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The Theranos scammer, Elizabeth Homes, got $100M out of Betsy DeVoss' family.

If you have $100M to squander like that, you deserve to lose it. smile


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Congratulations Greger!
Your timing was excellent in this nationwide chaotic real-estate market. Just think how much more you could have gotten if you could have held out until right before the crash, grin which I dont see coming!
The market out there is terrible for first time home buyers. Even in the rust belt here, hedge funds are buying up everything worth renting with cash, and now will raise all rents, but only what the market will bear!
New buyers who need mortgages cant compete with the hedgers who suddenly come in with $20K bids over asking price, in cash!

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Originally Posted by Rick
Look at the guns on that guy! Hello! laugh
(How can you not appreciate the male form when it looks like THAT?!? Bow )

I appreciate the forms of males and females alike...one of the motivations for getting down on the trail among all the athletic types. I'm not a player anymore but I still enjoy watching the game.

I hadn't even considered that he might be a triathlete. They just had the Great Floridian Iron Man Triathlon here last week, 2.4 mi swim 128 mile bike and then a marathon run. I can't imagine what inspires someone to put themselves through something like that.

There's also a guy down there with no legs who runs on those blade things. My ex mentioned that he was pretty fast and generally blows by everybody else on the trail. Turns out he's a double amputee marathon world record holder. One of those African marathoners, but with no legs. He lives in a nearby town and fits amputees to their prosthetics for a living. There's an easy 7-mile run around the lake for those inclined to do that sort of thing.


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Originally Posted by Rick
Look at the guns on that guy! Hello! laugh
(How can you not appreciate the male form when it looks like THAT?!? Bow )

I appreciate the forms of males and females alike...one of the motivations for getting down on the trail among all the athletic types. I'm not a player anymore but I still enjoy watching the game.

I hadn't even considered that he might be a triathlete. They just had the Great Floridian Iron Man Triathlon here last week, 2.4 mi swim 128 mile bike and then a marathon run. I can't imagine what inspires someone to put themselves through something like that.

There's also a guy down there with no legs who runs on those blade things. My ex mentioned that he was pretty fast and generally blows by everybody else on the trail. Turns out he's a double amputee marathon world record holder. One of those African marathoners, but with no legs. He lives in a nearby town and fits amputees to their prosthetics for a living. There's an easy 7-mile run around the lake for those inclined to do that sort of thing.

Jonathan's just "being Jonathan".
He was a triathlete prior to enlisting in the Army and prior to getting injured.
The truth is, he's really not doing anything he wouldn't normally be doing, except now that he's a disabled vet, he's doing it differently.
But everyone who knew him before says not much has changed.

The docs told him he'd never regain anything below his shoulders and he took that as a dare....typical of the guy.
So far the only thing he's been unlucky with is love...two wives and two matching divorces and two trips to (almost) clean him out financially.
He no longer has the lavish home with the pool, he had to scale back his lifestyle after Lost Wife #2 it seems.


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Yep, he's a triathlete. Good lookin' rascal too. This is him in a racing chair, looks like the deal's on. We've texted a bit and he's gonna call tonight. He was a motocross racer until he crashed at 16 and injured his spinal cord. He's Canadian.
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Check this out!

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1 Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2 Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an [censored].

3 Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4 Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5 Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6 Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7 Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8 Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it

9 Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafhalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn when you discover half a worm in the fruit you're eating.


The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1 Coffee, n The person upon whom one coughs.

2 Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3 Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4 Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5 Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

6 Negligent, adj. Absent mindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7 Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8 Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9 Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle, n A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.


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8 Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it
I dont get it?? dunce

This isnt quite as funny as Sargasm: Deriving extreme satisfaction from glibly berating another with sarcasm.
I get that! grin

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Q: What did they call the give and take when young Tatum was nursing as a child?

A: Tit for Tat.


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Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
Jonathan's just "being Jonathan".
He was a triathlete prior to enlisting in the Army and prior to getting injured.
The truth is, he's really not doing anything he wouldn't normally be doing, except now that he's a disabled vet, he's doing it differently.
But everyone who knew him before says not much has changed.

The docs told him he'd never regain anything below his shoulders and he took that as a dare....typical of the guy.
So far the only thing he's been unlucky with is love...two wives and two matching divorces and two trips to (almost) clean him out financially.
He no longer has the lavish home with the pool, he had to scale back his lifestyle after Lost Wife #2 it seems.
That's too bad he got soaked.

When guy's break-up, they just call each other a bytch, and move on. Hmm


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Originally Posted by TatumAH
This isnt quite as funny as Sargasm: Deriving extreme satisfaction from glibly berating another with sarcasm.
I get that! grin

Grrrrl, please. That's reading a bytch to filth. laugh Queens have been doing THAT for decades. Bow




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