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Hmm. He's marginally smarter than I thought. Too bad -- I was looking foreward to the primary campaign.

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Oooooooooooooh, was that some shade thrown Bede's way, or did you mistype "Venerable" to "Venomous"?

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Also, up-lighting is murder on wrinkles. Concealed pink bulbs are the way to go for that dewy look.

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Neither. <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1066_and_All_That" target="_blank">1066 And All That</a> permanently warped my mind at a tender age, so Bede is always "venomous", Mary I is always "broody", and Henry I died of a surfeit of palfreys.

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I think it's a tie with <a href="http:\/\/www.keplersdiscovery.com\/SixCornered.html" target="_blank">snowflakes</a> and <a href=" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kepler_conjecture" target="_blank">cannon balls</a>.

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Every state I've ever lived in defined "residency" as "where you normally live most of the time". For some folks (and not just the very rich, e.g., snowbirds) this can be ambiguous, so they let you pick one.

I've never lived in Massachusetts, so I don't know their rules, but the states I'm familiar with would frown on claiming them as your residence when you live elsewhere the great majority of the time.

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Really, any comparison between Newt and the noble races of Suidae and Salamandridae is an insult to the animals.

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Depends who you believe. Nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC according to Ussher. It's 3929 for John Lightfoot, 3761 for Jose ben Halafta, 3952 for The Venomous Bede, 3949 for Joseph Scaliger, and 3992 for Kepler. I think Nate Silver should figure out how to weight these estimates.

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The sincerest form of art appreciation is theft.

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Hey, no fair using science! That's always trumped by the gut feelings of religious figures. What else could you use the guts of a priest for?

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Laura Love? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqgWr-3_ML4">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Because she would look even more stupid than he did, if she had a soupstrainer mustache.

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The article said that Romney will divide his time between La Jolla and New Hampshire, but keep 'official residency' in Massachusetts. More republican election fraud?

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A home environment where learning isn't valued is a handicap for a child. Life is full of surprises, though, so I think we should root for the kid. I'm still not taking the bet.

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I'm so sick of white people i took down the mirror in my bathroom.

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When I was 22, I was temporarily arrested with other protesters outside of a GE plant. (We didn't get taken to the hoosegow, much to our disappointment. We were so pathetic the cops didn't think we were worth the bother and they let us go.)

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