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"Yeah, a critter helps - you have to care about something outside yourself. I've found, on days when my homeward commute makes me pray (heh) for the bombs to come and wipe out humanity, "Aw, but that would kill little Jack too!" and get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cowbellemoo
more than 12 hours ago
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"Who's close-minded? "Block these posts"? No, Matt will likely leave your post on here so we can openly mock you." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by The Ardship of Cambry, clearly, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, Slarty Bartfast, Hutch, miss tea, sdodd, JHarris, Pope Guilty, aeschenkarnos, bunnytricks
4 days ago
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"The surge won't work - Afghanistan is a Karst topography, for one." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kcds
4 days ago
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"Oh, man, that Palin interview is priceless. At 2:30 when Couric rebuts her, it reminds me of the old lady I rent a garage from, when she tells me I didn't pay last month, even when I've got a receipt in hand, in her handwriting. Just repeat,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, ignignokt
12 days ago
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"ob: "I just watched Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Is it just me or does she sound like Frances McDormand's character in Fargo?"
As I've been saying for a while now, "Oh, yah!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emelenjr
12 days ago
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"As far as they know, any accident occurred the exactly one time your friend used your car.
Alternately, the entire week your friend is using your car is "one time"...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mosk
3 weeks ago
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"godseyeview: " If you got a liberal arts degree it certainly didn't teach you anything about the principles of Liberty. In your mind there's a brick wall in the way. That is part of the double-think wall of the communist religion, but most..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
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"You need to let this die. Really. I wound up dating who had become my best friend, and it ruined both the friendship and the relationship. I missed her terribly for about a year, but reworked my social structure, found some new drinking buddies,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Devoidoid, blueberry
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"Your body is starving. 1200 calories isn't enough. Figure out your basic metabolism, based on your activity level (there's any number of calculators out there; take the geometric mean of them). Not counting running around and direct *exercise* but..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by zaphod, mynameisluka, konolia, woebot
Last month
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"MADD has been more about "against drinking" for a long time. I remember going to a MADD sponsored lock-in 18 years ago where, before we were allowed to run around and have fun, we were corralled into one area to hear presentations on the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kryptondog, Korou, twine42, dunkadunc, Lou Stuells
Last month
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"I did this any number of times when I worked by myself in an office every weekend, especially the 12 hr days. It was truly awful coffee, and it started me down the road to a lot of heartburn. However, I didn't just get a jolt, I didn't just shake -..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zippy
Last month
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"There's depressed, and then there's self-absorption. Wrap them up, have Olivia give them to her, and if she's so self-absorbed that she can't set a gracious example for your daughter, that's pretty shitty...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by mynameismandab, blueberry, Mephisto, gjc, Ostara, Deathalicious, PhoBWanKenobi, Solomon, re.becca, idiomatika, arcticwoman, mitzyjalapeno, LunaticFringe, AlisonM, Venadium, Ookseer, aramaic
Last month
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"Do the semester at sea, for all us guys who had a dream in college, said "Oh, I'll just work for a year or two, and then quit and follow my dream" and then didn't.
I was gonna ride across the country. Or hike the AT. Or head down the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gursky, Beardman
2 months ago
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"I used to work for a company whose owner was..well, a certain well known corporate raider. At a plant opening, he was there with his wife. Nice looking gal for the plus-50 set. Then I saw her hands....oh, my god. Yeah, no hiding that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
2 months ago
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"It's cool and all, I guess, while he's talking policy, but that was one of my standard parlor tricks - on a bar etch-a-sketch - about five years ago. Drunk...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
2 months ago
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"spiderskull: "What disappoints me about something like this is that it's going to give the general populace more reason to fuel the stereotype that all government employees are inefficient and lazy."
Unfortunately, that's so true, when..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
2 months ago
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"Lotsa fruit. Luckily, it's in season. It'll fill you up. Warning: you'll also shit three times as often.
Also, drink 16 oz of water before you eat anything...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Comrade_robot
2 months ago
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"Good. Fuck him.
