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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 09:48 AM Original message |
Poll question: Whose is the most tragic American life? |
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China_cat
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Thu Jan-20-05 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. Small nitpick |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. You are correct and I have amended the poll language -- |
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hyphenate
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
2. There are too many |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Very good choice. I grieve for his friends and -- |
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Aristus
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
5. I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but: |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Nixon certainly is a tragic figure -- especially if Power is -- |
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NewJeffCT
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
45. my high school English teacher would agree with you |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:07 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Hi, NewJeffCt. If you don't mind, I want to tell you that -- |
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NewJeffCT
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:34 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. well, his English class in high school |
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Spider Jerusalem
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. Elvis Presley. |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Hello Spider Jerusalem. |
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Aristus
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. That's a good one. I hadn't thought of that. |
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Spider Jerusalem
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:55 AM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Fame walled Elvis off from people. |
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MadHound
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
7. I would have to say Other, many many others |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. You're quite right, and the pathos of those unknown -- |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
12. A word on Meriwether Lewis... |
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shrike
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:41 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Wasn't there an investigation and exhumation not along ago? |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. My hunch is you're right on both counts. |
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jackster
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
13. all those lives lost in the wars we should have never fought... |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:38 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Hello, jackster. Yes. It's disquieting that a certain -- |
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ThorsHammer
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Agreed |
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jdonaldball
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
14. Edgar Allan Poe |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:41 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Poe is one of my champions, if not one of my role models, exactly. |
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shrike
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:43 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Poe was slimed by an early biographer |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:47 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Any friend of Poe's is a friend of mine, here here! |
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jdonaldball
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Griswold slimed Poe. Envious creep like Iago to Othello |
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bobweaver
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. The indigenous population who lived here peacefully for thousands of years |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Hi, bobweaver. Agreed. Should be on any such list. |
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shrike
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
21. A word on Franklin Pierce |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:50 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. All true. After the train accident, Pierce's wife Jane -- |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:29 AM Response to Reply #23 |
37. One of the myriad ways belief in a Big Man in the Sky hurts people. (nt) |
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FizzFuzz
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
25. the thousands of nameless girls and women |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:59 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Yes. I think of the young girls turned out of their own homes -- |
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gantoline
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Thu Jan-20-05 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
26. I am surprised it has not been mentioned yet..... |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:03 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Hi, gantoline. No question about it, they should be -- |
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gantoline
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Thu Jan-20-05 12:54 PM Response to Reply #29 |
42. good to hear someone thought of it already |
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:08 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. That surely deserves mention, gantoline |
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gantoline
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Thu Jan-20-05 12:56 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. Thank you |
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Bertha Venation
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
33. perhaps not "most" but certainly tragic: Lorena Hickok |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:25 AM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I think this is an excellent choice. |
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Bertha Venation
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:27 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. "an apology" -- hear, hear. |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:48 AM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Fond greetings right back atcha, Bertha Venation -- |
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GreenPartyVoter
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
36. Any child born to unloving parents |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:45 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Of which just one would be way too many. |
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GreenPartyVoter
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Thu Jan-20-05 11:48 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Well, I come from a family of educators. This is seen all too often |
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MissWaverly
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Thu Jan-20-05 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
41. Max Cleland |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 12:57 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Thank you for saying this. |
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MissWaverly
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:23 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. new wind |
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Ernesto
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
48. Colin Powell jumps to my mind |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:36 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Hi, Ernesto. You called it right on Colin Powell. |
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NewJeffCT
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:37 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. Powell is still too respected |
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KamaAina
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
52. Al Gore |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:40 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. Love your description of the web -- "a sleazy bazaar of -- |
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semillama
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
53. How about Abe Lincoln? |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:46 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. The Lincoln Memorial is my favorite in Washington. |
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mark414
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Thu Jan-20-05 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
56. a couple |
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saltpoint
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Thu Jan-20-05 03:42 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Hi, mark414. I totally forgot about Kerouac and am -- |
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