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Containing Them | 118 comments (118 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Well, yes, but our people are twice the size of your people. What's a typical rugby player weigh -- maybe 180? We've got field goal kickers larger than your rugby players.

And of course we need breaks. Do you know how difficult it is to run after eating half a dozen Big Macs every day for twenty years?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:39:39 PM EST
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And it's obviously a sport that teaches the ethics of an intensely class ridden society, after all every player has to know his place.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:43:44 PM EST
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Class and race with a lot of Rome sprinkled in. Could be worse: the rural types watch cars drive in circles for five hours.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:46:37 PM EST
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all that and chariot racing too. Truly you are the new Rome

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:52:49 PM EST
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Nah, Rome's got nothin' on us.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 09:03:07 PM EST
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Well when one of your presidents torches rome, sleeps with his sister and gets a horse sworn into congress I'll admit that.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 09:07:27 PM EST
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Rome? I meant Washington.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 09:08:05 PM EST
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I'm pretty sure we could swing it, but probably not this go-round. We're a bit short on Southerners for 2008.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 10:04:24 PM EST
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