relationship upgrade.

Don't listen to Ned. No such thing as too many kids. Congrats

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No such thing as too many kids.

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Spoken like a man.

Congrats, guys. That's a classy ring, too. Contemporary.I'm not much of a gemologist. What are those turquoise-colored stones? Tourmaline or something?

blue diamonds.

we're planning on a year or two. it's gonna be small.

Nice. (Clearly I need to put a few more skill points in Appraise.)

Oh snap. Just hearing 'skill points' reminds me how excited I am about getting Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion as soon as the semester ends!(getting it now would negate any hope for a 4.0 on an overload schedual)I'm down for opening a videogame thread just because I'm so excited about it! ...even though your skill points might be better off in unarmed melee combat or healing magic(the two tiers of existence) Edited by One_Charred_Wing, : smileys

Congrats !(And don't worry about "sexypics" Just have fun to celebrate your graduation !)

And what`s this nonsense about 'man hands'? Man hands have knobby knuckles and scars. Lots of scars.

there's a huge scar across the back of the other hand. pizza+oven=bandages for weeks.it's just that my hands are dry and i have short fingers and a large palm. actually, my fiance is 6'1" and our palms are almost the same size. maybe i have chimp hands and not man hands. oh well.

Clemens Starck:
A Brief Lecture on Door Closers

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Although heretofore unconsidered
in verse or in song,
the ordinary door closer is, I submit, a device
well worth considering.
Consisting primarily
of a spring and a piston, in combination,
here's how it works:

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You open a door,
either pushing or pulling.
The spring is compressed, the piston extended.
Now, having passed through the doorway,
you relinquish control,
and the door closer takes over. The spring remembers
how it was”
it wants to return. But the urge is damped
by the resistance the piston encounters,
snug in its cylinder
filled with hydraulic fluid.

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Such is the mechanism of the door closer,
invented in 1876
by Charles Norton, when a slamming door
in a courtroom in Cincinnati
repeatedly disrupted
the administration of justice.

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Whether concealed beneath the threshold
or overhead in the head jamb,
whether surface-mounted as a parallel-arm installation
or as a regular-arm,
door closers are ever vigilant,
silently performing their function, rarely
complaining.

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Whereas doors can be metaphorical”as in,
for example, "He could never unlock
the door to her heart"”
door closers cannot.

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Remember this when you
pass through, and the door closes behind you
with a soft thud
and final click
as the latchbolt engages the strike.

________"A Brief Lecture on Door Closers," by Clemens Starck, from Traveling Incognito. © Wood Works.From "The Writer's Almanac" 2004-07-07, Minnesota Public Radio.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/...04/07/05/index.htmlEdited by Archer Opterix, : Added link.

Congradulations..May you be very happy with your upgrade