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"Error establishing a database connection"

It's like post-modern haiku in a technologic metaphor. The author is describing the futility of trying to communicate, especially with an authority like God or Beck. Use of the word "error" emphasizes that we should not even try; rather we should rely on internal truths. "Connection" is paradoxical -- we want a connection, to others, to knowledge, yet that is also the means to our undoing.

The message of this poem is "don't seek facts; you already know the truth".

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"the ad doesn't make it appear one is looking at porn"

You say that like it's a bad thing. However, I will say that Jenna's picture did sort of look like a RealDoll [tm] object then an actual human being. So that's something.

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How can so many people with dial-up internet service manage to bog it down that way?

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I'm sorry for joking about the picture of Jenna stroking her naked breast. That was much better than a picture of Megs stroking an elephant's trunk. Egad.

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