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      <description>Over at Unqualified Offerings, Jim Henley put up a one-word post saying &quot;Blog.&quot; Its comment thread didn't so much follow...</description>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #1 from Dave Langford</title>
         <description>comment from Dave Langford on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Er, Teresa, that <b>comment thread</b> link doesn't go to Unqualified Offerings but to some site called Making Light....</p>

<p><a href="http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991" rel="nofollow">This</a> is the link you want.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  8:01 AM by Dave Langford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #2 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, Dave, and a belated Happy Birthday to you. I just tracked down the problem, which was a missing equals sign. The link should work now.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  8:11 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #3 from Steve Eley</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Predicate-free self-referential expression of admiration.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  9:32 AM by Steve Eley&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #4 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Expression of surprise that no one has thought of this before.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  9:38 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #5 from cleek</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hillarious. that reminded me of <a href="http://www.mikeportnoy.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=738584" rel="nofollow">this song</a> by <a href="http://www.davincisnotebook.com/sounds.asp" rel="nofollow">Davinci's Notebook</a>. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:09 AM by cleek&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #6 from D.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember this from alt.callahans; it's called an existential argument.  </p>

<p>Just to play along:  Largely content-free reference to obscure baseball statistics orthogonal to original point asserted.  </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:13 AM by D.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #7 from Norman David Gerre</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It reminds me of Kuro5hin's "<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/5/31/7738/22985" rel="nofollow">Confusingly titled meta story</a>" from 2001. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:25 AM by Norman David Gerre&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #8 from Sisuile</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>String of letters indicating much laughter, expressions of thanks for the link.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:33 AM by Sisuile&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #9 from Grant Barrett</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Point of information that <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/9622" rel="nofollow">it has been done before</a>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:35 AM by Grant Barrett&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #10 from Christopher Davis</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to <a href="http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~chruska/recursive/moser.html" rel="nofollow">something similar</a> that I am reminded of by this post.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 11:00 AM by Christopher Davis&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #11 from hypochrismutreefuzz</title>
         <description>comment from hypochrismutreefuzz on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O fishhead tree!<br />
O fishhead tree!<br />
How squamous are your branches!<br />
They writhe!<br />
They throb!<br />
They vibrate so!<br />
Just like the mob on Arsenio!<br />
O fishhead tree!<br />
O fishhead tree!<br />
You adumbrate flanges!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 11:34 AM by hypochrismutreefuzz&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #12 from Jim Henley</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, <em>Grant</em> - I see that the date stamp on your link is August 24, 2001.</p>

<p>Don't you know that 9/11 changed everything? Therefore, your link doesn't count.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 11:46 AM by Jim Henley&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #13 from Dave Luckett</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am somehow reminded that one of the tracks on the original Woodstock album (various artists) was entitled "Rain Dance" and consisted of the audience making its own music in a deluge when nobody was game to go on stage. Since my memory is notoriously prone to slippage, this may not be true. But it ought to be.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 12:01 PM by Dave Luckett&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #14 from Benja Fallenstein</title>
         <description>comment from Benja Fallenstein on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To my mind, this is <a href="http://misssnark.blogspot.com/2006/03/incertainty.html" rel="nofollow">an established and efficient method of communication</a>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 12:29 PM by Benja Fallenstein&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #15 from HP</title>
         <description>comment from HP on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave, now that you've brought up 60s/70s music:</p>

<p><i>Strumming my pain with his fingers<br />
Singing my life with his words<br />
<b>Killing Me Softly</b> with his song...</i></p>

<p>A sad song about someone singing a sad song about someone, that seems like it could be about the singer singing the song (not the singer sung about), that seems like it could be about me (when I'm in a certain mood). It's also a song about how humiliating it can be when a cheap pop song pushes all your sentimental buttons, which is in itself a cheap pop song that pushes all your sentimental buttons. So it's self-referential along more than one axis. (Furthermore, it puts me in the position of being a man listening to a woman singing about listening to a man singing about a woman. Reflective symmetry?) Kind of a neat philosophical trick for a song I don't even particularly like.</p>

<p>That does it. Now I've got to write a book called "Goedel, Escher, Flack."</p>

<p>(It's also proving to be a fairly resilient earworm. Apologies to anyone I may have infected.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 12:58 PM by HP&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #16 from Leigh Butler</title>
         <description>comment from Leigh Butler on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Quote of observation that it has been done before.</i></p>

