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remmers
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response 45 of 100:
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Dec 1 13:56 UTC 2002 |
[Fall Agora 166 is now linked as Enigma 358.]
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cmcgee
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response 46 of 100:
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Dec 1 14:58 UTC 2002 |
from the cook I want smells of life
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mary
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response 47 of 100:
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Dec 1 15:52 UTC 2002 |
(Nice.)
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orinoco
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response 48 of 100:
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Dec 1 21:57 UTC 2002 |
The thought of heaving anything with your tongue is a bit puzzling. Most
people don't have nearly enough tongue muscle to throw anything more than a
very short distance.
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mary
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response 49 of 100:
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Dec 1 22:09 UTC 2002 |
Hey, I had a limited choice of words to work with there, bubba.
And heave tends to be a fairly erotic word. But mostly I'm left
wondering where you'd move that breast if you could actually put
some muscle behind it. I don't usually think of foreplay,
and breasts, and through-put in the same sentence.
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mary
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response 50 of 100:
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Dec 1 22:10 UTC 2002 |
Ten points to the first person to work "perky" into the discussion.
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slynne
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response 51 of 100:
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Dec 1 22:37 UTC 2002 |
I wasnt feeling very perky when I had to do all the dishes on
Thanksgiving after my mother's dishwasher broke. That is ok though
because I have never been a perky person. In fact, I even hate the word
perky and I have news for you mary, it *has* been used before.
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other
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response 52 of 100:
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Dec 1 23:50 UTC 2002 |
My worky no perky this weeky.
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janc
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response 53 of 100:
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Dec 2 20:43 UTC 2002 |
I'm thinking Skinner had the right idea, but went the wrong direction
with it. I'm working on the design of the Baby-O-Matic (new word) to be
featured in the next episode of "The Jetsons". It'd be a box, similar
in appearance to a microwave oven, but larger. Pop in a crying baby,
punch the SLEEP button, and the child is instantly bombarded with alpha
waves, and put immediately to sleep, to wake rested and chearful (old
word, new spelling) when the timer goes off. It should have a WASH
button too.
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janc
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response 54 of 100:
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Dec 2 20:43 UTC 2002 |
By the way, the correct spelling of "chearful" is "perky".
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md
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response 55 of 100:
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Dec 3 12:47 UTC 2002 |
And the correct spelling of "perky" is "steve." Note correct placement
of period.
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janc
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response 56 of 100:
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Dec 3 13:35 UTC 2002 |
I think a compromise is called for. Words at the end of a sentence
should be quoted like ``this'.'
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md
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response 57 of 100:
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Dec 3 13:57 UTC 2002 |
I could say, "He said, 'Words at the end of a sentence should be quoted
like ``this'.'.'"
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gull
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response 58 of 100:
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Dec 3 14:23 UTC 2002 |
Proposal: We write a pager that automatically fixes quotation period
placement, spaces between sentences, and em dashes to your personal
preference, thus ending all typographical arguments forever. You simply
configure it the way you think the Universe should be run and remain
blissfully unaware of all the unwashed heathens out there. ;)
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orinoco
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response 59 of 100:
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Dec 3 15:29 UTC 2002 |
''If you're a period-inside-the-quotes type,'' he remarked, ''your pager
might have trouble with ellipses.'.'..
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other
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response 60 of 100:
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Dec 3 17:16 UTC 2002 |
But it still won't have any trouble with trapezoids.
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slynne
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response 61 of 100:
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Dec 3 17:38 UTC 2002 |
What a perky thing to say, other!
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aruba
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response 62 of 100:
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Dec 3 20:31 UTC 2002 |
"is false when preceeded by its quotation" is false when preceeded by its
quotation.
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remmers
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response 63 of 100:
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Dec 3 21:02 UTC 2002 |
Quotes are for wimps. Never quote anything.
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md
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response 64 of 100:
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Dec 3 21:37 UTC 2002 |
Can I quote you on that?
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remmers
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response 65 of 100:
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Dec 3 22:40 UTC 2002 |
Nope. You can say the same thing, but don't use quotes.
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md
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response 66 of 100:
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Dec 4 00:59 UTC 2002 |
*That's* no fun.
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janc
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response 67 of 100:
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Dec 4 01:36 UTC 2002 |
Maybe we should have a pager that would automatically delete everything
that has ever been said before. This would eliminate the need for
quotes. The same thing would work in real life. You'd have a little
device like a pager that you could carry in your pocket, and any time
you or anyone around you said anything that had ever been said before,
it would emit a loud, deafening BLEEP of protest. This would soon train
you and all your friends to refrain from un-original statements. No
more listening to people saying "Boy, it's a cold one today!" or "How
about them Wings?" Instead, all it'd be like "I think the summer
weevils are sneeze-breeding kind of apricot-blue in the hamburger patch.
Shall we salt the clover?"
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mary
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response 68 of 100:
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Dec 4 01:44 UTC 2002 |
" "That's what they all say."
See, an example of something that's been said to death.
By many, many people. With the words in exactly that
order.
Which means that it deserves to be in quotation marks.
Everything which isn't an original flow of words is
another's comment and should be recognized as such." "
Be be to to not or. "Maybe."
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mary
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response 69 of 100:
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Dec 4 01:48 UTC 2002 |
Jan slipped in, oh so cleverly, with the point that is now
old news. You have to be quick when going for original.
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