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<~xkcd> blorpy: You know what happens when you assume.
<~xkcd> That's not a question. I'm just making a presumptious statement.
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< ottomantis> Sultan Osman I (1258–1326), founder of the Ottoman Empire.
< ottomantis> or as i like to remember it: "sultantis osmantis was an
              ottomantis"
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<~xkcd> blorpy: You're less fun than a barrel of monkeys.
< blorpy> there you are in your safari outfit, a loose fitting cap covers your
	  head from the hot sun; you see something in the distance, even from
          here, the stench is awful
< blorpy> as you approach you notice the rounded wooden slats; it appears to be
        a barrel, surrounded by flies
<~xkcd> > take slats
< blorpy> covering your nose and supressing your gag reflex
< blorpy> you approach the barrel; the rotting slats fall apart in your hands
< blorpy> oh god, oh god
< blorpy> it is filled with decaying monkey corpses
< blorpy> NOT FUN
<~xkcd> > set up parcheesi board between myself and the monkeys
< blorpy> reaching for your whip, you order a child from a local tribe to began
          carving game pieces from the most decayed monkey carcass
<~xkcd> swallowing a surge of vomit, I assemble the bone pieces, on the board,
        bits of flesh still clinging to them
<~xkcd> I roll the meaty dice with a sickening thud
<~xkcd> and move a piece forward
<~xkcd> I look up at the monkey carcass across from me and almost pass out
<~xkcd> but one thought arises in my mind
<~xkcd> "this is more fun than blorpy"
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<@megan_of_wutai> Ron Paul, When you absolutely, positively got to kill every
                  motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
<%Screwtape> Ron Paul has an algorithmically efficient test for Oedipality,
             then?
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 How Library Fires Come About

well, read a book then burn it
so no one else can steal the precious knowledge from you
that will solve both your cravings
the need to read
the desire for fire
or together they are called: the yearn to burn and learn
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<@SpaceHobo> botswana: Never bring a gun to a babyfight.
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< freezerbagel> a day planner is last decades google calender
< freezerbagel> just like a diary is last decade's blog
<%fo0bar> no, a manifesto is last decade's blog
< freezerbagel> then what is this decade's unabomber?
<%fo0bar> Cory Doctorow
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"There is a part of me that can imagine just such a future, sitting on the
antique concrete veranda of a lovely old Panera Bread, beside a gracefully
aging highway-side parking lot, nibbling for hours on a pastry the size of la
Tour Eiffel, refilling my paper cup again and again from the charming push-top
thermoses."
--
IOZ on Romney's suggestion that the US may become the next France
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Cellphones, instant messaging, e-mail and the like have encouraged younger
users to create their own inventive, quirky and very private written language.
That has given them the opportunity to essentially hide in plain sight. They
are more connected than ever, but also far more independent.

                -- NYTimes, "Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)", March 9 2008

That "inventive, quirky, and very private written language" is a simple
phonetic substitution with a couple of abbreviations. If Mom & Dad can't crack
it, the problem isn't that they're old, it's that they're retarded.

                -- IOZ
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< flowercat> a lot of people don't realize, but my face has not been declassified
<%Screwtape> I can understand that, I'm sure it took a lot of effort to classify it in the first place.
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< acomplexplan> > Until 2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants. The
                document, enacted in 1956, reads:
< acomplexplan> > "Said property shall be used and occupied by white persons only except these covenants shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of different race
                or nationality in the employ of a tenant."
< acomplexplan> ^-- bush's new neighborhood
<@Octal> acomplexplan: Don't act so surprised.  He's leaving his current property because a black family is moving in.