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Carl Banks

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Feb 2, 2008, 3:57:38 AM2/2/08
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Today I was driving my Kia Rio to work and I decided to try country
music for a change of pace, but when I found the country station my
ears were accosted by a barrage of filth. I'm referring to Johnny
Cash's song, Ring of Fire.

The true meaning is undeniable: "ring of fire" really refers to the
anal sphincter, and by falling into it he means he screwed a guy in
the ass. And if that wasn't bad enough, he then sings about going
"down, down, down on the ring of fire", i.e., anallingus. You can't
tell me that this song isn't dripping with homosexual innuendo, and
that Cash is not therefore a queer.

jimbr...@yahoo.com

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Feb 2, 2008, 10:33:22 AM2/2/08
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I was thinking he died of the AIDS.

Constance Reeder

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Feb 2, 2008, 10:36:13 AM2/2/08
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Except that June Carter wrote the song, not Johnny...

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deem...@aol.com

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Feb 2, 2008, 10:50:01 AM2/2/08
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On Feb 2, 10:36 am, Constance Reeder <consta...@duxmail.com> wrote:

JUNE CARTER LIEKED IT UP THE POOP SHOOT!!!!!!!!

ZÿRiX

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Feb 2, 2008, 11:01:59 AM2/2/08
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"Constance Reeder" <cons...@duxmail.com> wrote in message
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Originally, this song was written in part by June Carter - who later became
June Carter-Cash. She fell in love with Johnny while he was still married to
his first wife, and the lyrics reflect how strongly she was drawn to the
troubled Man in Black, but knew he was both off-limits and a dangerous soul
with whom to trust her heart. 'Ring of Fire' evokes biblical themes, in that
lusting after another's husband or wife is a sin, and falling into a ring of
fire both reflects a decent into Hell, and the danger June felt in attaching
herself to Cash's destructive lifestyle. At the point in his life this song
was written, Cash lived dangerously and was becoming addicted to
amphetamines.
It took 10 years, a divorce, and several run-ins with the law and the
hospital before Cash and Carter finally came together as man and wife. And
until they both died in recent years, they lived a happy life together, with
no flames to be seen. Now that they're gone, it's anyone's guess if they
remain that way.


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ZRiX
(畔'..(<>..<>)..'敞)

Merle Barnes

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Feb 2, 2008, 12:27:38 PM2/2/08
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That's about what I'd expect from someone driving a Kia Rio!!! LOL

dahpater

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Feb 2, 2008, 12:38:33 PM2/2/08
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Your wrong on all accounts!!!
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2787
And it's, "I fell in to a ring of fire..."
And you are a "ring of fire"!!!

Bill Burk

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Feb 2, 2008, 12:50:57 PM2/2/08
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>> Today I was driving my Kia Rio to work >>

This explains it all !

Anyone dumb enough to drive a Kia or a Hyundai would think like this.

007


ZÿRiX

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Feb 2, 2008, 1:01:25 PM2/2/08
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"Bill Burk" <beb...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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Hey hey hey I drive a KIA Sorento and it is a damn nice SUV
BUT I do like my 98 C5 Corvette a lot better...

http://midessasolutions.com/

The Grand Beckoning

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Feb 2, 2008, 2:18:28 PM2/2/08
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It's widely known she was a back-door woman.

Dan L

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Feb 2, 2008, 8:03:23 PM2/2/08
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John Wayne was gay not john cash


ZÿRiX

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Feb 2, 2008, 8:54:48 PM2/2/08
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> "ZÿRiX" <o...@net.com> wrote in message

As John Wayne would say,
You know I rode tall in the saddle till my blisters broke...


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ZÿRiX
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Carl Banks

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Feb 2, 2008, 9:20:25 PM2/2/08
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On Feb 2, 11:01 am, ZÿRiX <o...@net.com> wrote:
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> ZÿRiX
> (¯`'..(<>..<>)..'´¯)


It doesn't matter who wrote it. Why would Johnny Cash sing a song
with all that gay innuendo? Straight men don't do that.

Archie Leach

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Feb 3, 2008, 1:21:33 AM2/3/08
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dahpater <dahp...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Your looking like a complete idot.

Ring of Fire. Connect the dots. Homosexual subtext was rampant in
the 50's and 60's when it was verboten to mention certain things
"overtly".

It's not that there's anything wrong with Johnny Cash being gay. At
least he wasn't a sissy about it like George Jones was (and is).


