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   CAGIV | Aug 29, 2003 06:11am | #1

   Sounds like someone up above was looking out for him.

   I hate those stories...

   Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.

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   Piffin | Aug 29, 2003 06:37am | #2

   My eye hurts now.

   .

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   andybuildz | Aug 29, 2003 09:20pm | #5

   My eye hurts now.

   and no headache???? 

    

   Its very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we invested in so heavily

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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   HeavyDuty | Aug 29, 2003 07:17am | #3

   Say I am a skeptic. I couldn't read the text in that article. Only if they could show me a frontal radiograph, I would just assume it's a ear piercing at a body art parlor gone bad. If that article is genuine, I sure wish him well.

   Tom

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   Luka | Aug 29, 2003 09:03am | #4

   The hardest part, she said, is he was not insured for the job he was performing. According to Ben, he did have insurance, but for this particular job he was listed as a sub-contractor, and was not covered under his insurance.

   A good heart embiggins even the smallest person.

   Quittin' Time

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   andybuildz | Aug 29, 2003 09:21pm | #6

   hey luka....he shoulda worn a tin foil hat and glasses. 

    

   Its very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we invested in so heavily

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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   JeffBuck | Aug 30, 2003 07:03am | #7

   on a similar note...

   I was at the chiropractors today ...

   heard a guy talking in the waiting room .....said he's recoverling OK....

   He took a 40 foot fall from a railroad bridge overpass.....he's a railroad worker .....and landed on the tracks below ...on his feet!

   Crushed several vertabre .....shattered lotsa bones in his legs....did internal ogran damage....

   He wasn't supposed to live ..then wasn't supposed to walk....

   He said a little pain everyday's not that big a price to pay given the alternative!

   Jeff

   Buck Construction   Pittsburgh,PA

    Fine Carpentery.....While U Waite                  

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   DougU | Aug 30, 2003 07:14pm | #8

   Jeff

   40 foot fall, probably one lucky SOB!!

   I fell 25' once, hit feet first, smashed 5 vertabra, nothing but a little discomfort now and then, doc said I was very lucky...... I thought if I was some damn lucky I wouldnt have fallen.

   I realize now that I was very lucky, funny how some fall 8' and paralized for life and others fall 40' and come out just a little worse for the wear!

   Doug

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   Piffin | Sep 02, 2003 03:46am | #9

   Luck or fair balance doesn't always work the way we want it to.

   One young man from here just got back from Bahgdad. His 37th in the 3rd Cav was front and center and they didn't lose a man. Paradox is...

   He arrived to learn that another young man from here who was a smart, kind, delightful fellow had just drowned.

   His mother had lost her husband to the sea years before and raised the boy well.

   Had the graveside services today. Whole town turned out. Everyone felt it.

   after spending all that time anxiously praying for the soldier, it was one close to home ...

   Ya never know..

   Excellence is its own reward!