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I got curious and looked on the town website and found this address for sale and present it w/o comment:

"30 Swastika Avenue (Swastika)"

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it may not be pronounced aboot but it is definitely closer to aboot than about.

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Yep. I grew up in Detroit, have Canadian cousins, it's a thing.

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So.... what was the huge number? How many bots? Roughly?

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Hard to say. Hundreds but many accounts since deleted so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Good morning.

Ew. Still Robin Thiccke up there. Alltho... now I have to listen to Mod carousels parody again. So should you! It has hot ladies singing it. And even hotter male burlesque dancers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKfwCjgiodg

I am waiting on my uncle, cause they are giving me their car for the day, till I get a rental from insurance.

Coffee in the meantime.

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Aboot is a thing, we have Winter Texans from Canada here, and I'm an auditory witness.

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Mr Polliver, follow up? Crip Dyke, from Wonkette.

Uh, let me put these in order here.

First, have you ever stayed in a hotel.

Second, have you ever stayed in a Holiday Inn.

And finally, do you know the meaning of the English language word "Swanky"?

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When I was a college freshman during the Peloponnesian wars, I took calculus as it was mandatory. The teaching assistant was Canadian and was my first exposure to "aboot". Closest I came to flunking college purse. (Not because of the pronunciation just because I suck at math).

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Only tangential to your comment, in my first year of college I had a philosophy prof who was Vietnamese, and he kept talking about a thinker named "Peter Gorass." I thought it a rather American-sounding name for early Greek philosophy until I finally did some of the reading and found he was discussing "Pythagoras" all that time.

I have always been more of a literature guy, I guess.

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This is my second favorite song when astroturf bots get exposed. My favorite of all is when someone doing digital blackface gets exposed (i.e. doing a Dean Browning).

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Ta, Andrew. Of COURSE you're a fan of Neil Young. Darling husband and I have him in heavy rotation on our radio show.

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𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑡 has just the amount of skronk you'll need.

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You can't mention Sudbury without a Stomping Tom Connors appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7VReWZqJY

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I can tell that pic wasn't produced by AI, as AI tries to make people pretty, even when it adds too many fingers to them.

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"Not lots of bots! Not lots of bots"

-- Pierre Poilievre

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You're the bot!

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Schooled in Toronto for a year; we did go “ oat and a boat”, but we did not give an “oot “

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Furthering my theory that no one actually likes PeePee, he’s just a vector for their Trudeau Derangement Syndrome.

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For all the talk of the polls showing the Conservatives are 20 points up or whatever on the Liberals I don't think when election time rolls they're going to get those kind of numbers. Especially if Justin decides to "go for a walk in the snow" late this year.

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the two most important facts about Sudbury were left out though ...

hometown of Alex Trebek and where the shows Letterkenny and Shoresy are filmed

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To be <i>faaahhhhhr</i>.

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...𝘪𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘬 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵. 𝘋𝘳. 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘥.

Nor to blame him for how Robin Thicke turned out, even though Alan Thicke 𝘸𝘢𝘴 his real dad.

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