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wolf 01-04-2007 12:30 AM

*phweeeet* Flag on the play. That's three very humorous posts from tw in one thread.

Griff 01-04-2007 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 304025)
UG is well traveled. He knows a gallon of gas is larger in an imperial nation.

:eek:

Shawnee123 01-04-2007 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 303768)
the most amazing circuses are Quebec's Cirque du Soleil.


Dude, I saw Delirium and it was the most pretentious bunch of crap I've ever seen. I'm no cultural idiot, I wasn't expecting bears on tricycles...but for God's sake. I just wanted it to stop, especially that guy whose role it must have been to walk around the stage slowly looking amazed and scared the entire time. Puh!

:)

Shawnee123 01-04-2007 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 303831)

Seriously, if America is the New Roma, which way to the baths?
:D

Or the vomitoriums.

Undertoad 01-04-2007 08:34 AM

You must have seen one of the "B" Circques. Go to Vegas next time :)

yesman065 01-04-2007 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 304026)
*phweeeet* Flag on the play. That's three very humorous posts from tw in one thread.

In one thread???? Three. tw funny - I'm lovin it. It must be a new years resolution! :D

Shawnee123 01-04-2007 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 304077)
You must have seen one of the "B" Circques. Go to Vegas next time :)

My mom had seen previous Cirques, and loved them, hated this one...I think it was the Delirium show itself.

Of course, I am willing to keep an open mind if you'd like to send me to Vegas (baby)! ;)

Happy Monkey 01-04-2007 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla (Post 304006)
And still, you have to pay them. Or else word gets around and you don't get anybody looking for work. I'd say calling them "slaves" is stretching the term unconscionably. Remember that "unfair treatment" differs considerably in definition from "slavery," for slavery is a mere subset.

Here you miss the point quite completely. Whether they're actually slaves or not isn't relevant- the point was the use of extremely low-cost labor on huge farms which destroys small business.

Because of economies of scale, capitalism constantly pulls towards monopoly, and should be managed.

xoxoxoBruce 01-04-2007 11:00 AM

Thank you, HM. Yes, I said "Now substitute Illegal Aliens for Slaves", I didn't say substitute the words. :thumbsup:

Sundae 01-04-2007 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by yesman065 (Post 304078)
In one thread???? Three. tw funny - I'm lovin it. It must be a new years resolution! :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaggieL
Because I've been there, done that, and burned the T-shirt.


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Originally Posted by tw
Well now we know. MaggieL no longer enters wet T-shirt contests. She doesn't own a uniform.


tw's being funny all over the place today - I'm loving it

tw 01-04-2007 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by yesman065 (Post 304078)
In one thread???? Three. tw funny - I'm lovin it. It must be a new years resolution!

Just Notre Dame getting beat by LSU - a New Orleans team doing a job. Puts a whole new perspective on religion. The victims fight back.

Kitsune 01-04-2007 03:49 PM

Go, Cellar, Go!

yesman065 01-04-2007 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitsune (Post 304257)

Out-freakin-standing

Urbane Guerrilla 01-05-2007 02:53 PM

Aliantha, I know enough to know that empires are obsolete. I find the use of "imperial" in this context to be intellectually dishonest and altogether straining the definition of the word.

What I am doing is contending that the "imperial"-users are bullshitting, and bullshitting in a manner over-reminiscent of the Soviet Union and Red China, both of whom threw the term around in the usual lying totalitarian way.

DanaC 01-05-2007 03:26 PM

Define imperial.


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