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Old 10-27-2012, 05:31 PM   #1
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There's a "gaff" joke to be made there.
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Old 10-27-2012, 05:32 PM   #2
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There's a "gaff" joke to be made there.
Open mouth. Insert foot?
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Old 10-28-2012, 08:10 AM   #3
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
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Old 10-28-2012, 12:39 PM   #4
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
Oh, well. If that's the case I do it to myself already, all day, all the time.
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