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#67448 04/29/02 04:04 PM
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insidious/invidious


#67449 04/29/02 05:18 PM
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We once had a receptionist at our office who expressed concern about her pregnant daughter-in-law who was suffering from a "detached placebo."


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viciously attacked by self-appointed vigilantes (don't recall if it was fatal - could have been) who thought that a paediatrician was a paedophile. - dxb

No wonder dxb, you english keep on confusing your self-appointed vigilantes by putting all those unnecessary 'e',s in your words. Self-appointed vigilantes aren't real smart.

Even here in the educated states some of our best appointed self-appointed vigilantes still think that pedants are pedophiles.



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Please tell me that is an urban legend dxb. I can't imagine anybody was dumb enough to think a paedophile would put up a sign advertising it.


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#67453 04/30/02 12:58 AM
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Some of the entries are getting so wild, I'll post an old joke about the guy who asked to be castrated, and the next day learned he should asked to be circumcised.


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#67455 04/30/02 04:00 AM
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What about thespian and lesbian? In fact, I seem to remember from history class that there was a famous smear campaign in the '30's in which one candidate accused another of being a practicing homo sapiens and having a sister who was a thespian.
Also, as a child I always used to get fetus and thesis confused (What can I say, I grew up in a college town.....)


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#67457 04/30/02 05:40 AM
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Um, wasn't the paediatrician in question a woman?

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