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hnshipwreck Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 5:59 AM EST
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hey just curiouse any corpsman out there
MACS Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 6:28 AM EST
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You mean Journeyman D**ksmiths? Amateur pecker checkers? Welcome to the forum shipmate! Glad to have another sailor aboard.
hnshipwreck Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 6:43 AM EST
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yes masterbater at arms thank you senior
hnshipwreck Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 6:47 AM EST
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mud puppys so where are you station
shanker mechanic
MACS Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 6:51 AM EST
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Currently on the USS Mobile Bay. Guided Missile Cruiser out of San Diego.
hnshipwreck Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 6:59 AM EST
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uss kearsarge amphib out of norfolk va
how is things on that side of the world i heard that the navy is diffrent then this side
HarleyRed Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 7:34 AM EST
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Hey **** Machinist, I am with Phibron 8 and we are embarked onboard Kearsarge. That makes about 4 LHD 3 sailors on this board. MMCS here by the way.
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#8 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 7:43 AM EST
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there goes the neighborhood
hnshipwreck Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 7:54 AM EST
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hey harley when are you actually at work
hnshipwreck at yahoo.com
HarleyRed Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 8:15 AM EST
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Email sent
penzt8 Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 11:36 AM EST
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harley, It's been awhile, when are we going to meet up for a smoke?
MACS Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 11:48 AM EST
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Harley and shipwreck... CWfoster is on your ship!
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#13 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 12:13 PM EST
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Senior, who do you think showed this site to this pup?
MACS Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 12:51 PM EST
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I figured it was you. I took the liberty of finding what ship you were on. Being an MA it is quite easy for me to locate anyone in the military...
CWFoster Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Mar 18 2004, 11:37 PM EST
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Or, you could have just asked! :)
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#16 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 2:40 AM EST
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hnshipwreck
about time you showed back up,
i wondered what hapened to you.
good to see ya again.

hdking
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#17 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 3:45 AM EST
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- ain't it kinda ironic that a p*&ker checker just happens to be interested in cigars .... hehe
hnshipwreck Offline
#18 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 4:28 AM EST
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hey is there anything else that you can call my rate other than the usual names there people
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#19 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 4:45 AM EST
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... a Spade is a Spade ... unless of course you'd rather we refer to it as a "Queen of Hearts" from now on ... not that there's anything wrong with that either .....

(p.s. Welcome to the boards! ... it gets worse - but we always have fun .. LOL)
Cavallo Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 6:58 AM EST
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yeah, careful guys -- it might be YOUR p*cker that ends up being checked! you really want to taunt this guy? ;)

hey, if it can happen in texas, it can happen anywhere! (read the story posted today about "beware of texas") *cringe*
rd2thbn Offline
#21 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 6:46 PM EST
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MACS, maybe you can help me. I did a Med. cruise onboard CV-67 with a USMC A-6 squadron in 1986-87. I left the Corps in 1988 and moved on to better and brighter things. I remember clearly how important mail and packages from home were.

I'd like to make contact with someone, preferably a junior enlisted jarhead, since that's what I was, that's serving outside CONUS. When troops started deploying to Iraq I called the local recruiting office, but nothing ever came of that.

I'm in contact with a friend in the National Guard, but he (and it seems like his unit) has a good support system already in place.

Let me know if you have any suggestions. You can post here or email me at [email protected].
MACS Offline
#22 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 6:49 PM EST
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e-mail me rd. I would need the kid's first and last name. Rank if you know it, would narrow the search.

swn69 at hotmail dot com
Cavallo Offline
#23 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 7:01 PM EST
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rd-- i might be able to get you a random contact. i was talking with a jarhead who deployed 2 months back about having a herf at my place for the guys when they get back to lejeune. actually, i saw a post of his here, and that's how we got in touch. he's not junior, but he is a cigar smoker and could help out, i'm sure. semper fi.
rd2thbn Offline
#24 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 7:38 PM EST
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That's great Cav. If your in touch with him ask if he has anyone with him that needs some extra support from the home front. Cookies, wet wipes, books, cigars, whatever they need.

My experience is the junior guys are the ones that need the most support and have the smallest networks. Most are just out of high school, unmarried, girlfriends jerking 'em around, friends are in college or back in the world doing their own thing - so their Mama's the only one they can count on. And some of 'em probably don't even have good Mama's.

