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[link] heard: 23 May 2003
[edit] added: 1 June 2003

"That's the problem switching between French and Spanish—in Spanish you roll your 'r's; in French, you xkhqkh your 'r's."

Luz

french, spanish, language, weirdness, analogies

[comment] [rate] 3/5

[link] heard: 23 May 2003
[edit] added: 1 June 2003

"It's right across the street from the shoe hammer place. Uhm... whatever it's called... You know, the cobbler."

my father

stupidity, language

[comment] [rate] 2/5

[link] heard: 23 May 2003
[edit] added: 23 May 2003

(12:15:30) Pyþagorous: throw enough processor and bandwidth at most problems and they cease to be problems

Danny Silverman

computers, common-sense

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[link] heard: 7 May 2003
[edit] added: 7 May 2003

(00:31:24) ¡Luz!: oh! I have my first publication in a foreign language

(00:31:55) ¡Luz!: you remember that stupid thing I had to write from the point of view of an aminal of a famous person?

(00:32:18) ¡Luz!: apparently I won some sort of contest (along with 7 other people...nationally)...and now it's published

(00:32:34) ¡Luz!: the poem about Frida Kahlo from the point of a monkey

Luz

she only wrote it because her teacher made her

french, stupidity, poetry, omnipotence

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[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

(22:22:26) VerdanTForesT: ok, time for some histizzorical linguistissizin'

Mark McGrath

linguistics, ghetto-talk, college, gradschool

[comment] [rate] 2/5

[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

"Yeah, and don't walk in on me in the shower, unless it's Tuesday."

CS, RZ

Rameez setting up ground rules with Cem for their living arrangements

weirdness, sarcasm

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[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

"How do you know what your thesis is about until you have it formulated? That's what's so bad about theses—they're paradoxes."

Jonathan North Washington

school, profoundness, paradoxes, gradschool

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[link] heard: 6 May 2003
[edit] added: 6 May 2003

"You don't mess with the boop."

other

Ayham Bahnassi, in reference to a secret street handshake

ghetto-talk, weirdness

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[link] heard: 5 May 2003
[edit] added: 5 May 2003

[Cem]: i swear economics is a lie created by a bunch of fat old bored men

school, politics, non-p.c.ness

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[link] heard: 4 May 2003
[edit] added: 4 May 2003

Rameez: "Just because you're right doesn't mean I have to listen to you."

Jonathan: "That's almost quotes page material, but it doesn't make enough sense."

Jonathan North Washington, RZ

weirdness, stupidity, quotes

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