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| Hiatus Fever |
| 02.22.05 (1:44 pm) [edit] |
Yes it's true, the Liberty's Kids are officially on hiatus. Some burnout and the recent birth of our beloved niece has been using up most of our time lately so we haven't been able to brainstorm as a group the way we once did. However, Liberty's Kids will rise again some day-that is a promise. Until then, two of our members are continuing their own personal blogs at the following addresses:
http://fatalfame.tblog.com" title="http://fatalfame.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://fatalfame.tblog.com
http://thecsb.tblog.com" title="http://thecsb.tblog.com" target="_blank"http://thecsb.tblog.com
And, though it hasn't been updated in a while, another member has a blog here:
http://axanar.tblog.com/" title="http://axanar.tblog.com/" target="_blank"http://axanar.tblog.com/
Keep in touch, come drop in on us at our individual addresses, and we'll see you again some day!
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| Another day another picture |
| 02.08.05 (10:05 am) [edit] |
After projectile vomiting on aunt Liberty Belle, baby Hannah feels much better.
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| Farewell January...... |
| 02.07.05 (6:16 am) [edit] |
January is finally over. We have this theory that January lasts about 16 weeks. The sun never shines, there isn't any holiday to look forward to. You aren't getting out of school for summer break, it just sucks the life out of you. I got an email last week from a friend that put January into perspective:
I heard once that there was this thing called the sun that gave light to the planet, grew our food, brightened dispositions, tanned skin and even powered some kinds of cars. I think the bible account of the creation should be changed in Genesis from: "separated the light from the darkness" to "separated the dark from the darker."
Couldn't have summed it up better myself. Here's the only good thing that came out of the month:
Other than that, we bid January farewell and hope that they change the calendar year to leave January out in 2006.
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| New edition to Liberty's Kids.... |
| 01.25.05 (8:00 am) [edit] |
Brother to Liberty Belle, Minute Man and Lando the Free welcomed their first child on Friday. Here's a picture of our little Hannah. Congrats to Oliver and Amber.
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| The Swift Dew Veterans for Truth |
| 01.19.05 (3:00 pm) [edit] |
It's been a dark week in Liberty Kids Land. Our regular readers out there know I was lamenting not long ago about the need to change my diet when I found out I had high-ish blood pressure. At first it was a matter of just laying off salt. That sucked-don't get me wrong. But it was nothing compared to having to give up Mountain Dew.
So far, I'm going on day #4 of being Dew-free and it sucks. I've had a headache since Sunday and everything tastes like poo without a smooth, refreshing dose of carbonated goodness to wash it all down.
I feel like half a person. Mountain Dew has been my friend for life. It was there with me when I got my drivers license, it was there for me when my ho-ish ex-wife left-but now that I need it the most, it, ironically, is not there.
The low point of the experience came when I was forced, for temptation's sake, to throw out about $10.00 worth of factory-sealed Mountain Dew cans from my fridge. I just threw them away, without even a formal goodbye or a memorial service. How could I let my Band of Brothers down like this?
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| in your world |
| 01.18.05 (6:12 pm) [edit] |
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i remember vowing with my brother a few years back that'd we'd never shop at a place with "barn" in the title. even if it's the "cool barn." we still wouldn't go. i just had to say that random thing. but that reminds me of another random conversation i had with my best friend once. we were talking about the rock band MUSE (yes, they're the best live band in the world) and we were wondering what would happen to muse if they crash landed a spaceship on another planet, inhabited by crazy alien life. we came to the conclusion that muse would rock their way back to earth, hitting all the hip alien clubs on the way, earning money to buy a spaceship to come back. They'd have all these cool alien influences in their songs too, new and improved, though they couldn't get much better.
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| The ultimate shower radio |
| 01.18.05 (10:18 am) [edit] |
For Christmas I asked for a shower radio/CD player. Dad came through with the purchase and I have been enjoying it for the last 4 weeks.
However, there is an odd feature on this item. There is an alarm clock AND a snooze button. Um, is it just me or does anyone else see anything wrong with this? Does anyone fall asleep in the shower? If they do, why is it premeditated? I can see maybe, MAYBE falling asleep on accident, but to go into the shower and set the alarm clock to wake you.....something is not right. And wouldn't the cold water eventually wake you if you did fall asleep. I run out of hot water after about 30 minutes of being in the shower. Not only that, but showers shouldn't last much longer than 10 minutes. Unless you are 2 years old and an integral part of your play time involves taking a bath or a shower and you spend an hour in there, then there is really no excuse.
