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#68604 05/03/02 12:32 PM
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Whitman goshes gee-whizery has a celebratory note of affirmation ringing through it..

tsuwm has to disagree equating it with gadzookery, gasbaggery, humbuggery, et al. which, however, lack the ironic overtones of gee-whizery (but y'all USns never *did understand irony, did y'all?).




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Thanks for the warning!


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Congress is already considering legislation to mandate this technology to make rats more tractable. It's the newest version of civil rats legislation.



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Gosh and josh as y'all will, I sit back and hold forth with Jackie that it needs two Zs.


#68608 05/03/02 07:35 PM
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Gosh and josh as y'all will, I sit back and hold forth with Jackie that it needs two Zs.

Been meanin' to catch a couple of Zs myself!



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#68609 05/03/02 07:54 PM
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... and for more on the story that started this thread:

http://www.satirewire.com/news/may02/roborats.shtml


#68610 05/03/02 08:06 PM
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the satirewire link

Thanks, bornia! That was gee-whizz funny!

from the satirewire piece..."A Defense Department spokesman added that the Pentagon would continue with its original roborat program, and did not expect any further protests."

roborat...now there's a new word for the board to consider!



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#68611 05/05/02 08:22 PM
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It certainly explains a lot about the current incumbent of the White House. They do keep them electrodes well hidden, but.



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