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I'm glad too - thanks for the update!

Welcome, welcome! Have a cup and a cookie or two. We're glad you're here! Make yourself at home! And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Hope your Christmas was lovely!

Who accused you of lookin normal? I never heard that!

That always gets me, too! If we have Christ IN US, then He's wherever we are. I've asked people about that and they say they "pray in the Spirit" - meaning they pray and He shows up! When I say that I think He's been there all along that usually shuts them up or at most they say that they never thought of it that way before... Another ex-way person here uses the same word, "teaching" I use where most folks around here say "sermon" or "message". My pastor/mentor told me yesterday that when the other ex-way person said "teaching" to him that it used to sound almost funny to his ears, then when he started hearing me use that over the past several years, he's begun to think that may actually be more accurate a description of what he does and it no longer sounds funny to him. I also have a new appreciation for the phrase, "What Would Jesus Do?" I used to think like lcm - but now I think it's a fine way to make a tough decision easier. Sometimes it's just easier to see what He would do and do my best to do that.

I remember the Way Outs from the Flintstones - cool band!

I've posted plenty of Weenie Roast pics here, but can't find them now. I have no idea where they are.

Oak - Were you at the one with the snipe hunt fiasco?

That could work well.

I agree totally with mstar. I don't think I'd go unless it was someone I was really, really close to. I think I might send a nice gift with an invitation to come visit you if they're ever in your neck of the woods. I'd so much prefer to never step foot on those grounds again.

What I like about GreaseSpot After Hours is that it was here, over these last ten years that we became a strong group so I like the inclusion of GreaseSpot in the name. Waydale was fabulous, but totally different. There are so many good possibilities - I'm glad it's not my decision. I'm a little Grease Spot Short and stout Sock it to me, Baby Let it all hang out!

hmmmm, I'm not 100% sure, but wasn't the roast with the cops in TN and the snipe hunt in KY? I'm thinking those were two different years. (I have been wrong a time or two before so I'm not saying I'm positive, but I'm thinking maybe...) And I'm thinking it was Rascal's friend's kid that was lost on the snipe hunt, not one of Rascal's very own.

((((((((((Paw)))))))))) I've always been proud of you - never more so than right now.

I like GreaseSpot after hours or maybe exway, no way, overtheway, beyondtheway, pasttheway...

Ha! I'd forgotten all about the pole dance!!! But I'll never forget when the cop said to pour out the beer or go to jail, all of us and sudo stood right there in front of that cop and everybody and started chuggin!!! Thanks to your wise intervention I didn't get banned from all future weenie roasts for pouring out the par juice... Hmmm, now that you mention it... I don't recall ever seeing the two of them in the same room at the same time...

I have to say - you're one of us, now, soul searcher, and I hope you and anyone else who has contributed to the info, fun or general entertainment around here will grace us with your presence at the fb page as well as wherever we gather when these doors close... We may not be as much about "outing" twi these days, but that's only cause there's so little left of it around to stumble onto...

I don't think so, Twink - I think GreaseSpot Cafe has accomplished it's mission. And now look how many of us that weren't free to be friends back in the day are now free to do as we please and friend whom we please. I'd say twi shot themselves in the foot with their little mark and avoid game. They had control over so many of us while in - now that we're out and free, they can't control us. (The dumb butts!)

I tip my glass to each of us for making it out of twi alive and for finding this cafe. You're all a special kind of something or other to me. I, too, have made life long friends here that I intend to stay in touch with forever and ever, amen. Party? You betcha! New Year's Eve? I imagine I'll be here for at least part of it. I do think someone will open a site if the GSC actually closes. I can't imagine there not being a place for us to gather. Thanks for ten good years, paw - you'll be a tough act to follow.

Good times, good memories. I remember very well freaking Sudo out when I called him by name - and he couldn't imagine how I knew he was him. (It was on account of my memory of his avatar right here on GreaseSpot, no big mystery. That joke was the funniest told joke I ever did hear. (Not to be confused with the funniest joke, just told the funniest...) I also remember my first words to Pawtucket that weekend. I said, "Oh, I wish you'd slept in my bed last night!" What I meant by that was we didn't arrive until the wee hours of day two and the bed the princess and I had rented went un-slept in that first night. I also remember thinking we were all going to jail and I hadn't even drank a drop, not even of Littlehawk's famous par juice! That entire episode with the TN state park cop remains one of my funniest camping memories.

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Yep, your turn!

This is so wonderful on so many levels. God bless you richly.

He doesn't care if you're a rich or poor, He loves you just the same.

Baby, It's Cold Outside - Frank Sinatra?

Roy - I recommend you give First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) a shot. I've been not only welcomed, but treated with godly love and respect - even when I stated that I would never be a member. Today I'm an elder and this is the first church I've known of that actually has no set doctrine. This is a thinking person's church. If you lived in my town I'd gladly come pick you up every week for Sunday services and Wednesday night dinner, which we offer for one dollar if you have it, or for free if you don't - (someone else will throw in a dollar for anyone who doesn't have one of their own). We're certainly not perfect, but we err on the side of love. I haven't read this book either. I think I will.

That's quite a message- and out of the mouth of babes - good song! Thanks, Dot.