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FlyingSquid,
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The OED goes very in-depth into etymology in the way other English dictionaries do not. It’s the size of an encyclopedia. This is the print version of the second edition, which has been supplemented several times since:

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FlyingSquid,
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I believe it has charged a fee from the day they first offered the dictionary for online use.

FlyingSquid,
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We’re in cahoots.

FlyingSquid,
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Only Dumbo.

FlyingSquid,
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Mostly just the sick ones and the babies. Lions generally don’t go after prey that large. They generally avoid giraffes too. They have to be pretty desperate to go after an elephant because they can’t kill it like most of their prey by either suffocation or breaking their neck.

FlyingSquid,
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Good luck with that, I suppose.

FlyingSquid,
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I think so, I’m not quite clear on it either.

FlyingSquid,
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You know who that actor was? Tim Russ, who played Tuvok on Voyager!

FlyingSquid,
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Thank you! That was awesome!

FlyingSquid,
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I haven’t had it in years, but I used to think their crazy bread was the shit. Sorry to hear it’s gotten awful like everything else.

FlyingSquid,
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I’ve only seen four or five of these comics and each one of them is funnier than anything Scott Adams ever put out.

FlyingSquid,
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There was a show in the 80s called Captain Power and you would use the tie-in toys to shoot at the screen and if your character’s vehicle got shot in the show, the toy would eject them.

My parents wouldn’t get me the toys so I have no idea how well it worked.

FlyingSquid,
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Jesus… fresh cooking a huge pile of fried eggs is awful enough…

FlyingSquid,
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Have you ever had a non-fresh fried egg? They taste like misery and egg whites. This is a whole pile of them. It’s horrific. Why would anyone do this to the world?

FlyingSquid,
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What I would love to find, and haven’t been able to, is a large collection of BBC radio dramas. They do at least one every day, but then they go down the memory hole, sometimes forever. Back in the AudioGalaxy days, I was able to get so many, but I’ve lost them all since. I don’t know who, if anyone, is collecting them now or how to get them.

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I live in Terre Haute, where Indiana State University is. He played here in college. There’s a huge ugly statue of him that looks like he’s constipated outside the basketball arena and, no shit, they’re building a Larry Bird Museum at the convention center.

I hate this fucking town.

Here’s the statue:

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FlyingSquid,
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They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.

FlyingSquid,
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It sure seems like they feel that way about social security.

FlyingSquid,
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A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

FlyingSquid,
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Again, my father was a socialist. He wrote a his dissertation on Shaw and the socialist aspects of one of his plays. He was British and said he was never more proud of his homeland then when he helped it usher in the National Health Service with his vote. When I moved here to Terre Haute, Indiana, he made sure to get me to take him to the Eugene V. Debs museum because of how much he admired debs. How does that make him an 80s liberal? Do please explain.

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I knew it was just attached by a magnet, but who knew it would fly so far when it popped off?

FlyingSquid,
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Thank god we don’t have flying cars. Thousands of cars in the air… any of them could have engine trouble at any time…

FlyingSquid,
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I really want those to be a real product, but based on my searching, it’s a fake. Which saddens me.

FlyingSquid,
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I have those glasses. They break every so often and then we replace them, which is cheap to do on eBay. Taco Bell must have made millions.

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