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Lesser error than the one-time poster Phineas Gauge.

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2. I believe Pony will confirm the truism that one is better off never having cause to be a plaintiff in a PI case.

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No. Not worth it. Hopefully your children were too young to remember, as it sounds like a traumatic experience. C$9,000 and knowledge of where to sit on a train doesn't sound like such a great payoff for that kind of experience.

On an unrelated note, are you sure your daughter's finger was the only thing that was injured? Maybe you bumped your head and forgot?

TM

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Hank has whiplash.

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He should have chosen to be in a train crash in a more favorable jurisdiction.

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or a more favorable exchange rate?

Addicts Do Triathalons
 

The NY Times has an article, linked below on former addcits who train rigorously for Iron Man and other similar triathalons. No mention is made of the endorphins released when you run but that has to be a factor, is it not? I know the whole "runner's high" thing is not a fallacy.....

The discipline alone cannot be a draw for recovery.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/fa...pc&oref=slogin

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A lot of addicts are high-intensity people, needing greater-than-average physical and other stimulation. I would guess that the running meets at least some of these needs, allowing an opportunity to channel excess energy, focus on a goal that is incompatible with substance abuse, experience the psychological reward of having done something demanding, reorienting the mind to taking care of the body and experiencing how that feels, having a sufficiently intense experience to want to avoid doing other things and to focus on this (both the physical exertion itself and the natural chemical release), and just something both to fill time and to care about instead. Someone in recovery from addiction deals with it as a lifelong proposition, so having proper outlets is key.

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I think she was speaking rhetorically.

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One would think that with an IQ so high, you would have mastered elemental sentence structure. We are judged by what we do. Or by looks, if we're foolish enough to ask. But generally by what we do.

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Sort of a tree falling in the forest thing, isn't it?

Addicts Do Triathalons
 

Addictive personalities tend not to change. That's why AA and NA meetings are always characterized as being fueled by coffee and cigarettes. An addiction to running is certainly better than a two pack a day habit.

Addicts Do Triathalons
 

Yep, though that's really not always true (had the pleasure of attending some a ways back with a friend in need). But a funny point about certain immutabilities in personalities - another friend of mine who's been sober/straight 15 years was telling me how he loves when the Al-Anon people have a meeting nearby or after his now-occasional AA meetings, because they always clean up everyone's mess. He was only sort of joking.

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A good case, anyway.

To get any real money these days you have to be really, really fucked up or dead at a very productive point in your career.

And you never get dollar for dollar what you have actually lost. And trust me, when we get a $14m P&S award it's for someone who suffered a horrible agonizing, protracted (2 years) death it gets knocked down to 80 bucks.

Class actions, on the other hand, are like finding a $20 in a coat pocket, if you're the claimant and like finding $20m in a coat pocket, if you're the lawyer.

I had a Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit from McDonald's this morning. It was very tasty. Much better than the Egg McMuffin.