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[Tonitrus]

Or she figures it's ok because little kids don't get double entendres.

Slutty single mom, maybe?

[Savonarola]

In my personal e-mail inbox this morning:

Woh! Senior Network Engineer Opportunity in Detroit, MI

Dude!  I totally want a head-hunter who writes like Keanu Reeves talks.   

[Eddie Teach]

Come on, you know you're tired of having clean water right out of the tap.

[Ideologue]

Worst phrase I've read in a book* in a long time:

"At some point, everybody behaves badly: it wasn't just the Nazis who forgot about ethics."




*  Braungart & McDonough. Cradle to Cradle

Any context?

I said last night, on the subject of parallel parking, it was like Hitler won the war.  To give credit where it's due, it's a paraphrase of HST.

[MadImmortalMan]

CNBC is reporting that Ben Bernanke has been rejected for a mortgage refinancing.   

[mongers]

CNBC is reporting that Ben Bernanke has been rejected for a mortgage refinancing.   

Awesome if true. 

But too good to be true, it a way it would be a nice parable to in part explain the 2008 and its aftermath,sort of.

[mongers]

Worst phrase I've read in a book* in a long time:

"At some point, everybody behaves badly: it wasn't just the Nazis who forgot about ethics."




*  Braungart & McDonough. Cradle to Cradle

Any context?

I said last night, on the subject of parallel parking, it was like Hitler won the war.  To give credit where it's due, it's a paraphrase of HST.

It was in the above book, which is about making manufacturing more sustainable and less resource intensive. I think the phrase was in a sentence about how, all of us enjoy multiple foreign holidays and use lots of energy.

[mongers]

Also went to an odd carers fair today; a airman (army pilot) tried to persuade me to get into training Army cadet forces. 

[KRonn]

CNBC is reporting that Ben Bernanke has been rejected for a mortgage refinancing.   

Glad he was running things at the Fed.  They must not have over paid him enough.

[MadImmortalMan]

http://wgno.com/2014/10/01/police-destrehan-teachers-had-a-three-way-with-a-student/


This kid got to have sex with two of his teachers at the same time. 

[garbon]

Yeah already being discussed and I don't see what is laudable here.

[Savonarola]

Also went to an odd carers fair today; a airman (army pilot) tried to persuade me to get into training Army cadet forces. 

And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture   

[Admiral Yi]

Why would anyone give a shit about the mettle of someone's pasture?

[mongers]

Also went to an odd carers fair today; a airman (army pilot) tried to persuade me to get into training Army cadet forces. 

And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture   

I'll take that as a compliment, though actually he said I reminded him of some of the officers he'd had, which given we were talking about ineffectual officers in the British army, was amusing. 

[The Brain]

Why would anyone give a shit about the mettle of someone's pasture?