my family has nothing to do with it. the majority of the weddings we are invited to are not related.

I tried to convince myself of the same thing but to fly my significant other and myself down to Jamaica for even a long weekend would have been $2000 easy. Ridiculous.
My first wife went to New Orleans with her girl friends for a Bachelorette party which I also thought was ridiculous but I guess maybe a bit more reasonable since they all
stayed in a room or two and split the costs. I got remarried last year and did a private ceremony married by a public judge in a park by Lake Michigan. Just family at
the ceremony and we had a small reception at a friends house the next night with about 16 people. We managed to spend under $1000 for everything which we were
thrilled with. It was the 2nd wedding for each of us so that had a lot to do with our decision to keep it low key.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Even better. Friends weddings are great.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Kid's college car has blown transmission. Fix is twice as much as car might be worth. Even used and on and on. Decent beater has to go to bone yard AFTER I bought tires.

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

you have to be trolling. nothing can be worse.

i bought a 95 prism for 500 and drove it for 5 years as a get to work car (30 mi commute) its tranny blew and a junk yard gave me 300 bucks for it for the engine (toyota). it needed new tires, new belts, new brakepads, and just overall aa bunch of new stuff. i'm glad it went out when it did i was a week away from putting it in the shop.

I enjoy drinking and celebrating with my friends. Trolling?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah that was true recently but apparently the bottom has dropped out of scrap prices.

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Agree with FF. I enjoy weddings for the most lart

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How ironic.

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Lart is the best.

I should complain about your response.

My garage door apparently has developed a mind of its own over the past week and a half. Giving me a lot of trouble when opening and closing.
Closed it before I went back to work after lunch yesterday and when I got home it was wide open. Closed it last night before going to bed. Woke
up this morning and it was half open. Wife left for work this morning and it wouldn't close at all. She manually closed it before leaving so at least
I know it shouldn't be open when I get home for lunch. I'll be calling a professional this morning to come out and give a look. This guy doesn't
monkey with garage door openers. I get a headache just thinking about it.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Try confusing it by walking out of it backwards.

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

Your house is haunted as fuck. Get out of there before it's too late.

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i wouldn't enjoy a root canal even if i was able to have friends come with me.

me too

Thanks for the invite

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Not enjoying weddings doesn't make us anti-social. It just means we don't enjoy the format. I prefer more casual get-togethers.

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If the tires are nearly new then I'd list them on craigslist.

I replaced manufacturer stock tires with all-weather tires right away when I bought my used car.

Listed the old tires on craigslist since they were in good shape. Got $100 bucks for the set. Better than $0 than if I left them with Firestone

What's not to like about a friends wedding? You get to hang with your friends, have some drinks and dance like an idiot. Friend weddings are great, its the random 3rd cousin that you don't know wedding that really is dreadful.

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I love Lart.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

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My 13yr old stepson was asking me if I had heard about the clowns. He said he was happy they weren't in this area. I told him that wasn't true
and that there have been reports of some around the area. Before bed last night he told my wife that we really should have a conceal/carry license
and a gun in the house.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Awesome

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This is all viral marketing for the release of IT next year. Get people really terrified of clowns and then release the movie. Steak dinner boom.

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Getting a little weary of my dog's recently developed aversion to rain. I open up the patio door every morning and let him run outside for his morning piss but if there is even the lightest drizzle coming out of the sky he refuses to go out. Or he will go out, stop at the top of the deck stairs, examine his surroundings and abort his urination mission and come stand by the door. This necessitates me clothing myself, putting him on a leash, and taking him outside my own damn self.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

We had the same problem with our puppy. I didn't know it, but I did some research and I found out the rain falling can magnify everything they hear, thus hurting their ears. Adult dogs eventually get used to it. I guess in puppies its bad because their ears are so sensitive. In older dogs it can be bad too because they aren't used to hearing much anymore and then all of a sudden its like there is a bullhorn directly in front of them.

As much of a pain in the ass as it is/was, one of us standing there with an umbrella does the trick about 80% of the time in the rain.

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I always just thought my dogs were a couple of pussies. Now I feel bad. Though, this doesn't rule the one named after RGIII from being a complete vag.

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golf got rained out today now I have to go to some mandatory parent meeting about drugs in high school

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.