Archie Leach

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Feb 3, 2008, 1:23:19 AM2/3/08
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Carl Banks <pavlove...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Z˙RiX
>> (Ż`'..(<>..<>)..'´Ż)


>
>
>It doesn't matter who wrote it. Why would Johnny Cash sing a song
>with all that gay innuendo? Straight men don't do that.

June Carter-Cash. Classic beard. No wonder Roseanne Cash grew up to
become a Lisbon. Her real "old man" was probably a turkey baster.

Sandy, THT

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Feb 3, 2008, 6:12:34 AM2/3/08
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On Feb 3, 1:23 am, Archie Leach <le...@thepen.ismightier> wrote:
> Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>          ZÿRiX
> >> (¯`'..(<>..<>)..'´¯)
>
> >It doesn't matter who wrote it.  Why would Johnny Cash sing a song
> >with all that gay innuendo?  Straight men don't do that.
>
> June Carter-Cash.  Classic beard.  No wonder Roseanne Cash grew up to
> become a Lisbon.  Her real "old man" was probably a turkey baster.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Roseanne was from a different marriage. Get the facts straight if you
are going to spew garbage. Thank you.
Sandy, THT

Scottsdale Guy

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Feb 3, 2008, 9:50:20 AM2/3/08
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"Carl Banks" <pavlove...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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who actually broadcasts that they drive a kia? might as well say you have a
vespa too.


texasnative

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Feb 3, 2008, 9:50:28 AM2/3/08
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On Feb 2, 10:01 am, ZÿRiX <o...@net.com> wrote:
> "Constance Reeder" <consta...@duxmail.com> wrote in message
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>          ZÿRiX
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wonderful post....thanks for that...

my folks knew Johnny and June, "way back when", and I feel safe is
assuring all that he was definitely not gay...to blacken the character
of anyone is terrible, but to do that to someone who has died, in my
opinion, is about as low as one can sink....

shame on you....find something better to do with your time...

Jim Weeks

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Feb 3, 2008, 10:04:40 AM2/3/08
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"texasnative" <princes...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 2, 10:01 am, ZÿRiX <o...@net.com> wrote:
> "Constance Reeder" <consta...@duxmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:slrnfq93fd.d...@bill.heins.net...
>
> > On 2008-02-02, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Today I was driving my Kia Rio to work and I decided to try country
> >> music for a change of pace, but when I found the country station my
> >> ears were accosted by a barrage of filth. I'm referring to Johnny
> >> Cash's song, Ring of Fire.
>
> >> The true meaning is undeniable: "ring of fire" really refers to the
> >> anal sphincter, and by falling into it he means he screwed a guy in
> >> the ass. And if that wasn't bad enough, he then sings about going
> >> "down, down, down on the ring of fire", i.e., anallingus. You can't
> >> tell me that this song isn't dripping with homosexual innuendo, and
> >> that Cash is not therefore a queer.
>
> > Except that June Carter wrote the song, not Johnny...
>

june knew johnny was queer as a football bat... she was just trying to get
him to switch teams

jpw


John Rogers

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Feb 3, 2008, 11:09:55 AM2/3/08
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"Sandy, THT" <sandrab...@hotmail.com>. we live in a world that
has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
gonna do it? You? You, "Sandy, THT" <sandrab...@hotmail.com>?

That's kind of harsh, dewd... I mean, Roseanne *is* kind of trashy but
isn't garbage kind of going a little too far?


John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta

"All that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters."

John Rogers

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Feb 3, 2008, 11:10:56 AM2/3/08
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texasnative <princes...@yahoo.com>. we live in a world that has

walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
gonna do it? You? You, texasnative <princes...@yahoo.com>?

By "not gay" do you mean kind of not ACTIVELY gay, more "in the
closet"?

deem...@aol.com

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Feb 3, 2008, 1:13:42 PM2/3/08
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On Feb 3, 11:09 am, John Rogers <tiger7...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Sandy, THT" <sandrabrown_...@hotmail.com>. we live in a world that

> has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
> gonna do it? You? You, "Sandy, THT" <sandrabrown_...@hotmail.com>?

Didn't you watch her spit, grab her crotch, and "sing" the
national anthem? If that wasn't garbage, what is?

Carl Banks

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Feb 3, 2008, 3:18:17 PM2/3/08
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On Feb 3, 9:50 am, "Scottsdale Guy"
<noneofyourbusinessi...@getlost.com> wrote:
> "Carl Banks" <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote in message

One of the icons of country music is clearly gay and you guys are
worrying about what kind of car I drive.

