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Jun 10, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

On This Day: Bill Wilson Founds Alcoholics Anonymous

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On June 10, 1935, Bill Wilson and his friend Dr. Robert Smith set out to find the best way to reform alcoholics, and Alcoholics Anonymous was born.

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Cal

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Jun 10, 2009
 
I don;t understand all the criticism of this group. It has saved a lot of lives.
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I don;t understand all the criticism of this group. It has saved a lot of lives.
It's because humans are intuitively scared of two things:

1. Clowns
2. Dudes called "Dr. Bob."

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Norm Deplume wrote:
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It's because humans are intuitively scared of two things:
1. Clowns
2. Dudes called "Dr. Bob."
and starry

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Fought the Fight B4 wrote:
<quoted text>and starry
Oh, don't be scared of me FTFB4. I'm just a little old grandma, wearing my red, white and blue pop beads that I bought at Woolworths's in the 60's. Why, I could hardly kick anyone's ass in my terry cloth slippers and support hose. My grandson bought me a paint ball gun for my 75th birthday, but, it doesn't do much damage. You should fear the unknown, way more than me. You know all about me, after all.
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the bil waz e goodparson. hee stapped elot of dem dang drenks fram
Bob

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Jun 11, 2009
 
acten aye full peekause
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dee davils poten and furthmore

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Cal wrote:
I don;t understand all the criticism of this group. It has saved a lot of lives.
No, it hasn't. It has a no better success rate than no help at all, and a higher death rate. It is a failure and a fraud, and Bill Wilson was a lunatic.

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Jun 11, 2009
 
Wondering what's Mayor Sponge Don's opinion of AA.

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im startin a AARP AA group called AARPAA.
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You can take my name, my admission of alcoholism and my first 11 steps, but you can never take my vodka soda.

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Headhunter 300M wrote:
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No, it hasn't. It has a no better success rate than no help at all, and a higher death rate. It is a failure and a fraud, and Bill Wilson was a lunatic.
Church for the unchurched?
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Jill wrote:
You can take my name, my admission of alcoholism and my first 11 steps, but you can never take my vodka soda.
Just don't take Starry and Husky's vodka. The two lushes might let their kids drown in the sewer while they are a kamchacta afternoon. hahahahahahaha.
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I am an alcoholic. Or heading there fast.
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Jun 16, 2009
 
I'm still taken by the first line of that article. Dr. Smith needed one last drink before he said he'd be ready to start AA. That never works, but it did.

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thanks bill and bob
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Malachy wrote:
I am an alcoholic. Or heading there fast.
Me too. Just ask my wife, she thinks 2 beers at night is an alcoholic.

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Me too. Just ask my wife, she thinks 2 beers at night is an alcoholic.
Ask my husband. He thinks one vodka gimlet a week makes an alcoholic. He would go over the edge if he knew sometimes I have 2 in a week.
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Me too. Just ask my wife, she thinks 2 beers at night is an alcoholic.
Your wife? Starry, you need to keep your characters more consistent! LOL!!!!!!!!!
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Alan Greenspan is hot.
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/silver-lake-o...
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Ask my husband. He thinks one vodka gimlet a week makes an alcoholic. He would go over the edge if he knew sometimes I have 2 in a week.
"Vodka gimlet?" What are you, 90?
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