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Let us now braise famous men!

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Or have it arranged in a downward spiral.

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Yeah, but you wouldn't <i>believe</i> the kind of damage he can do to the furniture when he gets bored.

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I never did see the last National Treasure movie. So that's what it's about. Huh.

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Man, with these assholes running around, you start to wonder if Ye Olde Italian Dudes weren't onto something with the whole "the average person is too brick-stupid to be trusted to herd ducks, much less read and personally interpret the Word of Glob" thing.

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Maybe the First Independent Church of Satan and Baseball should print up some pamphlets, or bubblegum cards or something.

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All their spiritual supplies are gone, Jah.

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It has its tongue-in-cheek aspects, for sure (and it has to be a ton of fun to do it), but it's a serious project, aimed at getting the public to recognize when the fundie X-tards are over-reaching. Getting the fundies to notice it is hopeless -- they are to the First Amendment what the perpetual motion "free energy" nuts are to thermodynamics.

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First they came for the Satanists, But I was not a Satanist, So I just sat back and laughed as they got their asses kicked for messing with the Satanists.

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Has anybody yet cashed in on the whole money/power/sex-obsessed pastor business, with a trashy rise-and-fall novel? You could throw in politicians, presidents, crooked third-world dictators, and all the money and sex that fits on the page. You know it would sell like hotcakes to the Wal-Mart crowd, and that there'd be guilty pleasure in it for the rest of the public as well.

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You hold the Constitution up to a hot flame (be careful!), and all the God and Jeebus stuff appears like magic.

(I just made that up, but they might actually do it in the movie.)

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You're quite welcome. I'll send you our standard contract.

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And those new continuously-variable-de-fes are just <i>weird</i>.

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<a href="http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/279907-Pentangle" target="_blank">Pentangle</a> <i>was</i> a great band, though.

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<i>I feel the magic in your caress I feel magic when I touch your dress Silk and satin, leather and lace Black panties with an angel's face

Abra-abra-cadabra I want to reach out and grab ya Abra-abra-cadabra Abracadabra</i>

Yeah, be careful with that one, kids.

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