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[03:53] Kesuari: yeah, the mac's probably got a command key that'll end the world and another that gives you a million dollars. you just need to find them.

Tristan Alexander McLeay

computers, money, science, omnipotence, power

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[link] heard: 25 August 2005
[edit] added: 26 August 2005

me: "How far back is his Cornish ancestry?"

my father: "Five or six generations."

me: "So he's got a lot of other stuff mixed in then?"

my father: "I wouldn't count on it."

me: "How inbred is he?!"

Hannah: "That's how he got that colour hair."

my father, Luz, Jonathan North Washington

in reference to one of my father's colleagues

family, bad-ideas, hair, sex, southernisms

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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."