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goin' around the barn.
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goin' around the barn. there are times in everyone's life when you have the perfect thing to say. it would sweep the legs right out from under the person who's baiting you. or take the room to a dead quiet. times when just a few words could kill a bully's lies or trample a reputation into the ground. sometimes it's knowing a secret, but often it's just having the words. being a tad smarter or quicker on your feet. when i was younger, i'd often think of those words on my way home, or in bed that night and i'd groan...why now, why not then when i could have spit them out venomously and looked like a hero or at least not looked like a wimp. i knew a girl named polly who used to have the comebacks. delivered with just the right zing. and a small self deprecating laugh. no one ever seemed to get angry with her. it was a talent for sure. i am not that way. i can feel the anger inside of me and i know that my delivery will not be pleasant or self deprecating. it will be snarky and rude. i try to avoid zingers because zingers get me into trouble. i go for the underbelly with something else.... i know i just can't leave it alone. it isn't in me. to walk away from ignorance without at least attempting to change it? so i do what my grandpa use to do, i tell stories. and as i wrap people up in words that seem to make their point, they can't really hold to their point and be sympathetic to the people in the stories. and to be unsympathetic to the people in the stories, well it makes them look bad and eventually, my point is made. my grandpa called it going around the barn. my mother would have called it giving people a way to agree....lol. all this comes with time and years of being in situations that i found uncomfortable and many, many times when i shot out an answer that lost me support or got me bad press or just made me look like an asshole. still, i sort of miss the fire in the hole me. it was less refined and certainly had poorer results overall but it was a time when i just did what i did and said what i said. i am looking forward to being 80. i intend to go there again. and while i do not intend to dye my wisps of hair purple, i will most likely be significantly overweight, live on pie and pinot grigio and laugh often, say exactly what i think and do exactly what i want and you all can kiss my quite likely larger than it should be but delectable none the less ass. snork. You cannot conceive the many without the one. |
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I've found that "your mama" is globally insulting, so if you could figure out a way around the barn with that one I would be set for life. 
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Why wait until you're 80? LOL Never ignore those who care for you you will have lost diamonds while you were collecting stones
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I don't act like my mama or daddy     ---------------------Dennis US ARMY (RETIRED) AND YOUR FRIEND I never mean to offend(blog or comment) anyone ,If I do contact me please. Please check out my blog Harley-Davidson Drive(19harley86)
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I've never perfected goin round the barn... By the time I do, I'll likely be 80 anyway. Funny, I've never lost any support that mattered by telling it like it is or sayin what everyone else only dares to think and several surprising times I actually gained unlikely support therefore the rewards have always been greater than the cost. And I call that a bargain.
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Why wait until you're 80? LOL
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I like how you think....I plan on having lots of Moxie. Much more than I have now. When I am 80, I hope I get to sit next to you clinking my glass to yours and sharing a sly smile.
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ah, for an opportunity to kiss that "delectable none the less ass." I was chatting over dinner tonite with someone who proved to be somewhat way right of Atilla the Hun. I did not go around the barn very far, in telling him he was wrong, and explaining why. Did I convert his thinking? NOPE I've decided, this election cycle, that I'm not going to be polite when dealing with idiots. They sure don't deserve it. All it takes, for the forces of evil to triumph, is for enough good people to do nothing! parapharased from Edmund Burke, I think. Chas < who is still thinkng about your delectible ass!
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@ Chas4037 - I'm to the right of both Rush Limbaugh and Attila the Hun. Like you, I never go around the barn or beat around the bush when it comes to discussing public policy and comparison of liberal and conservative approaches. Why waste time going around the barn when you can just set the damned thing ablaze and go right on through it?! LOL.
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Third vote for not waiting until you're 80  I've seen that syndrome at my workplace with people who are a few months away from retirement. All of a sudden they get really outspoken about stuff that they've been keeping their mouth shut about for years. It's delightful.   
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I stopped (mostly) sayin' much of anything. I detest arguing; and whenever I open my mouth, it's as if my words beg for opposition (I think it's my argumentative nature constantly attempting to reincarnate after its multiple wackings, at my own hand, no less.) So... with that said... That book about sexy American bitches was co-written by Meghan McCain, daughter of the controversial commie-Republican Senator from AZ--he was obviously re-educated during his stay at the Hanoi Hilton. Albeit, I prefer sexy Brazilian bitches ( 'It's the asses, stupid.' )  Now, I might say a lot about the ol' Megster. I won't, though, because it would just create fodder for the partisans. What I will say is this: I ain't read the book... and I can be rather adamant in stating that I never will read it. But were she to do a sequel--one about them sexy Brazilian bitches... and their asses--I might be persuaded. Solar...
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well, you know what... there is a lot to be said about getting your way even if it IS because you've been underestimated ...or maybe especially because of that...
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