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Hi, I'm Adam, AMA
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Adam
Adam
Just returned from France and decided to give Halforums another try.
Quick update: Lost much of my hair due to stress, lost 30lbs hopefully not due to the same, heading to Nashville in a couple days, tried to hook up with Bubble in Belgium to no avail, ask me anything.
Quick update: Lost much of my hair due to stress, lost 30lbs hopefully not due to the same, heading to Nashville in a couple days, tried to hook up with Bubble in Belgium to no avail, ask me anything.
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checkeredhat
checkeredhat
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Adam
Adam
In response to your lack of question, I give you a picture of me inspecting a cannon in the Alsace region of France.
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Dave
Dave
Adam! Are we sure it's you? DO you have a gif you could upload as proof?
Welcome back, dude!
Welcome back, dude!
#5
checkeredhat
checkeredhat
Careful, you'll poke your eye out.In response to your lack of question, I give you a picture of me inspecting a cannon in the Alsace region of France.
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Adam
Adam
Adam! Are we sure it's you? DO you have a gif you could upload as proof?
Welcome back, dude!
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Dave
Dave
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strawman
strawman
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ThatNickGuy
ThatNickGuy
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Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
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Adam
Adam
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Charlie Don't Surf
Charlie Don't Surf
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Adam
Adam
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Charlie Don't Surf
Charlie Don't Surf
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Adam
Adam
#18
Charlie Don't Surf
Charlie Don't Surf
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Adam
Adam
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Hailey Knight
Hailey Knight
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Jay
Jay
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LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
Oh my goodness!! I'm so happy you're posting again!
#24
Adam
This is at Omaha beach. We put 6000km on this rental over 2.5 weeks. And it actually wasn't half bad.
Adam
The Beard infinitely increases Poe's coolness factor. Jay remains simply infinitely cool + 1.[DOUBLEPOST=1348934075][/DOUBLEPOST]
No question asked here so another picture from France.Oh my goodness!! I'm so happy you're posting again!
This is at Omaha beach. We put 6000km on this rental over 2.5 weeks. And it actually wasn't half bad.
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Espy
Espy
I see you have some espy points saved up. Would you like trade them in for tickets or keep playing for more?
Glad to have you back man. Where you belong. Down here with the rest of us.
Glad to have you back man. Where you belong. Down here with the rest of us.
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Adam
This is an ancient oak wine cask, one of the largest in France.[DOUBLEPOST=1348934422][/DOUBLEPOST]
Adam
No question here either, France picture:
This is an ancient oak wine cask, one of the largest in France.[DOUBLEPOST=1348934422][/DOUBLEPOST]
I see how it works. Espy points -> Tickets -> Badges -> Chits -> Checks -> Token -> Vouchers. I will continue to play for more.I see you have some espy points saved up. Would you like trade them in for tickets or keep playing for more?
Glad to have you back man. Where you belong. Down here with the rest of us.
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Dirona
Dirona
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Adam
Adam
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Espy
Espy
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Wahad
Wahad
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Adam
Most everyone has heard of the song "Sur la Pont d'Avignon" however what very few people know is that the song actually originated as "Sous la Pont d'Avignon" as a missive on the parties that would be held under the bridge, not on top of it as the modern version proclaims.
Adam
I'm intrigued by your offer and wish to subscribe to the Espy Newsletter. Also, no question so picture of France:
Most everyone has heard of the song "Sur la Pont d'Avignon" however what very few people know is that the song actually originated as "Sous la Pont d'Avignon" as a missive on the parties that would be held under the bridge, not on top of it as the modern version proclaims.
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Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
Did you meet any hobo manpleasers under that bridge?I'm intrigued by your offer and wish to subscribe to the Espy Newsletter. Also, no question so picture of France:
Most everyone has heard of the song "Sur la Pont d'Avignon" however what very few people know is that the song actually originated as "Sous la Pont d'Avignon" as a missive on the parties that would be held under the bridge, not on top of it as the modern version proclaims.
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Adam
Adam
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checkeredhat
checkeredhat
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Adam
Lack of question, France pic. Which any Canadian should appreciate, the Vimy Ridge memorial.
Adam
As it should, BC rules.
Lack of question, France pic. Which any Canadian should appreciate, the Vimy Ridge memorial.
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Cheesy1
Cheesy1
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checkeredhat
checkeredhat
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Cheesy1
Cheesy1
I know, they just kinda remind me of:
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Bubble181
Bubble181
Hey-o. Happy to see you back here.
So, what-all did you end up seeing in France and/or Belgium? Anything in my list make the final cut?
