Re: Quickly, Quickly

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That wasn't even close- in both races where it was male vs. female, the man won by at least 4 seconds, and that's even with a WR by the woman. Was the WR helped by her chasing a faster swimmer? They need those little bunnies to chase like greyhounds have.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 11:49 AM
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Upcoming revelation: LizardBreath is Carrie Ann Moss.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 11:50 AM
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What, who?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 11:55 AM
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That was a pretty cool race. Too bad her record doesn't count!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 11:57 AM
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Ogged is Ann Althouse. That's why Labs is obsessed.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 11:59 AM
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I wonder how the revelation that Berry is a 47-year-old, balding male will affect her career.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:09 PM
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The way she says, "Oh by the way, the person you've been chatting with for a week is me, Halle Berry," makes it clear that she doesn't consider herself regular and doesn't desire "regular experiences" in the same way us common imaginary folks do.


Posted by: sam k | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:11 PM
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7, it may be that she has been chatting in the many fora where people don't value anonymity as much as they do here, so that it's normal once you actually establish a rapport with somebody to try to find out what their real name, rank and serial number is.

People older than Generation X are often uncomfortable with widespread anonymity on the intertents.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:14 PM
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I'm totally in awe of Berry's generosity and the chatroom hoi polloi's unwillingness to appreciate it. All she was trying to do was bring some celebrity into their otherwise blighted little lives and they didn't believe her when she revealed herself. The horror!

(In other words, fuck her and the SUV she doesn't know how to drive)


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:14 PM
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"Upcoming revelation: LizardBreath is Carrie Ann Moss."

Wait a minute, Rob helpy-chalk. (FYI, I love that name.)

Does that mean that we are machines? Or am I simply part of someone else's imagination?

If so, please imagine a nice plate of sushi in front of me now. Thanks in advance.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:25 PM
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"and" s/b "in"


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:26 PM
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I've decided that now is the time to share with you all that real name is Scarlett Johansson.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:27 PM
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That was an awesome race. I love mixed events. I wish there'd been a better chance to watch the women's strokes--it's interesting that Lenton is the best woman because her stroke just seemed *much* faster (and as a result, less smooth) than Phelps's. Whereas the American woman seemed to have a Phelpsish slower, more powerful stroke.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:28 PM
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"my", dammit.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:28 PM
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What, who?

This one.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 12:55 PM
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I thought this one was more Lizard's style.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 1:07 PM
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Well sure, she has a hard side too...


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 1:15 PM
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Lizard is clearly more of a Killbill sword/knife girl.

I don't see the handgun part.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 1:24 PM
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Too bad her record doesn't count!

I think eventually they decided to count it.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 1:28 PM
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Ogged, did you decided to compete?


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 1:59 PM
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I called to schedule with Alli/son Wag/ner and got a machine; going to call again today. If all goes well, yeah, I'd like to compete.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:05 PM
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I wouldn't bother with lessons. Spend the money on HGH and a sleek suit instead.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:08 PM
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"HGH" s/b "cocaine".


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:11 PM
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Good plan, and maybe I can compete as a woman.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:11 PM
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Honey, you couldn't possibly compete as a woman.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:19 PM
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"Good plan, and maybe I can compete as a woman."

Ogged, I don't think those post-race nude shower massages actually happen.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:19 PM
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"Honey, you couldn't possibly compete as a woman."

LB:

Just because it is hairy doesnt mean it isnt a great rack.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:20 PM
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The way she says, "Oh by the way, the person you've been chatting with for a week is me, Halle Berry," makes it clear that she doesn't consider herself regular and doesn't desire "regular experiences" in the same way us common imaginary folks do.

Well, if she had told the people she was talking to in exactly the same way she summarized it for a reporter for a specific news article, I'd agree with you, but that sounds unlikely. More likely, if you summarize your side of an entire conversation in one sentence, it'll sound flippant whether you like it or not.

