"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -- Mark... [
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Everyone is wearing tights or tight-fitting stuff, often in bright colors and capes, of all things.
"No capes!" [
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Among other documents due to be released is an Israeli offer to transfer Israeli Arabs citizens to the territory of a future Palestinian state.
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Spike Lee:"I wanna clear up something once and for all. Mookie did not throw the garbage can through the window to divert the mob from jumping on Sal." He "threw the garbage can through the window because he just saw one of his best... [
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Vermont Governor Chased by BearsVermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) says he was chased and nearly caught by four bears that were raiding his birdfeeders, Vermont Public Radio reports.
Shumlin said that "You almost lost the governor. Security was... [
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Homer says "it’s like Vegas—if it were run by Ned Flanders."
The scary thing is, I'd been to Branson before it was
Branson. I have family in southern Missouri, so I experienced the cultural delights of The Baldknobbers Jamboree... [
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Barry Mann, "Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)":
"Darling, bomp bah bah bomp, bah bomp bah bomp bomp" [
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The primary evidence cited to support this assertion is that, according to Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, 'unlike Obama's tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11.'
Rebutted by the man himself:As all... [
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In North by Northwest Jessie Royce Landis was only seven years older than Cary Grant, who plays her son. [
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Chris Hadfield is currently working on the first original music album to be recorded in orbit.
So it turns out that astronauts have special hockey-puck washcloths which are really difficult to unwrap.
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The move that always amuses me is when you see a little kid have a small oopsie of some kind and then look around to see if there's a suitable audience for a good cry or not.
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1776: The Illustrated Edition
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era [
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Butch immediately kicks Harvey in the groin
Aw, dude, you left out the best part!
Butch Cassidy: Well, if there ain't going to be any rules, let's get the fight started. Someone count 1,2,3 go.
Sundance Kid: [quickly] 123go!
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Bugs Bunny, "Hillbilly Hare" (transcript)Grab a fence post, hold it tight
Womp your partner with all your might
Hit him in the shin, hit him in the head
Hit him again, the critter ain't dead
Wop him low and wop him high
Stick your... [
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[Otto dangles Archie out a window]
Archie: All right, all right, I apologise.
Otto: You're really sorry.
Archie: I'm really really sorry, I apologise unreservedly.
Otto: You take it back.
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Most of the ones I looked at were too fast. It was jarring. So I stopped. [
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In 1860 there were 435,080 slaves in Alabama; 45% of the state's population.
There were 111,115 slaves in Arkansas (26% of the population.
There were 61,745 slaves in Florida (44% of the population).
There were 462,198 slaves in Georgia (44% of... [
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The prevailing ideas entertained by [Thomas Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in... [
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The Nazareth in "The Weight" is Nazareth, PA, home of guitar manufacturers C. F. Martin & Company [cite].
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A 'Christian' like Shocked is probably right to dread the prospect of Jesus coming back and seeing what they're doing in his name.
"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
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Looks like they watched The Wire.
SHEIT - BANNED
SHEEIT - BANNED
SHEEEIT - BANNED
SHEIIT - OK! [
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Whenever His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand of Aragon, most powerful and wise prince, was about to embark on some new enterprise, or make a decision of great importance, he went about it in such a way that, before his intentions were known, the whole... [
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He and KSM had drawn up plans to crash planes into the CIA headquarters and the US discovered these plans after a raid in 1995.
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Violent Femmes, "Kiss Off":I take one one one 'cause you left me
And two two two for my family
And three three three for my heartache
And four four four for my headaches
And five five five for my lonely
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Yes, at some point the Pentagon decided that the way to keep score in Vietnam was to actually keep score.
"You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." -- Ho Chi... [
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Cop Killer Cop Kills Cops; Killer Cops Kill Cop Killer Cop [
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Finally, it's a bit misleading to say 'the bomb was smaller than little boy,' implying that it's not all that great.
I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending... [
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...in 1860 American slaves, as a financial asset, were worth approximately three and a half billion dollars--that's just as property. Three and a half billion dollars was the net worth, roughly, of slaves in 1860. In today's dollars that would be... [
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My favorite part is the group toting the cardboard cutout of John McVie around.John: When they did the video for that, I was in uh...Tahiti. And wasn't about to come back for it. So they used a cardboard cutout...which I thought was sort of... [
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It was about states' rights, too – specifically the question of whether the states had the right to own slaves.
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Still of the Night with Roy Scheider (therapist) and Meryl Streep (patient). [
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