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janc
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Turn about is fair play
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Jul 23 13:37 UTC 1997 |
OK. The rule is, if you turn over a card, you also have to turn over all the
cards in the same column and the same row, unless the card is red, in which
case you only turn over the other red cards in the same column and the black
cards in the same row. Of course, at any given time some of the cards are
likely to be face down, so you can't tell if they are red or black. So if
the card is face down, just assume the worst and don't turn it over. If you
do turn it over, then you should just turn it right back over, or if you
prefer, keep turning it over and over again like a new leaf that turns out
to be the same old leaf you turned over the last time you turned a new leaf.
Now, you and your partner should take turns turning over cards or, better
still, leave the cards be and turn leaves instead. Yes. Let's turn over
leaves instead of turning cards. If the leaf turns out to be a maple leaf,
you should also turn all the leaves in the same row and the same column, or,
better still, you and your partner could take turns turning over all the
leaves on the same branch or the same twig, until it turns out to be time to
turn in, or until the sun shines surprisingly through the branches and makes
you think of other things.
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snowth
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response 1 of 18:
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Jul 24 00:24 UTC 1997 |
Sounds like fun to me. What if your card is purple, though?
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remmers
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response 2 of 18:
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Jul 24 16:41 UTC 1997 |
Then the Purple People Eater will get you, rendering the issue
moot.
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snowth
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response 3 of 18:
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Jul 26 00:40 UTC 1997 |
Hey, I always wanted to know, what is the purple people eater anyway? Is it
something that eats purple people, or is it a people eater that happpens to
be purple? I could never figure that out.
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remmers
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response 4 of 18:
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Jul 26 02:05 UTC 1997 |
You weren't meant to figure it out. It's an ambiguous phrase,
just like "Time flies like an arrow."
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snowth
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response 5 of 18:
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Jul 26 02:25 UTC 1997 |
Ah. Got ya. Sort of like a power shortage in an outhouse, eh?
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scott
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response 6 of 18:
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Jul 30 16:14 UTC 1997 |
It's a classic bad joke by Bennet Cerf...
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e4808mc
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response 7 of 18:
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Jul 31 00:18 UTC 1997 |
The purple people eater has one eye, one horn, and flies.
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remmers
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response 8 of 18:
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Jul 31 12:27 UTC 1997 |
So it's sorta like a 747 then?
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snowth
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response 9 of 18:
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Jul 31 23:17 UTC 1997 |
Maybe, unless it isn't. In which case, we will all stare at the moon until
our hair is green. Unless it already is. In which case we will run around in
circles until we faint. Unless we already have...
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remmers
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response 10 of 18:
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Aug 1 00:20 UTC 1997 |
I already did all that, and moved on.
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snowth
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response 11 of 18:
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Aug 1 04:57 UTC 1997 |
wow, you're ahead of me. I'm still staring at the waning moon, waiting for
a change in my hair colour. What comes after fainting, though?
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remmers
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response 12 of 18:
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Aug 1 12:50 UTC 1997 |
Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner".
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snowth
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response 13 of 18:
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Aug 2 00:57 UTC 1997 |
Oh. Yeah, that would work.
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orinoco
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response 14 of 18:
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Aug 9 02:53 UTC 1997 |
Of course, the patriots in the audience might prefer Hendrix, then fainting.
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snowth
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response 15 of 18:
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Aug 11 01:18 UTC 1997 |
But that would ruin the natural order of it all!
Ok. We can switch it. But only if the finalle is the Water Buffalo Song.
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orinoco
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response 16 of 18:
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Aug 11 17:00 UTC 1997 |
What about swooning? When does that come in?
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remmers
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response 17 of 18:
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Aug 11 17:12 UTC 1997 |
When you least expect it, mon ami!
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snowth
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response 18 of 18:
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Aug 11 19:26 UTC 1997 |
"Oh, don't say fainted, Miles. Say swooned. It sounds so much more satisfying.
Better yet, say O.D.'d. It sound so much more truthful" (GETS UP, DANCES
AROUND GREG)..."
It's all LYnn's fault.
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