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We were in a group, so instead of feeling the repression, we just said "what a bunch of fucking nuts!" and had a good laff.

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jello shots off your buddy's ass or GTFO.

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Church, meet State; State ... oh, I see you've already met.

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Ah, I made a bad assumption it was a generic term for rider.

Given the comment mentioned wheelsets, though, isn't it more a case of something like <a href="http:\/\/www.glorycycles.com\/furaspxlrcat.html" target="_blank">FULCRUM (non-)LIBEL</a>?

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We are aware of all internet traditions.

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Yes, nothing's more American than drinking French vodka...

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Just priced my 1975 Raleigh on eBay ... it's worth exactly what I paid for it. That's what I call holding its value.

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If Dems do it, it's "wasteful."

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Was that the deal where you got the drink without the booze, then joined a "club" for an hour, and as a member you were entitled to buy your own little airline bottle of booze, which you then had to mix into the drink yourself? That whole rigamarole was extremely mormonic.

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A little engineering - $15,000 Consultants develop rubber band specification sheet - $10,000 Putting rubber band contract out to bid - $20,000 Bribe from third-highest bidder - ($10,000 credit) Last-minute addition of mil-spec requirement, per third-highest bidder - $5,000 Purchase eighty times as many mil-spec rubber bands as actually needed - $95,000

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So, they were muffin bikes, is what you're saying?

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I didn't see rentboys on the list of expenses...

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Like the former could exist without the latter...

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I'm guessing they were all domestiques...

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Seriously, the wanker was likely the most respectable thing in the room.

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