<p>Dry <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan/msg/b2601b12250c7ada?dmode=source&hl=en" rel="nofollow">agreement</a>: additional <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan/browse_frm/thread/f214db5af63cf4be/6c41fb8573c80a6f?lnk=st&q=group%3Arec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan+insubject%3Ageneric&rnum=9&hl=en#6c41fb8573c80a6f" rel="nofollow">examples</a> linked cleverly within statement.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  1:05 PM by Leigh Butler&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #17 from Charlie Stross</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Metainformation. (Possibly even metaphor. Not to mention metonym.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  2:14 PM by Charlie Stross&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #18 from Xopher</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obscure and longwinded commentary, beginning vaguely on-topic, but winding its way through linguistics, physics, and chemistry, eventually ending up as a seemingly endless list of integers having some odd property that the poster never explains, and that apparently is supposed to be obvious.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  2:34 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #19 from Ann</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obligatory attempt to one-up previous links to other examples with <a href="http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=26280" rel="nofollow">one dated even earlier</a>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  2:48 PM by Ann&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #20 from Stefan Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Stefan Jones on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Quote"</p>

<p>Lame pun.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  2:55 PM by Stefan Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #21 from fidelio</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>entirely off-topic remark from poster who is unclere on teh comcpet of thredded coments deoide of punctuashun or capitollization and annoingly misspellede with added typoes for youre amusemnte</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:00 PM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #22 from TChem</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dsmvwlld cmmnt!!!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:13 PM by TChem&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #23 from Jordin Kare</title>
         <description>comment from Jordin Kare on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>That does it. Now I've got to write a book called "Goedel, Escher, Flack."</i></p>

<p>"Google, Usenet, Blog -- an Unending Grammatic Blight" by Hogless Dufstadter</p>

<p>A ponderous and exceedingly self-referential examination of language, thought, communities, and knitting, told in the form of a flamewar between Achilles and the Tortoise over the true nature of Spam.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:27 PM by Jordin Kare&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #24 from Jordin Kare</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and of course,</p>

<p>Extremely vile pun.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:32 PM by Jordin Kare&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #25 from D.</title>
         <description>comment from D. on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rueful correction of earlier post--it was called an Existential Flame War.</p>

<p>Admission of having too much time on hands; remark about future conversation with therapist; light chuckle at TChem's comment; enthusiastic non-sequiturization of the dominant paradigm; lunch.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:40 PM by D.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #26 from Laur[ence] Roberts</title>
         <description>comment from Laur[ence] Roberts on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Takes offense at perceived lack of sensitivity displayed by all previous posters.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:41 PM by Laur[ence] Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #27 from Namedropper von Comment</title>
         <description>comment from Namedropper von Comment on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment about the mathematical properties of various permutations of the word "blog", when considered as a 32-bit integer, most significant bit first. This translates into the value 1651273575, which is not prime, but which has the prime factorization 3 x 5 x 5 x 7 x 3145283. The latter number of course resembles pi in a superficial way, but does not otherwise have any relationship to pi, or e, or any other irrational number.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:42 PM by Namedropper von Comment&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #28 from abi</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is just to comment</p>

<p>I have ignored<br />
the content<br />
that was in<br />
the blog entry</p>

<p>and which<br />
you were probably<br />
hoping<br />
was relevant</p>

<p>Forgive me<br />
rewriting this poem is fun<br />
so silly<br />
and so pointless<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:49 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #29 from Christopher Davis</title>
         <description>comment from Christopher Davis on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Expression of delight at the wittiness exhibited in various comments.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:53 PM by Christopher Davis&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #30 from TChem</title>
         <description>comment from TChem on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cllng th mdrtrs "fscsts" bcse thy dsmvwlld my wrthwhl cmmnts.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  3:59 PM by TChem&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #31 from wrye</title>
         <description>comment from wrye on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>entirely off-topic remark from poster who is unclere on teh comcpet of thredded coments deoide of punctuashun or capitollization and annoingly misspellede with added typoes for youre amusemnte</i></p>

<p>Observation that any sufficiently devolved spelling is indistinguishable from work by Geoffrey Chaucer (<a href="http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">who hath a blog</a>).</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  4:19 PM by wrye&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #32 from Sarah S</title>
         <description>comment from Sarah S on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Request for help <b>right now</b> with a homework project on the phenomena of blogs and comment threads.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  4:21 PM by Sarah S&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #33 from fidelio</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>off-topic poster retrunss too expres dissmay that comet was ignored fales to undetstadn coment about chaucer and has snit</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  4:24 PM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #34 from Charlie Stross</title>
         <description>comment from Charlie Stross on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster vanishes up own arse. Exeunt, stage left, in confusion.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  4:55 PM by Charlie Stross&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #35 from TexAnne</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>me too</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:07 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #36 from Dave Bell</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was just coming down the pass to Keswick when the first Tornado passed me on the left.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:08 PM by Dave Bell&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #37 from candle</title>
         <description>comment from candle on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Needlessly posted out-loud worry that one has committed all of these laughable <i>faux pas</i> on other threads, followed by no apology but an unstated resolution to continue in the same way on subsequent threads.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:09 PM by candle&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #38 from candle</title>
         <description>comment from candle on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sudden worry about the plural of <i>faux pas</i> coupled with unwillingness to look it up in a dictionary or on the web.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:10 PM by candle&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #39 from Jonathan Shaw</title>
         <description>comment from Jonathan Shaw on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Query as to current whereabouts of Namedropper von Comment</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:17 PM by Jonathan Shaw&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #40 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pedantic remark about the correctness fo <i>faux pas</i> as a plural, including customary typo.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:18 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #41 from abi</title>
         <description>comment from abi on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insufficiently pedantic praise of pedanticism, with spurious British spelling.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:21 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #42 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Irritated correction of spurious British spelling with unsubtle use of pedantry.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:22 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #43 from abi</title>
         <description>comment from abi on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meek retraction of pedantry, in sufficiently florid grammar to render the content of said retraction effectively moot.</p>

