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And I don't think the progress would have been made if not for the fact that Magic Johnson came out early and said he was HIV positive. He made it seem like if a high-profile athlete could be infected, anybody could. I'm not happy that Magic got the syndrome, but I'm glad that it made research more viable and more appreciated. I am from East Lansing, MI, btw. When Magic was a student, he worked at a convenience store near campus where I lived in married student housing. The story was horrifying and HUGE around here.

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What ever happened to "do unto other.........."? I was always under the impression that was something Jesus said for us to do.Obviously these Born Again Evangelical Christians have a different Jesus?

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Absolutely. You said it much better than I did.

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I was going to suggest, with more than a hint of smugness, that there is no French word "bure" but it turns out that there are two.

La bure (f) means a coarse brown wool, what we call homespun.

Le bure (m) is a technical term in mining that means a shaft that connects two or several tunnels.

Both would be pronounced in French as one syllable with the vowel being that umlaut ü sound that we don't have in English.

How Candance Cameron Bure might pronounce it, I don't know and never will, since I don't give one smidgen of one tenth of a fart about her or any of these people.

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Le bure (m) is a technical term in mining that means a shaft that connects two or several tunnels.Pretty sure that is just a euphemism for a double-headed dildo.

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snorted

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I am going to take a major step and take personal responsibility for my hay fever. Clearly, God is angry at me for my many base iniquities and snarky life style (not to mention Original Sin) and it would be immoral for me to use Flonase because that would interfere with His Will. I can only hope to escape God's judgment through prayer, tithing, breathairianism and appearing on idiotic talk shows.

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Nope, that would be un gode à deux têtes. As Steve Martin so rightly observed, they have a different word for everything.

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I'm thinking Pulp Fiction: a blow torch and a pair of pliers.

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Are you my childhood dentist?

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Are you agreeing with me? The Jesus lady just had a piss poor attitude and she did exactly what she always does but Raven asked an outrageous question and please show me where Pintaua brought it up!

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I remember my piece of shit step-father arguing that OBVIOUSLY Magic had been gay on the sly because only queers get that plague.

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Gays, Africans, and intravenous drug users - top 3 on God's smiting list. Funny how the lesbians almost entirely missed out, but God ain't perfect. Wait, what?

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My cat brought in a rat the other day. I missed my opportunity to cut its dick off and store it in a warm damp place until it got rancid, for future use against assholes.

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Freddie Mercury got the AIDS, and Frank Zappa got prostate cancer, which is why I always donate to both those causes.

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My mother-in-law was told by her husbands' church buddy to consider what she must have done to lose her 4th child to crib death. And that's when she stopped going to church.

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