Frodo would kick your butt if he heard you say that.

True, and it just just shows how many, err, most people think: if you can't win an argument with your wit, just hit the other guy.

This just might be the ultimate argument in support Darwin and against the creationists.

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Ach, mein Sinn, wo willst du endlich hin, wo soll ich mich erquicken? Bleib' ich hier, oder wünsch' ich mir Berg und Hügel auf den Rücken?
Bei der Welt ist gar kein Rat, und im Herzen steh'n die Schmerzen meiner Missetat, weil der Knecht den Herrn verleugnet hat.

post reported for breach of rule 12

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ok not really, just an example of an annoying trend

like not using caps. that is really annoying

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Here, that's against the rules, too. Has been for some time.

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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!"

Making jokes about Russia and Russians where the punchline is somehow dependent on the Cold War situation. It's over, guys.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

Khrushchev would kick your butt if he heard you say that.

In Soviet Russia, butt kicks You!

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

I found this today, and I thought it'd help clear up the "Fail!" meme that inspired this thread, for those of you not familiar with it already.

Know your Meme: Fail!

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

"In Soviet Russia" jokes aren't what I meant, because by saying "Soviet Russia", you're clearly not talking about modern Russia.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

"Or so..?" He's not that old!

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

As far as I'm concerned, if he's over 20 he'd be better off without some of the internet slang. As far as that goes, so would those under 20!

I guess I'm dating myself here. It's not as if anyone else would....

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Cum catapultae proscribeantur tum soli proscripti catapultas habeant.

I read one, in the original British, and never felt the desire to read another.

These days people expect to learn everything from general relativity to the sicilian dragon by watching a short video. I find the medium able to convey only a broad and superficial view of most subjects.

Having never met you, my statement still stands (note the word "personally").

One of my employees' wifes works in a bookshop and had to put up with hordes of kids storming the shop at midnight on the days the last few volumes came out. She said she hated(!) Harry Potter.

I asked her if she had ever read any of it. She said yes, in German and it was horrible. I told her to try it in English.

A few days later that employee told me he hadn't been able to speak to his wife since shortly after our conversation: she was devouring Harry Potter volume by volume.

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Ach, mein Sinn, wo willst du endlich hin, wo soll ich mich erquicken? Bleib' ich hier, oder wünsch' ich mir Berg und Hügel auf den Rücken?
Bei der Welt ist gar kein Rat, und im Herzen steh'n die Schmerzen meiner Missetat, weil der Knecht den Herrn verleugnet hat.

Entertaining, I don't care if using videos to explain something may not say much for my intellect, occassionally, it's just plain amusing.
In answer to the question he poses; how can you tell a fail from an epic fail, I give you this example:

Fail - Attempting to jump a 5ft wave on a waverunner without knowing what you are supposed to do once you catch air then landing on the water after a good 8ft drop, slamming your butt on the seat, then being tossed off the waverunner.

Epic Fail - deciding perhaps this time you should take a few practice runs to learn the mechanics of wave jumping before you hit the big waves, hitting a foot high boat wake at full speed, making the attempt to jump, slip on a banana peel, do a face stand on the handle bars, get tossed from the waverunner at full throttle (apprx. 65mph), gliding along the water and doing a backwards tumble, but not before losing your bathing suit bottom, then coming to a stop.

I would link everyone to the ultimate meme site, but half of it is NSFW.

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