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    The governors of the West and East Dakotas have joined their two states with a 30' wall behind a 10' wide moat along their borders with Canada; the moat is three feet deep.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salty View Post
    ...the moat is three feet deep.
    The Dakotas clearly discriminate against Pygmies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Salty View Post
    The governors of the West and East Dakotas have joined their two states with a 30' wall behind a 10' wide moat along their borders with Canada; the moat is three feet deep.
    The moat has been filled with the deadly man-eating Sea Ferrets (Mustela Oceanius), who are breed for just such purposes by Angelina Jolie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swift View Post
    The moat has been filled with the deadly man-eating Sea Ferrets (Mustela Oceanius), who are breed for just such purposes by Angelina Jolie.
    Lucky ferrets.
    STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary

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    Hey, now! I'd like to thank Swift; we haven't seen enough of Angelina Jolie lately.

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    A windstorm did not blow a few branches off the pecan trees in my back yard, last night.

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    UPS stands for "United Planetary Systems", but the motto's still "We deliver."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salty View Post
    UPS stands for "United Planetary Systems", but the motto's still "We deliver."
    Actually UPS stands for Unexpected Parental Stork. But the motto is still the same.
    STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noclevername View Post
    Actually UPS stands for Unexpected Parental Stork. But the motto is still the same.
    Alright! big grin and thumbs up.

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    I was a teen-aged billionaire.

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    The Internet is a series of tubes.
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    The tubes in the Internet were replaced with transistors in 2002.

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    The transistors were replaced with steam engines in 1882.
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    Tronsistors are making a big comeback.

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    While the Civil Rights Act made the laws moot, until 1994, many Southern states forbade integrated circuits.
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    The phenomena of s's sliding around within sentences is due to quantum weirdness. As opposed to high strangeness, which is Noclevernames department.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoons View Post
    As opposed to high strangeness, which is Noclevernames department.
    I am not! Oh, sorry, I thought you said something else.
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    Some parts of the internet have steam boilers, some parts have vacuum tubes, some parts have transistors, some parts have integrated circuits and some parts use tom-toms and/or smoke signals to exchange information.
    ("The Cherokee Nation will return...will return...")

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salty View Post
    ...some parts use tom-toms and/or smoke signals to exchange information.
    Well, maybe.

    I'm using this method for my connection while posting this message.
    Conserve energy. Commute with the Hamiltonian.

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    The asteroid 2011 Barber will give Earth a close, yet comfortable shave at 13:45 USP June 26.

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    The only difference between alligators and crocodiles is 1 tooth.

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    The little-known War of the Words was fought in 1882, between dentists and engineers. The latter conceded that gears -- things that look like this -- would not be called "dentures."
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    Quote Originally Posted by swampyankee View Post
    While the Civil Rights Act made the laws moot, until 1994, many Southern states forbade integrated circuits.
    Transistors are people who are planning to have surgery to change their istors. There are calls to forbid discrimination against them too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buttercup View Post
    The only difference between alligators and crocodiles is 1 tooth.
    Jack Nicholson was right, I can't handle that.
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    Daryl Hall was right, I can't go for that.

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    Plato was right and Atlantis was gone.

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    My dominant hand is right.
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    The Order of Youngman has joined the protests against gay marriage in New York. "Marriage should not be gay," Spokesman Rolf Bohóc, "as it is hard. We can't have any married couples treating marriage as some frivolous outing. "
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    Marriage was invented in 1972 as a tax dodge.
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    The Tax Dodge was the first financial vehicle developed by the automotive industry.
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