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Old 18-December-2006, 10:25 AM
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Then there is the picture of a pin?!!!!





this is highly illogical.........................................
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Old 18-December-2006, 01:09 PM
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We roll the pin in super glue before it goes into the thread.
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And a "piny" thread would sound awkward...
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I think that on the old BABB, the graphic was of a lump of glue.
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Then there is the picture of a pin?
Belt and suspenders (braces). Can't be too careful. Don't want to let them slip away.
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Stick pins? They're stuck, with pins?
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However they're attached, they stick to the top of the page.
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Stick pins? They're stuck, with pins?
This is so.

Hey, what we need is an icon for tacky articles.
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Then there is the picture of a pin?!!!!





this is highly illogical.........................................
Wiseguy! You know where you can stick that pin



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You know where you can stick that pin

On Phil's chair?
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That would be a stingy rather than a sticky.

You are a violent wolf.
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I think that on the old BABB, the graphic was of a lump of glue.
ooooooooooh

Thats supposed to be glue... I just thought it was a blob, and not meant to signify anything other then blobbiness. I never made the connection...
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What's brown and sticky?


















































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I hear that
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Then there is the picture of a pin?!!!!





this is highly illogical.........................................
Here's why.

The push pin is perhaps a backup, like wearing suspenders and a belt.
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