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#125941 03/24/04 01:54 AM
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Reverse discrimination!!!

What? From living white males? Dead black females? You do the combinatorics.


#125942 03/24/04 02:15 AM
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Then decades later I listened in astonishment as a European friend (who was a Polish Jew who'd grown up in Austria after the war) explained to me how Turks were not European and Turkey shouldn't be let in the EU. Sigh.



The Merry Minuet, by the Kingston Trio.


#125943 03/24/04 04:37 AM
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Oh, no? I've dated several.

#125944 03/24/04 12:39 PM
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I've dated several

Yeahbut®, didja meet em through the personals?


#125945 03/24/04 01:19 PM
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The Merry Minuet, by the Kingston Trio.

Or Tom Lehrer's National Brotherhood Week.


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Here's a DWM who doesn't seem to have gotten notice he
deserves. Described as "Father of modern astronomy".
I never heard of him before.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:uY1-yBArLI4J:www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Simon-Newcomb+encyclopedia+Simon+Newcomb&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


#125947 03/24/04 07:30 PM
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Divorced White Endosexual Male


#125948 03/24/04 07:37 PM
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Do wot 'e (jerking thumb to the side) means.


#125949 03/24/04 07:42 PM
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Do wot 'e (jerking thumb to the side) means.

That'd be the blame-shifted version of the old computer language DWIM.



#125950 03/24/04 08:10 PM
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DWIM was an enhancement to LISP and not a language in itself. Now where did the keyboard manufacturers put the DWIM button?


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