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Commented on Review: McDonald's Angus third-pounder sandwich
Look, I hate to be an elitist, but let me help you out with the apostrophe situation. There's one simple rule of apostrophes that will clear up ninety percent of everyone's problem: You never use an apostrophe to show that...
Commented on Canadian man changes name to beat no-fly list
This is depressing. I'm only being held for an hour, maybe two every time I reenter the country, and I lost my passport in London, a hotbed of terrorists! What does a girl gotta do? (This is sarcasm. I really...
Commented on Re-creation of "Who's On First routine"
I shudder to think of how they're going to incorporate Fukudome into the next one. I enjoyed....
Commented on Science News on food science
I'll be sure to take a look at that. I read Robert Woulke's What Einstein Told His Cook and found that incredibly useful when you end up in that inevitable, "Which side of the aluminum foil do you put the...

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MoeJoe commented on Re-creation of "Who's On First routine"
I didn't like it either. I don't think we are seeing what we are told we are seeing. First, the pauses between lines is way too long. Second, shouldn't there be at least some small flicker of understanding of the bit? Maybe it is too deeply burned into my brain, but I would think that any adult should figure out what is going on even if they have never been exposed to it. I think it is more probable that they are fine actors who probably know the bit....
Seth Goldin commented on Re-creation of "Who's On First routine"
Watching that gave me excruciating physical pain....
Oliver commented on Canadian man changes name to beat no-fly list
TSA-agent-A: "Hey here is this guy, changing his name to evade us!" TSA-agent-B: "He must be a terrorist, cause he has obviously something to hide! Besides it can't be that easy to cheat us." TSA-agent-A: "Let's get his new name and any abreviations and mixes of both names as well on the list! We have to keep an eye on THESE folks!" TSA-agent-B: "RIGHT!" List size gone up 200 more names!...
padster123 commented on Canadian man changes name to beat no-fly list
It's nothing to do with stopping terrorists, and everything to do with keeping people in a state of frightened dependence on authority. And keeping the security industry nice and fat. Every time I fly, I get SO angry at the ridiculous waste of time and resources caused by all this bullshit....
Itsumishi commented on Canadian man changes name to beat no-fly list
"Every time I fly, I get SO angry at the ridiculous waste of time and resources caused by all this bullshit." I bet that makes security easier to clear!...

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