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Death can take us at any time. But when you realize you have only hours or minutes left
to live, you get a chance to deliver a final message to the world. Perhaps itll be a phone
call or a text message or even just a note scratched into a nearby surface. Theyll be your
last words. Make them count.
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On December 4, 2009, Nadine Haag was found dead in her shower. The 33-year-old
Australian woman had a deep cut on her wrist. Nearby was a razor, along with bottles of
painkillers. There was also a note left on the side of the nearby spa bath.
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The 98 Rock
Pearl Harbor was not the only US base attacked by Japan in December 1941. Japanese
forces also advanced on Wake Island, a small coral Pacific atoll home to 1,600 American
troops and civilian contractors. Japan captured the island by December 23. Most of the
POWs were shipped to prison camps in China, but 98 remained.
In 1943, the US struck back. On October 7, after two days of attacks, the Japanese knew
they faced defeat, and they decided to execute the prisoners rather than let the US
free them. The prisoners were lined up, blindfolded, and hit with machine guns. One of
the captives, whose identity remains unknown, managed to escape and hide. In his last
moments, he created a makeshift memorial.
Photo credit: Sun-Telegraph
He carved the following inscription into a large coral rock near what would become the
mass grave for him and his fellow victims: 98 US PW 5-10-43.
When the runaway was discovered, the Japanese admiral in charge of the island
beheaded him personally. But the man was successful in his attempt to ensure that the
fate of the 98 wasnt forgotten. The rock is still there today.
In May 2006, a yacht was spotted drifting 112 kilometers (70 mi) off the coast of
Barbados. Rescuers sailed out to meet the craft, which was clearly in trouble.
Unfortunately, they were much too late. The rusting vessel was home to 11 young mens
On March 4, 1908, a fire broke out in the English Hamstead Colliery mine, trapping 25
miners underground. Their colleagues tried to reach them, but the fire was too much for
them, and rescue teams with professional breathing apparatus fared no better.
All 25 men trapped in the mine died. One of the rescuers, John Welsby, also dieddue to
heatstroke.
When rescuers found the bodies a week later, they saw the dead men huddled
together in four groups. One group of six men had left a last plea for salvation on a
wooden board nearby. The Lord Preserve Us, began the message. It ended with: For
We Are All Trusting in Christ. Between the two lines were the six miners names.
When underwater, divers communicate with one another by writing on slates with chalk.
Since diving can be a dangerous activity, some of these slates inevitably end up carrying
some divers final words.
The most famous of these messages was written by Tom and Eileen Lonergan. The
American couple were abandoned and forgotten by a tour boat off the coast of Australia
in 1998, and their story went on to be immortalized in the film Open Water. A slate was
later found with the following plea: To anyone [who] can help us: We have been
abandoned on A[gin]court Reef by MV Outer Edge 25 Jan 98 3pm. Please help us to
rescue us before we die. Help!!!
However, not all diving deaths are as unusual or well known. The cave systems of North
Central Florida have claimed hundreds of lives from inexperienced cave divers. Among
those to die there was Bill Hurst, a diving instructor. He failed to return from a dive in
1976, and a recovery team later found his body. On his slate was a simple message: I
got lost. Tell my wife and kids I love them very much.
Aviation pioneer William Lancaster crashed in the Sahara Desert on April 12, 1933 while
trying to claim the speed record for a flight from England to Cape Town. It would be 29
years before anyone read his final words.
His fate had been almost sealed before hed taken off. Hed flown just a couple of hours
in the previous year, after spending three months in jail for a murder charge. He was
acquitted but had a breakdown, which kept him on the ground. Yet when he was deemed
ready to fly again, he decided to go straight for a difficult record.
After leaving England, he met unfavorable winds and had to stop off in Barcelona. To
make up time, he ended up flying at night and got lost several times over North Africa.
He had no cockpit light, so he had to use his flashlight every few minutes to check his
compass.
When he finally refueled in the Algerian town of Reggan, hed been awake for 30 hours
and could barely walk. Authorities tried to stop him from leaving, but he wouldnt be
persuaded. He was 10 hours behind schedule at that point, and if he delayed any further,
he stood no chance at getting the record.
