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E Pericoloso Sporgersi
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:10 am
hiram wrote: Since we humans eat, defecate, and give birth backwards, why should it be surprising that we have to do many other less important things backwards as well ?
Doesn't the reaction (Newton's third law) propel us forwards?
voralfred wrote: Granted for the other two, but why do you [hiram] say we eat backwards?
Aren't some people reactionary or just weird?
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by hiram » Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:13 am
Doesn't the reaction (Newton's third law) propel us forwards?
After eating mexican food, shouldn't the answer to that be self evident ?
And shouldn't I know better than to try to out-quip an experienced dentist ?
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:20 am
hiram wrote: ... And shouldn't I know better than to try to out-quip an experienced dentist ?
In the dentist's office, while receiving dental care, isn't it impossible to speak, let alone quip?
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by Algot Runeman » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:01 am
If the Star Trek chief engineer had been younger and more rude, would Captain Kirk have said, "Beam me up, Snotty!"?
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:18 am
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by sweetharleygirl » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:23 pm
Um is everyone else as confused by the turn this thread has taken as I am?
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by hiram » Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:42 pm
uhm ... no ?
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by gpackin » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:50 pm
It has become a bit strange hasn't it?
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by Algot Runeman » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:54 pm
What constitutes "strange" in the thread where only questions may be asked and never answers given?
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by Algot Runeman » Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:56 pm
Hiram, does your current ambling avatar coyly suggest Hiram Walker, and if so, how often?
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:59 am
Algot Runeman wrote: Hiram, does your current ambling avatar coyly suggest Hiram Walker, and if so, how often?
Could it be a too often over-indulgence in Johnnie Walker?
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by Darb » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:02 am
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:41 am
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by sweetharleygirl » Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:44 am
Isn't there a specific place for quotes like that around here somewhere?
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by rip8fan1 » Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:49 am
Is that 'single' or "double" quotes?
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by gpackin » Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:48 am
Why is that?
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by mccormack44 » Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:20 am
Are you querying a member's personal life?
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by Algot Runeman » Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:46 am
Is the life we lead ever impersonal since it always happens to us as a person?
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by gpackin » Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:59 pm
Are you some kind of philosopher?
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by Algot Runeman » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:33 pm
Wasn't it gpackin who asked,
Are you some kind of philosopher?
How would a psychoanalyst deal with that question?
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by voralfred » Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:30 pm
Wouldn't a psychoanalyst ask why you would ask such a question?
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:07 am
Wouldn't a visit to your dentist be much quicker, much simpler, much cheaper and painless?
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by umsolopagas » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:38 am
What do you suppose would be a common question that both a psychoanalyst and dentist would ask?
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by E Pericoloso Sporgersi » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:50 am
umsolopagas wrote: What do you suppose would be a common question that both a psychoanalyst and dentist would ask?
Uhm ... "Did it hurt?"
(I'll bet you saw that coming, didn't you?)