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I calculate the half-life of their stoopid at approximately 36.32 years. Since Crawford is well into his 2nd round of decay, his stoopid levels had to have been near lethal levels to have so much remaining at this point in his life. Let's hope he gets to spend the rest of his time living out his remaining half-lives in a nice containment vessel far enough away so that the inverse square rule means he won't be a danger to anyone else for a long time.

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Which gives me an opportunity to tell my dad's (mechanical engineer) favorite joke: An electrical engineer, a chemical engineer and a civil engineer are sitting in a bar, arguing about what kind of engineer God is.

"It's obvious that God is an electrical engineer," says the EE. "All your muscle movements. all the thoughts in your head, those are electrical impulses traveling along perfectly designed pathways."

"That's ridiculous," says the chemical engineer. "That's not electricity, those are chemical reactions. And so is DNA replication, and human development, and hormonal control, and everything. So God is *definitely* a chemical engineer." Then he hears their companion chuckling under his breath. "And what are you sniggering at - you can't possibly believe that God is a civil engineer?"

"Yep," said the CE, grinning at his indignant companions, "I know he is. Only a civil engineer would put a waste treatment plant right next to a recreation area."

I'll be here all week . . . *g*

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Oh, I wish I was in the Adirondacks,Old times there, didn't have no sales tax,Look away, look away, look away, dixieland.

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I bet he's branched out to hate the Jews too since they rated him out.

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He probably already hated them. Very likely, the plan was to include them for financial support because EVERY wingnut knows the jews are loaded with the moolah.

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I believe the plural of "doofus" is "doofi."

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True, EE types tend to have the shortest buses of the engineering profession, but that's just so they can run them at higher frequencies without clock skew.

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Here is the laurel wreath you have totally earned!!

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Definitely the piece I was thinking of.

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Oh, if only that line about the sales tax was even halfway true ... Only on the rez, man, only on the rez (which is down in the Seaway Valley, not up in the mountains).

And upstate New York is Extremely Western Massachusetts, Outer Connecticut and Overseas Vermont. Until you get to the western part, where it becomes Very Northeastern Ohio, Pittsburgh-On-The-Lake and Baha Ontario Sur*.

Dixie it ain't. It isn't even Pennsyltucky or Taylor, MI. The arrest of these two individuals resulted in the entire membership of the Capital District KKK being put behind bars.______________________________________________________* Baha Ontario is the Southern Ontario Peninsula. Baha Ontario Sur is the southern shore of Lake Ontario between NF and Rochester in Western New York.

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The Future Failure Is At GEâ„¢

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EQ - it just goes to show that no region is immune from it. Wherever you find people, you will find derp. Dumbfuckistan isn't a place, it's a state of mind.

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I should clarify: there are plenty of morans in the hinterlands north of Gotham (and north and west of Boston). They just aren't of the Southern-fried variety, but instead embody northern Yankee derp, which is a US variant of a similar eastern Canadian critter. (See The Red Green Show.)

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Every knows (or should know, at least) that Firefly-class starships are unarmed.

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Magnets, bitch! (How do they work?)

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