<p>(Subtle pun hidden inside, requiring knowledge of at least one dead language or moribund academic tradition to be comprehensible.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:26 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #44 from Stefan Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Stefan Jones on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previous comment in quotes.</p>

<p>Acronym for a physical reaction to something humorous one really never does in real life.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  6:42 PM by Stefan Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #45 from Patrick Connors</title>
         <description>comment from Patrick Connors on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On-topic reply with digression in reference to a cat I once knew.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:08 PM by Patrick Connors&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #46 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post referring fans of Namedropper von Comment to comment #406 in Jim Henley's thread.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:09 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #47 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rightwing drive-by attacking liberals for laziness, ad hominems, irrelevance, and statements above poster's head.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:23 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #48 from joann</title>
         <description>comment from joann on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Request for homework assistance is answered with hilariously misleading misinformation.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:29 PM by joann&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:29:22 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #49 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Witty sonnet by Mike Ford. Sonnets in response by Claude Muncey and Jim Macdonald. Retaliatory double dactyl by Virge and villanelle by Kevin Andrew Murphy. First riff on "This is just to say." Funny quatrain by Avram Grumer summarizing original post. Poem in pre-modern English by one of the regulars. Jo Walton weighs in, impressively, and thread goes into hyperdrive. Moderator declares it a game, starts keeping track. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:31 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #50 from aphrael</title>
         <description>comment from aphrael on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks from a site admin for the reference in post #7.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:33 PM by aphrael&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #51 from Stefan Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Stefan Jones on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Misplaced comment about particle.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  7:40 PM by Stefan Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #52 from John M. Ford</title>
         <description>comment from John M. Ford on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You people have no inkling of the facts.<br />
You people just don't see the situation.<br />
You people sit alone and grind an ax.<br />
You people start and bring your own damn nation.<br />
You people sleep with partners made of straw.<br />
You people'd unconvert old Johnny Knox.<br />
You people <i>sturmed</i> the <i>drang</i> off Godwin's Law.<br />
You people, get your hands out of your socks.<br />
You people, by the merest act of saying,<br />
"You people," spin the prop atop your beanie;<br />
"You people" is your one-string banjo playing,<br />
"You people" goes <i>da capo senza fine</i>.<br />
Here sits a church, the browser is its steeple:<br />
Open the tab, and see the typing people.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  8:19 PM by John M. Ford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #53 from AliceB</title>
         <description>comment from AliceB on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re D.'s reference to "lunch", long, complicated but delicious sounding recipe (with only one or two ingredients omitted).</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  8:47 PM by AliceB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #54 from Glenn Hauman</title>
         <description>comment from Glenn Hauman on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post intended for previous entry.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006  9:43 PM by Glenn Hauman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #55 from Lizzy L</title>
         <description>comment from Lizzy L on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post intended for long-abandoned thread. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:07 PM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #56 from elise</title>
         <description>comment from elise on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What astonishes me is that it took until #430 to get to Mornington Crescent.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:09 PM by elise&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #57 from Erik V. Olson</title>
         <description>comment from Erik V. Olson on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post pointing out that it has been done <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/9622" rel="nofollow">before</a>, while making reference to the good old days on the Internet. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 10:44 PM by Erik V. Olson&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #58 from protected static</title>
         <description>comment from protected static on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Idle speculation as to Namedropper von Comment being big-endian or little-endian, with a snarky assumption that from his comments one can <i>just tell</i> that he must use the Wrong Operating System. </p>

