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(15:59:40) Rianna: I sat alone in the dark one night ... I found a preacher who spoke of the light -- he'd show me the way according to him, in return for my personal check. I flipped my channel back to CNN and lit another cigarette.

(16:00:15) Rianna: i dunno, that's most sane thing ever said on a country music station

Rianna

music, provincialism, religion, insanity, sadness, insults, southernisms

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[link] heard: 23 November 2007
[edit] added: 25 November 2007

Thatcher: "And her father was the largest contractor in Kenya—"

Colin: "He was huge!"

Thatcher: "Yeah, he was like 400lbs."

Colin: [buffs up, effects burly voice] "Want me to build you a shed!?"

Thatcher, other

Colin messes with Thatcher's story

weirdness, machoism, misparsings, randomness, provincialism

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[link] heard: 23 November 2007
[edit] added: 25 November 2007

"You know, I've drunk more in the last two weeks than .. in the last three."

Thatcher

alcohol, contradiction, time-travel, sadness, confusion

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[link] heard: 22 November 2007
[edit] added: 25 November 2007

"There's something about mountain people and alcohol—you know, they're not strangers."

other

James, during a Thanksgiving toast

alcohol, people, SSSR, anthropology, humanity, kyrgyz, provincialism

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[link] heard: 22 November 2007
[edit] added: 25 November 2007

"You don't know Central Asia if you think eating trumps toasts."

other

Colin, in reference to a toast during Thanksgiving dinner

alcohol, food, sadness, SSSR, kyrgyz, patriotism

[comment] [rate] 3/5

[link] heard: 9 November 2007
[edit] added: 12 November 2007

me: "Do you know any numbers for a taxi to Karakol?"

all: "Taxi? Take a marshrutka. They're cheap and fast."

me: "Aren't taxis faster?"

Leo: "Yeah, but do you really want to go that fast?"

Jonathan North Washington, other

bad-ideas, SSSR, technology, common-sense, cars

[comment] [rate] 5/5

[link] heard: 12 November 2007
[edit] added: 12 November 2007

Tristan: "Yeah, that's why you should ask out who you think you should ask out."

Jonathan: "That's a good policy."

Tristan: "I just need to know some girls."

Jonathan: "It probably doesn't help that you work as a computer programmer."

Tristan: "Yeah, that's half the reason I reckon I should go back to uni and get a masters."

Tristan Alexander McLeay, Jonathan North Washington

computers, college, sex, relationships, programming, sadness, gradschool

[comment] [rate] 4/5

[link] heard: 7 November 2007
[edit] added: 7 November 2007

Tristan: "It's weird hearing you say /o/s correctly when you speak other languages [Russian, Kyrgyz]."

Jonathan: "Why's that?"

Tristan: "Because you don't normally pronounce them right in English."

Jonathan North Washington, Tristan Alexander McLeay

linguistics, phonetics, kyrgyz, russian, language, provincialism, compliments, insults, turkic

[comment] [rate] 5/5

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