When I was deployed I craved mail. I even got excited over my Visa bill and junk mail. Even if it was only a computer, something knew I was alive.

Semper Fi
Cavallo Offline
#25 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 7:41 PM EST
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one way or another, i'll make certain you get a contact. getting on that right now.
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#26 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 8:06 PM EST
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rd -- just shot him an email. whether he gets it or not, i don't know. if he doesn't, though, his wife should receive it and reply.

got a few other sources to check as well. that's a fine gesture, and i'm sorry that you weren't getting this treatment when it was your time. my dad was a marine ("was" qualifies as he's gone now), WWII so. pacific, joined when he was 16. anyway, i couldn't get into the corps because of a hinked up bone in my foot. :P the cops took me; the corps, no. i was raised from day one to be a marine, so you can imagine how badly that sucked.

sometimes i write out "semper fi" before i realize "doh! that guy's probably going to think i'm corps now..." but it IS coming from a marine -- in a way.

see, my dad wanted me to promise that when he was gone i'd carry on his philosophy about it all, and that was to "go the extra hundred miles if necessary" to ALWAYS help out a marine in any way i could and in any capacity.

"and when you do, tell 'em corporal beltrisi said SEMPER FI!"

so... just had to pass that on to ya.

and i WILL get that contact! lol
rd2thbn Offline
#27 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 9:03 PM EST
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Thanks Cav, that's a great story about your dad.

Just because I got excited over junk mail, don't think I wasn't getting good treatment from home. I'm talking about what I saw - not what I experienced.

I had a girlfriend back home, a girlfriend in MD, two sisters, and my Mama sending me stuff.

When Dear Abby published the address for the ship; mail, card, care packages, etc... flooded in. I worked 12 on/12 off and had lots of free time so I answered every letter or card I could get my hands on. I was pen pals with a family in NC, a girl in college in WI, and two or three groups in AL. But when your a million miles from home, there can never be enough mail.

Now in the early 80's there was no email available and international long distance was expensive. Letters were our only option. It may be a different ball game today.
pabloescabar Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Mar 19 2004, 10:41 PM EST
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Damn, there seems to be to many damn skimmers on the boards these days. whats up^skimmers.
hnshipwreck Offline
#29 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 7:06 AM EST
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even with email a letter or any mail can make anybodys day when the special k deployed i left my wife that i had just married pegnant and the letters from her and others were all that kept me going and her mom and sister had there class ake cards and sent them i still have them and look at them
Cavallo Offline
#30 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 7:18 AM EST
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that's great, rd. :) glad to hear that you had some "real human being" incoming and not just junk mail!

so tell me -- when it comes to those penpals out of the blue, are women writing much more "popular" with the crew than guys writing in?

i wrote to a guy, army, during the first gulf war. we're still buddies now. we were both into punk music at the time and had that in common. but a friend of mine (female) wrote to a guy -- same thing, just a hello from home -- and he was all kinds of falling for her. i know a lot of women who go for guys in uniform, and i wonder if guys deployed end up getting a lot of "wannabe girlfriend" mail, or if it's welcome whether from a guy or a woman.
usahog Offline
#31 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 7:20 AM EST
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LMAO.. you say Girlfriends jerking them around..

reminds me in 2002 OEF we were deployed.. one of the guys who was suppose to go.. couldn't eye surgery.. so while we're gone this other guy same unit same section has this GF back home.. turns out the guy who had the surgery started dating the GF of the deployed... the emails and phone calls were all different and shortly about 1 month into our trip she dumps him... come to find out about 5 months after being home.. oh Joe was taping this chick and didn't even know she was a GF to the other guy deployed... women gotta have a smile to ya know!!!!

Hog
Cavallo Offline
#32 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 8:08 AM EST
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i can't imagine a crappier feeling than being deployed and having your gf/wife/so or whatnot tramping around stateside. :P no wonder warriors of old came up with chastity belts!

