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In fairness, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was starting its 6th season and on UPN when 9/11 happened.

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Ha ha, I was married and didn't even drink back then! Shitty times, shitty times, indeed. Somebody tell one of my hoes to clean my gun and bring me a drink!. (As if I can afford hoes in this economy)

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My husband still has one. It cost as much as a washing machine when he bought it.

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Yep. They only lasted a little over 9 years (December, 1979 - February, 1989). We're already several months past that.

Of course, they lost a whole lot more troops (something like 15,000). Not much hope of catching that record. But we're trying, it seems.

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we're like time travelers only without the cool toys.

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I wonder wear they are going to hang the "Mission Accomplished" banner in George's new library at SMU?

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Why don't we just <b>buy</b> the damned country and be done with it? In terms of 100s of billions spent and horrific deaths and injuries we would come out ahead and the wingnuts would have a country to play with: free markets, a flat tax, founded on Biblical principles, etc.

Sarah Palin can run it for a while to gain valuable experience.

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also in 2001: john mccain was already really old and joey ramone died.

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