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Tuesday Open Thread | 77 comments (77 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I really must visit this country someday. It sounds like an incredibly entertaining place.

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 01:37:14 PM EST
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Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 4)

Oh, it is, it is. I actually have a Master's degree in Inebrial Finnish Behaviour. My thesis was 'A Theory of Exponential Decibel Increase at Finnish gatherings, from silence to mayhem'

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 01:43:32 PM EST
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"Inebrial Finnish Behavior", huh? Does that mean that if you can pronounce it you fail for lack of sufficient research? ;)

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 02:02:03 PM EST
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Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

No, you get honours for neologism.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 02:04:33 PM EST
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Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Funny you should mention it. I have been exercising the word mayhem in the safety of my own home. It is robust. I think it could be The Word for 2009.

The Word for 2008 was heinous.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 02:44:04 PM EST
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