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#165844 02/19/07 07:15 PM
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Careful there Helen, you're skirting a religious issue



Do all angels wear skirts?

#165845 02/19/07 07:32 PM
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Around here, they'd better, lest lest they be accused, along with my fellow de-'s, of having assumed the posture of symbolic capitulation recently sanctioned by the otherwise conservative State of Massachusetts, a depiction of which is however considered unacceptable in even such a bastion of liberalism as WordSmith


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#165846 02/19/07 08:17 PM
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the posture of symbolic capitulation

quid autem uides festucam in oculo fratris tui et trabem in oculo tuo non uides.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#165847 02/20/07 03:59 PM
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quid autem uides festucam in oculo fratris tui et trabem in oculo tuo non uides




During the late-summer tobacco-chewing festival, in a fit of temper your four-eyed collegiate chums throw off their spectacles, grinding them into the ground without the slightest compunction


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#165848 02/20/07 06:23 PM
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...to say nothing of Vermont and Connecticut


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#165849 02/20/07 06:55 PM
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> Vermont

what did I do?


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#165850 02/20/07 09:20 PM
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I don't know, but I'll bet it was very tempered, reasonable and scholarly


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