*** rant mode on ***
this may be the most perverted feeling to have, but if i could have ONE WISH granted to me, it would be to go back in time and to have been given the thumbs up by the corps. :( there are a thousand different experiences i missed out on, and not being a marine remains the #1 most hurtful and sharp disappointment of my lifetime to date.

anyway, one of those experiences is deployment -- i will never know what it's like to be deployed. many a troop will tell me, i'm sure, to be grateful that i never had to go. but i WANTED to be a marine with all my heart and soul, and -- war-is-hell or not -- that's one experience i wanted to have.

no matter what else i accomplish in my life, i will have never picked up my gear and served my country as one of its defenders. that still makes me ache. :P
*** rant off ***
hnshipwreck Offline
#33 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 1:38 PM EST
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well i never got to touch the desert but 170 some dys on the ship i think is almost as bad but the way i see it if you support the troops while they are gone then that is just as important as being there i never would of came back with my rank and i might of been out of a job if it wasnt for friends anf family and there is nothing like being with the marines
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#34 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 4:03 PM EST
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Cav, you're right! One of my junior sailors found out fairly early in the Deyo's last cruise that his wife was fooling around on him. We had to post a suicide watch on him until he could be sent to a unit with a big enough medical department to deal with psyche cases, and they sent him back to us fit for full duty. We found him hung in a head (bathroom) three days before Iraqi Freedom kicked off. That was definitely the low point of my career!
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#35 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 4:18 PM EST
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I was TDY in 97 when my Ex Wife day before I was to come home said to me.. your **** on the Porch.. I said Cool... anyway we can work this out?? NOPE... you sure? Yep... Ok then... the hardest part was on the Kids... I got my oldest in the Divorce and she got the other two... but as time has shown... and Patiants with all... it was the Best Damn thing that happend to me... and to look back I shoulda did it earlier when the kids were younger... I don't think they would have been so hard on them when she did decide to give me the boot... and I lost her to some STUD in California on the Internet Chat crap LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

he was a stud alright LOL.... I ever see em again I'll thank him and buy em a beer....

Hog
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#36 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 5:14 PM EST
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I need to thank God again tonight in my prayers... been with the same woman since I was 18. We've had our ups and downs, of course, but I never had to deal with a divorce or child custody.

p.s. - not trying to be in your face with this... just counting my blessings out loud I guess.
rd2thbn Offline
#37 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 7:29 PM EST
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Cav,
We got a lot of letters from a lot of different people, but I didn't see a lot from guys. I saw several from families with small kids or school classes. The family in NC that I was pen pals with had a son in Kindergarten. His mom wrote most of the letters, be he always included a note or picture. When I'd write him about a port call, his mom and dad would help him find the country on the globe. He'd then go to school and show his class where I was. That was pretty cool.
I haven't kept in touch with any of my pen pals. But then it has been 18 yrs.
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#38 Posted: Sun, Mar 21 2004, 7:40 PM EST
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I can believe a single girl writing to a deployed male GI might get a little intense. These guys are LONELY. And it's not just a sexual thing. Sometimes we didn't even see a female for weeks at a time. It may be even longer between opportunites to sit down and have a conversation.
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#39 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 6:50 AM EST
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there is a buddy of mine who called home and got told by his wife that she was seeing someone else and she was leaving she also emptied his account a day before we pulled into a port
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#40 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 1:18 PM EST
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let's not EVEN start on "buddy of mine" horror stories! I might have to go further than the one where a dude comes home, and his wife is gone, his apartment is empty (furniture, clothes everything), he's three months behind on his rent, none of his credit cards have been paid in 3-4 months, and they're maxed out, his phones been disconnected for no-payment, his car's been sold, and he has no idea of how to get in contact with her to even begin divorce proceedings.
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#41 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 1:33 PM EST
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rd -- yeah, that's the thing. i'd like to be a pen pal again, but it just seems like something more for chicks to do. *chuckle* i'm definitely not wanting to kick up some lonely sailor's romantical instincts! *ducks*

(we all know it's only those guys on SUBMARINES to avoid. 20 sailors go out, 10 couples come back, yadda yadda!) ;)

it would just be me writing, though. sara's got no time for stuff like that (teachers do a LOT of work at home). but i'd hate to be the trooper overseas looking forward to a little personal howdy from home and instead of getting Mary Jane Girlnextdoor, he gets sicilian tony saying YO! lol

damn, sounds like there are some serious horror stories about relationships gone south while the bf/hubby is deployed. that's gotta hurt. welcome home, hero? yeah, RIGHT! :P poor bastids.
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#42 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 4:17 PM EST
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To finish out the above as to what CW was saying...

