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Those are called vegetables.

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When the food production and distribution system collapses, we will all be planting gardens.

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Malia's teenage rebellion is going to be eating gummi bears by the mouthful chased down with pure, American HFCS. "You can't tell me what to do, Mom!!! I'll eat what I want! I'm sick of arugula!" And Michelle will cry and cry and ask the heavens, "How did I raise such a daughter?!? Gaia, why hast though forsaken me?"

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I was all ready to get on that 10th Amendment bandwagon, then I read this and remembered how bad state and local governments were, and was all "fuck it".

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Damn... can't we get a virtual (Michael Vick-trained) Doberman to patrol the place?

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Especially if you tinker with it on weekends, and fire up the afterburners every now and then while you're "tuning it up".

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do these people have jobs or anything else to do?

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Personally I think a prolific, healthy vegetable garden is beautiful.

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The dictionary says "suitable" means "satisfying propriety," and some of those vegetables can have obscene shapes. Especially the cucumbers. Little children's minds could be permanently warped on seeing them.

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Next year I bet she's growing the throwing kind of vegetables instead of the eating kind.

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I bet if she'd just stuck a "Palin for President" sign in the middle of the cucumbers, the whole thing would have been transformed into "suitable".

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The guy across the street from me.

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She can only have "suitable" white trash wingnut shit on her lawn. Like crabgrass, weeds, an old truck or two and, if you're really well off, a washing machine.

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It's where Domino's started, so I'd say yes.

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