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| SUPERMAN IS THAT YOU????? |
| 01.15.05 (11:38 am) [edit] |
I haven't posted for awhile because I felt the post where James Towne was naked deserved plenty of showtime. I was all giggle and snorts. Now to my post. For many years I didn't understand the logic the creators of Superman had by making us all believe that the only thing Superman had to do to hide his identity was to put on a pair of glasses. I don't know about you but when one of my friends gets glasses and they come to work I don't rush right up to them and say "You must be new. you're going to love working here." And as much as I would have liked it, when I got my new specs everyone still knew who I was, even when I changed out of my uniform @ work. Then, it happened. My little sis went out of town and I had the illustrious job of taking care of her cat. The first night I came in without my glasses and the cat was all purrs and cuddles. The next night I came in with my glasses and poor Sebastian thought I was the Devil. Looking at me with eyes as wide as a full moon with a flight or fight stance telling me it didn't recognize me. Hmmm I thought, could it be the glasses. So I left the room and took them off. I then entered again and the cat was as nice as it could be. As I was loving it I put my specs back on and watched the poor thing try to make heads or tails of the situation by cautiously backing up under the bed. Anywho, in a nutshell, I don't feed him with glasses on anymore and the creators of Superman think we all have the intelligence of a cat! This is EGGS BENEDICT. Good day!
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| I, Pod |
| 01.15.05 (6:20 am) [edit] |
Lately, my brother Minute Man and I have had iPods on the brain. He's in love with an iPod girl at his work, and I'm actually in love with the iPod itself. The reason? SHUFFLE.
We both have many MP3s (all legally purchased, if you're reading this, FBI,) and are both tired of making countless mix CDs. We've probably spent enough money on CD-Rs in the last 6 years to buy 10 iPods, including an entire line of iPod clothing, plus the iPod dream house and the iPod Ken with karate grip.
The problem is, however, that iPods are extremely expensive. The product has taken on a mythic quality, like it's something more than it is. We even saw a picture on the internet the other day of President Bush listening to an iPod-everyone has one but us! But really, all it is is just an MP3 player. A really really large capacity MP3 player.
And while we're on the topic, what kind of music is on W's iPod, do you think? Country music? Patriotic songs? What would a president listen to? We all know that Clinton liked Fleetwood Mac, but Kid Rock and The Ramones are the only Republican bands I know, and it's doubtful that W is getting his morning bike ride on to the strains of "Bawahdibah" or "Judy is a Punk." If anyone can find out, write in and you'll win a prize...uh....a free pen from the Liberty's Kids secret compound.
But back to iPods, it seems like they're everywhere and that they keep on growing. There's iPod minis now, as well as the newly released iPod shuffle, which is just like a keychain with a 'start' button on it. No thanks-I don't want to randomly wait through 2,000 songs to get to "Take on Me."
So the question is, how far will iPods go? Is it conceivable that we could see iPod remote controls that randomly change the channel for you? How about iPod cologne dispensers that emit a different scent onto you every day? The possibilities are endless.
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| Butt Out |
| 01.11.05 (5:21 pm) [edit] |
We here at liberty's kids are hip to the trends of 2005. The formula for a winning blog basically, is porn, or "ranting" which we do neither of, however, it has come to our attention that recent "accusations" have been made reguarding the liberty's kids rise to fame and fortune. To those accusations, we respond by having you escorted out with our newly purchased robot butlers.
Really, do you all think it's easy to draw the complex and amazing artwork you see on LK 05? No! It takes hours of painstaking hard work and dedication, after which we just sit down, having not been able to think of anything to draw, and just draw something really quickly. The point is, we try. It doesn't take any effort to pull down one's pants and take a picture. "I just pull down my pants and go to the bathroom like anybody else. If 50,000 people want to watch, I'll do it for em'." -Ben Stiller as Bono
We are not shifty characters, HOWEVER, some research in the basement of our secret liberty's kids compound has turned up some rather revealing photos of some liberty's kids. so here, enjoy some porn.
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| Channel surfing..... |
| 01.11.05 (9:13 am) [edit] |
Day 19.
Day 19 of being sick. The thing that sucks is it's a virus so it can't be treated with antibiotics, it just has to run it's course.
