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[link] heard: 22 August 2005
[edit] added: 22 August 2005

"If we could put the bathroom out in the carport, we wouldʼve done it a long time ago."

my father

family, bad-ideas, sadness, southernisms, provincialism

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[link] heard: 19 August 2005
[edit] added: 19 August 2005

[00:00] Aaron B: eel is like fish that got mutated...

[00:00] Aaron B: i bet if you genetically combined a sheep and a fish, the first few would come out like eels.

Abe Solomon

food, animals, science, scariness, creepiness, analogies

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[link] heard: 16 August 2005
[edit] added: 16 August 2005

"This should be a warning to all the groups out there—don't write inane lyrics when you're young, because when you're older you'll be performing them on PBS and you'll look like a fool."

my mother

in response to the Grass Roots performing on PBS

music, tv, stupidity, wisdom, insults

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[link] heard: 13 August 2005
[edit] added: 13 August 2005

Nic: "Me & Kristin hung out and watched the movie Sideways. So we got to spend time together."

Jonathan: "Mm. … Sideways?"

Jonathan North Washington, other

misparsings, sex, movies, swseel, ambiguity

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[link] heard: 10 August 2005
[edit] added: 10 August 2005

Leslie: "[In Central Asia], at least as a girl they don't make you drink."

Chay: "Go to Kyrgyzstan."

other

Chay and Leslie

alcohol, sexism, patriotism, non-p.c.ness, swseel, SSSR, kyrgyz

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[link] heard: 5 August 2005
[edit] added: 9 August 2005

"India's got a billion people; there's gotta be a few bad apples."

Ian Campbell

patriotism, non-p.c.ness, food, badness, swseel, inappropriateness

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[link] heard: 8 August 2005
[edit] added: 8 August 2005

[02:58] Aaron B: it was dallas raines

[02:58] Aaron B: sorry

[02:58] Aaron B: same difference

Abe Solomon

in reference to Quote #709

sadness, quotes

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[link] heard: 8 August 2005
[edit] added: 8 August 2005

[02:51] Aaron B : you should get a cool linguistic alias

[02:51] Aaron B: like, you know how weathermen always just "happen" to have a geological reference in their names?

[02:51] Aaron B: around me we have "johnny mountain"

[02:51] Aaron B: and "dallas storm"

[02:51] Aaron B: you can be like...

[02:51] Aaron B: "jon minimality"

[02:52] Aaron B: or like "Al O. Phone"

[02:52] Aaron B: (short for Albert Optimality Phone)

Abe Solomon

linguistics, compliments, science, puns, phonetics

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[link] heard: 8 August 2005
[edit] added: 8 August 2005

[02:50] Aaron B: well, by "famous" i mean "famous within the field"

[02:50] Aaron B: aka "my research funding hasn't been cut more than 70%"

Abe Solomon

money, sadness, linguistics, college, gradschool

[comment] [rate] 2/5

[link] heard: 8 August 2005
[edit] added: 8 August 2005

[02:35] Aaron B: you finished your hw?

[02:35] Aaron B: you're all caught up?

[02:35] Aaron B: hold on, i need to look out my window

[02:35] Aaron B: nope, i don't see any pigs flying...

[02:35] Aaron B: maybe hell froze over?

Jonathan North Washington, Abe Solomon

Aaron, in reference to Jonathan

time-travel, sadness, homework, school, sleep, gradschool

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