Around an hour later, off-course, he crash-landed in the Sahara. It was 1962 when a
French army patrol found the wrecked plane. With it was a fuel card on which Bill had
written his final message. So the beginning of the eighth day has dawned. It is still cool.
I have no water...I am waiting patiently. Come soon please. Fever wracked me last
night. Hope you get my full log. Bill.
At the start of the 20th century, the British Armys standard equipment included forms
for writing wills. Many superstitious young men, however, didnt want to tempt fate by
filling one out. So many soldiers, upon being shot and realizing they werent going to
make it, would scrawl out their desires at the last moment.
In one instance, a soldier in Afghanistan was found with the words I want mother to
have all written on a rock in his own blood. While most werent that gruesome, these
last testaments were hurried, short, and random. Among the items soldiers used were
old envelopes, playing cards, and the edges of torn scraps of newspaper. Wills were
carved into bayonet scabbards and scratched onto helmets with bullets. One soldier in
World War I wrote his will on his glove. In almost every case, the soldiers belongings
were pledged to his mother or his sweetheart.
Lieutenant Joseph A. Child simply wrote I leave her all when he was shot in 1918 during
the First World War. The her in question was identified because hed written the note
on the back of a photograph of his wife. Some soldiers had the time to make their
messages longer, such as I leave everything to my beloved wife. Some werent as lucky,
and one man was only able to manage three short words: all for wife.
One newspaper reported in 1915 that the workload for lawyers at Londons Somerset
House had tripled because of the unusual wills they needed to process.
On August 12, 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk was on an exercise in the
Barents Sea. For reasons that arent fully known, an explosion blew a hole in the
submarine, and the vessel began to sink. Shortly afterward, its remaining torpedoes
exploded. The submarine hit the seabed.
What followed was one of the most botched rescue efforts in modern history. The
Russians initially refused help from other countries, but after five days of failed
attempts to reach the sub, Vladimir Putin relented. A Norwegian rescue ship and a
British submersible rescue vehicle arrived within two days, and they reached theKursk
on August 20. By then, it was much too late, and all 118 men on board were dead.
Those sailors whod survived the initial explosions had gathered in a rear compartment.
One of the officers, Dmitry Kolesnikov, used the time to write a note. Four hours after
the explosion, he began: 15:45. Its too dark to write, but Ill try by touch. It seems there
is no chance, 10-20%. We hope that at least someone will read this.
Later in the note, he wrote that the survivors would try to get out. The final piece read:
Hi to everyone. Mustnt despair. Further lines were addressed to his family but were
not released to the public.
When the bodies were all finally recovered and buried, the note was displayed beside
Kolesnikovs coffin.
The battle of Gettysburg, with 50,000 casualties across both sides, was the deadliest and
most important in the American Civil War. The address of Abraham Lincoln that
came afterward is perhaps the most iconic speech ever made by a US president
Isaac E. Avery was a colonel in the Confederate States Army. During the battle, he was
shot in the neck and was partially paralyzed, unable to move his right arm. When the
mortally wounded Avery was dragged from the battlefield, he was clutching a small
piece of paper.
Hed been knocked from his horse and had taken a piece of pencil lead from his pocket.
Though right-handed, hed used his left hand to scribble a note that read: Major, tell my
father that I died with my face to the enemy. IE Avery.
He died the following day in the hospital. The note is preserved in the treasures
collection of the North Carolina State Archives.
Otto Simmonds was a German-born Jew who was captured by the Nazis in France. He
was held at Drancy, a deportation camp in northeastern Paris that handled 70,000
prisoners over the course of the war. In August 1942, Otto was loaded onto a train
bound for Auschwitz. It was there that he wrote a letter to his family. No one knows
where he got the paper, pencil, or envelope.
My dears,
On the way to Poland!!!
Nothing helped. Tried everything.
Allegedly its going to Metz.
Fifty of us in one car!!
Be brave and courageous.
Ill be the same. Stripped of everything in Drancy.
Kisses, Otto
He threw the letter out of the train window. Amazingly, it was found by a railway worker,
who forwarded it to Ottos wife, Marthe.
Marthe continued trying to find her husband into the 1960s, but he was never seen
again. The letter became the only thing she had left to remember him by. Ottos family
donated the letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010.
