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In my pursuit of one day speaking fluent Spanish, I often read Spanish newspapers. Like El Mercurio, from Chile, where I came upon a story about Colonia Dignidad. It was kind of cult group established in Chile by a German Nazi in the early 60s. Last week the government of Germany announced it was se...

You would be a good copyeditor.

See for yourself. Go to the three bar quick links on your upper left. Click. Click members. There we all are, with a column specifying the number of posts made. Some of us can hold our piece. At least one is an incessant spouter with sure self-esteem issues and a total lack of self-control.

In my 50 years in the publishing business, I've never seen a blatant theft in which one person used another's idea. Clearly, it happens as in the Art Buchwald/Eddie Murphy contretemps about "Coming to America." But mostly what I see is people who snatch a good line here and there. There ar...

My photographer friend, Chris Ranier, was in Tianamen Square that night. Of course, he was shooting. It was film on celluloid then. You know, rolls of film? Anyway, the shit was hitting the fan that night. The army knew where Chris was and he knew they knew. So he stashed his good shots under an aco...

Great idea. Are you available for interviews?

Crepuscular, a form of dim light, twilight. If you live where I do, you are acutely aware that bears are crepuscular. They are most active at dusk and dawn. Therefore, I have chosen to use the word as a threat. "Imma get crepuscular on your ass."

As Fatty says, class.

Good stuff Gene. Of course, it won't work for my purposes. I'm trying to write the cheesiest thriller possible and your efforts are way too well written to even consider.

This is a cry for help.

Walk on the sunny side.

Don't do it Fatty. There are people who love you. I mean, there probably are some people who love you. A few anyway. OK, not a lot. Well, all right, maybe no one loves you but that's no reason to...

Ah, go ahead, pull the trigger.

Professor Tom Yates, professor of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health at the University of Leicester and a lead author of the study, said: "Our findings could help clarify the relative importance of physical fitness compared to body weight on life expectancy of individuals. In oth...

Take when the monkeys start laughing.

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Or perhaps we could just gas them all.
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Don't be a silly goose.

Was she eating keto? That's the only relevant question.

THRILLER Zagreb, Croatia. A sudden explosion split the night. Fred didn’t look back. He and his sexually attractive girlfriend, Lilly, sped away in red 1969 Ford Mustang. Little did they know that the Pueblo Cartel had joined forces with the Russian Mob to wipe out Fred’s mother, Sally, who sheltere...

Well done, Mario.

The site is actually usable again.

Johno and Turd,
Good points. I'll stay in my vehicle. But the deal is that I walk up there. That's the whole point. I might encounter him a couple of miles from my truck.

It's a big sloping grassland. You can see for Miles.

I can't operate a drone. As for airspace, a guy I met is a kite skier. Asked permission to fly over the bastard's ranch. Denied. But, as Nafod says, it's not his airspace to deny. I've gotten a lot of feedback in town from people who have had run-ins with this guy. His MO: sits in the cab of his tru...

Ok, this guy is big time rich. Married into it. Likes to hunt. From Connecticut. Bought the ranch 15 years sago. You can't drive up to his place with a 6 pack to discus matters because you have to pass a no trespassing video gate and drive a almost a mile. He has an armed minion on an ATV. He bought...

Shapecharge wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 1:53 pm Did you really mean to say 30,000 acres? That's fucking nearly 47 square miles of land. Holy shit, what does something like that cost?

Sorry, 3000.

Ah,turns out that because it was on federal land, I can charge the guy with aggravated assault. I don't think it meets the definition (since he did not brandish a weapon). But, the very complaint means that that record is available to all law enforcement agencies.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll look into it.

Thanks for your suggestions, Turd. I'm happy to see that, as always, sophistication eludes you.