Don't get me wrong, this sounds a little weird just because she didn't have to give her name at all. I just don't read this as being as self-centered of her as 7 and 9 make it sound.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:23 PM
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you couldn't possibly compete as a woman

I've decided that my feelings aren't hurt by this.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:26 PM
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And honestly, I'm not all that star-struck, but I'd think it was pretty cool if someone anonymous around here outed themselves as incredibly freaking famous. She could have reasonably thought that the people she was enjoying talking to would get a big kick out of the fact that their new friend was HallegoddamitBerry, and told them to be nice.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:26 PM
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I know I've said it before, but I went to highschool with All/ison. I'm unable to not say that whenever she comes up in conversation.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:29 PM
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I'm incredibly freaking famous.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:30 PM
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You're all a bunch of starfuckers. Any famous pseudonymous people hanging out here are banned!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:30 PM
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someone anonymous around here outed themselves as incredibly freaking famous

Just earlier today, Rob H-C outed you as someone moderately freaking famous.

She could have...told them to be nice.

Halle: Now I'm going to tell you a secret, but I want you to be nice about it!
...not getting it.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:31 PM
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It might be fun to think about which famous person each of us might be, however.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:31 PM
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Any famous pseudonymous people hanging out here are banned!

Speaking as actor Ned Beatty, I plan to take full advantage of this loophole.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:32 PM
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Any famous pseudonymous people

Mark Twain, Kilgore Trout,...


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:33 PM
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It's probably too late for me to claim to be Vonnegut, so I guess I'll go with Pynchon.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:33 PM
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Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:34 PM
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38 -- no good: he was never pseudonymous.


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:34 PM
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(Have you read Pynchon? I thought you didn't read, in between not going to the movies and not listening to music.)


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:35 PM
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29: Of course you don't. Who'd want to be an icky girl?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:35 PM
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If someone did come forward, no one would ever believe it. Unless there were nude pictures involved.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:37 PM
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I have read none of the books written by either of the novelists mentioned in 38. This might cause problems for my claims to be either of them.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:37 PM
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1. Deafness is a handicap.
2. Women don't want to have fat asses
3. Some people are better off not having children.
4. Men do not want to be mistaken for women.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:37 PM
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If someone did come forward, no one would ever believe it. Unless there were nude pictures involved.

Some of us remain unconvinced that heebie-geebie is Halle Berry.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:38 PM
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Whereas some of us could not be convinced otherwise.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:40 PM
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I was famous once.


Posted by: George Washington | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:40 PM
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This is probably the best time for me to come clean; I'm Brad Pitt.


Posted by: Grover Cleveland | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:42 PM
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I went to highschool with All/ison

I'll be sure to mention you.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:42 PM
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Who'd want to be an icky girl?

Your obstetrician.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 2:45 PM
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44: If you assume that novelists read their own novels.

51: And I love her for it.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 3:03 PM
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Fine.

I'm Sinbad.

I didn't want to talk about it, but fine.


Posted by: Beefo Meaty | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 3:16 PM
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53- No, we said someone famous.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 3:22 PM
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I'm not going to reveal who I really am, but you'll see that the pseud is plenty thin when I tell y'all that all through the 60s and 70s, people were always saying to me: Sorry, Charley. Starkist don't want tuna wit' good taste . . .

Thus, I'm not as wounded as I otherwise might be by the hatred Ms. Geebie -- she of the reportedly lovely ass -- bears towards all things carp.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 3:29 PM
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It might be fun to think about which famous person each of us might be, however.

I'm Corky from "Life Goes On".


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:24 PM
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I'm Spartacus.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:30 PM
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Yeah, take him.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:38 PM
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I'm sorry, I meant to say the Iranian guy is Spartacus.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:40 PM
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Criminals often get caught after they've apparently gotten away with it when they just can't keep from bragging about their triumph. Halle just couldn't help being Halle, so she got busted.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:41 PM
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My high-school classmate the murderer had, in fact, gotten away with it, but told a friend who turned him in when the murderer started plotting other crimes. I approve of this snitching.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:49 PM
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I thought you were on record as being pro-helping friends conceal evidence of their crimes.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 4:59 PM
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Some guys I went to high school with robbed a post office when we were about 19. The police had their suspicions aroused when they suddenly started swanking around our small village in designer suits. The game was up when it was discovered they had bought their getaway car -- from someone who knew their names.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:04 PM
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Concealing evidence is one thing; preventing *future* murders is another. Ogged is cool with protecting the guy after just one murder.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:04 PM
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I thought you were on record as being pro-helping friends conceal evidence of their crimes.

