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Python references are good, but not as good as Firesign Theater references. And Firesign Theater used English that was comprehensible to American ears.

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I would have expected this from a Talibangelical academy, but not a Catholic school. Catholics are usually better educated. But perhaps this priest is a former evangelical....convert zeal and all that, don'tcha know?

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I was prepared to make this comment but you saved me the effort, which I then used to craft this one.

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You’ve been to Catholic weddings, I see.

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I’d like to know where to order those, please and thank you in advance.

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Hey, smart kids might move away from the blighted small towns filled with close-minded bigots. And then they would need to hire Messicans to pump the gas. REAL Murricans don't do manual labor like that. They work in the WalMart or for the County cleaning up the roadkill. And soon there won't be a crappy burger available anywhere near Downtown, just them Impernadas things and Tacos and Burritos. And not even the good Taco Bell kind - real Messican versions with real vegetables. Nothing worse for Middle America than all the kids gone and all the immigrants doing great jobs. It just rubs it in the noses of the small-minded bigots that their hatred is baseless and false. And Americans would rather be dead than wrong.

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What kind of mean jackass god does he worship? That sounds awful.

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Communism!!!

/Sarcasm

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How did you know my [password?

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I'm pretty sure I got saved while I was reading it. Or it could've been acid reflux.

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If magic spells are outlawed, only outlaws will have magic spells.

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Alan Garner set some fantasies, of which The Owl Service is probably best known, in contemporary Britain. Charles de Lint set a series in contemporary Canada. Both started writing before Rowling. She may have been the first to put a school for wizards in a modern setting.

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🤣Hard to tell the difference isn't it?

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In a way it's a pity magic isn't real. Almost all witches would be liberals and they could achieve progressive goals in their own special way. Most of the Repub members of Congress would be sliding around on their bellies literally, instead of just doing it metaphorically for right-wing donors.

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I just guessed since I don't know your birthday or your pet's name.

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Their main problem is that the Harry Potter books are much more interesting and also have better morals.

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