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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 11:18 pm
Kar, DC & Loyolamom, I guarantee you if there's ever really a TVCH Cruise I will be one of the first to plonk my money down. But I am not a BETA gal, iykwim, so therefore, once at least 4 or 5 folks commit, I'm happy to be the 6th, and HOPEFULLY Vinblanche will be # 7! Please G-d let one of you be a speed-chess, poker, or Bridge player which will entice him to come along and forget he's on the water. LOL
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 3:35 am
I'm much more blunt and to the point in real life, Mameblanche. I self-mod myself on this board to safe the mods some work.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 7:23 am

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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 7:47 am
Mame my brother is a chess champion.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:18 am
LOL Chili & Dearie! Mocha... that's terrific! But does he play speed-chess? That's the million dollar question. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:39 am
You'll have to ask him lol.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 9:27 am
Mame, I've never paid much attention to them, but they do have game rooms on ships, and I see people in there playing. I am sure a dedicated player could find other like souls looking for a good game.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 12:29 pm
Yoo hoo Smoothie... please see my question posted above... GRIN. Thanks Juj! I suppose if Vin brings his chess clock that would be a start. Wink. He DOES play regular chess but he's a bit hyper/impatient so he hates when a game drags on forever. (So why he takes forever on each turn in Scrabble... I'll never know. LOL)
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 3:30 pm
They sure do have game areas. =)
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 7:07 pm
from my mom: FIVE RULES FOR MEN TO FOLLOW TO A HAPPY LIFE: 1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home, who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job. 2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh. 3. It's important to have a woman who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you. 4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed and who likes to be with you. 5. It's very, very important that these four women don't know each other.
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Newman
Member
09-25-2004
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:10 pm
Just read a sweet book review, from this Sunday's Denver Post book review section. It was a small non fiction book by Calvin Trillin, an homage to his dearly departed wife. "About Alice." The reviewer described what I am looking for. "There is nothing quite so hard as explaining why another person's affection is the sunrise and sunset, but Trillin manages it here in remarkably few words." That gets back to Escapee's point of NEED vs WANT. I want to be with someone who wants to be with me, and vica versa, who likes me and who I like. Sounds like Calvin Trillin had that kind of marriage. Good for him.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:15 pm
LOL @ Cndeariso!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 4:56 pm
I agree with you, Newman. So many marriages would be better ones if the couple just liked each other! That probably should be one of the first things anyone should check off the list in a relationship, but so many people don't. Why is that? I have been around good marriages all of my life and have lots of great examples around me. My parents are celebrating their 50th anniversary this month, as a matter of fact. I'd love that kind of a relationship...where you really do vow to be together for better or worst and both work to make sure that better prevails.
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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Saturday, January 20, 2007 - 6:29 pm
very true, yesitsme. i believe whole-heartedly that one should marry one's best friend. that is why i love my husband so much even though i complain about him. we are very good friends and were so for almost 2 years before we started dating. heck, we used to swap stories about the folks we had been going out with and why they were wrong for us. LOL
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Newman
Member
09-25-2004
| Monday, January 22, 2007 - 8:10 pm
I'm completely unlike you, Yes. I don't know many good marriages at all. I don't even know if I believe in that vow, "for better or for worse." My ex was a anger-holic and had tremendous problems with jealousy. She was mentally unbalanced if you ask me. The thing is she could control all of that at work. She was a school teacher. They loved her there. She never got fired or anything. But at home it was yelling and screaming, mostly at the kids. We would go to frozen parking lots and scream at each other. As I look back, that doesn't seem like it was my life. It seems unreal. I got out of that relationship when the boys joined the Marines. For better or worse? I could have stayed with her. We could have fought with each other for the next 30 years, but why? She has gone on to two other husbands since me and it always sounds like she's doing tremendously well. I've visited her several times, to see my daughter, and her houses have been awesome. Seems like I did her a favor by cutting her loose. She seems to have flourished...
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 8:34 am
First of all Newman, I don't mean to pick on you by the comment I am about to make. You know I always enjoy you and your honesty and even sometimes when you provoke discussion. I know you are not a villian and you have often caused me to think about things in a new way. However, I have to ask the question....you said your wife was the anger-holic, yet you go on to say how you would scream at each other. Would you classify yourself as one also? I only ask because I have been thinking a lot lately about how often we (yes, my own life got these thoughts going) point fingers at the other party and see ourselves as the innocent. We exhibit the same behavior or complementing behavior, but somehow we feel it is different for us because "they" caused it. When we hear how opposites attract, I think sometimes outlets attract plugs. We enjoy the sparks the igniting behavior makes when we are dating or getting to know someone, yet as time goes on we suddenly realize we're engulfed in flames and what was a good fun thing that we enjoyed early in our relationship is out of control. Still, if either the plug or the outlet don't come together, the electricity doesn't happen. Since we can only change ourself, I think we have to examine our own behavior in a relationship first and figure out what we can do to either stop the situation while we are in the relationship or if the relationship is over, what we can do to prevent it happening in the next one. And you know that big beautiful houses do not produce or indicate happiness. Sometimes they are just big hollow boxes of misery. And seldom do broken marriages mean happiness... except in those rare cases when people come out of them and change themselves.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:04 pm
Ok, Valentines day is coming up. This is one of the few times I feel like I am missing out on something by not having a significant other. I'm wondering what you guys with boyfriends/girlfriends/spouses plan to do to show your partner how special they are.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:07 pm

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Cndeariso
Member
06-28-2004
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:09 pm
LOL @ max! i haven't given it much thought yet with today being our wedding anniversary. i'll have to get back with you on that one.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:13 pm
LOL Max! In our house it's just another day. Shameful huh?
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:31 pm
Dogdoc, I just told my DH that I didn't want anything other than him.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:34 pm
Gee, "getting lucky" seems to be the theme so far. lol
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 3:39 pm
Just another day in the bigdoghouse. Well, we do have champagne to drink up before we head back on the road. We might have some champagne if we remember it is Valentines Day.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 4:17 pm
I can get lucky any day. I want jewels.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, February 02, 2007 - 4:22 pm
LMAO Chili...and big ones too, right?
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