Depends on the crime, of course, but I know I'm on record as making an exception for when someone plans to commit further crimes, and I'm sure of this because I had the high-school murderer in mind at the time.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:06 PM
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Apo's told everyone that I'm Camille Paglia. The bastard.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:06 PM
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51: And I love her for it.

Non sequitur. This is not a move in the Unfogged language game.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:27 PM
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We don't need your stinkin' patriarchal rules, SB.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:30 PM
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I love you a little too, B. Screw Bridgeplate.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:33 PM
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Awwww. Comity through exclusion of a third party. It's always good to base love on a nice, healthy foundation.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:40 PM
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I am Vishnu to Dei/gnan's Brahma.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:41 PM
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Screw Bridgeplate.

Are we on TV?

*waves*


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-13-07 5:47 PM
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And honestly, I'm not all that star-struck, but I'd think it was pretty cool if someone anonymous around here outed themselves as incredibly freaking famous.

What about if they were just related to someone incredibly freaking famous?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04-14-07 12:37 PM
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Well I guess I have my answer then.

Ogged may be right that you're all a bunch of starfuckers, but clearly you're not all a bunch of star-by-proxyfuckers.

*sigh*


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04-14-07 10:37 PM
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Are you actually related?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-14-07 11:03 PM
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76: Define "related", apo.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 1:20 AM
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I mean, we're all humans, right, all part of the great siblinghood of person?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 10:57 AM
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I'll be sure to mention you.

yeah, please don't.

You're all a bunch of starfuckers.

What's a Starf Ucker? (Like Unf-Ogged except I couldn't think of a clever set-up to tie it together.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:27 AM
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You ought to ask the earner of slols; he seems to have some experience with odd compound words.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:31 AM
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"You don't remember a heebie-geebie? I'll have her send you pictures of her ass...."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:31 AM
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Some of us remain unconvinced that heebie-geebie is Halle Berry.

Close. I'm Cat-Woman!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:31 AM
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I think I now just got slol's handle for the first time.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:36 AM
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I don't think he's ever revealed what sort of currency slols are.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:40 AM
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Slovenia? Slovakia? Slomonia? Slomouth?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:50 AM
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I'm finding a lot of citations in Estonia.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:54 AM
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An image search for alli/son wag/ner turns up, on the first page, this probably unrelated allison wagner, and this other image [edited: NSFW] of what appears to be the same person. Yes/no?


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:54 AM
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86 NSFW


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:55 AM
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I thought about noting that, but then thought, "Hey, it's a sunday".


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:57 AM
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I don't know, I can't see the first girl's twat to compare.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:58 AM
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"W" stands for "Library or Public Computer Lab".


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 11:58 AM
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I'm trying to keep her name googleproofed here, in case I do end up taking lessons and I want to tell stories about them. And no, that's not her. These, which I've linked before, are her.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 12:00 PM
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Right, not the swimmer, but the the same person.

Yeah, I should have marked that.


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 12:02 PM
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You think the two people pictured in 86 look alike? Dude, not just a robot, but a robot in need of an upgrade.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 12:06 PM
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And I didn't go to high school with either one of them. Have I mentioned that I went to high school with a famous swimmer?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 12:07 PM
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I don't think he's ever revealed what sort of currency slols are.

If that's what you don't think, you have another don't thing coming.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 12:46 PM
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I assumed he meant that he'd been saving his slols for ages in order only to have to exchange them for Moldavian currency once.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 12:51 PM
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Jewel: Who will saa-ave your slols,
Into the accounts that you hold, boy?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 1:07 PM
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I'd like to disown 86.


Posted by: pdf23ds | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 1:16 PM
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I assumed he meant that he'd been saving his slols for ages in order only to have to exchange them for Moldavian currency once.

It's a wonder you're still undetached w-lfs-n parts.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 1:28 PM
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Kobe!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 04-15-07 8:24 PM
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