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Yesterday
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"Just clicked on the garden path link which says:
"The horse raced past the barn fell."
The reader usually starts to parse this as an ordinary active intransitive sentence, but stumbles when reaching the word "fell." At..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Best thing to do with Scis? Let them give you their pitch and then ask innocently "So it's a little like psychoanalysis then?"" [
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4 months ago
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"Railroads will be coming back by the way. And they never went away except in America. Which is another story about narrow perspectives" [
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6 months ago
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"My understanding is that a fair number of black Zimbaweans would agree?" [
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8 months ago
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"Isn't America quite simply, fucked. It took 25 years to regain the respect of the world after Vietnamm but 25 years from now the Chinese and the Indian economies will be climbing all over you and the world will care abour having respect for America..." [
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Last year
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"I have mono-vision = one eye corrected for reading, one for distance. Works fine for me." [
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Last year
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"I bumped into Stevie Wonder. No, wait, he bumped into me." [
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"Pets have been eating counter tops? No wonder they are dying" [
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"Isn't it indicative of a nation with little knowledge of the world ourside its borders, even the next nearest? I mean, not to know of poppies as a symbol of remembrance?..." [
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"Not losing sleep over things like this is why you're losing the war" [
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"I hope there is a better ending than this time before" [
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"Perhaps a video of Saddam being fisted would have been the ideal compromise." [
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"The thing I can never get about cases like this - everyone knows they are innocent, but Gadafi and others are willing to imprison fellow human beings for seven years under threat of death to obtain diplomatic leverage. Could you do that? Could you..." [
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"Just for the record, the coinage "Ugly American" comes from the 1959 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer - and in the novel, Ugly American is a term of approval (because one of the heroes, Homer Atkins, is precisely..." [
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