LisaV wrote:
lol
Curious, have I ever told you my communion story, real-life story that is?
No, you haven't. Real-life stories are scary! What happened?
Is chess.com too expensive?
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trysts wrote:
LisaV wrote:
I'm afraid that's the case with my spending habits at the local CD shop.
I don't buy CDs anymore. True artists should be broke
With the current interest rates, they will be. Hey-o!
Thanks to Chess.com's huge userbase, I don't think they'll need to drop membership prices for a long time. You could even expect a raise in the near future.
Personally, 99% of my online chess playing/training is free. Why pay for chess resources that you can access for free?
Oct 9, 2011
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LisaV wrote:
trysts wrote:
That's hilarious, LisaV!
Gotta do it once, Sharon. It's like cycling into a Harley bar wearing those tight cycling outfits. Um...boy do you get a ton of stares. lol
Last time I was at a mass (x-mas eve, when I was 16), I just stood there most of the time and cussed(w/ my head bowed, of course). I would probably have to be quite drunk beforehand to duplicate your fun
Oct 9, 2011
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Well in my case I've been retired a few years and one has to keep a close eye on spending without a doubt. Therefore the very top level of membership is out however I would like to buy the basic bottom level sooner or later. However I do need to go on a short trip soon so I might buy the membership later, maybe around Christmas time ( a good present for myself ).
Nah, for a year of unlimited videos and chess mentor, I don't think 70-something dollars is really that bad
LisaV wrote:
Not scary, except maybe for very religious members.
My grad dept. had an evangelical who badgered me to go to church so much, I made a deal with him that I'd go once if he'd stop bothering me. So....he took me to this huuuuuuuge church, I mean rows of people piled in pews 100's of feet back.
Communion time! About a dozen ministers gave the bread and wine to the parishoners, and then we'd get ushered back to our seats.
I got my bread and wine and stayed up there and told the next minister I didn't get my wine. He gave me wine. I stayed. And then the next minister. More wine. And the next. More wine. An usher caught on and led me back to me seat, where I told my colleague I had to go back because I didn't get my wine. So I went up with the next group and cycled through some more ministers getting more wine, until one looked at me strangely, and I mumbled, oh I'm just praying, then hauled ass back to my seat.
I whispered to my evangelical with my booze breath, you're right, church is great!
I'm already going to hell, it doesn't matter. lol
LisaV wrote:
trysts wrote:
That's hilarious, LisaV!
Gotta do it once, Sharon. It's like cycling into a Harley bar wearing those tight cycling outfits. Um...boy do you get a ton of stares. lol
You also get tons of stares at church dressing in those, except from the father, who was more than willing to let "young men" go to his private quarters one at a time for roughly 20 minutes to take extra communion...you must be protestant-non-grape-juice or something.
LisaV wrote:
Not scary, except maybe for very religious members.
My grad dept. had an evangelical who badgered me to go to church so much, I made a deal with him that I'd go once if he'd stop bothering me. So....he took me to this huuuuuuuge church, I mean rows of people piled in pews 100's of feet back.
Communion time! About a dozen ministers gave the bread and wine to the parishoners, and then we'd get ushered back to our seats.
I got my bread and wine and stayed up there and told the next minister I didn't get my wine. He gave me wine. I stayed. And then the next minister. More wine. And the next. More wine. An usher caught on and led me back to me seat, where I told my colleague I had to go back because I didn't get my wine. So I went up with the next group and cycled through some more ministers getting more wine, until one looked at me strangely, and I mumbled, oh I'm just praying, then hauled ass back to my seat.
I whispered to my evangelical with my booze breath, you're right, church is great!
I'm already going to hell, it doesn't matter. lol
Did someone say wine? Will LisaV and Trysts and I toast to wine please.
Oct 9, 2011
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LisaV wrote:
Cussing. lol One time, my family went to a hoity toity church, as in George H.W. Bush's brother was there, and my brother was chatting with his girlfriend, and he forgot where he was and blurted out, F--- this sh*t. lol
Sharon, I have faith in you that you'd be quite drunk before you'd enter mass again. ;)
Did you and your family witness any shapeshifting?
Oct 9, 2011
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winerkleiner wrote:
Did someone say wine? Will LisaV and Trysts and I toast to wine please.
I did that toast already, when I opened the bottle. Let's toast to something else.
trysts wrote:
winerkleiner wrote:
Did someone say wine? Will LisaV and Trysts and I toast to wine please.
I did that toast already, when I opened the bottle. Let's toast to something else.
A toast to banks, writers, artists, U.S. gov't, and chess players...I think they are all broke.
Oct 9, 2011
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I'll toast to writers, artists, and those french toasts(eggless) w/banana-rum syrup
dannyhume wrote:
A toast to banks, writers, artists, U.S. gov't, and chess players...I think they are all broke.
Hey if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
oinquarki wrote:
dannyhume wrote:
A toast to banks, writers, artists, U.S. gov't, and chess players...I think they are all broke.
Hey if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Tell that to my cat if a genie shows up to a woman who happens to be standing next to him and use her wish to wish that my cat were a handsome prince forced by feudal law to marry her.
cds are dangerous. they shouldn't be sold w/o id registration.
"Peace" looks pretty dangerous as well.