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Saturday Open Thread | 102 comments (102 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I won't have to say "eh" all the time when I travel. I can just wear an Obama button. :)

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 06:12:51 PM EST
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Huh. Somehow I've never had these problems - I've never once been mistaken for a Republican...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:07:27 PM EST
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Re: What a relief (4.00 / 3)

how come? is it the lack of swiveling eyeballs? lack of frothing at the mouth? what gives it away? ;-)

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

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:12:49 PM EST
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Re: What a relief (4.00 / 2)

I'm not sure! You'll have to ask the meetup people...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:20:35 PM EST
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Re: What a relief (none / 1)

It's the shoes.

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:26:15 PM EST
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Re: What a relief (none / 1)

Oh! I'll bet you're right!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:27:54 PM EST
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Re: What a relief (none / 1)

Of course I'm right. The shoes AND your international sensibility.

by Maryb2004 on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 08:05:01 PM EST
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It's the smile (none / 1)

and the irresistible way she says "bohnjoooor" or "mayrceeeee"

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 12:33:57 PM EST
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Re: What a relief (none / 0)

I generally didn't have a problem, although a few did assume we were all right-wing lunatics. Had a classmate who, when we first met, kept asking me why Americans believed in Bush.

But, hell, the Brits were more Republican than I was much of the time.

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 07:56:29 PM EST
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