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Benedict Arnold

Would you like to live the Dorian Gray option?

Posted - March 13, 2017
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  • NO, but ty, Whistle6...
    I earned my wrinkles, my gray hair, not to mention my little-old-lady tennis shoes - and I want them to show.
      March 13, 2017 9:06 PM MDT
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  • What about blue hair?
      March 14, 2017 9:03 AM MDT
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  • Aw, Whistle6, you remembered!
    Yes and over time I am starting to think maybe even the rainbow colors! I wouldn't even be the first...have seen a few little old ladies with that, and it was beautiful...
      March 14, 2017 9:54 AM MDT
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  • To a point, I'm already living it. Mrs Didge is fond of telling people that there's a portrait of me in the living room that gets younger and more innocent as the days pass. While I, on the other hand...
      March 13, 2017 11:04 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    So you have achieved a certain "balance" in your life?
      March 14, 2017 2:53 PM MDT
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  • Sure. Although, as Irish author Flann O'Brien said, "A man with his head in the oven and  his feet in the fridge is statistically well balanced."
      March 14, 2017 2:57 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    I heard it as a specific type of man---a "weatherman."

    But while it makes a point, it is not really true since that would be an invalid use of the concept of the statistical average.  (One has to make sure the data you are evaluating is accurately represented by the normal curve.) 

    This post was edited by tom jackson at March 14, 2017 3:05 PM MDT
      March 14, 2017 3:05 PM MDT
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  • Probably
      March 14, 2017 1:32 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    not sure what youre talking about
      March 14, 2017 2:42 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Here's a quick summary of The Picture of Dorian Gray  by Oscar Wilde

    http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/summary.html
      March 14, 2017 2:52 PM MDT
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