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Old 09-May-2008, 04:14 AM
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I had one grunch but the eggplant over there
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Old 09-May-2008, 04:22 AM
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If Mozart was alive today he would be older than anyone but Paul Harvey. Discuss.
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Old 09-May-2008, 04:37 AM
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I asked John McCain and he disagreed, saying that nevertheless, based on first-hand knowledge, Wolfie was one heck of an improviser, but a poor graphic artist, which resulted in his inability to draw a decent Salieri.
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Well, that was the problem. If he had gone hourly instead of staying on Salieri he might have done better.

And I just discovered a grid leak in my drip pan.
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Some of the threads in OTB are not making sense.
I mean... I read them. I recognize words.. I even try to understand them (which is a bit odd for me, I must be in rare form. As usual...) but understanding just isn't happening.
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You weren't expecting that, were you?
What? A sequitur in my non-sequitur thread? (It's more likely than you think.)
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Some of the threads in OTB are not making sense.
To grok the true meaning of a thread, sometimes one should embrace the senselessness.
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There! They did it just now! It's 3 am my time (I live at -8 zulu) and my laundry is whispering to the quilts again! It almost makes sense to me!
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You live a 8-zulu, hey I am also Zulu.
Why hide your identity BigDon.
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Some of the threads in OTB are not making sense.
I mean... I read them. I recognize words.. I even try to understand them (which is a bit odd for me, I must be in rare form. As usual...) but understanding just isn't happening.
This thread was evidently started as a reaction to tommac's various "Should Dumb People be Allowed to ..." threads. It is not intended to make sense. I can't speak for some of the other threads.

I apologize for being serious in this thread. Let the silliness resume!
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We may forgive you, but only if you have pancakes in your underpants. Preferably cinnamon sugar, but boxers will do.
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This thread was evidently started as a reaction to tommac's various "Should Dumb People be Allowed to ..." threads. It is not intended to make sense.
Well, it is certainly succeeding!
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Chickenman returned, as rhyme was running crampant on the streets of Midland City. One uses a small grass press to astonish the snapbeetles, while pacing agents chide the steaming monster for its importunate borborygms. The result is a sad frenzy of marble-choked apples, which really hammers your nails in. I applied the stamp to my own self, however.
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zero point fields are teh manifestations of quantum planck-level thought processes generated by pseudo-random degenerate states of matter that are realized within boundaries of m-space. these fields are teh key to understanding the eigenstates of 17-dimensional tensors which can solve our energy problems. teh government learned about this by examining records of trasnsdimensionless alien timespaceships that crashed in teh dessert but dont want to reveal teh truth because teh rockefellers and teh rothschilds supress any knowledge that is a threat to thier global hegemony.
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What? A sequitur in my non-sequitur thread? (It's more likely than you think.)
It's more thinkly than you like.

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I am going to risk banning by propounding an ATM theory here.

Automatic Teller Machines were invented by Penn and they create money by using the properties of the electric universe.

It's true!
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