American Girl dolls are God's way of letting you know you have too much money.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So are $60+ bottles of scotch.

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good point.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

that JORR waters down with soda anyways...

You should talk to Mr. Reason and the grab-ass boys in the Drinky thread about that. My shit costs $24.99.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

yup

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Point taken.

Dropping $60 on a horse race is God's way of letting you know you have too much money

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That's a vocation! Skilled labor.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

won't horses be phased out eventually with self-driven robot horses ?

You're not understanding the point, Head.

Its not a complaint about the money. If I didnt buy the doll, Id spend the money on other gifts. Its just the idea of how much it is compared to other brands of the same thing and why it costs what it does.

What if the doll was $500? Isnt there a limit where you say "That's ridiculous"

Like I said, its Christmas and Im getting it (always was, just wondered people's thoughts) but just on its own....its pretty ridiculous.

Buy two dolls. Give one to your daughter. Give the other to a homeless person. Problem solved.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

When does SH ever understand the point?

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Im gonna buy it. She's gonna go nuts, and itll be awesome.

Then, sit down and talk to her about veblen goods.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Well, that just makes you an idiot.

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My daughters thought about this for a few minutes. I gave them a talk about i'd rather they play a sport than end up simply cheering for people that do. I am glad they bought it. I have a friend that had to buy a timeshare just so he can go to all these dumb ass competitions. They seem like the moms with that dead daughter in CO.

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Elections have consequences.

He would have liked it better. Scorehead is the target market for the sale of Giffen goods.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

She already knows that true happiness doesnt come form material things, but material things are nice.


She also knows that there are many people less fortunate than us and its good to help those people when we can

hey, they could also have been preparing themselves for niche porn later on

Chas could probably help you out with a doll that fell off the truck. Literally fell, she head has some road rash on her head, but he's only asking for $10 and an autographed picture of Patrick Kane in return.

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I'd wager 3K of the expenses were for travel.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Next lesson: Hot hatches are only for girls.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

this kinda got me thinking about what the backstory would be on an American Girl doll from the wrong side of the tracks would read like , specifically a biker chick with the road rash . Maybe Don, Sam, Dr K should take a stab at writing that up.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

oh lord, so many things I want to say....but i will refrain.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

So that's 35 thousand dollars on cheerleading. Nothing to sneeze at

Thata Boy!

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Sure. Amongst them would be The Salvation Army (several times) The Red Cross, Mooseheart chilrens home/school in Batavia (Organized a drive for the kids that resulted in 3 truckloads of clothing, games, a 60 inch projection TV )and the ALS foundation (My Grandfather had ALS-so it matters to me more than many others might). I also donate blood through Lifesource every 112 days (double red blood cell-ALYX) and have been on the bone marrow donor list for 5 years now. Less than 5 percent of the population donates blood, though 37% are eligible. Far fewer choose to register for marrow donation. If you think that donating blood as regularly as I do doesn't constitute charity, consider that it saves lives. I consider it more important than the other charities I give money to.

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Go Cubs!!!!