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Ampersand Unicode

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32. Prof is a she!

Reply to Lars39 (Reply #29)

Sun Nov 9, 2014, 07:37 PM

Nov 2014

From another country, one of the former communist bloc places in Eastern Europe. Slovenia or Slovakia, Hassenpfeffer Incorporated. Tends to favor the cheerleader types because they seem more the "American ideal" she wants to emulate. Sad that the "American ideal" being promoted around the world is that of a complete blithering idiot.

I dunno, maybe the "smart, geeky women" seem too reminiscent of Sputnik engineers and are to be distrusted at all costs?

BTW, I did another geeky thing that nobody my age seems to want to do because it isn't cool:

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