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Mark_Wallace wrote: Your communication skills must be lacking, then.
That's why I'm working with machines... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Remind me to tell that cute girl in your office that you called her a machine.
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Want the phone number?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Lemme guess: 911?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Your communication skills must be lacking, then.
Can't be that bad: he did say "second daughter"...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hmm.
Yes, that's a good point, if we (quite reasonably) assume that children are a communicable disease.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The point of calling 911 is to get someone else in trouble.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The point of calling 911 is to get someone else in trouble.
The police didn't put me in trouble, but the victim was pissed at me for stating the car had hit the truck near the back wheel. This was the first (and only time so far) I had called 911. The bus driver behind me said the same thing. The driver was positive the car had hit him in the front end and gave us what-for for being wrong. The cop did his best to calm him down.
I thought it was interesting, just the prior day I had read an article about the inaccuracy of eye-witness reports, so I knew I could be wrong, because I didn't didn't see the hit. So, before the cop got there I looked across the street and looked at the part of the truck I could see and verified it looked brand new. (The driver's side, front part of the truck) Then I crossed the street saw the black streak on the hood of a white car without any visible dents. Exactly like it had been used as a launching ramp for the rear wheel well, to put the truck into a 225 degree spin into the ditch.
I didn't call to cause trouble, I called in case someone needed help. That's one of the things police sometimes do. (Besides shooting and killing someone because they are carving wood on the sidewalk)
I'm sure the driver of the white car was in trouble because she hit a vehicle that had the right-of-way and it was her misjudgement that caused the accident. But, I'm sure that there are people who should be in trouble when 911 calls are made, that get off scot-free.
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Dunno. It's some American thing.
It's like thanksgiving. WTF is thanksgiving? They say it's something to do with The English and Indians, but I'm English and I've been to India, and I've never heard of anything special on that day.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: They say it's something to do with The English and Indians,
Well, I am sure that some Americans (people who ditched the Queen and sh*t) were thankful the Native American's did not wipe them from the earth.
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On a non-humorous note: Do you know anything about the pilgrims?
They were absolutely awful people, and we were glad to get shot of them.
I imagine that having to fend for themselves without all the advantages of civilisation made them grow up quite rapidly -- the few that had brains enough to survive, that is; Darwin did a sterling job on them.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Do you know anything about the pilgrims?
Only what American teachers taught me in grade school. Obviously the history is a bit different depending on what country you went to school in.
With that said, we were taught, at least I was, that early settlers treated the natives like shite and gave them all of our sickness and disease.
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They were very nasty people. The reason that they couldn't fit into English society (which may not have been perfect, but was pretty egalitarian) was that they believed that their religious beliefs made them vastly superior not only to everyone else but also to the law.
Of course, there's an element of that in all religions, but these guys made Khomeini look tame.
As I say, having to struggle to survive in an uncivilised, savage new land -- i.e. learning that God didn't make the world and everything in it revolve around them -- must have done their attitude the world of good.
So much so that these days we even let a few Americans back into England, from time to time.
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I hear you.
BTW, doesn't England and the U.S. have a dual citizenship policy set up?
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That's what we like you to think, yes.
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I'm American and I don't know anything special about today. (Whoops now yesterday, Nov. 9) We celebrate Thanksgiving on the third week in November on a Thursday so the date isn't specific. I'm sure I was told why we did that, but it didn't make sense then, so I don't remember now what it was. We are thankful the colonists from England demonstrated extreme incompetence in living here and weren't killed by Indians and instead were helped to survive. We later tried to demonstrate our thankfulness by trying to wipe out the Indians who were named that by Columbus whose navigation skills obviously put him in India. Custer comes to mind on the continuing chronicles of competence of Americans in getting things done.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The Americans have got a thing about the ninth, don't they? Come back in four days
Yeah... uh... Of course... 11/9 is really... um... important? Wait, what's on 11/9? Are you mixing up date formats again? 
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... Maxwell fell of his boat
(or jumped, or was pushed by Mossad. Whichever way the fat bastard is dead and we should be very happy about that).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Now I need to watch V for Vendetta again... My favorite film...
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Look at my signature...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
Which movie?
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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Your viewing habits are getting rather suspect.
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