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Tuesday Open Thread | 91 comments (91 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Do you fit the description? (4.00 / 2)

What happens when you place a person with a marketing degree, a pork barrel policeman, and an authoritarian in a room?

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 02:57:36 PM EST
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Re: Do you fit the description? (none / 1)

Only one can survive.

And with those odds, it'll probably be the one with the marketing degree.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 03:00:36 PM EST
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Re: Do you fit the description? (none / 1)

What's a 'pork barrel policeman'?

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 03:04:25 PM EST
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Re: Do you fit the description? (4.00 / 3)

A policeman that does whatever his boss says without question as long as he's getting paid and taking a cut of the spoils off the people he is harassing. "Corrupt policeman" is probably better.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 03:10:50 PM EST
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Re: Do you fit the description? (none / 1)

I dunno. What happens?

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 03:04:58 PM EST
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Re: Do you fit the description? (4.00 / 2)

You get this document.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 03:09:38 PM EST
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Re: Do you fit the description? (none / 1)

Ah, I was sensing there was an added joke.

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

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 03:21:36 PM EST
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