When I'm not at work, I'm at home on the couch just watching TV. You can hit the 'menu guide' option on the remote and it will bring up the episode guide and a brief description of whatever show is on. As I was flipping through the channels I was reading the captions of every show to see if there was anything worth switching to. I passed Turner Network Television and the show that they were currently featuring was "Showgirls" the description of the show read like this: "A Las Vegas Showgirl works as an understudy, dates the boss, and pushes the star down the stairs." I had to laugh out loud because I know summarizing movies into two sentences may be a difficult thing, but come on. I'd like to know whose job it is to come up with the summaries because I'm pretty sure I could do a better job. Although I haven't seen "Showgirls" I could come up with a better synopsis. i.e.: "Saved By the Bell's Elizabeth Berkley stars in this movie about a Las Vegas stripper and her everyday life." There, doesn't that make you want to watch the movie?
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| paranoid android |
| 01.10.05 (3:11 pm) [edit] |
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as the days go by, i feel i'm getting more paranoid, more than most normal people. i was told that everyone's paranoid, sure lotsa people think everyone is talking about them or laughing at them at the office or school or whatever, but i might take things a little too far. the other day, i was driving to lunch, when this big white van with 2 shifty looking guys in it passes me, going in the opposite direction. the van says like "INSULATION" on it. i think it's kind of weird, but just laugh cuz it just LOOKED like a stake out van. i go to lunch for a half hour, and on my way back, i see this van parked on the side of the road, like they're waiting for someone. i think it's pretty weird, cuz ya know, wouldn't they be at their job by now? i pull into work and go back inside, relieved that i'm out of sniper range. i sit at my computer and get back to work. like 10 minutes later i look across the room, outside our big windows into the parking lot and what do i see? THE BIG WHITE INSULATION VAN slowly creeping past the building! weird huh?! they're onto me...
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| No food is good food |
| 01.09.05 (12:37 pm) [edit] |
I recently wandered around my local drugstore and decided to check out the old blood pressure machine to kill some time. Normally this is an enjoyable 60 seconds or so, where the thing squishes your arm and the numbers come back showing that your blood pressure is so low, you're legally dead. Well, this time only one of those things happened.
That's right, the numbers came back showing I had Stage 1 hypertension, whatever that means. I looked it up and it basically is considered high blood pressure. What it means for me is that I need to start making some quick changes. I need to make sure I exercise extremely regularly, and I can't eat anything that tastes good. I'm 28 but I didn't think I had to worry about this stuff until I was at least 30, where I'd officially be considered old. I have a vision of the rest of my life, and it involves lots of Raisin Bran and dry toast.
So is my life over? Basically, yes. With nothing else to eat, including pop and meat, I have nothing left to do but deprive myself of anything good and just wander around for another 50 years or so, waiting to die. This may sound bleak or dramatic, but without pop and meat, what else is there?
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| black jack davey |
| 01.09.05 (9:50 am) [edit] |
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September 9, 1701
ahoy, diary and all ye seaworthy folk. it is i, cabin boy, James Towne. Sorry for neglecting my diary for so long, but the crew and i have been through some rough adventures as of late. I believe last time i wrote, i was locked in the brig for letting my mind slip swabbing the upper deck. Now i'm free and cleaning once again. Currently, we're in the middle of the ocean, sailing by the stars. There's something about being alone with the entrancing sea at night time. However, I don't get to enjoy it much because they set my curfew round 9 o'clock, while the other lads stay up and do "pirate stuff."
speaking of pirates, i finally met Mr. Black Jack Davey, that scallywag. We were waiting in line for lunch when i bent over to lash my boots nice and tight, when i accidently bumped into his lunch tray, knocking it over. I'll never forget that look on his treacherous face. Through that big black bird, i could barely make out a scowl. He handled me by the collar of my shirt, dragging me upstairs onto the deck. "shall i keelhaul this landlubbin dog?!" he yelled to the other lads. they didn't have much of a reaction, cuz i'm not sure they knew who i was, plus i figured black jack davey didn't want to go through the trouble of tying a killick to me, then throwing me overboard, dragging me under the boat. So he just threw me overboard instead.
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| cold hands, warm heart |
| 01.07.05 (3:02 pm) [edit] |
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today at work, i received the ultimate compliment from my boss. "you look like the meanest person in the world." she continued, "really, sometimes you look so intimidating. i'm afraid to ask you stuff!" i've stil got it.
p.s. just for the people who don't know me, i just look mean and sometimes act super cold and sarcastic. but deep down, i'm nice and friendly.
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| Most overplayed song of 2004 |
| 01.05.05 (9:06 am) [edit] |
Day 13.
