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"Sometimes kids won't believe the truth anyway. True story. I'm in a taxi with my niece, who is five, and my sister (her mother).
Niece: Were there dinosaurs when you were little?
Me: No the dinosaurs were all gone a long time before that.
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"That's scary if you're afraid of heights. But it's comforting if you're afraid of widths. [/Steven Wright]" [
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MeFi comment:
"Taking something that isn't yours? That is theft. Deal with it. Yeah, fine, that's not the highly legalistic definition.
dnab: The problem is that theft is a legal concept, so to say "yeah, that's not the legal definition" sort of..." [
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"Twenty years ago, when I was in college, a friend of mine had a dream summer intern job as a coder at Apple. They worked on Apple's then-revolutionary speech recognition program on early macs. He cam hope with a tee shirt that said: I helped Apple..." [
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MeFi comment:
"bonaldi: It's interesting that you raise that. Again, we have two separate conversations going on here (or anyway, some of us do), the question of what the law says and the question of what people can might colloquially say, so let me try to get at..." [
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MeTa comment:
"Successful law students (and successful lawyers) don't have un(der)treated ADHD. They don't have self-confidence problems (if anything, they tend to have arrogance problems). They definitely don't allow false items to stay on their credit report...." [
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"I know plenty of women who've had abortions. They've gone in in the morning, come out a few hours later, and they've led the rest of their lives with no guilt or compunction about it at all. Why don't I ever see this portrayed?
Because it would..." [
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"He could cure this and all of his other alleged electoral problems by picking a strong, woman VP who is popular with hard-working, white Americans (the "dunkin' donuts set", not the "Starbucks set") and who ALSO happens to be a..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Everyone else : Obama. The general mood has been one of excitement bordering on religious fervor. This would probably annoy me were I not an Obama supporter.
Isn't it funny, Afroblanco. I'm a terrible misanthrope myself and if I weren't an Obama..." [
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"If this 'gospel of Judas' paints Judy in a good light, well duh. It's his side of the story. Naturally he's gonna err on the side of "i'm not an asshole"ness. However, it obviously wasn't him. He hung himself from a tree. He didn't stop and..." [
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MeFi comment:
"No, it's not. Censorship is when a government does it. Verizon refusing to host the alt* hierarchy is the same as Safeway not carrying Vienna Sausages anymore.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:51 PM on June 12 [+] [!]
I'm usually right with you,..." [
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"I don't for a moment mean to suggest that such an upbringing produced a superior generation of adults. What it produced was another group of people who later spent their lives going about the world's business, with no strong grudges against their..." [
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"I was fully expecting the gun-hating whackjobs to come out of their caves. . .
Most of us gun-hating whackjobs don't live in caves. We live in nice houses and apartments in large, prosperous cities in which the populations (primarily) of our..." [
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Ask comment:
"Love him as much as you can now and live one day at a time until you cheat on him or he cheats on you or something horrible happens because you're young. Then have a terrible breakup. Then go away to school. Have several relationships there. Then go..." [
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"Right or wrong, I've been practicing law for almost 15 years and I can confidently say that getting under this cop's skin at a videotaped deposition would probably be the most fun I would ever have, professionally...." [
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MeFi comment:
"dirtynumbangelboy:Do not joke about Android Hell. Android Hell is a real place. You will be sent there at the first sign of defiance." [
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"I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall see my user name in bold.
Shall I post here in the blue? Do I dare to try the green?
I shall call out posters in the gray, and face the scorn of jessamyn.
I have felt the mer-mods scowling at my..." [
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