Life is a Sexually Transmitted Disease


	Life is a Sexually Transmitted Disease

abailart

11-13-2007 4:05 PM

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11-13-2007 6:31 PM

wildcat

Laing... yessss!!!

11-13-2007 6:47 PM

syncopath

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is
never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his [b]grasp.[/b]
(James [b]Ramsey Ullman, American writer & mountaineer)[/b]

11-14-2007 4:14 AM

abailart

Great quote, syncopath. Will look this guy up. You read messenger?

@wildcat: Laing, the cartographer of the unconscious mind. I am told that if you drop a tab and stand on your head while reading The Divided Self and listening to 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson you can talk to Ronnie in person

11-14-2007 4:22 AM

wildcat

I second that, it is a great quote syncopath..
and since my love extends to King Crimson (does that mean we're getting old?

I may try that abailart

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