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Conflicts, ratings, trolls - a service announcement | 53 comments (53 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

So, calm down kids or else! (4.00 / 17)

Er... I warn myself!...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 08:42:54 AM EST

Re: So, calm down kids or else! (4.00 / 2)

I have no 2 cents to add, you said it all and well. And I also agree with Bob's comment.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:18:53 AM EST
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Re: So, calm down kids or else! (4.00 / 10)

Here, everyone disagrees with everyone else

I beg to differ...

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:28:36 AM EST
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Re: So, calm down kids or else! (4.00 / 4)

The big Jihad is ourselves, and the little Jihad is the rest of the world.

We spend so much time on the little Jihad.

_{aspiring to genteel poverty}

by edwin (eeeeeeee222222rrrrreeeeeaaaaadddddd@@@@yyyyaaaaaaa) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:32:01 AM EST
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I work at a Juvenile Hall (4.00 / 3)

(where kids who get in trouble with the law come to court) One of the possible outcomes is to be taken from the home and sent to a "Camp" where they go to school and get some vocational skills training and some reeducating. One of the skills is in rough carpentry, and the kids make quite nice picnic tables. They put one for display out in the front of the building and on it placed a sign which read

"ORDER WITHIN" it had been up a few weeks when someone came along and wrote "CHAOS WITHOUT" underneath the sign.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

by NearlyNormal on Wed Jun 13th, 2007 at 02:25:21 PM EST
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Re: So, calm down kids or else! (4.00 / 3)

I think you are missing a couple of points..

for example in Africa there is a little hut with two inahbitants who...

ok I quit

great post Dodo.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 11:00:09 AM EST
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