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Since I don't know from Philly - are the mummers the ones who fled, or the ones they were fleeing? (I'm really only familiar w the Brit xmas customs meaning of the term)

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Finally got a chance to see John Oliver's clip. Warren G. Harding: It's not just Teapot Dome anymore!

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The parallels are eerie.

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Always a good choice.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.Francis Bacon, Essays, LVIII

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Ancient history, but I haven't been on here in a while. The mummers here are just a bunch of drunken racists. Not sure if that parallels the British variety. They fled the city to avoid being near minorities. They come back once a year to cause us pain.

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BAD weighmaster!!!

There are basically three civic duties of citizenship:(1) VOTE!!!(2) Serve on a jury(3) Pay your taxes

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The Department of Vaginal Steaming must be a first priority in an Administration of Love.

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I read it at my local library.

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Sadly they all stopped reading at G. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I do the dead tree version, seven days a week, in Portland.I just ignore what it does to my VISA bill.

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Who dat?

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Notice he didn't deny it.

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Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton had to re-record the line "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great" because the audience couldn't understand the words.

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But it might spoil one of Sally Quinn's "dinner parties".

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Ah, good times.

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