM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: SheLion

I guess, if you're into that sort of thing. :)


128 posted on 01/10/2005 4:31:08 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart.)
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To: Judith Anne
If we get annoyed or irritated with them, then the wrong person is suffering. I vote we make them the object of ridicule.

Sure wouldn't be hard to do.

129 posted on 01/10/2005 4:34:02 PM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: Gabz

You couldn't be more wrong - as you're finding out. Governments exist to govern, not coddle stenchers...


130 posted on 01/10/2005 4:35:18 PM PST by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: exnavychick; tacticalogic
Actually, we had one the other night that flat out compared smokers to crack addicts,........

A lame arguement is putting it mildly.

Before we moved last year, there were crack dealers living across the street from us.........more than once I had anti-smoker comments hurled at me by them and some of their "clients" about my smoking. And that generally happened when I was cleaning up their beer and liquor bottles, fast food wrappers, and crack vials in my front lawn.

When someone compares smoking cigarettes to doing crack I lose any possible idea I might have a bit of respect or the time of day for them. I know a couple that nearly lost everything because they had a crack addiction.....and no one knew, other than those they did it with, it at the time. They were both prominent attorney, doing extremely well and got busted on the day they were leaving on their honeymoon. She has since become a firm believer in the fact she had an addiction to it and is deeply offended when such comparisons of what she and her husband went through are made to people who smoke cigarettes.

131 posted on 01/10/2005 4:36:40 PM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: SheLion

A lot of times, I've come on to these threads and taken up an argument, and find that suddenly it's between me and one social engineer, nobody else is posting. I hate when that happens.

I absolutely know a lot of people are lurking, but I have begun to feel like I'm feeding mangy strays, they always get repetitious, fail (deliberately) to follow the argument or respond directly to posts, get snotty and then call us "enraged" or "addicts" when they have no further arguments, and use every chance they get to argue AGAINST private property rights.

I despise these people. If I ever saw one on an unrelated thread, where I actually agreed with them on something, I'd refuse to support them because of their rude tactics on the cigarette threads.

They should be isolated and put in their own (*smoke-free*) threads.


132 posted on 01/10/2005 4:36:41 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: exnavychick

ROFL!!!!!!!!

It will probably FLY right over the heads ofo those who should pay most attention.


133 posted on 01/10/2005 4:39:04 PM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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To: Judith Anne
They should be isolated and put in their own (*smoke-free*) threads.

I think so myself. And I wish FR had an ignore button, so we wouldn't have to read anything they write. Just put their name on ignore, and the thread would post around them. I'd love that feature.

134 posted on 01/10/2005 4:40:57 PM PST by SheLion (God bless our military members and keep them safe.)
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To: 185JHP
Governments exist to govern, not coddle stenchers...

Goodbye, pig farmers! Goodbye, barns! Goodbye, airports! Goodbye, automobiles! Goodbye, food processing plants! Goodbye, forest fires! Goodbye, steel mills! Goodbye, sewage treatment plants! Goodbye, tuna salad! Goodbye, fresh onions! Goodbye, hospital surgery suites! Goodbye, sickrooms! Goodbye, public rest rooms!

135 posted on 01/10/2005 4:42:14 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: SheLion

We COULD pretend....oops! I just fed a smoke-troll.


136 posted on 01/10/2005 4:44:01 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: SheLion

My post 135 I mean. DRAT!


137 posted on 01/10/2005 4:45:03 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: SheLion
If we get annoyed or irritated with them, then the wrong person is suffering. I vote we make them the object of ridicule.

We get at least one volunteer on every thread!

138 posted on 01/10/2005 4:47:11 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart.)
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To: Gabz
Heh heh. But I love being a smart aleck, so I'll keep on doing it as often as necessary. :) Who knows, maybe someone someday will actually pick up on it!

If I didn't like the one I have, I'd change my tagline to say "Causation does not equal correlation". LOL It applies to a lot of arguments, imo.
139 posted on 01/10/2005 4:50:34 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: Judith Anne

That would be funny, wouldn't it.

I'm sure they would have the same reaction to find a help-wanted ad stating "smokers only need apply" or "non-smokers need not apply".........even though they glory in the fact that the opposite occurs on a regular basis in many places.


140 posted on 01/10/2005 5:00:47 PM PST by Gabz (Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
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