Tempest/Teapot.
If you're choosing to switch to from one corporate run search engine to another, this out-of-context quote is not the reason to do it.... [
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I wish there were more insanely rich people out there looking for personal portraitists, food tasters, and other trappings of royalty of old. I would be overjoyed to be a professional court jester. In fact, if any insanely wealthy people would like... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Lou Stuells, leotrotsky, PhoBWanKenobi, sebastienbailard
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It's uncanny. This is like the fifth and sixth top 100 of the '00's list where I not only agree with every single song and album choice, but would have ranked them at exactly the same spot. I haven't even heard of some of these songs and I'd have... [
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If you burn a Chick tract, you can hear an angel screaming "thank you." [
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I've just gotten back into working out. I read this one years ago and this was a very timely reposting. I'm inspired all over again. Thank you! [
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ilana: That's a false equivalency.
Hope sent out a photo to one person that she liked that was then sent out by a third party to people who then judged her to be a slut and tormented here mercilessly.
Mr. Tubbs posted a lengthy screed that... [
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3 days ago
I was pondering the play The Misanthrope by Moliere today. In it, the titular character (Alceste) rails against the personal failing of everyone in his society but is incapable of recognizing flaws in himself. Far from converting anyone over to his... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by UbuRoivas, TrishaLynn, Metroid Baby, yerfatma, benzenedream
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3 days ago
Egads, Mr. Tubbs (like generations of teenagers before him) exercised some profoundly poor judgment. How do you return to your school after writing something like that?
As for the work itself, from what little I've read of it, its a profound... [
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4 days ago
I'm not sure this is really any different from current reality, except that the curtain has been pulled back to reveal Oz.
That said, part of the reason the curtain is there is to help all of us cling to the illusion that we are reading truth... [
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7 days ago
How cool is that?
Scientific research suggests that this would be only .05% cool, which, in layman's terms, would be "not very cool at all.... [
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8 days ago
What happened with Tiger Woods cat, Joey Michaels?
Caught sniffing round another owner's catnip. [
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10 days ago
I've trained my cat to wake me up at five in the morning with a series of quick swats to my face coupled with incessant howling. [
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12 days ago
I agree about the value of literary criticism. Thanks to it, I don't have to read any books at all. I just read the criticism and can then spin of snide remarks about every writer - from King to Cormac - with my fellow literary elite friends and... [
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2 weeks ago
Well, see, I learned how to makes boxes with HTML, and then I had a few beers and just got carried away. Once the site was up, well, shit, I figured I might as well run for office. I mean, I can make boxes with HTML. I'm as qualified to be a... [
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2 weeks ago
In other words, they see verse eight as a discrete unit; verse nine is also a discrete unit that follows eight, and can even be combined with it to make a string of thoughts, but they exist wholly unto themselves in the eyes of many, many readers.... [
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3 weeks ago
One Sportsfilter commenter referred to this as the 'Hand of Frog' incident. Awesome. [
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3 weeks ago
HOLT CATS I AGREE WITH EVERY SINGLE ALBUM AND EVERY SINGLE POSITION ON THIS LIST [
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3 weeks ago
I saw Leno do stand-up in the the late 80's and remember genuinely enjoying his show, and I was one of those snotty, too-cool-for-school college DJ assholes that wouldn't play U2 or REM after they'd had hits.
In the years leading up to his... [
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3 weeks ago
This is obviously a major YMMV sort of study. That said, I live in Hawaii, our economy is tanking, our school system is being systematically being destroyed and we don't have any professional sports. Oh, and we were the first to vote down gay... [
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3 weeks ago
You know, whenever some dumb thing like this happens at our school, we admin types sit around and say "well, if we try to stop it, it will just make it a thousand times worse."