<p>OS snark is accompanied by an impugning of von Comment's parentage.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 11:23 PM by protected static&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #59 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 11.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Politely sidelong comment from moderator about not making pinatas of persons long since banned.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2006 11:51 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #60 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sheepish comment by latecomer, with apology for not being overly funny due to self deprecating excuse.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:17 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #61 from marty</title>
         <description>comment from marty on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pathetic and late post by regular lurker to "join in". Now with added quotation marks...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:17 AM by marty&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #62 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"in a snowstorm, uphill, both ways" post referencing ancient computer hardware. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:23 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #63 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>completely unrelated comment by frequent poster.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:24 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:24:38 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #64 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>apology by frequent poster confessing that recent post was put on the wrong thread.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:25 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #65 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"I know I'm being pedantic here but" post invoking philosophical arguments to the meanings of several terms used by previous poster ending by proclaiming the previous poster is an idiot, for some definition of "idiot".</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:30 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #66 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>flamewar ensues</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:31 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #67 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>attempt by a third party to mediate ongoing flamewar which only reignites topics that had been previously buried and forgotten.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:32 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #68 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>original flamers flame mediator</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:32 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #69 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mediator drops off list.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:36 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #70 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>haiku is posted<br />
which conveys some new insight,<br />
rhymes with "Nantucket".</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:41 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #71 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>picture of rabbit with a pancake on its head is posted.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:43 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #72 from oliviacw</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Diatribe about latest political situation, sparked by a coincidental similarity of newly elected politician's name to the poster in comment #47.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:04 AM by oliviacw&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #73 from Kathy Li</title>
         <description>comment from Kathy Li on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reply to Elise, showing off Mornington Crescent/ISIHAC in-knowledge by sly dropping of phrases "in nid" and "double-platform loop".</p>

<p>Plays Definitions on "blog."  Begins to sing One Song to the Tune of Another.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:44 AM by Kathy Li&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #74 from protected static</title>
         <description>comment from protected static on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fawning and obsequious apology to moderator and list participants for transgression that apparently only occured in the poster's version of reality.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:55 AM by protected static&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #75 from Larry Brennan</title>
         <description>comment from Larry Brennan on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post attributing controversial statement to incorrect commenter, followed by sharp attack on misidentified commenter's ability to reason clearly.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:10 AM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #76 from Dawno</title>
         <description>comment from Dawno on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>another lurker unlurks with nothing particularly interesting to say just to get in on the fun</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:46 AM by Dawno&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #77 from John M. Ford</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>spam spam spam spam spammity spam, wonderful <b>[abrupt deletion and adjustment to filters]</b></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  3:28 AM by John M. Ford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #78 from Julie L.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Increasingly digressive tangential subthread among two or three posters.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  3:53 AM by Julie L.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #79 from Dave Langford</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apologies for making needed correction. False claim of hating to rain on anyone's parade. Gleeful assertion that previous poster mispelled $PHRASE as $UTTERLY_DIFFERENT_PHRASE. Belligerent enquiry as to which part of $SOME_OTHER_PHRASE said poster finds so hard to understand. Hackneyed gibe concerning battle of wits and unarmed foe. Avoidance of responsibility by insertion of final smiley.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  3:58 AM by Dave Langford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #80 from Keir</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post with very little to say, merely agreeing with all previous posters, including those with contradictory positions.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  4:02 AM by Keir&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #81 from David Goldfarb</title>
         <description>comment from David Goldfarb on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shake of head at one's own pathetic inability to come near the tremendous cleverness of all the other commenters.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  4:09 AM by David Goldfarb&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #82 from Therese Norén</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pleading for mental processes regarding pre-pubertals.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:00 AM by Therese Norén&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #83 from ajay</title>
         <description>comment from ajay on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plaintive remark that I blogged this two weeks ago, in detail. Link to blog named after obscure part of human brain. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:21 AM by ajay&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #84 from ajay</title>
         <description>comment from ajay on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blindingly erudite post in foreign language (German?). Reply in more obscure foreign language (ideally dead; Latin? Sumerian?). Learned chortle from third poster at unsuspected ambiguity in Sumerian post. Question about making  replica clothes of obscure Oriental dynasty. Long conversation between at least four people who know all about said clothes and wear them in their spare time. Offer to sell mysterious item of clothing, nature unknown except to above four people. Parody of Dante. Reference to Early Church Father. Interjection about emergency medicine. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:27 AM by ajay&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #85 from ajay</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long, bloodcurdlingly detailed advice from James D. Macdonald about what to do in event of some dire emergency (heart stops, house floods, leg falls off, children attacked by whale, etc.) Posters stunned into silence. Long, contemplative pause as commenters look thoughtfully at own houses, children, legs, etc. Timid, Piglet-like question. Terrifyingly learned and hope-destroying reply.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:31 AM by ajay&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #86 from Zarquon</title>
         <description>comment from Zarquon on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sexist comment.<br />
Complaint about censorship by feminazis.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:59 AM by Zarquon&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #87 from Lizzy L</title>
         <description>comment from Lizzy L on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Disemvowelling all around, followed by acerbic warning from TNH. Applause.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  6:21 AM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #88 from abi</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ntntnlly dsmvwlld wtty cmmnt, whch ll Mkng Lght rglrs cn rd s qckly s rdnry prs, bt whch bffls ts trgts ntrly.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  6:41 AM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #89 from abi</title>
         <description>comment from abi on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indignant post blaming the moderators for disemvowelling an innocent party.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  6:42 AM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #90 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Orphan post appears after thread abandoned.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  6:48 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #91 from Fiendish Writer</title>
         <description>comment from Fiendish Writer on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incoherent exclamation!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  6:51 AM by Fiendish Writer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #92 from JennR</title>
         <description>comment from JennR on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Politely snarky request that persons posting recipes please ensure that quantity of all ingredients are listed.  Bemoans loss of last of last year's rhubarb, weeks before new crop availability.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  7:27 AM by JennR&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #93 from Julie L.</title>
         <description>comment from Julie L. on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to mini-play starting ~25 minutes into episode 241 of <a href="http://thislife.org/" rel="nofollow">This American Life</a>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  8:46 AM by Julie L.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #94 from abi</title>
         <description>comment from abi on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Request for clarification of the differences between ingredients in different countries, leading to an exhaustive exposition of the relative properties of approximately equivalent substances.</p>