I'm going on day 13 of being sick. It's too late to go get antibiotics though. I'm on the uphill climb back to health. I can finally hear what some of my co-workers are saying and I'm awake more in a 24 hour day than I am asleep.
Every year there is one song that is played and played and overplayed until you get to the point where everytime the song comes on the radio you either use the closest thing you have to destroy your radio, or....just turn it off. In 2003 it was either the breakout song for Evenescence (which I can't remember the name of it, but I do know that it was on every station for about 10 months straight), or "Clocks" by Coldplay. For 2004 I dubbed "The Reason" by Hoobastank, with "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5 as a close 2nd. If anyone can think of something more overplayed, please feel free to comment. Otherwise, I do believe I called this one right on the nose.
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| sail to the moon |
| 01.04.05 (5:50 pm) [edit] |
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i have nothing to say, so i shall try to invent a colonial type poem on the spot. hope it works out.
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do you like my black hat with the belt?
it's rather comfy and is made of felt
i live with my friends by the shipyards
in the olden days, there were no cars
2 of the liberty's kids have left the gang
however, we were not hung out in the rain
we laugh and play and write all day
and crap i just turned this poem gay.
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well, there's always next time. how's everyone's week going?
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| JUST A SPOON FULL OF SUGAR IS A SPOON FULL OF BULL |
| 01.03.05 (12:00 pm) [edit] |
During this extreme cold season I've heard nothing but horrible reports about how bad cough medicine tastes. Prompted by the fact that my friends parents watched MARY POPPINS for New Year's (Party on) I had to reflect upon such strange things sung to our children. Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down! What the crap, it probably was sugar that got the kids sick in the first place. And wouldn't that taste even worse....Like adding a spoon full of mustard to my Hershey's chocolate milk, my Hershey's chocolate milk, my Hershey's chocolate milk! Alright done with the advertising. Anywho. I'm sorry to say that there are people out there that have actually tried this with their Nyquil....I hope they enjoyed the gag reflex of stupidity!
THAT IS ALL.
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| moving up |
| 12.31.04 (12:47 pm) [edit] |
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happy new year's from the liberty's kids. this will be our last post of 2004. we'd like to thank our droves of loyal fans who laugh with us here on the blog. we came here in july and we love the response we've got. it's overwhelming! so thanks to everyone for making us #1. and thanks to those few bitter bloggers whose jealousy drives us to get better and better. it's just fuel for the fire. we've come a long way. 2 bloggers. 1 dead, 1 missing presumed eaten by a yeti. however, they're both welcome back with 24 hours prior notice. i'm sure we could work something out. we all have some good new year's eve plans. and they're awesome cuz all the liberty's kids are straight shooters who don't drink or do drugs. but we still know how to have fun without manmade evils. we hope to see everyone back here in 2005 and we hope to exceed the expectations of everyone. speaking of exceeding, i'd like to congratulate fellow liberty's kid, eggs benedict on 2 successful films on student films. 1 starring myself. it's in the top 10 best reviewed. and his other is in the top 10 viewed this month. so that's cool go here to see em!
http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" title="http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=798" target="_blank"http://www.studentfilms.com/f...
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| The King has returned |
| 12.29.04 (1:44 pm) [edit] |
Thanks to my Dad, I received the Extended Return of the King DVD set for Christmas. I've been waiting over a year now to see a non-butchered version of this film, especially with the unconsciable removal of the confrontation of Sauraman scene at Isengard restored.
Before you write this off as a nerd post, that's all I'm going to say regarding nerdy complaints. There will be no "Kirk is better than Picard" -esque arguments here. Clearly, Kirk was better than Picard, but Picard had less hair.
Anyway, I liked the extended Return of the King. The added scenes really helped fill in a lot of serious plot holes, such as how Eowyn wound up with Theodyn at the end, and how Aragorn ends up with the annoying Arwyn at the end, despite the fact that Eowyn is hotter than her and can kill dragons and such. OK it doesn't really explain that, but, thanks to the handy and futuristic DVDs, you can just edit the movie yourself with its handy film editor and erase her right out of the entire trilogy!
My favorite addition is a scene towards the end where they go to visit Sauron and the 'mouth' of Sauron comes out and talks to Aragorn, Gandalf, etc. He looks kind of like this:
He says many things and looks really cool. How do I get a hat like that?
I'd also like to add that Kirk got more chicks, but Picard got a better quality of chicks. Did you see that brunette in "Tapestry'? She's hot!
