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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 02:53 PM Original message |
Poll question: What really happened at Chappaquiddick? |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. other: who gives a rat's ass? |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I thought that after 30 years time it would be interesting to see how history had |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
34. Second that - |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:56 PM Response to Reply #34 |
58. I would agree with you except that it is such a part of our political culture |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #58 |
65. I was a freshman in college in November of 1963 - |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #65 |
79. what a nice remembrance! Thank you so much, tangerine! |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 11:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
98. yes |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. 40th, not 30th. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Oops! Thanks for the correction. nt |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I knew you'd want to know while you could change it. |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
5. Other. I think it was a set-up. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. How so? nt |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Because JFK and RFK were assassinated. Isn't it a little too convenient |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Could be, but I have always suspected that Ted was very irresponsible in those days. |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I think we should all reconsider what we assumed or suspected about Teddy. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Just because Teddy may have been driving drunk |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. That doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Well heck, you must be right and that's why he was never elected to anything. |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. You do realize that JFK was assassinated while president and that RFK was |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. As it happened, I was in Dallas the day JFK was killed by Oswald |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #35 |
49. How astoundingly empty of actual content! Bravo and welcome! |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:48 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. I merely mentioned those facts to show that I was around then |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. Not at all... |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:22 PM Response to Reply #56 |
62. My mistake. I will be forever in your debt for the sage advice. |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #62 |
88. You're entirely welcome. |
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MinM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. Brian De Palma's "Blow Out" (1981) |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Thank you SO much for that information and those links!!!! |
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MinM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 07:39 PM Response to Reply #31 |
100. You are welcome. |
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tibbiit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. I have always thought this |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. We'd have to be brain dead not to have wondered about JFK jr. |
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TheUnspeakable (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 06:05 AM Response to Reply #32 |
94. Have you ever seen this? |
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Raspberry (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
41. This didn't "happen" to Teddy |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:31 PM Response to Reply #41 |
47. Do you believe everything happens exactly |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. You are risking life and limb here by questioning this (or any) conspiracy theory. |
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Raspberry (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:36 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Thanks for the words of advice |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:42 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. Yes...there are conspiracies and there are CONspiracies. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #48 |
57. it's the opposite. |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #57 |
69. Who could possibly take issue with such impeccable logic? |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:23 PM Response to Reply #41 |
85. I agree with you |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
40. Agreed. |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. I think he panicked, as humans are known to do, then lied about it. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I thought that at the time but I was intrigued by the theory that he wasn't even there. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. I have no fucking idea. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. Let's see.... they killed JFK. They killed RFK....... |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. Exactly. nt |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
55. just coinkydinks |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 08:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
89. "They" killed JFK and RFK? The same "they"? You have some sort |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 02:35 AM Response to Reply #89 |
93. Oswald may have been ONE of the shooters who hit JFK |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. I heard Poppy Bush had something to do with it. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Let us know what you find! nt |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
14. It was Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
16. I had to vote "other" because |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
17. His drunk ass ran off the road and left her in the car to die. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. If only Mary Jo had been packing heat. |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. That's not sarcasm, it is just sick. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:08 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Well, if you hadn't just arrived from Freepistan |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. Oh, I see - you are one of the pure ones. |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #43 |
60. He just doesn't like losing arguments, pay him no mind. Welcome to DU. |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #60 |
63. Oh shucks...thanks! |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:08 PM Response to Reply #38 |
80. Well, since I am a liberal grandma at age 69, who cast her first vote for for JFK in 1960 |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #26 |
59. Maybe if she had shot his drunk ass before he started driving. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #26 |
87. Guns solve all our problems. |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #87 |
91. Why do people keep making idiotic comments like that? |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
39. Truth |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
82. Exactly. |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
19. Everyone who says "who cares?" The the answer is obviously Ted Kennedy. |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. One of the right-wing's favorite masturbatory topics. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 08:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
90. Just like Pickles' vehicular manslaughter got several DU'ers rocks off |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
22. Teddy fucked up. There isn't any rocket science here. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. nobody died when Clinton had his affairs. This is different. |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Well that's true, of course and I didn't mean to imply it was different in any substantive way |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
53. I Love The Kennedys |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
42. Wow, for a second, I thought I was on FreeRepublic.com |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. yeah, seriously |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
45. Other: Somebody was trying to kill Ted Kennedy. |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
46. Hey, reality check... was anyone there?? Guess then it's just speculation... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:04 PM Response to Reply #46 |
61. It really is. You are absolutely right. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
52. I Have An Autographed Photo Of Ted Kennedy Which I Gor After The Accident |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
64. I thought the official line, after modern forensics, |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #64 |
81. Absolutely correct - |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
66. CT Yankee - devote your energy to figuring out one of the mysteries of |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #66 |
76. You know, you really have the wrong person here. I am a 69 year old grandmother of four. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
67. The ratfuckers were trying to kill Kennedy but failed. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #67 |
70. John Dean might know, according to Nixon tapes... |
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ellie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #70 |
75. Hey Octafish! |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #70 |
99. WOW... I have never seen that quote |
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Tan Gent (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:08 PM Response to Reply #67 |
71. The ratfuckers just didn't use enough thermite. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 01:11 AM Response to Reply #67 |
92. And I think THAT is the correct answer |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
68. I think Teddy was drunk |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
72. Other: Teddy did not know how to help another person from a rapidly sinking car. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #72 |
74. Boy, is that a good question! I don't know...does anybody else? nt |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #72 |
84. Maybe so. He waited hours to |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #84 |
86. That's something else altogether. |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 08:13 AM Response to Reply #72 |
96. Wait for the car to submerge fully underwater... then open the door |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
73. BFEE has to be part of it somewhere |
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PretzelWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
77. it was the one-armed man |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
78. Years ago on another messsage board... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-11-09 07:17 PM Response to Reply #78 |
83. I read the book on this called "The Bridge at Chappaquiddick." |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
95. does it really matter at this point? |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-12-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #95 |
97. Yes, you make a good point...nt |
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