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Also, brevity is good. For example, "corporation" instead of "corporate business". Words, how do they fucking work?

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Although from my recollection it wasn't until John Major that the British coal industry finally, fully collapsed. It's a strange thing that a Tory was the greenest PM in British history; also a total accident.

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Way to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor, man.

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My students have a variation of that software that randomly spews, commas, like, wherever.

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Was he ever Sarah Palin's professor? Because, also.

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They don't call it the "One Star State" for nothing.

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O come on. It had to be in 2000 or earlier, because we all know W kept us safe on his watch.

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This sentence no verb.

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Jesus, next you'll be trotting out causality.

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Gah. These are the quants that are destroying the world.

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Nah, the real "quant" problem was when they came up with an equation simple enough that any dozy old fucker thought they could understand, and promptly started applying with utter disregard to the major caveat originally attached - that it wouldn't work in an environment where the risk of default on geographically distant mortgages was correlated, also known as "a falling housing market", a condition made inevitable by the very irrational exuberance in which the thought-they-were-quants-but-weren't were engaging in the belief that it could never happen.

Trust me on this, path integrals are hard enough that nobody who lacks a deep understanding of what they're doing is capable of solving them.

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A student found Schlundt crying in the student center. When he asked the professor why he was crying he pointed out the window at the gym...

"You see that gym? I was instrumental in getting the funds to build it. But do they call me Schlunt the Gym Builder? No! Do you see that library? It's a world class facility because of me. But, do they call me Schlunt the Librarian? No!

But...if you fuck one goat..."

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I don't think much happened on the Friday apart from Harold showing up late because he'd been watching Chelsea at home. He was up bright and early on the Saturday, though, for the battle. Wouldn't miss a good battle to save his life.

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I can't figure out how much of this is bad writing and how much is what my husband calls edu-speak.

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It's a good thing that Louie Gohmert is as ineffectual as one-L, or he'd be scary rather than hi-<em>lar</em>-ious.

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As opposed to <em>Accounting 211: How To Legally Commit Fraud On A Massive Scale By Finding The Numbers That Work For You To Put In Your Annual Filings</em>.

To be accompanied, of course, by <em>Finance 212: How To Evade The SEC While Cashing Out By Insider Dealing On The Massive-Scale Fraud You Committed In Your Annual Filings</em>.

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