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Started by garbon, November 22, 2009, 02:26:19 AM

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garbon

November 22, 2009, 02:26:19 AM
What recent events/actions would you call historic?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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The Brain

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November 22, 2009, 02:27:23 AM
Most of Mart's posts would qualify I think.
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sbr

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November 22, 2009, 02:30:41 AM
The Ducks beat Arizona; for the first time ever the winner of the Oregon/Oregon State Civil War goes to the Rose Bowl.

Capetan Mihali

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November 22, 2009, 02:33:04 AM
How are we defining these times?  Post-9/11?  Post-Bush?
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sbr

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November 22, 2009, 02:35:57 AM
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Eddie Teach

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November 22, 2009, 02:36:19 AM
Invasion of Iraq
Execution of Saddam
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Standoff after last Mexican presidential election
Election of Obama
Danica Patrick proving auto racing isn't a real sport

I went with post 9-11
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Fate

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November 22, 2009, 02:42:48 AM
Obama's decision to escalate in Vietstan.

Syt

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November 22, 2009, 02:45:11 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 22, 2009, 02:36:19 AM
Danica Patrick proving auto racing isn't a real sport

She managed to infuse a little bit of interest for the sport in me, though, even though I abhor all motorsports events (with exception of some cross country rallyes).

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

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The Brain

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November 22, 2009, 02:47:52 AM
 :rolleyes: If I want to see buttcrack I can watch my plumber at work.
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Queequeg

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November 22, 2009, 02:55:30 AM
9/11 seemed to define a lot of stuff after it that wasn't at all obvious before it.
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#10
November 22, 2009, 03:17:39 AM
The size of the deficit is historic.  If and when health care passes it will be historic.

Monoriu

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November 22, 2009, 03:56:35 AM
The financial crisis. 

Viking

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November 22, 2009, 04:52:55 AM
Quote from: The Brain on November 22, 2009, 02:27:23 AM
Most of Mart's posts would qualify I think.

historic /= histrionics
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

garbon

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November 22, 2009, 05:00:04 AM
It does equal herstoric though.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

PRC

#14
November 22, 2009, 05:16:35 AM
If "recent" is considered the last decade then the advent of anyone and everyone being public on the internet i'd consider historic.
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