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Topic: The Daily Show election special has begun!
twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:06 PM
If you've already voted, go watch it. If you haven't voted, what are you doing reading this? Go vote!
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mr_porteiro_head
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posted November 02, 2004 10:06 PM
I'm watching it. [ November 02, 2004, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:06 PM
Good stuff. I, too, am watching it. And I'm not even American.
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mr_porteiro_head
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posted November 02, 2004 10:07 PM
I feel vaguely offended that you are deriving pleasure from our misery. But, of course, it's OK when I do it. [ November 02, 2004, 10:09 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:10 PM
*sigh* One of the few times I wish I had a TV. And, of course, cable.
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Noemon
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posted November 02, 2004 10:12 PM
I'm watching it also. ::glad that he recently got cable:: [ November 02, 2004, 10:12 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
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mr_porteiro_head
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posted November 02, 2004 10:17 PM
quote: *sigh* One of the few times I wish I had a TV. And, of course, cable. Can't you steal both of those?
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:18 PM
Nooooooo! WTF is going on with the broadcast?!? *shakes fist at CTV*
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:18 PM
<-- Fine, upstanding citizen. I don't steal.
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Noemon
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posted November 02, 2004 10:20 PM
Okay, "borrow".
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mr_porteiro_head
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posted November 02, 2004 10:20 PM
How upstanding an American can you be if you don't have a TV?
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:21 PM
And how, exactly, am I supposed to return cable?
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:22 PM
By disconnecting it when you're done borrowing it?
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:23 PM
*sniff* Sounds like situational ethics to me.
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:26 PM
You got your broadcast back yet?
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:29 PM
Ouch, the rolleyes. That hurts me. But re: ethics... well. I have views about what's right and wrong, but my assessment of rightness and wrongess does vary with changing circumstances, so I suppose it isn't unfair to call me a situational ethicist. Yeah, it's back. Jon Stewart is a funny, funny man.
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:34 PM
(shhhhh, mee too. But it's not as funny that way.) And with no Jon Stewart, I will just sit here and obsessively hit refresh on the multiple browser windows I've got going...
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:36 PM
(Right. Okay. *keeps quiet*) "When you vote [on an electronic voting machine], motorcyclists inside the computer carry your vote to the Bush or Kerry part of the grid..." (Cue footage from Tron.)
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Sara Sasse
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posted November 02, 2004 10:38 PM
Ewww on the E coli and yeast.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:39 PM
Indeed. Also, you're getting dangerously close to the big 1k, there, ElJay. ...and... "Tell the story again, only this time you're wearing a short skirt." Bwahahahaha! ... "If voting is totally safe, then lick the curtain."
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:42 PM
...hmmmm? You notice Sara registered this name three months after I joined and is already at 1326? Someone's talkative... [ November 02, 2004, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
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Noemon
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posted November 02, 2004 10:42 PM
quote: "If voting is totally safe, then lick the curtain." Isn't that what Tarkin said to Leia? [ November 02, 2004, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:45 PM
Well, Sara is Sara. The snippets are just funny things I've been hearing folks say on The Daily Show. Noemon, I'm not up enough on my Star Wars.
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Glaphyra the Righteous
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posted November 02, 2004 10:48 PM
All life is an illusion, ElJay. I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 10:52 PM
I was hmmm-ing the 1k comment, actually. So what? I appreciate the snippets, they're funny. Glaphyra, I'm confused. But that's okay, it's a state I'm comfortable in.
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Defenestraitor
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posted November 02, 2004 10:52 PM
ElJay, I feel your pain. Daily Show just wasn't enough reason for me to get cable, either. Alas, I'm refreshing browser windows just like you. And NPR just isn't that funny.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:53 PM
Wow, so far all of the gay marriage bans have passed.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:54 PM
Also, I'm just curious to see if/what you'll landmark.
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HonoreDB
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posted November 02, 2004 10:57 PM
That is the classic line, right there. *thinking of watching the encore just to get more*
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Noemon
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posted November 02, 2004 10:57 PM
You probably didn't get it because it was a really lame comment twinky. If I weren't feeling sleep deprived it probably wouldn't even have occurred to me.
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Glaphyra the Righteous
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posted November 02, 2004 10:58 PM
The gay marriage bans were what I expected. But kudos to Canada. ElJay, you only think I have accumulated that many votes. These are not my droids.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 10:58 PM
Well, I'm also braindead from fatigue.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 11:02 PM
Hm, now the Daily Show is over. Sex and the City is on. I've never watched it. Should I bother?
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Toretha
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posted November 02, 2004 11:07 PM
I have cable but no tv...very depressing.
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 11:09 PM
quote: Also, I'm just curious to see if/what you'll landmark. Ah, okay. Then you can have a sneak preview: Landmark. And that's all I intend to say.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 11:11 PM
*laughs* I've said this before, but you crack me up.
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 11:17 PM
Thank you. Man, at this rate I am gonna hit 1000 soon. Busy couple of days. And now I can't go to bed until there's some semblance of a decision...
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Carrie
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posted November 02, 2004 11:26 PM
I love Jon Stewart. That special was one of the funnier pieces I've seen recently.
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twinky
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posted November 02, 2004 11:32 PM
Being non-American, I can. *goes to bed*
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ElJay
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posted November 02, 2004 11:38 PM
Canadians. Hmpf. (Edit: I tried three times to put a don't you know the world revolves around america joke in there, but no matter how I tried it just wasn't funny.) [ November 02, 2004, 11:39 PM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
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MaydayDesiax
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posted November 02, 2004 11:44 PM
Aw, Anna, you should have come over to our room and watched it! It was great. And Bernard just asked if I would mind if he started looking into grad colleges out of the country.
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Bob the Lawyer
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posted November 02, 2004 11:47 PM
Good point, MayDay! Go Bush! If he wins maybe all those liberal elite that I hear people complaining about will finally move to Canada. We'll be more than happy to take your doctors, professors, and researchers in all areas. Go Bush Brain Drain!
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ElJay
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posted November 03, 2004 12:02 AM
Edited 'cause I couldn't even say that and feel right about it. Nevermind. [ November 03, 2004, 12:06 AM: Message edited by: ElJay ]
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TomDavidson
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posted November 03, 2004 07:54 AM
"We'll be more than happy to take your doctors, professors, and researchers in all areas." What do you pay?
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