And Dee Xtrovert - my god, to be able to write that for *us* schmucks? That took the strength of a thousand men." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, you're a kitty!
2 months ago
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"Christ, what an asshole.
(sorry, had to be said...however, the bigger this gets, and the more this prick is marginalized, the better. He's had my parents in his snake-dancer trance for about ten years now, and if given the opportunity, I'd not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by greenie2600
2 months ago
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"I woke up five minutes before the fact, without provocation from my alarm clock, and went back to sleep. Suddenly the vibration started. I thought it was the wind, since our house kinda hums and hooms in heavy wind, but there wasn't the usual sound..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by halonine, LobsterMitten, dyoneo
3 months ago
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"At the wine club and the book club, start hanging out with the people there that you like. There is absolutely no shame (with good people) in saying, hey, can I hang out with you folks more? Don't make dating your goal. That is a sure fire way to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
3 months ago
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"Why do you think that infatuations will stop when you hit 30? If you stop becoming infatuated, even while in committed relationships, you're dead. I don't mean obsessions with co-workers, necessarily, but if my fiance' *didn't* say "reow!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by you're a kitty!
3 months ago
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"RRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! I hear people say this all the time, but IF YOU"RE COASTING NOT COMING TO A STOP, i.e. I'm on the big hill coming down Hampton ave, no one around, no stop lights I need to stop for, if I put it in neutral, I'm using a modicum..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zpousman
3 months ago
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"I went to a school that bills itself as "the Harvard of the Midwest". The 4.0 GPA Mechanical Engineering students couldn't change their own oil, and thought I should "just drive on it" when the u-joints in my car's driveshaft..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by c13, limeonaire
3 months ago
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"Learn to transpose. You might push the songs out of your vocal range (if you're singing along), but there are so many songs that use I-IV-V-VIm. In the key of G, those chords are G, C, D, and Em.
So if you see a song that's in C, and the chords..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittyprecious
3 months ago
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"Everyone who knows your father does not love him. They either fear him (like you) or tolerate him (his work peers).
He's an asshole. He's the type that "asshole" was re-defined to describe. I mean, a guy who browbeats his own depressed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by minervous, Solomon
4 months ago
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"Wait - your car only *now* has 65k on it, and the clutch has been toast for years?!?
I'd bet your clutch adjustment is out of whack, so the clutch is always slightly disengaged (unlocked). After a few years of this, yeah, you're gonna wear the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
4 months ago
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"Party on, Wayne." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by cazoo, Nattie, arha, thisisnotkatrina, chiababe, The Light Fantastic, Cool Papa Bell, sperose, Meatbomb, greycap, Loto, damn dirty ape
4 months ago
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"70 will be a little more interesting, hill-wise. I80 across Illinois and Iowa is a motherfucker. A whole package of No-doz is hardly enough. And really, going anywhere near Chicago, unless you're going *to* chicago, is folly.
I hope you're doing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dec One
4 months ago
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"If she had such a fucking problem, she should have mentioned it before the drawing of cards. To not complain or make any mention until later, thus ruining everyone's sleep, shows that she can safely be told to fuck right off with no ethical qualms..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
4 months ago
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"Remember that this guy is a Jesuit, and they're the crazy dirty hippie intellectuals of the Catholic Church nowadays." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, ao4047
4 months ago
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"Goddamn, le morte beat me to it. Really, buy the whole damn catalog...their music works anywhere you're driving, not just the southwest.
I've found Sigur Ros great for night driving, even though it's Icelandic.
Another Arizona band which works..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ostara
4 months ago
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"Good for them. Good that anyone's doing anything.
And shame, again, on Bush for threatening the union that a shutdown would jeopardize national security, but allowing a 13-day lockout which ended only when he pulled out the Taft Hartley trump..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by MikeKD, regicide is good for you, small_ruminant
5 months ago
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"Fuck that shit. Real men get barbershop shaves with a straight razor. Nothing says "I'm a MAN'S MAN!!!!HU-AH!" like letting another guy near your throat with something sharp. I took my grandpa for a shave a couple months back. Despite a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by theredpen
5 months ago