<p>Irrelevant anecdote about local equivalent substance of which a poster is fond/tried once in the reign of Queen Anne/is violently allergic to but still loves.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:00 AM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #95 from Avram</title>
         <description>comment from Avram on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clueless request for unsubscription. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:11 AM by Avram&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #96 from AliceB</title>
         <description>comment from AliceB on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Profuse apology.  Lame excuse.  False promise that will never do this again.  One of the missing ingredients for recipe with incoherent measurement. Apology.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:14 AM by AliceB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #97 from Jp</title>
         <description>comment from Jp on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rambling, dull, irrelevant anecdote about contributions to astronomical science being stifled by academic mafia.</p>

<p>Painful, unsuccessful attempt to relate anecdote to a previous irrelevant comment made three days ago and ignored for several hundred comments since. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:32 AM by Jp&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #98 from Not Jp</title>
         <description>comment from Not Jp on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lame sock puppetry, attempting to attract attention to own previous post by posing as somebody else.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:34 AM by Not Jp&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #99 from theophylact</title>
         <description>comment from theophylact on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Multiple post.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:41 AM by theophylact&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #100 from theophylact</title>
         <description>comment from theophylact on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Multiple post with apology for first instance.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:47 AM by theophylact&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #101 from Laur[ence] Roberts</title>
         <description>comment from Laur[ence] Roberts on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lurker thinks of something to say, but is too shy to post it.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:51 AM by Laur[ence] Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #102 from Janet Croft</title>
         <description>comment from Janet Croft on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plaintive complaint about browser not displaying last 400 posts.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:54 AM by Janet Croft&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #103 from Dan Layman-Kennedy</title>
         <description>comment from Dan Layman-Kennedy on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Orthogonal and largely tone-deaf comment picking up on some obscure point upthread now all but forgotten  by the other posters, now elaborated on at terrifying length. Ammended during Preview to make the phrasing more careful, but twice as tedious.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:03 AM by Dan Layman-Kennedy&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #104 from protected static</title>
         <description>comment from protected static on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Na ravtzngvp cbfg va ebg13 nccrnef.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:04 AM by protected static&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #105 from fidelio</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posts own version of recipe earlier posted by someone else, with all ingredients listed, including variants and with sentimntal recollections of previous occasions on which results of said recipe were consumed, as well as persons who had provided recipe to poster, in this and other versions.</p>

<p>Adds, disguised as casual afterthought, remark about remarkable achievement of offspring of sibling, both unknown to most posters and lurkers.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:11 AM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #106 from Avery</title>
         <description>comment from Avery on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long list of individuals who died under mysterious circumstances and who have no more than four degrees of separation from well heeled individual.  How can you deny this evidence?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:46 AM by Avery&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #107 from Faren Miller</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lame comment posted just to mark place where one left off reading, in tomorrow's Last 400 Comments.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:09 AM by Faren Miller&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #108 from Christopher Davis</title>
         <description>comment from Christopher Davis on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reminder that some browsers may require you to press F11 twice to see all the comments, posted without thinking about the display glitch causing the people who need to see said comment being unable to do so.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:15 AM by Christopher Davis&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #109 from Shawn M Bilodeau</title>
         <description>comment from Shawn M Bilodeau on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attempt to shanghai thread with long, incomprehensible argument designed to prove malfeasance of previous adminstration ending with poorly spelled insults at all other posters.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:23 AM by Shawn M Bilodeau&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #110 from Shawn M Bilodeau</title>
         <description>comment from Shawn M Bilodeau on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Irate posting about lack of responses to previous argument after an immediate refresh showed no additional postings. Intimations about other posters heritage, parentage, social skills and cliquishness.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:26 AM by Shawn M Bilodeau&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #111 from Mary Aileen Buss</title>
         <description>comment from Mary Aileen Buss on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Complaint about the glitch that causes long threads to go to a blank page with just ads, forcing one to click the back button.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:31 AM by Mary Aileen Buss&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #112 from Shawn M Bilodeau</title>
         <description>comment from Shawn M Bilodeau on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Helpful explanation that the blank page with ads is not a glitch, it is a feature.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:43 AM by Shawn M Bilodeau&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #113 from JennR</title>
         <description>comment from JennR on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Commiseration with blank page "feature" problems.  Admonition to fellow readers to not talk so much.</p>