David V. Loewe, Jr

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Feb 3, 2008, 5:48:34 PM2/3/08
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:18:17 -0800 (PST), Carl Banks
<pavlove...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 3, 9:50 am, "Scottsdale Guy"
><noneofyourbusinessi...@getlost.com> wrote:

>> "Carl Banks" <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Today I was driving my Kia Rio to work and I decided to try country
>> > music for a change of pace, but when I found the country station my
>> > ears were accosted by a barrage of filth. I'm referring to Johnny
>> > Cash's song, Ring of Fire.
>>
>> > The true meaning is undeniable: "ring of fire" really refers to the
>> > anal sphincter, and by falling into it he means he screwed a guy in
>> > the ass. And if that wasn't bad enough, he then sings about going
>> > "down, down, down on the ring of fire", i.e., anallingus. You can't
>> > tell me that this song isn't dripping with homosexual innuendo, and
>> > that Cash is not therefore a queer.
>>
>> who actually broadcasts that they drive a kia? might as well say you
>> have a vespa too.
>
>One of the icons of country music is clearly gay and you guys are
>worrying about what kind of car I drive.

You know, "Carl Banks" is the kind of name a gay country music icon
would have...

Of course, what these people are forgetting about Johnny Cash is that
he used to live with another man - and it was Waylon Jennings!!!
--
"Clams on the half shell...and rollerskates."
Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers

jimbr...@yahoo.com

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Feb 3, 2008, 6:00:44 PM2/3/08
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> (¯`'..(<>..<>)..'´¯)- Hide quoted text -

>
> - Show quoted text -

Jon Wayne had herpes?

NikonNurse

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"Carl Banks" <pavlove...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Just wrong.


Rod's work news

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"NikonNurse" <nik...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Agreed. I think Carl should perhaps avoid foods with Habanero in them. This
is just Sooooooooo wrong !
>
>


Carl Banks

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Feb 4, 2008, 8:40:58 PM2/4/08
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On Feb 4, 3:17 pm, "Rod's work news" <rod.graml...@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> "NikonNurse" <niko...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:u1tpj.4107$Nz7...@newsfe11.phx...
> > "Carl Banks" <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote in message

> >news:99eb384b-05b0-4783...@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> >> Today I was driving my Kia Rio to work and I decided to try country
> >> music for a change of pace, but when I found the country station my
> >> ears were accosted by a barrage of filth. I'm referring to Johnny
> >> Cash's song, Ring of Fire.
>
> >> The true meaning is undeniable: "ring of fire" really refers to the
> >> anal sphincter, and by falling into it he means he screwed a guy in
> >> the ass. And if that wasn't bad enough, he then sings about going
> >> "down, down, down on the ring of fire", i.e., anallingus. You can't
> >> tell me that this song isn't dripping with homosexual innuendo, and
> >> that Cash is not therefore a queer.
>
> > Just wrong.
>
> Agreed. I think Carl should perhaps avoid foods with Habanero in them. This
> is just Sooooooooo wrong !


Rod, I think you make have stumbled onto the reason Johnny Cash
specifically called it a "burning" ring of fire.


Carl Banks

Rod's SHAW

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"Carl Banks" <pavlove...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Rod, I think you make have stumbled onto the reason Johnny Cash
> specifically called it a "burning" ring of fire.

Something is being really stretched, here.


Scott

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Feb 6, 2008, 12:38:29 AM2/6/08
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Merle Barnes wrote...

> That's about what I'd expect from someone driving a Kia Rio!!! LOL

Exactly!!


Carl Banks

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Feb 7, 2008, 1:46:51 AM2/7/08
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On Feb 5, 1:47 pm, "Rod's SHAW" <rod.g...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> "Carl Banks" <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote in message

That's exactly what I've been saying all along.

OrangeDood

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Feb 7, 2008, 2:47:07 AM2/7/08
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On Feb 5, 1:47 pm, "Rod's SHAW" <rod.g...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> "Carl Banks" <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Rod, I think you make have stumbled onto the reason Johnny Cash
> > specifically called it a "burning" ring of fire.
>
> Something is being really stretched, here.

Well, not any more. One hopes. But who knows, there's a lot of sick
fuckers out there.

