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“You have to keep track of your “barf-o-meter” though, because if you throw up (“suffer an unfortunate reversal) you lose. You can out-wit your opponent by doing things like burping at him or her. Gross.”
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“This device significantly lowers the barrier to entry when considered against Apple TV, and Xbox 360. Netflix is the first to bring a subscription model and an all-you-can-eat ticket to a buffet of streaming video for the home with a dead-simple device.”
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“In Canada in January, there’s going to be something called CanadaJam, which will be a discussion over three days amongst the entire population of Canada – millions of people…”
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‘”I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura,” the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.’
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“Simply, the country is just too small, with a GDP of only £8.5 billion. Most self-respecting hedge funds could eat it for breakfast, and that is pretty much what they have decided to do.”
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“Still using Twitter” • “Gettin’ Married” • “Watching homeless man fight a pigeon” • “Waiting for cue—flute solos suck” …
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“It seems those sneaky Alaskans are disabling Street View cameras with anything they can get their hands on.”
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‘Putting terrorism in perspective “leads naturally to a risk management approach, which is very different from what we’ve heard from Washington these last few years, which is to ‘eliminate the threat’.”‘
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“a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from 3/31/79-10/25/97. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found.”
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