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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Sheilbh on July 27, 2013, 10:35:55 PM
Inspiration isn't making you desire or believe in something, nor is it providing a model, or an influence. It's animating your own belief - spurring it on - using the example of someone else or some issue to keep you going.

Like I said, I don't understand the distinction.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Neil on July 27, 2013, 11:16:37 PM
Yeah, I'm sure that it's unthinkable that Thomas Jefferson could have inspired a guy who lead a country that was big on talking about equality, rights and freedom, but where people were held as slaves and where whole groups who defied the central government were put into camps or liquidated.
I was just going to write this myself.

Jefferson was terrible, our most overrated political figure.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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Phillip V

Jefferson was a very smart man, but he severely hurt our father Washington. :(

CountDeMoney

Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 28, 2013, 12:14:24 AM
Jefferson was terrible, our most overrated political figure.

Stop shoving so much kimchi up your ass.

derspiess

Quote from: Sheilbh on July 27, 2013, 08:37:36 PM
Well okay, but you've shifted the goalposts a bit here.

Yeah, Yi's shifting the goalposts here. Yi. Do you leftists ever listen to yourselves?
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 28, 2013, 12:20:21 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 28, 2013, 12:14:24 AM
Jefferson was terrible, our most overrated political figure.

Stop shoving so much kimchi up your ass.

No shit.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

sbr

Most overrated obviously goes to Reagan, but Jefferson is in the Top 3 for sure.

jimmy olsen

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Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 28, 2013, 12:20:21 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 28, 2013, 12:14:24 AM
Jefferson was terrible, our most overrated political figure.

Stop shoving so much kimchi up your ass.
Adams was far superior to him.

I would say Jefferson, Jackson, and Wilson are the three most overrated.

EDIT: My antipathy for Jefferson is well known and dates back before I left for Korea.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

CountDeMoney

Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 28, 2013, 01:03:09 AM
EDIT: My antipathy for Jefferson is well known and dates back before I left for Korea.

Yeah, we knew you were a useless douchebag back then, too.

Eddie Teach

Louisiana Purchase = whole lotta waste of space. Though Polk was worse.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

jimmy olsen

Any president would have taken that offer.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Eddie Teach

Okay, but the territory between the Mississippi and the Sierra Nevadas still sucks.
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Ideologue

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 28, 2013, 01:48:57 AM
Okay, but the territory between the Mississippi and the Sierra Nevadas still sucks.

That's where my Cinnamon Toast Crunch comes from.
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The Brain

Sweden has huge amounts of uranium, but the ores are probably not profitable yet. Prospecting is being done though.
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