KingCountryI@aol.com (Noah Tall)

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Feb 7, 2008, 10:12:35 AM2/7/08
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On Feb 3, 4:31�pm, "NikonNurse" <niko...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Carl Banks" <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote in message

> when I found the country station my ears were accosted by a barrage of filth. <

I'm not exactly going way out on a limb, : ) and guess that it's been
so long since ANY part of you was accosted by ANYONE OTHER THAN
YOURSELF, : ) you probably should have been grateful. : )

> The true meaning is undeniable: "ring of fire" really refers to the
> > anal sphincter, and by falling into it he means he screwed a guy in the ass. <

Are you saying you're surprised ? Haven't you ever heard him refered
to as
"The Man IN Back" ? : )

Daniel Beasley

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Feb 14, 2008, 2:19:29 PM2/14/08
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Can I like your ass till it starts on fire?


"Carl Banks" <pavlove...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Today I was driving my Kia Rio to work and I decided to try country
> music for a change of pace, but when I found the country station my
> ears were accosted by a barrage of filth. I'm referring to Johnny
> Cash's song, Ring of Fire.
>

> The true meaning is undeniable: "ring of fire" really refers to the
> anal sphincter, and by falling into it he means he screwed a guy in

Rick and Debbie Caudill

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Feb 17, 2008, 11:19:31 AM2/17/08
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The guy below is not serious is he? I haven't been following this
thread so wasn't sure. Surely no one can be that ignorant........

~^Johnny^~

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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:19:31 -0500, Rick and Debbie Caudill
<d.ca...@fuse.net> wrote:

>The guy below is not serious is he? I haven't been following this
>thread so wasn't sure. Surely no one can be that ignorant........

Oh, can (s)he?

I've been silent for too long. This is ridiculous.

This the WORST troll I have seen in YEARS!

I normally don't even bother with trolls,
but this one, I had to add to my filters;
it's so ridiculous.

About a year ago, we adopted a kitten.
Originally. her name was "Red", but, I
noticed she was black ( diluted with sable).

On the way home, in the car, I was discussing with a friend:
What then, shall we name her?

He suggested: "Why not 'The Man in Black?' "
Since the cat is female, I opted for a different name.

How about the offspring of June and Carl?

Hence, the name: Carlene - in honor of Johnny Cash.

Now, I will go back to lurking. It's been fun, but I gotta run.

Debbie, you're about the only one left, in this NG, that I know,
after my hiatus (due to health issues)
Email me if you want to. You, and a few others, have my REAL
email addy, from ages past.

I hope all is well with you and your family.

But now, I have to go, and clean my monitor, after reading
the original post. Too funny. Too absurd.


ciao

Jamal Jackson

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Mar 22, 2008, 4:45:46 PM3/22/08
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~^Johnny^~ showed up just to whine, as usual:

> I've been silent for too long. This is ridiculous.

Wrong, pipsqueak. You haven't been gone long enough for anyone to miss
you. So go away and don't come back!

> This the WORST troll I have seen in YEARS!

Please. Just go away, whiner.

> I normally don't even bother with trolls,
> but this one, I had to add to my filters;
> it's so ridiculous.

Thanks for sharing your intolerance, asshole. Do you think the guy is
just devastated that a drug-addicted fag like you put him in a
killfilter? Get a life, doofus.

> About a year ago, we adopted a kitten.
> Originally. her name was "Red", but, I
> noticed she was black ( diluted with sable).
>
> On the way home, in the car, I was discussing with a friend:
> What then, shall we name her?
>
> He suggested: "Why not 'The Man in Black?' "
> Since the cat is female, I opted for a different name.
>
> How about the offspring of June and Carl?
>
> Hence, the name: Carlene - in honor of Johnny Cash.

That's about one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
What a fucking moron.

> Now, I will go back to lurking. It's been fun, but I gotta run.

Yeah, right, until you feel the need to publicly whine again, right?

> Debbie, you're about the only one left, in this NG, that I know,
> after my hiatus (due to health issues)
> Email me if you want to. You, and a few others, have my REAL
> email addy, from ages past.

Get over yourself and quit stalking Debbie, you freak.

> I hope all is well with you and your family.

And if it's not?

> But now, I have to go, and clean my monitor, after reading
> the original post. Too funny. Too absurd.

Good riddance, dork!

> ciao

Only faggots say that.

dave.wa...@bcclc.com

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wgra...@gmail.com

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Please kys

breve...@gmail.com

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Yes
I think that Johnny was gay or bissexual, because when you listen "I see a darkness"
That's a Song wrote for a man. That's self

markling...@gmail.com

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There was talk about him at Lackland, where he went through basic training, that when he was not permitted to go on leave he would find a willing co-trainee to relieve his urges.

manal.j...@gmail.com

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