my Divorce including all the credit card bills, $1,568.00 phone bill, $330.00 cell phone bill, and $148.00 internet bill Grand total including my lawyer fee's $37,000 plus I walked away with no furniture accept the 28 cu ft chest Freezer for my hunting meats.. and my Harley (paid off pryor) she got a 94 Olds Delta 88 Royal, the house and a part of my retirement (federal) not my Military because it's based on a points system and at the time of Divorce wouldn't have been worth fighting for is what her lawyer told all in a meeting behind the scenes...

within 3 1/2 yrs I paid all the debts off, reistablished my Credit.. and to this day will never own another CC accept for the manditory military card... bought a house and now own a 2002 FWD Ford extended cab.. my next purchase will put my Arse back in the saddle again... tina my new wife laughs at how anal I am about credit and bills and ****... but one has to walk it to know.... we have a joint account and I have my accounts.... I love her, I trust her, But I will never be burned again....

Macs it is great to hear about you and yours.. and many others out there that know the meaning of the word Marrage....

sorry for the rant on about a differnt topic now back to the reguraly scheduled corpsman... damn sure is enough navy guys around these parts LMAO!!!!

any you guy's run into any Ordies???
or drink beer with em???

Hog
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#43 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 4:50 PM EST
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Cav,
At this point I don't really think in terms of a traditional "pen pal." I figure there are guys (or girls) deployed that need things they can't get or have trouble getting where they are. My sister used to send me paperback books. She'd send a package of 5 or 6. When I read them I'd pass them on, or sometimes I'd initial them, so she'd know I read them and not send them again, and send them back. Cookies, I've already mentioned. Cigars, wet wipes, new socks. Hell, these kids are putting their lives on hold and their a$$e$ on the line.
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#44 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 4:59 PM EST
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Hi Honey,

I've been lonely lately waiting for you to get home. I'm so excited that your deployment is almost up and you'll be back in my arms soon. These past 5 1/2 months have gone by so slow.

By the way, I have some wonderful news. Yes, we're pregnent. You know all that trying before you left finely paid off. I went to the doctor this morning and he said I'm already at 12 weeks. I haven't called your mom yet, I thought you may want to suprise her yourself.

I've got to run now. Only 16 days and a hook.

Love always,
Jane

(I apologize to anyone that's ever gotten this letter for making light of the situation, but this would have to be one of the worst.)
MACS Offline
#45 Posted: Mon, Mar 22 2004, 5:17 PM EST
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Hey Hog? Know why divorces are so f**king expensive? Because they're worth it!!

That's what my buddy Dan told me. He is the mellowest guy in the world and his ex was just verbally abusing him one day when I was over at his house. I am an extremely loyal friend and I just couldn't sit there while she belittled him in front of his best friend... so I says to Dan - "Why did you marry her? She's got no tits, a flat ass and a moustache."

To this day we still call that the "Trifecta" and laugh every time we think of it.

Woulda had some real "weirdness" between us if they'd have stayed together! We've been like brothers since 1992 though and he understands I was just defending him.
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#46 Posted: Tue, Mar 23 2004, 12:21 AM EST
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speaking of divorce and abuses and such, i'm gonna start a couple of threads. these are topics about which i've recently become enlightened -- talking to guys who have been royally screwed in divorces and also the very invisible problem of men as VICTIMS of abuse (contrary to the notion that men are abusers). my wife -- hardcore feminist that she is -- was talking to me today about research she'd just read about, from sources she trusts, that basically reveal that women and men are about equal as victims of domestic violence and abuse; the percentage of women is only slightly higher, and domestic violence where men are victims is becoming increasingly more deadly. :/
hnshipwreck Offline
#47 Posted: Tue, Mar 23 2004, 10:19 AM EST
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i guess that i am the only corpsman around oh well
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#48 Posted: Tue, Mar 23 2004, 3:17 PM EST
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To all deployed - DON'T SIGN THE POWER OF ATTORNEY!!! You might catch hell from the skipper and legal, but it's worth it to keep your sh*t. Just say no!

Tony, you served and defended. Only difference was, instead of wearing the Colors on your sleeve and 782 gear, you wore a badge and a duty belt. Never forget that. Good to go in my book!

E4A (Mike)
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#49 Posted: Tue, Mar 23 2004, 3:35 PM EST
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What E4A said!
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#50 Posted: Tue, Mar 23 2004, 4:32 PM EST
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skimmers all, what no Dolphins?
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