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So?

Sure, it involved one bull-headed participant, yet still I felt the conversation simply floated. The Lawtalkers Gods will ultimately smile upon it.

You would prefer an analysis of protein chains?

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Answer #1- oh okay- sorry i guess you have proven it-
Answer #2- geez at least most people cite to Ty
Answer #3 dimwit- the fact that there are intermediate steps now doesn't explain how they could have first come about-

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Science clearly did not start it. But the rest of your statement has merit.

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And here we'd gone almost a full day without bringing up Clinton.

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I still wonder why Chlorox 2 sales didn't go up after that whole debacle.

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dissent. Again, I AM not penske.

Honestly, Pensk, you seem to be protesting a bit too much, this is actually an original concept, ScienceGuy Sock. Way to keep Hank on his toes.

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I am confident we can avoid a Rawls resurrection- remember we haven't had it come back even though almost every SS post reminds us of the Veil of Ignorance.

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Very funny, Mr. Origin of Species.

Yes - but I don't have an opinion. In a he said she said its hard to know the truth - there is always shades of Grey. I am a big fan of Dr. Rice, so I also have a strong bias. I was very interested in your exchange. The only thing I would say is that although failure is an orphan this failure had many authors.

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Lord help us all.

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I think that was Hank's point.

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It all comes down to steps. Evolution is just steps of mutation. So if you have all the steps you don't need a theory. You have a map of exactly what happened. The big mysteries, and where you need the theories, is when all the steps do not exist or there is no fossil or any kind of record of the intermediate steps.

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Ask yourself why are we here?

Did not your persona evolve in some way from whatever sock first linked to bridgeoflove.com?

Can Fluffy really claim to not have evolved from patentgreedy?

and I have been pegged as being a plated sock since early on.

So we can hardly argue that random mutation causes individual socks to develop and move on, but we can only move from what was there before.

I hardly think you would posit that gattigap could come from the sock that was blue triangle-

And so, I ask you do you believe that an entity named leagle created this place over a period of days- and that she had falses starts and needed to begin anew- does that make her creation any less miraculous?

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Even when suggesting the negative, the risk of association and its scarring taint cannot stand. Guardez!

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Spanky, Hank is a lot like my cousin who doesn't believe Americans ever walked on the moon. I can protest all I want, but because I wasn't there to see them driving around in the little golf cart, my opinion means nothing. Plus also there was apparently a show on Fox about how it was all a big setup.

I can't prove they walked on the moon, ergo everyone's opinion on the subject is equally valid and I am a condescending elitist to suggest otherwise. This is a very neat little argument and can be applied to almost any historical situation.

Unless you can show Hank polaroids of you standing in the primordial ooze as the lightining hits, you don't have a chance. But then again we know that photos can lie, too.

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For the love of God, do not challenge him to an economics duel. Anything else, I beg of you. Anything but economics. I'm not sure we can handle another econ duel.

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One good thing about this guy coming back- we now know how mistaken we were when our image of TROLL was fluffy or NotMe-

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Did someone say econ duel?

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Who was the cameraman who shot the film of Armstrong's first steps on the moon?

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Ironweed didn't have to return for us to see that you are a halfbreed troll.

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cool. truce is over- and I've got a boat load of fat jokes built up.......

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Heaven forfend!

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Ain't no solace in your religous fictions- I will attack you with the inevitability of the big bang.

There is so much insider stuff going on I can't understand half of what is being said. How long have you guys been doing this?

Me? A couple weeks.

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Exactly. This is why I believe that there is no war in Iraq. In fact, I don't believe there is a place called "Iraq," because I have never been there and the pictures are all obviously poorly-photoshopped fakes taken in Mexico somewhere.*

The moral here is that you can never be too careful when some egghead starts trying to sell you a bill of goods.

* Been to Tijajuana, but I can't vouch for the other bits now that I think about it . . .

Yes. I've commented before about this site collapsing under the weight of its self-referential ways. It's an affectation we need to control better.

The best way to get it is simply to ask. Or, just read it for a while. After a short time, you're immersed in the storyline, and you'll notice that the themes become repetitive, somewhat like a soap opera.

Eventually, you'll recognize Hank as James Stenbeck in ATWT, and that some other participants will work their way through friendships and romances that they cybernetically (or literally) consummate. Unfortunately, eventually such characters run through the entire remaining cast, and watching their thrashing about at the realization that there really is noone else to fuck, and then turn on and torch their cyberloves with the searing pain of a thousand vagina denatas,* is somewhat sad.

But I digress. Hang around, it'll all become clear soon enough.

Gattigap










*Shit! Did it again. Apologies.

This board was founded about two years ago. We're an offshoot of the greedy boards over at infirmation.com, which were started in 1999 or 2000. There are some people who've been around since the yahoo days of the late 90s. I've been posting with these people since 2000. I can quit anytime I want to. I promise.

etfg

I'm the newber. I started some time in '02. I'm not sure how long the rest of these losers have been at it.

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Strong words from someone with over 5000 posts. And it looks like you ain't the newber anymore, either.

dtb does not seem to be around, but if anyone else can answer -- isn't "dentata" plural?

That's easy. It's what ever Ty's blogger of the day says it is.

the politics board was invented in 11/2000. By penske. I was the 6th poster, 2nd if you count my DC Chef persona.

Also, the original Yahoo boards were preceded by greedy lawyer use groups on UUNET in the early 90s. I did not join until late 95 on the Prodigy.net newsgroups, obviously after my untimely murde.......suicide.

Probably. I can't even spell it right, apparently.

Personally, I've not hung around them long enough to find out.

Funny you say that. I didn't realize how big of a loser I really was until I viewed it from an outsider's perspective.

It's not really a spelling error. More sort of a general linguistic naivete. It's sort of sweet.

Happy post-Valentine's Day,
fringey

P.S. Hank, where are my fat jokes?

ETA P.P.S. Our new monkey-spanking friend appears to have its/it's issues. That's way worse than dentatas. OOOOOHHHHHH maybe you are right, vagina dentata is singular, and I was thinking dentatae. Which looks stupid and like it should be the name of some slimy kind of creature, so I like the "s" plural better.

*sniff* I miss dtb.

dentata means "toothed" or "having teeth." Vagina should have been pluralized, a al "attorneys general," to either "vaginas" or vaginae, depending on how pompous gatti was attempting to be.

Me either, but Shape Shifter says it's whithering experience.

Now, THIS is a nice sock, Hank.

S_A_M

Why are we assuming spanky is not a sock?