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Um, it was the 61% who said no, which was why I was trying to make joke.

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Yup. Boss said "Let there be a shitload of light," and Boom! (I may be paraphrasing a bit.)

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100% of Americans think they're smarter than average. 50% of them are wrong. 50% of <i>them</i> don't see why 50% are wrong.

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Aha - that explains why we use retro rockets.

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Just don't try lying about your age.

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That's just a myth to explain the fat deposits.

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Sun goes up, sun goes down. Some can't explain it.

Sadly, it's not snark.

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If I'm going to pick a religion, I'm sure as hell not going with the Bronze plan. What's the matter with these people?

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If Galileo had been told it would not happen until the year 2000, he'd have thrown himself from the Leaning Tower. If he'd been told what the results of this poll were going to be in 2014, he'd have done the same.

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Nice to know our games are given 100x the computing resources of our plantetary spacecraft and rovers.

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Sarah Palin reads both of them. It would be amusing to ask her if she reads translations into American, from the original British language.

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I don't think the Vatican ever forgave him.

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Did Galileo know about Mercury?

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The howler monkeys on Faux News too, also.

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Gravity doesn't always exist. Matthew 10:29

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And the rest don't vote. They consult the Tarot instead.

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