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Old 11-04-2006, 08:52 AM   #1
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So... Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

For me it's half-full,
for my brother it's half-empty.
My husband's keeps magically refilling
My father-in-law's glass is cracked and leaking.
My mother's is just enough to take her pills
My father's is dry
My sister-in-law's contains no artifical sweetners
And my mother-in-law glass is never big enough.
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:51 PM   #2
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Old 11-07-2006, 01:12 AM   #3
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Old 11-07-2006, 02:17 AM   #5
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Old 11-09-2006, 03:22 AM   #6
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the glass is mostly half-full, sometimes half-empty, would love to have my cup runneth over. *sigh* someday, someday.
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Old 11-09-2006, 03:25 AM   #7
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Old 11-09-2006, 08:50 PM   #8
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Old 11-10-2006, 03:23 AM   #9
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Old 11-15-2006, 12:56 AM   #10
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Old 11-15-2006, 01:02 AM   #11
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Old 12-27-2007, 04:37 PM   #12
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I'm of the bigger glass clique, ever-full, the hot stuff staying hot and the cold stuff with ice not melting and leaving little runnels of condensation on the outside making the glass slippery then I drop it, breaking it and losing the beverage d'jour and bitch and moan until I get a new one. Pout. :}

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Old 12-27-2007, 06:24 PM   #14
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Old 12-27-2007, 06:27 PM   #15
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Old 12-27-2007, 07:20 PM   #16
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Old 12-27-2007, 08:08 PM   #17
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The glass is always half full, but I can see right through it . . . which makes me think it's empty, further confusing the whole situation.
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Old 12-27-2007, 11:02 PM   #18
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Old 12-27-2007, 11:06 PM   #19
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I'm an engineer, and the glass being only half full obviously indicates that the glass has twice its needed capacity.
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Apparently, this new adage to play off of went overlooked:
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New; it's always darkest before the dawn,
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Then for those who sleep til the crack of noon, dawn is a zen concept, (so is the crack thereof) actualizing only in the most profound visualizations of navel-contemplation.
I'm in the "crack of noon" camp. So is a friend of mine who actually named his construction firm "Crack of Noon Contractors."
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