Long Time Friends?

[AK_Chappy]

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Hmmmmmm,<br />I think Vlad just doesn't want that next promotion, or to break into 4 digit post count.<br /> <br /><br />Friends,<br />I got a couple of em. <br />Let's start with the ones from So. Cal (at least that's where we met).<br />One, I haven't seen in 15 years. We talk on the phone pretty often. He is from Michigan, I am from Ohio. Imagine the one weekend of the year conversations. My wife and I will try to make it to Las Vegas to see him and his wife for New Year's.<br />Got another friend from the same time frame. Saw him about 12 years ago in Germany. He now lives in Sweden. Talk on the internet, email fairly regularly.<br />Both of these are also good friends with the wife. We all met before she and I got married.<br />I have a friend whom I met in Germany. We talk on the phone and email regularly. He asked me to be his Best Man. He now lives in Chicago.<br />Last but not least is from AK. <br />A whole family of friends still there. Their daughter calls me "Dad #2". Got a funny story on that too. <br />A good buddy of mine we met in So. Cal, met up again in AK where I met his parents. His parents have now "adopted" me. Awesome family. <br /><br />I would trust my life with any of them. I would put my life on the line for any of them. I can easily call them all "brother" and mean it.<br /><br />Life is not measured by the wealth you leave in your will. It is measured by the friends who mourn your passing.<br /><br />AK Chappy

 

[QC]

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I had that kind of friend. Met when I was a Freshman and he was a Sophomore in High School. I was his best man and he mine. Never got sick of each other, and could always depend on each other. We snow skiied together both days every winter weekend for five years. He is the only guy I ever trusted to ski right on my tail. We absolutely knew when each other would turn etc. What bump we would hit, what bump we wouldn't. It was pretty dang cool! Wives were friends too. Not real close but we did a lot as couples. Our first sons were born 3 months apart. Both named Jeffrey . . . Total accident and we decided to leave it alone. One was Jeffrey Alan and one was Jeffrey William. That's how they were reffered to then.<br /><br />He moved to Spokane about 12 years ago. We have hooked up here and there a couple of times. Frankly, he seems very lonely and the marriage is not its best anymore. Last time he was here, when he left, I was actually pretty relieved. It is definitely not the same. He talks and talks and talks and I just listen. Not the two way street it was years ago. I guess that's just how it goes sometimes . . . <br /><br />Oh, and if there can be a winner in this thread, it has to be JB. If just one of my three boys turns out like JB jr. I'll truly be blessed.

 

[QC]

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Oh, oh, oh. What the flyin' flip is Vlad talkin' about? The only thing I can glean is that he is really both Vlad and Elmer. I can hope can't I? 999. What does that mean? I have a suggestion, turn that flipped up superstition around right now. I say the superstition now means you have to post at double the rate, not never again <br /><br />BTW, side note. I have actually tried to sell trucks to Sainsbury. Now that right there ought to bring him out of retirement . . . I'll bet no other Americans here know what a flippin' Sainsbury is! I even know what aisle the Fishmonger is on . . . in Bamber Bridge anyway. That's it, next time I'm shoppin' at Tesco . . .

 

[heycods]

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like a bat outta hell Ill be gone when the morning comes??????? some say the checks in the mail "I say the clue is in the post" I rhink i have it (hope not) lwr

 

[brother chris]

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Originally posted by JB:<br /> <br /> someone to go to with a personal problem and who comes to me with his.<br /><br />

I wish I had one of those

 

[Link]

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Originally posted by bubbakat:<br /> Met my best friend in the rice paddies of south viet nam in 1965. But sorry to say I lost him last summer to a lung illness that I still don't know what it was. We did everything together and I miss him a bunch at this time of the year.<br />I won't be depressed about it though because he would be the first to say Life goes on.

Good for you and I'm sure he is proud of you for holding that thought! Celebrate him for the life he lived. And meet him in another.<br />Peace<br /><br />Link

 

[lakelover]

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Here's one not a lot of people know. I first saw my wife in 1960 when I was 5 and she was about 8 months old lying in a crib & I thought "big deal, a baby". So now we've been friends for 32 years & married for 25. Doesn't get much stranger than that!

 

[Limited-Time]

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Originally posted by alden:<br />

BTW, Does this post make me sound "Gay", ( Not that there is any thing wrong with that) cause I'm not, you can ask my wife. [/QB][/quote]<br /><br /><br />Yes it does:<br /><br />gay<br /><br />adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: cheery, sunny] 2: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful] 3: given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies" 4: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage" [syn: brave, braw] 5: offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [/QB][/quote]<br /><br />Thank you alden, I'll take that. FWIW I should have prefaced the Gay thing as a tong in cheek statement, as it was meant to be humorous

 

[Link]

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[heycods]

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I dunno link , I think your gonna be poofed. <br />I was.

 

[TwoBallScrewBall]

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I'm 29. Met my friend Jack in 1st grade. Seen a whole lot together, including the inside of a police car. Better friends than ever today. Got our first motorcycles together, went to school together. Lots of good times. He's my daughter's godfather. <br /><br />They say a friend will help you move, but your best friend will help you move a body. He'd definitely be the latter. As would I if the situation ever arose.