In 1887, a stonemason named Louis Thoen made a discovery in the Black Hills of South
Dakota. It was a sandstone slab, and it was inscribed with a message that read:
Alan may have got something in his eye a couple of times while writing this list. You can
tell him hes a wuss on Twitter.
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PictureBin ayearago
#1NadineHaag
#2EnglishHamsteadCollieryminersmessage
#3BillLancastersFuelCard
#4BritishSoldier'sWill
#5DmitryKolesnikovandhisletter
#6IsaacAverysLeftHandWrittenNote
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Stranger>PictureBin ayearago
Wonderfuladditionalinformation.Thankyou!
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Lisa39>PictureBin ayearago
Wowpb,thoseareamazing,yourock!
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Valkyrie>PictureBin ayearago
Aren'tyoubreakingcopyrightlawshere?
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yes>PictureBin ayearago
Youdidallofthegooglingformex)
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Athena910>PictureBin ayearago
Awesomepb!
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inconspicuousdetective ayearago
ohgodeveryone'sgoingtodotheirlastwords.
toobadi'mnotparticipa
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reallythough,apowerfullist.theresolveofhumansisstriking.
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Arsnl>inconspicuousdetective ayearago
"ohgodeveryone'sgoingtodotheirlastwords."
Idon'tknowifeveeyone'sgoingtodotheirlastwords.ButFredPhelpssuredid.
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Budha>Arsnl ayearago
fredphelps,yetagainconfirmationthatonlythegooddieyoung
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Blue>Budha ayearago
Ahhnevermindatleastwecanhavethecomfortofknowinginhis
versionofheavenheisgoingtobepassedaround,daisychained
andsodomisedforeternitybyallthepeoplehepissedoffinlife.
Weallknowheavenis"fabulous"andJesuswastheproductofa
twodadfamilysostandstoreason...............
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Maggot>Blue ayearago
heisgoingtobepassedaround,daisychainedandsodomisedfor
eternity
Iguesstherereallyisagod.
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Arsnl>Maggot ayearago
I'llbethedevilsadvocatehere.Idisagreewithsects.Buttheir
sloganwasjust:"Ourimaginaryfriendhateshomosexuals".
Ok,ok.Theychosearatherdistastefulmomentfortheirprotests,
atfuneralsofsoldiers.
ButIjustdon'tgetit.Ononeside,wehavepeoplethathaveno
power,excepttoshoutloudly,ontheotheryouhaveasystem
thatsenttheirmenandwomentokillandgetkilled,thattortured
prisoners,etcetcetc.
Shouldntpeopleaskthemselves:whyarethesepeoplegetting
killed?
TheUKgovtbannedhimfromitsterritories,yetjust2yearsago
UKpardonnedTuringforbeinggayandforcinghimtotakea
treatmentthatdestroyedhisbody.You'dsaythat'sthepast,but
justrecentlyUKspiedonitscitizensandconsidersthat
immigrantsarewaitingatitsgatesreadytoinvade.
Itisnotthosethatarepowerlessthatcandestroy,butthosewith
powerthatcaninflictthemostdestruction.
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Maggot>Arsnl ayearago
Shouldntpeopleaskthemselves:whyarethesepeoplegetting
killed?
Thatsavalidquestion,andpeopleareaskingthateveryday.But
Thatsavalidquestion,andpeopleareaskingthateveryday.But
thatsnotwhattheWBCisaskingwhenprotestingatsoldiers
funerals.Theyaresayingthatthesesoldiersaregettingkilled
becausetheirgodispunishingthecountryforitssinsof
homosexuality,andforwhichtheygivethankstosaidgodfortheir
deathsbecauseaccordingtothem,thosewhodefendthecountry
deservetodie.Distastefulmomentdoesnotevenbeginto
describehowinappropriateanddisrespectfulthatistoanyone
whohaseverservedinthemilitary,andtheirfamilies,to
desecratethehonorofthesefallensoldiersforthepurposeof
shoutingoutsuchabigotedandhateful,ifnotflatoutwrongor
misguidedmessage.
TheUKgovtbannedhimfromitsterritories,yetjust2yearsago
UKpardonnedTuringforbeinggayandforcinghimtotakea
treatmentthatdestroyedhisbody.
