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|  08-30-2007, 12:40 PM | #1 | 
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				Do you know the alphabet?
			 
			
			Recite it. Now.  What should we do with it? Explain your answers. 
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|  08-30-2007, 12:44 PM | #2 | 
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			The interesting thing about the alphabet (any alphabet, really) is that we can use just a small set of characters to represent a huge range of sounds, and by combining them, almost any idea one can think of. Compare this to Kanji, for example, and you can see that the alphabet is a great invention. I'm voting 'yes.' | 
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|  08-30-2007, 12:47 PM | #3 | 
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			I disagree! I think we should use it to fashion blunt objects.  When people speak out in favor of the wrong things, we can bludgeon them with it. 
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|  08-30-2007, 12:50 PM | #4 | 
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			or we could hook a bunch of letters together and make a chain out of it to tow stuff.
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|  08-30-2007, 12:50 PM | #5 | 
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			YOU GUYS ARE OBVOUSLILY WRONG.  Think of the children, why can't you think of the children? 
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|  08-30-2007, 12:52 PM | #6 | 
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			Flint made baby Jesus cry.
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|  08-30-2007, 12:53 PM | #7 | 
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			What are children, if not lumps of mashed-up letters?  Your precious alphabet is sucking the life out of our children. 
				__________________ ****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio | 
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|  08-30-2007, 12:53 PM | #8 | 
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			Flint makes everyone cry.    
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|  08-30-2007, 12:54 PM | #9 | |
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 That explains the noise. | |
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|  08-30-2007, 12:55 PM | #10 | 
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			If you would follow the teachings in Da Book, you would know you are headed down the path to hell.
		 
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|  08-30-2007, 12:58 PM | #11 | 
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			You are right. From now on my posts will contain no alphabets.
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|  08-30-2007, 12:58 PM | #12 | 
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			im in ur postz, stealin' ur alphabetz
		 
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|  08-30-2007, 01:01 PM | #13 | 
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			SOUP!
		 
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|  08-30-2007, 01:05 PM | #14 | 
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				__________________ ****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio | 
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