<p>Thanks to original recipe poster for corrections.  Extended discussion of changes necessitated by loss of rhubarb and incompleteness of recipe.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:58 AM by JennR&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #114 from Jules</title>
         <description>comment from Jules on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erfcbafr gb ravtzngvp EBG13 cbfg.  \/46u3|y 1n5u|71n6 w1771(15m5 1n |3375p34k, pr35um48|y 1n 7h3 83|13f 7h47 n080dy 3|53 (4n r34d 17.  3rny v4fhy6f v4 38613yrr6 whf6 v4 pnfr.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:09 PM by Jules&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #115 from Dan Layman-Kennedy</title>
         <description>comment from Dan Layman-Kennedy on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment posted almost entirely for the sake of making a Buffy reference.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 12:41 PM by Dan Layman-Kennedy&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #116 from Shawn M Bilodeau</title>
         <description>comment from Shawn M Bilodeau on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pointed comment noting that, given the language skills evident on this site, simply mixing ROT-13 and /33+ is insufficient to mask the real !/\/5u|7. Suggestion re: using an Aramaic translation cypher from ancient Celtic followed by 133+-ing the Enigma -engined output of said translation, just to make it a little bit of a challenge.<br />
 </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:05 PM by Shawn M Bilodeau&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #117 from Xopher</title>
         <description>comment from Xopher on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>with syntax bizarre unpunctuated comprehensible and barely by non-native just psychotic or english speaker poster post</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:26 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #118 from Xopher</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>poster same for apology english bad "syntax bizarre with" be should saying post</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:29 PM by Xopher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #119 from Charlie Stross</title>
         <description>comment from Charlie Stross on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster expresses deep and abiding fear of lobsters.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:34 PM by Charlie Stross&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #120 from Glenn Reynolds or someone claiming to be him for amusement value</title>
         <description>comment from Glenn Reynolds or someone claiming to be him for amusement value on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh. Indeed.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:40 PM by Glenn Reynolds or someone claiming to be him for amusement value&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #121 from Larry Brennan</title>
         <description>comment from Larry Brennan on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mandatory Roomba tie-in comment.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:40 PM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #122 from Julia Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Julia Jones on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Random rant about The Evils Of New York Publishers who do not recognise talent when they see it. Polite flame war explaining difference between employer's website and personal blog.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  1:57 PM by Julia Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #123 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Request for help identifying half-remembered story/movie/TV show seen once when poster was home sick at age 10.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:00 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #124 from Sarah S</title>
         <description>comment from Sarah S on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arcane string of semi-logical connections and deductive leaps constructed for the sheer joy of pointing out how all this relates to dinosaur sodomy.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:15 PM by Sarah S&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #125 from Magenta Griffith</title>
         <description>comment from Magenta Griffith on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Irrelevant post for the purpose of seeing one's name on a popular thread.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:20 PM by Magenta Griffith&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #126 from Stefan Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Stefan Jones on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post ruefully noting that Sarah S beat me to the dinosaur sodomy link.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:22 PM by Stefan Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #127 from fidelio</title>
         <description>comment from fidelio on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously out-of-touch poster demads explanation of how dinosaurs, in combination with sodomy, could be either relevant or amusing to original topic.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:39 PM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #128 from Michael Weholt</title>
         <description>comment from Michael Weholt on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Urgent post with <em>added emphasis, said urgency leading to effed-up html tag.</em></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  2:55 PM by Michael Weholt&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #129 from Jules</title>
