FLIP – The Flipping Ship


	FLIP – The Flipping Ship

artdawgs

11-7-2009 5:58 PM

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11-7-2009 6:15 PM

clip-on-tie

that is flipping awesome!

11-7-2009 7:22 PM

artdawgs

Yes Clip-on! It sure is.
(Nice use of words by the way)
The world is full of amazing things
and we don't know the half of them.

11-7-2009 8:04 PM

clip-on-tie

That is what I love about the Internet. You learn something new every day!

11-7-2009 8:05 PM

artdawgs

EXACTLY!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c486cfe8-eb53-4371-9578-ebc97771a656/B5A4378E-E52E-4D66-90C6-6F0F56E8C031/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gemssty.com/2007/02/28/flip-the-flipping-ship/" href="http://gemssty.com/2007/02/28/flip-the-flipping-ship/" style="font-size: 11px;">gemssty.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gemssty.com/2007/02/28/flip-the-flipping-ship/"><H3 id="post-396" class="entrytitle"> <A rel="bookmark" href="http://gemssty.com/2007/02/28/flip-the-flipping-ship/">
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