They speak a lot more French and a lot less Arabic in Quebec. Also, the weather's closer to ours, and there are fewer suicide bombers. Which, of course, is why I'd be so much happier were he in Quebec. Also we'd be fewer time zones apart; this is right about the time that he calls me on those rare occasions when he calls me.

And, yeah, it kind of would be nice if he were in on the conspiracy; we want to buy a house when he gets back.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Ah. Reasonable answer. So that was the answer you gave him?

BTW, I'm supposed to have a little French Canadian ancestry from way back, though as far as I know, no Kuwaiti ancestry.

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I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?

Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

The Leif Ericson Cruiser

I wonder if my Lebanese ancestry means that I'm in on the conspiracy too?

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I went ahead anyway. - Crow T. Robot

Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

Of course you are! All of us in the know here on the BAUT BB are part of the conspiracy. Just wish the checks were a bit bigger so I could buy that second vacation home.

Isn't the front we put up to confound all the CTers a thing of beauty?

He-he...

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I just got my monthly paycheck.
Again, I had to think of something to explain to my wife where all that money comes from.

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"Who does not know anything, must believe everything."
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830-1916

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Just tell her you deal drugs. I'm sure she'll think that's better than being a Government Disinformation Specialist. It works for my wife.

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You're a coward and a liar and a thOOF - Bart Sibrel

Yugoslavia is uninhabitable. Nobody lives there anymore.

Come to think of it, Constantinople is also unhabitable.

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"That's Not Blight. It's New Jersey" - The Wall Street Journal

...and now you've got that song stuck in my head.

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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Well, once I could talk again, anyway. As I'm sure you can imagine, I was taken aback for a while, and literally speechless for a minute or two. I have friends who've been telling that story ever since, and when we refer to one, we say it could be the other.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

"Even old New York was once New Amsterdam..."

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"That's Not Blight. It's New Jersey" - The Wall Street Journal

"Why they changed, I can't say!"

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I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I went ahead anyway. - Crow T. Robot

Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

To the conspiracy crowd, radiation is a big Boogey Man that inspires terror and death in all who encounter it. - JayUtah

maybe people just liked it better that way

Gillian, I just want to point out that your list of possibilities is not exhaustive.

Iraq could be uninhabitable, and he is there, and he is dead. And you've been channeling him rather than talking on the phone.

Just for completeness, you understand...

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Bring back Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

Do you kick puppies too? That's a cold thing to say to someone with a loved one over there.

Why did Constatinope get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks!

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No matter how strong, or brave, or pure of heart you may be; sometimes the dragon wins!

Great. Now I'll be singing that song for the next 3 hours

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"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher

were is my paycheck?
also quebec came up with poutine (fries with chesse and gravy) a weapon of mass heart attacks.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

Just wish the checks were a bit bigger so I could buy that second vacation home.

I gave up being paid, it wasn't worth it. By the time the IRS had taken their cut, the IRD had charged me secondary income tax and the bank had add fees for cashing a foreign cheque and for currency convertion, I was owing money.

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

RIP this thread. Notihng to see here folks, time to move on.

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