         <description>comment from Jules on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Inquiry as to whether a story lacking in dinosaurs can make up for it by removing some sodomy and adding lobsters.  Includes comment that suggests (inaccurately) that poster had guessed correctly about Mr Stross's phobia.<br />
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  3:26 PM by Jules&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #130 from Jules</title>
         <description>comment from Jules on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Note that comment by "Glenn Reynolds or someone claiming to be him for amusement value" was posted by someone (cough cough) with an e-mail address at "NOSPAMyahoo.com"; suggestion that this must be an alternate-reality-based e-mail hosting service.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  3:30 PM by Jules&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #131 from Sandy B.</title>
         <description>comment from Sandy B. on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nostalgia about similar thread , uninteresting to and unfamiliar to all except [at most] one other poster here. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:38 PM by Sandy B.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #132 from Sandy B.</title>
         <description>comment from Sandy B. on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Return sonnet, destroyed in preview page due to structural and personal awkwardness. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  5:53 PM by Sandy B.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #133 from Dan Layman-Kennedy</title>
         <description>comment from Dan Layman-Kennedy on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Startling link of thread topic to some unspeakable knitting project; general wiggins ensue.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  6:45 PM by Dan Layman-Kennedy&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #134 from Larry Brennan</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dramatic, terse, presumably colonial lobster recipe, including phrase "boiled well until they be dead".</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  7:01 PM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #135 from Julie L.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long, detailed discursion on the malfeasance of a vanity press or other publishing scam, culminating in eventual comeuppance for the culprit du jour. (Paranoid conspiracy followup about font-kerning and Photoshop artifacts in POD books.) Gratuitous nudibranch reference.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  7:05 PM by Julie L.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #136 from Vicki</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Confusion about relevance or otherwise of personal anecdote involving grandmother and cans of coffee shipped across the Atlantic just after the War.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  7:48 PM by Vicki&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Smart-alec remark to the effect that self-referential discourse is the senescence of a medium.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  8:15 PM by Dave Luckett&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #138 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Half-dozen comments playing with self-referentiality, just to be polite. (O the embarrassment. All die.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:12 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #139 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Commenter is put in mind of certain interesting aspects of SS. Barbara, Margaret of Antioch, and Catherine of Alexandria. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:15 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #140 from TexAnne</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference made to ancient Particle with a portrait of Margaret's cute pet dragon.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:17 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #141 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Proprietor posts long cheerful descriptive recipe, which contains no firm quantities or cooking times, lapses into Middle English at several critical points, and includes digressions about reverse distillation and obscure varieties of citrus that run as long as the actual cooking instructions.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:22 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #142 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moderator admits has been trying to find that picture again. Makes hazy reference to Jesus eating a guinea pig.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:24 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #143 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Molesworth's account of skool pla invoked to describe effect of Ajay's comments, other comments as well.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:29 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #144 from John M. Ford</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Link to Photoshopped image of SS. Barbara, Margaret of Antioch, and Catherine of Alexandria as The Supremes (w/Queen o'Sheba as D. Ross), found by application of search engine technology that may violate unpublished DHS regulation carrying severe criminal penalties.  Link slashdotted, multiply mirrored, and then implodes.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:38 PM by John M. Ford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #145 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Belated translation of Whyrf' cbfg.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:55 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #146 from CHip</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>brief comment on minor point that is (almost) all one can compass if one attempts to take a day's posts at one gulp.</p>