The way we kill these things isn't to try and ban them. Its... [
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favorited 39 times, recently by mollywas, chicainthecity, dammitjim, Scattercat, Maias, phrenq, redfisch, Grimble, Captain Sunshine, scody, interrobang, nomad, cobwebberies, orme, odinsdream, darkstar, Reverend John, ShawnStruck, Ickster, JoeXIII007, LuckySeven~, exhilaration, chihiro, sugarfish, fantabulous timewaster, Drab_Parts, Goofyy, haltingproblemsolved, Lou Stuells, adamt, eatdonuts, davejay, headspace, Snyder, amethysts, Caduceus, ob1quixote, scalefree, Naberius
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3 weeks ago
And with this, the TSA has officially jumped the shark. [
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3 weeks ago
I. Everything is part of God's plan.
II. The Housing Bubble is contained within the set of everything.
III. The Housing Bubble is part of God's plan - in fact, he wanted it to happen.
So, Christianity didn't cause the Housing Bubble, but... [
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favorited 6 times, recently by problemspace, AsYouKnow Bob, jtron, marble, JaredSeth, JDHarper
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3 weeks ago
Egads, "do it too."
Thank goodness I don't teach grammar or spelling. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phrenq
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3 weeks ago
Also, do these people not understand how the Internet works at all? I mean, the minute you try to suppress information, the information spreads across the whole thing.
Its like squashing a grape. You just end up exploding the grape all over your... [
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3 weeks ago
I can't help but think of my favorite short poem by George Carlin.
Moon Fuck
The Way I figure
Fuck the Moon [
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3 weeks ago
Normally, I don't like these sorts of "behind the scenes" videos that show the secrets behind magic, but Ninja Cat's physical control and focus are admirable. Young ninja the world round will benefit immensely from this training film.... [
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3 weeks ago
They think a guy faked his identification papers in the 1960s so he could launch a terrorist attack in 2008? I don't see how any of this is a "red flag" for more than 2 minutes.
Heck, there are people who think Obama's mom faked a birth... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
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4 weeks ago
So . . . Douché? Is that what you say when you out-douche someone?
I think that's what they say when you out-douche them.
"I crapped in your sneakers!"
"Oh yeah? Well, I crapped in your sleeping bag!"
"Douché!... [
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Nigerian 404 scams
Is that where the prince needs your money to get his royal website back up?
No, that's when a black man is illegally elected president of the USA and brings 403 of his best friends from Chicago to run the government farm like... [
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What, shoud sham marriages be denied to gay people, but not straight people?
I hereby announce that I 100% support sham marriages for all consenting adults.... [
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I don't think its been hacked. I just think an MSNBC Tweeter just read a Teabagger WAKE UP AMERICA sign and then actually waked up.
Because that's how signs work.... [
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What could possibly be more of an American archetype than the immigrant who comes to the United States - the land of opportunity - and through hard work triumphs more than she or he could have in their own country?
Oh! I know! Having a totally... [
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This is this week's Balloon Boy of environmentalism.
Thank you, Mr. And Mrs. Vale, for making environmentalism look stupid so you can be on TV. [
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The comments at the Watertown Daily Times seem to be focused on ACORN. Essentially, they don't seem to care in the least that he isn't familiar with the local issues - they are concerned about invisible bogeymen in other states who may be coming to... [
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but doesn't beat around the bush
I would argue that not beating around Bush may be the most recent source of print media's woes. [
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Plus, he’s really wealthy, so could easily afford the silver bullets needed to kill the Wolf-Man.
Indeed, one of Dracula's secret powers is incredible wealth. This should not be overlooked in any discussion of Dracula. In fact, it is his wealth... [
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For the record, if it was written after 1900 and the writer wasn't some white guy, it isn't literature.
It's better than that. [
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How unhip was I?
In the early 80's, I drove a '73 Plymouth Fury. Puke green. Not the cool kind of Fury like in Christine. Its headlights were covered with grill so that you couldn't see them in the daytime. When you turned the headlights on,... [
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Honestly, Jesus Christ, is there anything Weird Al can't make awesome? He totally lost me about a decade ago, but everything he has done since "White and Nerdy" has blown my socks off. Which means I am sockless, but I don't care, because... [
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