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If only life were like this (The Onion) (Original Post) tomhagen Mar 2018 OP
K&R & brilliant. nt tblue37 Mar 2018 #1
Yes, absolutely brilliant. longship Mar 2018 #2
Hillarious. Made me think of Dennis in Python's "Holy Grail" Freelancer Mar 2018 #3
Brilliant and hilarious! Nitram Mar 2018 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2018 #5
Yes, but the point is.... TranssexualKaren Mar 2018 #6
mmmm.. nah. mountain grammy Mar 2018 #8
Agree with your first sentence, and perhaps the third, but I doubt the second. Raven123 Apr 2018 #10
This is hilarious! n/t Greybnk48 Mar 2018 #7
Excellent! mountain grammy Mar 2018 #9

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)
3. Hillarious. Made me think of Dennis in Python's "Holy Grail"
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 05:45 AM
Mar 2018

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarchosyndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs [...]

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TranssexualKaren

(364 posts)
6. Yes, but the point is....
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 09:35 AM
Mar 2018

People who voted for Trump didn’t do it because they like him, they did it to toss a malotov cocktail into a system that is broken. At some level I think they are looking on with satisfaction at the women’s march, the Science March and the resistance activism that Trump has aroused.
Our country has reached a something-has-to-give moment, and perhaps we should look at this as part of a process.

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