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The Tea Party is our punishment for teaching assholes how to use the Internet.

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Thank you. I love Stan, and I love that song best. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, which according to Robert Graves is the test of true poetry.

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<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=Fhop5VuLDIQ" target="_blank">The Mary Ellen Carter</a> is another favorite of mine. My sister and I missed seeing him perform by that much at a Canada Day concert back in 1982 in Toronto, but she did get her copy of Between the Breaks..Live autographed. I never did get to see him perform. Oh, and almost forgot- <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=R5_zvuPw8xU" target="_blank">MacDonnell on the Heights</a>

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One of my favorite moments of fleeting fame is when my letter requesting The Mary Ellen Carter was read as the last, the anchor, the ultimate (you get the idea- it was important) on a special 2-hour show on CBC radio on the music of the Rogers brothers, with Garnet as the special guest. I could always sing Barrett's Privateers to my 2 yr old son, but had trouble with Mary Ellen Carter (i really can't sing), and the message of this song is one that I wanted him to get. And as I was typing this, that now 22 year old (today!! He's a Canada Day baby!) came into the house on a brief visit. I starting crying literally as I talked to him about this, with the song playing again, because he's had a truly shitty 5 years and things seem to be finally turning around for him. And gave him a hug and a kiss. Sometimes things just seem to come together, don't they? So thanks again for posting that this morning, because without that I doubt it would have occurred to me to go on a Stan binge. and with that- <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ZIwzRkjn86w" target="_blank">Barrett's Privateers</a>

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Got that right.

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Well, by that time, our <a href="http:\/\/stephenharperisnotakillerro...\/" target="_blank">Dear Leader.</a> should have achieved his goal of turning our country into a right-wing distopia, so they should feel right at home.

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It's impossible for that large an explosion to not be heard by someone.

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stay safe and WHERE ARE YOU?

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yeah that was pretty terrible three minutes of frantically refreshing npr quoting cnn while bbc and scotusblog had nothing.

i mean that quite seriously.

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well, you know nagani died.

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please remind me again why you are so very sure this will happen?

as often, i am feeling fragile.

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dude you made my weekend.

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god i cannot TELL you how much i hate that bimbo blond hair twirling crap. jesus christ woman you are an AG. you are not in sunnydale high. reese whitherspoon was in a goddamn movie. and IT'S JUST GROSS TO TOUCH YOUR HAIR THAT MUCH. if it's a problem

CUT. IT. OFF.

and before anyone in NJ accuses me of jealousy, i am blond and - mr fuflans informs me - small but quite shapely.

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Why couldn't Bondi be the one having the on-screen orgasm instead of Schmidt???

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Creak wa or Wa creak?

Research is necessary to answer this profound question.

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Yeah, is the name Bondi, or Blondi? I am confused.

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