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RDCanecutter

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  1. We find Mr. Carone innocent because, through no fault of his own, the theme song from Rocky would not stop playing in his head.
  2. Find the videos of Theo Von and his Carney guest. Like two goblins chatting away.
  3. "Coach's" experience with economics: lurch along in mediocrity, associates get arrested over flim-flam deals, Tommy don't. Keep making money somehow.
  4. Almost certainly. If Trump is 1/2 as smart as a dog, or a baby, that still gets him up above 80: (BBCMaestro)"In his seminal 1994 work, The Intelligence of Dogs, he writes that a typical dog can learn around 165 words, and some super-bright sparks can pick up closer to 250 human terms. As an interesting comparison, a typical two-year-old (human) child knows about 200 words. Like a human baby, your dog learns by association." Also, though his speech is garbled, it is generally recognizable as English. Long ago a polyglot told me that you could "speak" a language by learning only 80 words, so long as they were the right 80 words. The fact that Trump can manage a 3rd grade level of English makes me think he's got more than 82. (teachsafeschools.org) "But by this point, they are 3000 to 4000 words behind more advantaged children. Children in third grade at the lowest 25% have an average of 2500 root words, while those in the highest 25% have an average of 6000 to 8000 words." I have a hard time believing Trump could actively use thousands of words. I think it likely that he has a solid 100 that he pulls up and uses constantly, bigly, and then a vast stew of semi-familiar words he would never be able to use properly himself. We haven't touched on this, but I bet Trump, like any other mammal, draws in lots of information from the tone of voice he is addressed in, or from familiar gestures that evoke comforting memories. Perhaps, like an ant, he gets many of his social cues from following scent trails.
  5. Pretty harsh way to disagree with @bolverk, maaan.
  6. I mean, I have my theories, but they're just made-up stories until I do the face-to-face research. And that's kinda like when I consciously choose not to study Favre's name, because I would have to spend part of my life thinking about Brett Favre. But here, I'll throw you a bone: My made-up story: Got off the boat trilling r's like they did in the 1700s: fah-vruh> (waves hand) > ????? > Cut down to fahv > Either somebody saw the written "r" and overcompensated and/or they moved from a non-rhotic to a rhotic neighborhood and just slapped an imaginary r back in> Add in some ignunce = Farrrrrv (fuck if I know, now I am tired of thinking about the man.)
  7. Probably the tortured spirits that follow you everywhere screaming again. I also learned the coral snake ID rhyme. Years later, it occurred to me they could have just taught us "Leave snakes alone."
  8. So you're saying that folks go on too much?
  9. I grew up in Alabama, traveled all over the FL Panhandle and some of the bleakest stretches of Mississippi and Louisiana, and even I was "impressed" by the Conroe area.
  10. TLDR so I don't have to listen to that twit?
  11. WITH ALL THE IMMIGRANTS WE COULDN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL GEORGIA AND FAKE FOREIGN GEORGIA. SAD.
  12. First Hispanic Senator. Hmm Sorta ignoring everybody from 1691 to 1835, you Canadian ball of wax.
  13. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! For I have a pension. It comes to about a hundred bucks a month. I got it by working the bare minimum at a private school with an archaic pension plan. Still, a hundred bucks. Not like I'd see that on the sidewalk and just walk on by.
  14. Boredom is not a sensation?
  15. Ever notice how kids used to eat lead paint chips, then they'd take, and usually pass, high school courses that were harder than college courses now? Now you've got almost no lead paint, and it's slack-jaws bloop bloop blooping on their phones, they could look up anything, but this app goes bloop! I'm not saying to drink a gallon of it, but maybe an occasional nibble?
  16. I am amazed that Bret Stephens went 2 minutes without mentioning his childhood in Mexico City.
  17. The concrete car business is wide open.
  18. Pretty sure that the main sign a business in Mexico is tied to "the" Mexican Cartel is that it is functioning, because it paid its bribes. I do like Banco Azteca though. You get in line at the window and when it's your turn you can buy silver Libertad bullion coins. Use pesos and get em about a dollar cheaper. If you're nice, they'll let you root through them and pick the ones you want. You can get some deals. I mean, if you're already in Mexico anyway.
  19. Mmmmmm... Grits Brainsssss....
  20. He lives on Instagram now.
  21. You'll get your dick blown off.
  22. Hey, it's the Dixie Chicks!
  23. French people. Though these are probably hipsters with pet chickens. Odd as it may seem now, one of the earliest appeals to suburbs was having the room to make a garden and keep some small livestock. People were very fixed on not running out of food. When my Granddad came back from WW2 he bought 10 acres on the edge of town, built a house and a greenhouse, and they turned it into a mini bean farm for a while. By the time I came along beans were no more and now it's in a forest in the middle of town, but I remember wandering the agricultural ruins out back.
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