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BobLong>Maggot ayearago
Icertainlydon'tagreewithPhelpsinmanywaysbutisn'titfunny
thatMuslimextremistsAREallowedintotheUKinmanycases?
Wow.
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lonelydisco>Arsnl ayearago
Fairenough,butthetopicathandisnotontheaftermathofan
action,butonthefactthatWestboroisabagofpeanutbased
handjobs.
Thatsoundedwrong.Apologies.
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Lisa39>Blue ayearago
Aha!Aglimmerofhopeforyoumyfriend,allittookwasfred
phelpsdeathtomakeyouthinkthewholegodthingcouldbereal!
Youknowi'mteasing!
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Blue>Lisa39 ayearago
Keywordsinmycommenttherewere"hisversion".
ThetrueironyisthatheleftthismortalcoilontheInternational
DayofHappiness,someonesomewherehasaverydrysenseof
humour.
Nowweallknowthattwowrongsdon'tmakearight,however
thereisoneexceptionandthatwouldbeifaMuslimextremist
blowshimselfupintheWestboroBaptistChurchandridsthe
worldoftherestofthesec*nts.
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Lisa39>Blue ayearago
Drybutgoodandiagreewitheverythingyousaid,eventhec
word:D
word:D
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Blue>Lisa39 ayearago
Talkingofdry,doyouthinkFred'slastwordswere"Passmethe
KY"cosheknewhewasf*cked?
IwouldseriouslyliketobethemorticianforPhelps,thereisno
waytheywouldbeabletoclosethecoffinlidwithallofthephallic
symbolsIwouldbeinsertingintohischocolatestarfish......
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Lisa39>Blue ayearago
Omgblue,that'shorrible,butalsoincrediblygratifying,andit
paintsalovelyvisualimage!Thankyou:D
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lonelydisco>Blue ayearago
Technically,hewastheproductofadad,surrogate,anda
mandatoryparentalfigure/forgettablethirdand/orfourthwheel.
Ah,Joseph.You'relikeCaliforniatoGoogle,
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Blue>lonelydisco ayearago
IrecentlywenttotheHolyLandonaworkingholidayandwe
cameacrossaSocialServicesreport,itread:
BethlehemCityCouncilDepartmentofSocialCareReport0/0/00.
ChildsName:JesusONazareth
ParentalReport:
MotherDelusional:claimstoconversewithpeoplewhocanfly.
Behaviourpossiblyanindicationofprolongednarcoticsuse,
possiblyworksasaprostituteasclaimstohavehadavirgin
birth.
FatherAbsent/Unknown,motherscomment,ifyoufartyoudont
knowwhichbeanitwas.
StepFatherOflimitedIQ,worksasamanuallabourernotvery
educatedmothertakesadvantageofinnocence.Doesnot
understandwherebabiescomefrom.Seemsunperturbedabout
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lonelydisco>Blue ayearago
That'salittlemean,blue.
AndyoumightberippingoffthesecondseasonofAmerican
HorrorStory.Ialreadygotthatimagerywhenoneguythrewdown
astatueoftheBlessedVirginandscreamed"Youw#@^$!"
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inconspicuousdetective>Arsnl ayearago
ohgoodnessdon'tremindme.
ohgoodnessdon'tremindme.
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Blue>inconspicuousdetective ayearago
Iremembermydadslastwords"Ohf*ckatrain........."
Althoughhediddiepeacefully,notlikehispassengerskickingand
screaming........
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Valkyrie>Blue ayearago
That'sanoutrightChubbyBrownripoff:D
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worldtraveler ayearago
Also,"Iamnotdead,yet!"FromtheonenotyetdeadguyinMontyPythonandtheholy
grail.
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TataAdong>worldtraveler ayearago
Funnybitofcoincidence.IamwatchingMontyPythonandHolyGrailwhilst
readingthispost!
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guest>worldtraveler ayearago
Weren'thislastwords"Ifeelhappy?"Justbeforethecollectorhurriedthejob
along?
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AndyWest ayearago
WhenIdie,Iwanttogopeacefullylikemygrandfatherdidinhissleep.Notyellingand
screaminglikethepassengersinhiscar.
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Rick>AndyWest ayearago
Oldjoke,butstillveryfunny!
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thatpainterguy>AndyWest ayearago
weird,thatwasmygrandpa.