So, what-all did you end up seeing in France and/or Belgium? Anything in my list make the final cut?
#40
Adam
We're kicking ourselves for not getting over to Ypres. But we saw so much (too much) of France that any more travel would have pushed me over the edge.
Adam
French beers taste like ass, you were rightHey-o. Happy to see you back here.
So, what-all did you end up seeing in France and/or Belgium? Anything in my list make the final cut?
We're kicking ourselves for not getting over to Ypres. But we saw so much (too much) of France that any more travel would have pushed me over the edge.
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Bubble181
Bubble181
Next time, make sure you have a conference in BrusselsFrench beers taste like ass, you were right
We're kicking ourselves for not getting over to Ypres. But we saw so much (too much) of France that any more travel would have pushed me over the edge.
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sixpackshaker
sixpackshaker
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Jay
Jay
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Adam
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Adam
Fucking Paris.[DOUBLEPOST=1348938896][/DOUBLEPOST]
We're over in England next summer, I suppose that's still too far away from BrusselsNext time, make sure you have a conference in Brussels
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Do they still have slaves available for sale??
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sixpackshaker
sixpackshaker
#46
Dirona
Dirona
#47
Adam
Vimy Ridge started off the trip with some nice Canadiana. Chateau Haut-Koenigsburg heading towards Germany was a pretty fascinating castle that's been rebuilt over the years and is pretty top condition now. Annecy was amazing (30km from Geneva, Switzerland). Avignon's old city is just oozing history throughout, hard to drive in though. Mont-Saint-Michel is brilliant and people should just spend a night at a hotel there because lit up at night, I think it's probably one of the most beautiful things in France.
Monaco.....Let me tell you a story or two about Monaco. I don't drive standards very often and I was...lucky...enough to get a standard diesel Mini Cooper. Very fun to drive, great on gas, different shifting than I'm used to. Monaco is very hilly. And by very hilly, I mean the whole city basically sits on Big White right down to the oceanside. It's also very small, so parking is at a premium. We're driving around and I'm searching in vain for a parking spot and I cross a white line. Well, apparently that's a cardinal sin in Monaco and I approach a roundabout where a Monaco police offer had apparently spotted my sin and waves me over. I roll down my windows and he's spitting mad at me. I'm incredulous at this offense and he's barking French at me, and then English, and then Stupid. He wants me to go around the block and do the intersection again so I can show him I know how to do it. Otherwise he's going to give me a 350 Euro fine. I'm staring up at him thinking 'You have got to be kidding' and I had apparently smiled a bit so he then started barking at me about thinking he was funny, and this was all a big joke and he should impound my car. I'm looking at him up from this little Cooper and I'm just sweating bullets trying to explain I'm just strying to find a place to park. Eventually he just lets me go but that was the beginning of our Monaco adventure.
I find a parking garage underground, get settled and do a walking tour of Monaco. I'm dressed up because I intend to head into the Monte Carlo for some quick table games. Apparently I wasn't dressed well enough (Dress shirt, dress pants, no tie) so we're denied entry into that part. Dejected, I go into the Hotel Paris and sit on some slot machines in there - which is basically just an American style casino with slots machines everywhere and snooty staff heading off tourists trying to come in wearing hats.
We leave the casino and sit down at a restaurant. 11 Euro for a bottle of coke. FUCK THAT.
Head back to the garage walking along the water front where apparently there's a Yacht Exhibition starting up that weekend.
Some of the smaller yachts are parked out in the harbour.
Get back into the parking garage and try to head home. I say try because the parking garage had an exit that was incredibly steep with the gate arm halfway up the exit. I pull up in the cooper, put in my paid parking stub, arms lifts up, I try to drive out.
Stall the cooper.
Curse, try it again.
Stall the cooper.
Did this four times until the gate arm dropped back down again. So, I'm stuck in the exit with two cars behind me, no parking ticket, and no way to go up.
The cars behind me eventually take a different exit and I roll the car back down to the beginning, get fined 20 Euro for 'losing' my ticket, and try the exit again.
Stall the cooper.
FUUUUUUUUUUCK. Try it again.
Stall the cooper.
Arm comes down again. So now I've wasted 20 Euro, I'm pissed to all get out because I have no fucking idea in hell why I can't get out of the garage.
My wife goes and talks to the garage attendant, explaining her husband is an idiot and is having problems getting out of the garage so he tells us try again and he'll left the arm for us. So we get back in the car, and I creep slowly up the hill to the arm, and he doesn't lift it. So I stop - THEN he lifts it - and I try to go again.
