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skip fox

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1. "And I was just about at my lowest, too drunk to pull down my pants,

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Thu Jun 27, 2013, 05:14 PM

Jun 2013

and wallowing in hot fecal stew, living under an overpass in Hoboken on a cold January afternoon, I heard a little voice coming from my right shirt pocket. . . . Looking in, I saw a little cockroach looking up at me and scolding me. He told me how a cockroach's life is no bed of roses and how lucky I was to be a drunken bum because I could pull myself together and rake in millions as a dry drunk. . . . Well, the rest is history as they say."

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"Take that, logic." Please come CAPTION Head Wreck!!! [View all] skip fox Jun 2013 OP

"And I was just about at my lowest, too drunk to pull down my pants, skip fox Jun 2013 #1

"If I was on the Titanic I'd be singing right about now." skip fox Jun 2013 #2

''Swing your partner, round-and-round.'' Octafish Jun 2013 #3

"What I wanta know is what happened to Lear's fool? Did he hang himself or what? skip fox Jun 2013 #4

Shit. LWolf Jun 2013 #5

"Who is silly enough to make this stuff up!?" JHB Jun 2013 #6

Of course CAPTIONing at DU is a creative activity, but skip fox Jun 2013 #7

Congrats! In 12 years you're the first Caption-thread ref to chide me... JHB Jun 2013 #10

No chiding, not by me. skip fox Jun 2013 #11

"I don't want to hear any more about illegal aliens in this country!" treestar Jun 2013 #8

Multiple-partner marriages should be legalized as well... krispos42 Jun 2013 #9