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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI start every year in the gutter...wherever I may be, I find and stand and sometimes lie down in the gutter...
I've done this for years and have convinced larger groups (if at a party) to do the same....I figure starting the new year at a low point, things can only get better...I'm weird and like it that way...
Edit: Early New Years post...just thinking ahead...
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I start every year in the gutter...wherever I may be, I find and stand and sometimes lie down in the gutter... (Original Post)
wcmagumba
Nov 2025
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sop
(18,605 posts)1. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
PikaBlue
(491 posts)2. At first read
I thought this was a riddle and my answer was "bowling pin". 😋
wcmagumba
(6,161 posts)3. I like the bowling reference, used to bowl in a league...fun days...
I would hardly fit in a bowling lane gutter these days...ha ha...
Phentex
(16,709 posts)4. I'm not sure I get it
but I really like this post