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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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The Brain

#83490
December 09, 2021, 05:55:23 PM
Sad.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Sheilbh

#83492
December 11, 2021, 11:19:21 AM
Great story of British POW who escaped and then travelled Germany to get out in a full Royal Navy uniform posing as a Bulgarian: Lieutenant Bugaroff :lol:
Let's bomb Russia!

Josquius

#83493
December 11, 2021, 11:22:26 AM
I bugger off. Heh.
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DGuller

#83494
December 11, 2021, 02:46:49 PM
You'd think they would've confiscated his uniform after the first attempt.

Josquius

#83495
December 11, 2021, 05:09:00 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 11, 2021, 02:46:49 PM
You'd think they would've confiscated his uniform after the first attempt.
Wouldn't that run afoul of the Geneva convention？

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The Brain

#83496
December 12, 2021, 08:46:22 AM
Do you really have to come out if you're already in a RN uniform?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#83497
December 13, 2021, 09:34:47 AM


:lol:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

grumbler

#83498
December 13, 2021, 10:25:45 AM
 :lol:
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Syt

#83499
December 13, 2021, 01:30:21 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

DGuller

#83500
December 13, 2021, 03:27:22 PM
Wow, an actual choice for once, not "them' or "it".

Razgovory

#83501
December 13, 2021, 03:34:30 PM
That's still an "it".
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Barrister

#83502
December 13, 2021, 03:43:04 PM
Quote from: DGuller on December 13, 2021, 03:27:22 PM
Wow, an actual choice for once, not "them' or "it".

I dunno - more often than not they name an actual person.

2020 - Biden/Harris (meh - a push naming two)
2019 - Greta Thunberg (individual)
2018 - "The Guardians" (them)
2017 - "The Silence Breakers" (them)
2016 - Donald Trump (individual)
2015 - Angela Merkel (individual)
2014 - "Ebola fighters" (them)
2013 - Pope Francis (individual)
2012 - Barack Obama (individual)
2011 - "The Protestor" - (them)
2010 - Mark Zuckerberg (cyborg, but an individual)
2009 - Ben Bernanke (individual)
2008 - Barack Obama (individual)
2007 - VLadimir Putin (individual)
2006 - "You" (them, and the stupidest of them all)
2005 - "The Good Samaritans" (them)
2004 - George W Bush (individual)
2003 - "The American Soldier" (them)
2002 - "The whistleblowers" (them)
2001 - Rudy Guiliani (individual)
2000 - George W Bush (Individual)

So that's 12 individuals, and 8 "thems" in the last 21 years.
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Habbaku

#83503
December 13, 2021, 03:44:13 PM
How dare you call me stupid.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Habbaku

#83504
December 13, 2021, 03:44:56 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 13, 2021, 03:43:04 PM2003 - "The American Soldier" (them)

This one is the cringeiest.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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