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It's also from Blur spinoff / Damien Hirst diversion-from-cutting-animals-in-half-preserving-them-in-formaldehyde-and-calling-it-art, Fat Les.

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Poe's Law says you can't tell.

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And GQ has Wolff. 'Nuff said.

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More rarely asked: Is our bloggers earning?

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I've been around for a long, long year.

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Hard cider works best -- not that you're going to find it on the menu.

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Some joints will, if you're famous enough (in the Page Six sense of the word.) Such joints aren't worth going to in the first place, but that's another thing entirely.

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A <i>printed</i> directory of web sites? Oh my. I'd forward that to Sergei Brin, but he'd probably damage himself seriously with the laughing.

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I think there's a way to get your eyephone to bleep, or something, when a new Wonk arrives via the innertubes. Then, if your are a high speed snarkputer like Barb, you read the whole thing and type in something hilarious within ten seconds. If you are lame, you type "First!" (and are not.)

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'64 was a pretty good year. I was a junior in high school.

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you mean I have to keep fighting it for..... edit... 21+ or so, more years? I was hoping to douche it out and start writing obnoxious yelp restaurant reviews in the next 5 or so years. This forced decorum will not be pretty, not a fucking bit pretty.

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Well, it might have been somewhat awkward, since the US was not at war with Germany (although I believe the Navy was to sink any u-boats it encountered). But heck, a large portion of the victory in the war in Europe was a consequence of the USSR. In the fall of 1942 the Western Allies landed in North Africa, the Battle of Stalingrad began. In the Pacific, it was Guadalcanal. Geeze, I can't believe I remembered all of this from a class I took a long time ago and in a different field than I am now. And the military, not political/diplomatic part -- but there was a war on and all ...

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enougf with the puntuation brainiac

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The subject goes in, the predicate comes out. Who can explain it?

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Perhaps a wafer-thin mint?

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