**************** out of ***************** stars
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| It's beginning to look a lot like January |
| 12.28.04 (2:23 pm) [edit] |
I, for one, am glad Christmas is over this year. Not that I didn't have a good Christmas-I did. It was fun to see family and friends, and I got some great presents, and hopefully gave some good presents in return.
No, for me it's more just that I came back from Christmas with a terrible head cold that, for the first time in my life, actually affected my ears and made it so everything sounded like I was wearing industrial earmuffs.
A typical conversation goes like this:
Person A: Hey, how are you?
Person B: I'm doing really good.
Person A: That's great. Did you hear about that tsunami?
Person B: Yeah that sucks...for them!
In my world of the last 4 days, that same conversation sounds like this:
Person A: Hey, how are you?
Person B: *stares blankly*
Person A: That's great. Did you hear about that tsunami?
Person B: *stares blankly*
Finally, today, thanks to no less than 7 cold remedies including but not limited to Vicks Vapor Rub, Tylenol Severe Cold, Costco Allergy Medicine, Nasal Spray, Ear Drops, Halls Defense Vitamin C tablets and Ricola, I am now doing significantly better. Here's hoping to be drug-free in the new year!
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| we 4 kings |
| 12.25.04 (7:02 pm) [edit] |
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hello to all. as you can see, the liberty's kids have taken a bit of a vacation for the week of xmas. we travelled far, have stories to report, pictures to show and an inventory of presents to roll call. that's for the upcoming days. for now, while we rest up and recover from all the candy and what not, we'll leave you with this real life picture of all the liberty's kids together, save for the ficticious james towne. however, instead of him, we have a cute baby type thing with us. it's a one and only original christmas card from your favorite bloggers. merry christmas to all and yeah yeah..
p.s. do they compare to the characters of us? methinks they do a bit.
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| a skinny santa... |
| 12.20.04 (7:14 pm) [edit] |
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every year for the past 5 years, we've invited ourselves over to our aunt's place to make gingerbread houses. at least that's how i think it goes. we always have much fun but i think we bug her family every year. that's not really the point, they're super cool and nice and gracious for hosting us all these years. so this year, 4 out of 5 liberty's kids attended the gingerbread house making thing. james towne couldn't make it on account of him being ficticious and dead. we paired up as follows: myself and lando the free on a team, and eggs benedict teamed with his gf, liberty belle. it was very entertaining, i hope we don't offend anybody with our horrific houses.
the house of minute man and lando the free, complete with santa the destroyer wielding fiery cross, busting naughty doers.
and a shot of the whole house.
the house of eggs benedict and liberty belle, they live inside.
merry xmas from the liberty's kids!
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| The Best Clue Ever Given..... |
| 12.20.04 (9:57 am) [edit] |
Over the weekend we had a Christmas Gathering. This being our first real “party” we had officially put together, there were some lessons to be learned. It’s like a wedding, you send out 500 invitations and only 250 people actually show up. Needless to say we had enough food to feed more people then we actually know.
We played a couple games and one of those games was “Catchphrase.” For those of you who don’t know what “Catchphrase” is, I will give a brief description. It’s like $25,000 Pyramid in mini form. You have a word you need to describe w/o actually saying any part of the word. If you don’t know what the word is, or you have difficulty describing it, you can pass it to another teammate to describe the word. Which is just what happened to me.
Skyy was unable to describe the word given so it was then passed to me. I had no idea this word was an actual word but I thought of a way to convey it to my teammates. The word was “Valkyrie.” I gave the clue “This guy played Batman blank Kilmer.” Of course the team shouted “Val.” I then gave the clue “This was a hit song for the band Mr. Mister back in 1986. Blank liason down the road that I must travel.” I thought for sure everyone would know the hit “Kyrie” from one of the beloved bands from the 80's that brought us such hits as “Broken Wings” and “Is it Love?” Unfortunately nobody in the room listened to any music pre-Chumba Wumba. Minute Man got it, but he wasn’t on my team, he was just rolling on the floor in laughter at the clue I was giving.
There it was, the best clue of my life, and no one could get it.
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| OLD PEOPLE |
| 12.18.04 (11:40 am) [edit] |
I have come to discover the greatest security force in the whole world are old people....especially old people in old people neighborhoods. My grandma reports to me when I get home about every person that walked down the sidewalk that day. All old people love to look out their windows and report to each other on the phone..."there's a man in your yard." "we have a new mailman." Even when some service comes to the house, three or four phones calls come in from the neighbors demanding an update. WOW GREAT JOB MCGRUFF!
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