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Lisa39 ayearago
Elizabeth,i'mcomingtojoinyou...
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Neva>Lisa39 ayearago
Don'tyoudare,Sis!Notyet!
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Lisa39>Neva ayearago
Neva,youwerethebestlittlematchmakingsisever!
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Neva>Lisa39 ayearago
Well,ifyougo,iwon'tbethelittlematchmakingsisanymore.
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Lisa39>Neva ayearago
Pfft,i'mnotleavingyet,justpracticing:)
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Neva>Lisa39 ayearago
Ok,just...doitinyourroom,please,you'refreakingmeout:P
AndwhoisElisabeth?Ithoughtthatweweretryingtofindyoua
nicescandinavian,andnottheEnglishqueen:)
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Lisa39>Neva ayearago
Oldtvshow"sanfordandson",reddfoxxplayedasemicrotchety
oldguywhousedtoguilthissonintothingsbygrabbinghischest
andpretendingtohaveaheartattackandhe'dsay"elizabeth,i'm
comingtojoinyou",shewashiswifewhodied.
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Neva>Lisa39 ayearago
God,ihatetoruinthejokebymakingpeopleexplainittome,but
myexcuseisthatihaveneverseentheshow,norredfoxx.
Ok,thenyoucanhave'Elisabeth...'andiwillscream'Rosebud'
:D
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Lisa39>Neva ayearago
Iknewimighthavetoexplainthatoneloltherearequiteafew
peopleherewhomaynotknowthat,osnap,ithinkmyageis
hangingoutagain:pwho'srosebud?
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Neva>Lisa39 ayearago
Nobodyis100%sure,but'Rosebud'isthelastwordthatthe
citizenKanemustersbeforedying.Itisallegedlythebrandofhis
sled(orbycicle)thatwasasymbolofhischildhoodhappiness.Of
course,thereareothertheories,butiknowthisone.
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Maggot>Neva ayearago
Itisallegedlythebrandofhissled(orbycicle)thatwasasymbol
ofhischildhoodhappiness.Ofcourse,thereareothertheories
Itsnotalleged,oratheory,itsthesled.Notnecessarilyabrand,
butjustawordornamestenciledonit.Therevealisatthe
moviesend,andsorryforthespoilerherebutitsa70+yearold
moviethatmanyrankasoneofthebestfilmsevermade,soI
reallydoubtIamruiningitforverymanyfolkshere.Nowyes,as
yourlaterpostmentions,therearetheoriesastowhatinspired
Wellesuseofthatnametobeincorporatedintothefilm
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Guest>Maggot ayearago
Guest>Maggot ayearago
Perourpreviousinteractionshere,Ihavetoldyouwhatafanof
moviesIam,especiallytheclassicsandtheirstars.So,nowIwill
openthedoorforyoutoshameme.
IhaveneverseenCitizenKane:(
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Maggot>Guest ayearago
HahawellNattie,IcanassureyouthatIadoreyouWAYtoo
muchtoeverdreamofshamingyou,soIlljustsayyoureally
oughttoseeit.AndImsorryifIspoileditforyou.Lolactuallyits
notreallyaplotdrivingdetailsonoworriesinthatregard,andI
knowyouwillenjoyit
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NathanielA.>Maggot ayearago
Ugh,getaroomyoutwo.
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Maggot>NathanielA. ayearago
SorryyoutakeissuewithalittleharmlessandplayfulPDA
betweenfriends,butyouregoingtohavetogetoverit.
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NathanielA.>Maggot ayearago
What?The"Ugh"wasmeantinajokingtoneaswastherestof
thecomment."Ugh"mayhavenotbeenthebestwaytospellit,do
youhaveanybetterideassoastoavoidfurthermishaps?Maybe
"Ah,getaroomyoutwo,"wouldhavebeenbetter?
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Maggot>NathanielA. ayearago
Oksorryman,noworries.Igotnobeefwithyousowasjusta
littlepuzzledbywhatIthoughtwasanunprovoked
negativeconnotation.ButIapparentlytookitthewrongway,so
mybad.Thanksfortakingthetimetoclarifyitforme.
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NathanielA.>Maggot ayearago
Noproblem,clarificationisoneofmyfavoritehobbies...
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