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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 11/22/2008 : 23:28:45 [Permalink]
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Great article, Dave. I don't even watch that show and I was laughing. And god damn this image from that website cracked me up:
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Simon
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USA
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Posted - 11/23/2008 : 12:53:24 [Permalink]
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That's funny, but probably not what actually happened.
I remember John Steward showing a video of him greeting all the world leaders individually, you know. Exiting the door, climbing down three steps, shaking a hand and going back inside just to do the exact same thing again two minutes later for the next visitor.
Silly protocol and all that.
If this video was taken the same day, then, indeed, the foreign head of states were not to shake his hand a second time...
Retarded protocol but nothing significant.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dave W.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/25/2008 : 11:28:14 [Permalink]
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| Ben Stein has been consistently wrong for some time now. I think it's time to revive his game show Win Ben Stien's Money only this time the contestant gets to beat the shit out of Ben Stein and take his wallet... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/25/2008 : 20:05:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Jack Handey has a good plan for robbing a bank.
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That's very well thought out. Though it does require some patient reconnoitering to make sure the proper conditions are in place.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 11/25/2008 : 20:22:09 [Permalink]
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Oh, man, I pray Ben Stein put his money where his big mouth was.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Hawks
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 12/08/2008 : 15:29:11 [Permalink]
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| Saw that. It's really good. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
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Hawks
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Posted - 12/08/2008 : 21:09:34 [Permalink]
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| Was that Doogie Howzer? |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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