Stall the cooper.
I'm just so incredibly frustrated at this point that I gun the engine, drop the clutch and...
Gently climb the grade out of the parking garage.
I guess BMW has built a hill assist into the Mini's that runs a little differently than standard hill starts. It doesn't roll back on the hill even if you don't have the brake down but you have to gas it up a little higher than normal to get going (and it's a diesel so you have to hit around 2000RPM to begin with).
I'm never going back to Monaco. Ever.
Adam
That's even closer. Ok, I'll let you know next time we're in K-town, it's pretty often.
Vimy Ridge started off the trip with some nice Canadiana. Chateau Haut-Koenigsburg heading towards Germany was a pretty fascinating castle that's been rebuilt over the years and is pretty top condition now. Annecy was amazing (30km from Geneva, Switzerland). Avignon's old city is just oozing history throughout, hard to drive in though. Mont-Saint-Michel is brilliant and people should just spend a night at a hotel there because lit up at night, I think it's probably one of the most beautiful things in France.
Monaco.....Let me tell you a story or two about Monaco. I don't drive standards very often and I was...lucky...enough to get a standard diesel Mini Cooper. Very fun to drive, great on gas, different shifting than I'm used to. Monaco is very hilly. And by very hilly, I mean the whole city basically sits on Big White right down to the oceanside. It's also very small, so parking is at a premium. We're driving around and I'm searching in vain for a parking spot and I cross a white line. Well, apparently that's a cardinal sin in Monaco and I approach a roundabout where a Monaco police offer had apparently spotted my sin and waves me over. I roll down my windows and he's spitting mad at me. I'm incredulous at this offense and he's barking French at me, and then English, and then Stupid. He wants me to go around the block and do the intersection again so I can show him I know how to do it. Otherwise he's going to give me a 350 Euro fine. I'm staring up at him thinking 'You have got to be kidding' and I had apparently smiled a bit so he then started barking at me about thinking he was funny, and this was all a big joke and he should impound my car. I'm looking at him up from this little Cooper and I'm just sweating bullets trying to explain I'm just strying to find a place to park. Eventually he just lets me go but that was the beginning of our Monaco adventure.
I find a parking garage underground, get settled and do a walking tour of Monaco. I'm dressed up because I intend to head into the Monte Carlo for some quick table games. Apparently I wasn't dressed well enough (Dress shirt, dress pants, no tie) so we're denied entry into that part. Dejected, I go into the Hotel Paris and sit on some slot machines in there - which is basically just an American style casino with slots machines everywhere and snooty staff heading off tourists trying to come in wearing hats.
We leave the casino and sit down at a restaurant. 11 Euro for a bottle of coke. FUCK THAT.
Head back to the garage walking along the water front where apparently there's a Yacht Exhibition starting up that weekend.
Some of the smaller yachts are parked out in the harbour.
Get back into the parking garage and try to head home. I say try because the parking garage had an exit that was incredibly steep with the gate arm halfway up the exit. I pull up in the cooper, put in my paid parking stub, arms lifts up, I try to drive out.
Stall the cooper.
Curse, try it again.
Stall the cooper.
Did this four times until the gate arm dropped back down again. So, I'm stuck in the exit with two cars behind me, no parking ticket, and no way to go up.
The cars behind me eventually take a different exit and I roll the car back down to the beginning, get fined 20 Euro for 'losing' my ticket, and try the exit again.
Stall the cooper.
FUUUUUUUUUUCK. Try it again.
Stall the cooper.
Arm comes down again. So now I've wasted 20 Euro, I'm pissed to all get out because I have no fucking idea in hell why I can't get out of the garage.
My wife goes and talks to the garage attendant, explaining her husband is an idiot and is having problems getting out of the garage so he tells us try again and he'll left the arm for us. So we get back in the car, and I creep slowly up the hill to the arm, and he doesn't lift it. So I stop - THEN he lifts it - and I try to go again.
Stall the cooper.
I'm just so incredibly frustrated at this point that I gun the engine, drop the clutch and...
Gently climb the grade out of the parking garage.
I guess BMW has built a hill assist into the Mini's that runs a little differently than standard hill starts. It doesn't roll back on the hill even if you don't have the brake down but you have to gas it up a little higher than normal to get going (and it's a diesel so you have to hit around 2000RPM to begin with).
I'm never going back to Monaco. Ever.
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drifter
drifter
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Adam
Adam
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Bubble181
On the other hand, I do agree they're terribly overrated - I've had much better cavas than champagnes, especially if you compare in the same price range.
