Two things that've gotten a lot worse in my lifetime:
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Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 24 April 2011
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religion, science, badness, money, economics, politics
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[edit] added: 24 April 2011
data sources:
- http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/co2/siple2.013
- ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_mm_mlo.txt
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/hist07z1.xls
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heard: 10 March 2011
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[edit] added: 10 March 2011
"I touch things and their technological valence goes back a decade. Like one time, I got into a tractor and it turned into a plough. I make Priuses disappear."
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heard: 4 March 2011
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Traci: "So yeah, you should submit to the Online Working Papers!"
Elijah: "You see, that has the word ‘work’ in it..."
Aaron A: "We should rename it ‘Relaxing Papers in Linguistics.’"
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heard: 25 February 2011
[edit] added: 25 February 2011
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[edit] added: 25 February 2011
"Neuron - check, Pyscho-neuron - X,.... ‘Hey, this looks like it was graded by a folklorist!’"
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heard: 23 February 2011
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[edit] added: 23 February 2011
"I have problems with gender."
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heard: 10 February 2011
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"It's like he's the movie Speed, but a Mongolist."
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heard: 10 February 2011
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"What we need is a friendly rogue nation."
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heard: 10 February 2011
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"In Azərbaycan when someone is stupid we call them a Mongol."
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heard: 31 January 2011
[edit] added: 31 January 2011
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[edit] added: 31 January 2011
"I think hung over driving, while not as dangerous as drunk driving, is probably at least as non-productive. The other day I sat at stop sign through two songs waiting for it to turn green."
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heard: 13 January 2011
[edit] added: 16 January 2011
[edit] added: 16 January 2011
CB: "There's one rule about language comparison—"
Niko: "Don't trust a Russian?"
russian, linguistics, hyperbole, insightfulness, SSSR, provincialism, pessimism, insults, incompetence, ethnocentrism, cynicism, gradschool, bad-ideas, academia
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