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    I was reading a post by Lady Frog and started thinking about how I keep telling people my two dream jobs, if I could have them and support the cats, the gnomes, the leprechauns, the troll, AND the dwarfs (all of whom live under my bed -- except the cats, of course, who now own the top if it), which are:

    1. To work in quaint, quiet bookstore, or

    2. To work in quaint, quiet coffeeshop.

    So, the question came to mind: what's the greats job you will never, ever have.

    Mine -- basketball player. I so wanted to be on the basketball team when I was in high school (primarily because of a very cute cheerleader) but I was only five feet even and 120 pounds sopping wet.

    Never happened. Too sad.

    So, here's a poll.

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    Theirs not to make reply,
    Theirs not to reason why,
    Theirs but to do and die.


    Ah, to be able to write like the Lord.

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    Dictator of the world I just don't think ill be able to summon enough minions
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    To work in a bookstore
    To be a musician

    'nuff said
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    Hef.

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    Sinecure.

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    Warlord.


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    Soly was working as the second option...
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    Heir to the Mars candy empire

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    Proffessional race car driver.
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    Supreme Commander of the world's armies.


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    Grand Sultan of the Caymans and everything in between... actually I'd just like to be a sultan so I could have a Harem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Byzantine Prince
    Supreme Commander of the world's armies.

    Where's the fun in that? Unless you're dealing with rebellions, of course.


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    Rockstar!
    GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

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    GAH! I'm too young to know that my dream jobs will be impossible to acheive.
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    F1 or world rally car driver
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    Bass player in a world-famous rock band.
    Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.

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    "Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.



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    professional angler
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    Actor
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    a hobo
    When I was a child
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    NFL starting QB .
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    Ruler of the universe. What else?
    "Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us the Germans are better than us the French are better than us well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity remember Mr Howard I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering it’s all a bit wonky isn’t it?"

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    Jedi.. haha..

    Or basketball player...

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    Professional Condoms Tester ( something like a game tester but you dont get to play games 8 hrs per day )

    What I wanna be but I ll probably not:

    Own my own legal porn empire, with magazines, video productions, legal brothels, tv channels and revolutionise the sector. Hugh at Hugh's place...


    ...atm is shows my carreer will be in finance and insurance...not exactly porn :P
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    Obviously rock star would be awesome. Unlikely, though. Other than that, I'd like to roadie for a world-famous rock band (work all day putting up stage props, hand Angus his Gibson SG and give him the thumbs up to go on stage, then afterwards go and get drunk all night, ... oh yeah, that's the life for me).

    I think I know what I'll do with my gap year now

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    Fulltime Org-poster

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    Jedi.. haha..
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    the man who went down in history as conquerer of the world.
    A nation of sheep will beget a a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow

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