Also, I hope you weren't actually surprised *Monaco* is expensive - it's one big fancy suite calling itself a country, after all
Bubble181
There's....literally no other champagne. Anything not from France with the word "Champagne" on it, is, by default, fraudulent. You english-speaking folk like to use "champagne" to stand in for any sparkly white wine, but that's like calling all cars "mercedes".
On the other hand, I do agree they're terribly overrated - I've had much better cavas than champagnes, especially if you compare in the same price range.
Also, I hope you weren't actually surprised *Monaco* is expensive - it's one big fancy suite calling itself a country, after all
#53
Bowielee
Bowielee
I reject your premise. Coney Dogs are still Coney Dogs, even if they didn't come directly from Coney Island.There's....literally no other champagne. Anything not from France with the word "Champagne" on it, is, by default, fraudulent. You english-speaking folk like to use "champagne" to stand in for any sparkly white wine, but that's like calling all cars "mercedes".
On the other hand, I do agree they're terribly overrated - I've had much better cavas than champagnes, especially if you compare in the same price range.
Also, I hope you weren't actually surprised *Monaco* is expensive - it's one big fancy suite calling itself a country, after all
#54
Adam
Champagne's sold as a luxury item when it is anything but - that's how I see it's overratedness. We were watching a documentary on Krug champagne and one of the issues they had was that Paris Hilton was spotted drinking it, and they were concerned that it would lose it's 'lustre' because of that.
I wasn't surprised Monaco was expensive, I was looking forward to it. What I wasn't expecting was the police state.
Adam
Or any search provider, Google. Oh waitThere's....literally no other champagne. Anything not from France with the word "Champagne" on it, is, by default, fraudulent. You english-speaking folk like to use "champagne" to stand in for any sparkly white wine, but that's like calling all cars "mercedes".
On the other hand, I do agree they're terribly overrated - I've had much better cavas than champagnes, especially if you compare in the same price range.
Also, I hope you weren't actually surprised *Monaco* is expensive - it's one big fancy suite calling itself a country, after all
Champagne's sold as a luxury item when it is anything but - that's how I see it's overratedness. We were watching a documentary on Krug champagne and one of the issues they had was that Paris Hilton was spotted drinking it, and they were concerned that it would lose it's 'lustre' because of that.I wasn't surprised Monaco was expensive, I was looking forward to it. What I wasn't expecting was the police state.
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Cheesy1
Cheesy1
Bah, can't find Rob Lowe's speech about Champagne from Wayne's World.
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LordRendar
LordRendar
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WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
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PatrThom
PatrThom
A lot of them just get lumped in with the other pretenders under the name "Asti." Some of 'em are pretty good, though.
--Patrick
--Patrick
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Bowielee
Bowielee
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blotsfan
blotsfan
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jwhouk
jwhouk
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Adam
Adam
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Adam
Adam
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ThatNickGuy
ThatNickGuy
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Adam
Adam
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ThatNickGuy
ThatNickGuy
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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HCGLNS
HCGLNS
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Adam
Adam
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Adam
Adam
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checkeredhat
checkeredhat
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blotsfan
blotsfan
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Adam
Adam
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Jay
Jay
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LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
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Adam
Whee.
Adam
Whee.
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Cheesy1
Cheesy1
Like a rhinestone cowboy?
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Adam
Adam
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WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
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jwhouk
jwhouk
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Adam
Adam
MOAR NASHVILLE
Quite enjoyed this
Quite enjoyed this
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Charlie Don't Surf
Charlie Don't Surf
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Jay
Jay
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Charlie Don't Surf
Charlie Don't Surf
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Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
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Jay
Jay
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
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Covar
Covar
I think it's because of the guitar behind you, but for some reason you look photoshopped into that picture. And I know I've seen a lot of photoshops in my time. You can tell by teh pixels.
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jwhouk
jwhouk
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Jay
Jay
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Bowielee
Bowielee
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
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Jay
Jay
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#98
Jay
Jay
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Adam
Adam
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Jay
Jay
Brunettes are my favorite.
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
Moi, je prefere les rousses.... mais les brunettes ne sont pas mal aussi...
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Adam
Adam
Moi, je prefere les rousses.... mais les brunettes ne sont pas mal aussi...
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Jay
Jay
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Adam
Adam
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Jay
Jay
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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tegid
tegid
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Bubble181
Bubble181
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Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
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Azurephoenix
Azurephoenix
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Adam
Adam
Crazy redheads??? I have one of those!
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Jay
Jay