<p>another brief comment on an entirely different small point -- picked out with some ... liberal ... punctuation (that might suggest speech if living people could speak parends).</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006  9:56 PM by CHip&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #147 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moderator writes long post describing recurrent friction-generating interactions involving a dozen or so regulars; shakes head fondly, deletes post. </p>

<p><i>(Moderator catches self reading foregoing, shaking head fondly, and reaching for delete key. Is startled.)</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:04 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #148 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Circular argument</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:43 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #149 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ad nauseum<br />
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:44 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #150 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ad hominem directed at circular argument poster</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:44 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #151 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>circular poster bifurcates issue with ad hominem poster</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:45 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #152 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>non sequitor presented</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:46 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #153 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>attempts to bring thread back on topic fail as non-sequitor topic becomes hugely popular topic</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:47 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #154 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reference to microsoft and bill gates made. Godwin's other law satisfied.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 10:47 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #155 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Commenter proposes amendment to Godwin's Law stating that infractions of it don't count if absolutely everyone ignores them.</p>

<p>Idle proposal of airshow involving SS. Christina the Amazing and Joseph of Cupertino mutates into discussion of whether bilocation is teleportation or simultaneous presence of two alternate realities: extension, substance, accident report, parking in NYC, evidence of miracles, worse in Bay Area, silicon, AI, can kraut, six bagels, wave asterisk.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:14 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #156 from Patrick Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Patrick Nielsen Hayden on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His followers called him MAHASAMATMAN.  His friends called him...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:23 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <description>comment from Larry Brennan on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Random link to pictures of Cats in Zeppelins.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:23 PM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #158 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to "Serenity" made. Fond memories of "Firefly" recalled. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:29 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #159 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Request made for a Yet Another Story IDentification. Can't remember anything from the entire book other than at one point there is a totally irrelevant scene involving two secondary characters having a conversation about some insignificant factoid. Despite not being able to remember anything of the plot, significant characters or events, poster reminisces about how great it was reading it.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:34 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #160 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YASID request is answered, including book title, author, year published. Also, it is pointed out that half of what was in the original request was actually wrong.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:35 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #161 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rather long and detailed flame war erupts regarding how Star Trek teleporter technology would be implemented in real life. Two camps emerge: "worm hole tunnels" and "matter disassemblers, transmitters, recievers, reassemblers". Both claim the other side's solution is far too complex to ever be feasible.  </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:42 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #162 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>entire post made in pirate speak. Arr.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:46 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #163 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 12.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>pst lks dsmvwlled bt ws ctlly typd tht wy fr cmdc ffct</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 12, 2006 11:50 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #164 from Christopher Davis</title>
         <description>comment from Christopher Davis on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Combination of YASID, lobster, and coffee can comments into mention of Theodore Cogswell's short story "Emergency Rations".</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 12:18 AM by Christopher Davis&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #165 from candle</title>
         <description>comment from candle on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pedantic correction of error in Latin which would have been recognised and ignored anyway by anyone who cared.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 12:29 AM by candle&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #166 from Julia Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Julia Jones on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Discussion of vanity presses using POD spawns sub-thread reminiscing about days of hot lead. Side-track to Victorian era equivalents of APAs.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 12:33 AM by Julia Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #167 from oliviacw</title>
         <description>comment from oliviacw on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Query as to whether the author of the YASID ever published a short story in a collection on [theme]...poster seems to recall such, but can't place what the [theme] was, when it might have been published, or any of the other authors or stories in the anthology.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  1:23 AM by oliviacw&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #168 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Star Trek transporter squabble expands into discussion of whether a disassembled and reassembled person is the same person as before.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  1:49 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #169 from Larry Brennan</title>
         <description>comment from Larry Brennan on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Transporter squabble ranges into the semiotic value of unexpected goatees.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  1:57 AM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #170 from ajay</title>
         <description>comment from ajay on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"some unspeakable knitting project"</p>

<p>Steals obvious joke from Douglas Adams about "fabric of space-time". Makes obvious and strained reference to HP Lovecraft.  Posts. Realises how lame post looks. Retreats in embarrassment.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  4:55 AM by ajay&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #171 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Naive request for explanation of every abbreviation (e.g. YASID) and in-joke encountered in the thread to date.  Attempted ingratiation. Shrubbery.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  5:34 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #172 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insecure commenter's earnest explanation that she knew what everyone meant all along, followed by a clear demonstration that most of the math and all of the foreign language passages were beyond her comprehension, and besides, she has no ready access to rhubarb.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  5:40 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #173 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long explanation of how the transporter <i>really</i> works, with formal citations from <i>Stargate SG-1</i>, a 1968 <i>Doctor Who</i> serial, and an episode of <i>Star Trek: The Animated Series</i>. Marathon comment ends with an expression of confusion over words that disappeared when comment was previewed, and rueful complaint about staying up too late reading blog threads.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  6:04 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #174 from ajay</title>
         <description>comment from ajay on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to Red Dwarf.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  6:34 AM by ajay&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #175 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mention of lobster sodomy is ignored by all except one right-wing poster who thinks post was an allusion to Dubya. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:52 AM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #176 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster asserts Dubya is the anti-Christ.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  8:50 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #177 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moderator extracts laudably accurate (and hence funny) comment sequences, re-posts them as addenda to the original front-page post.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:01 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #178 from A. J. Luxton</title>
         <description>comment from A. J. Luxton on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fond ramble about Zelazny, triggered by PNH's seemingly random reference.   Fervent wish that the guy would've lived longer, at least long enough to write more Amber novels.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:02 AM by A. J. Luxton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #179 from Sandy B.</title>
         <description>comment from Sandy B. on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to "hot lead" leads to Magnificent Seven aside, leading to samurai/gunfighter discussion, multiply tangenting to Damascus Steel flamewar. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:27 AM by Sandy B.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #180 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outraged flame comparing earlier poster to Serdar Argic. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 10:20 AM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #181 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gratuitous references to PA, <i>Atlanta Nights</i> and that Pierce fellow, closely followed by three misspellings of the blog owner's name in a single iteration.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 11:02 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #182 from Andrew Willett</title>
         <description>comment from Andrew Willett on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another rewrite of "This is Just to Say," written by poster who had failed to notice earlier iterations and thought he was being witty and original. [Poster finally sees earlier iterations as he scans down to re-read his own post. Poster goes and hides under his desk for twenty minutes, making whimpering noises.]</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 11:26 AM by Andrew Willett&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #183 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guilty admission that poster may have broken Henley thread with imitation of semi-autistic comment.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 11:36 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #184 from Faren Miller</title>
         <description>comment from Faren Miller on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Dubya is the anti-Christ" leads to a flurry of postings on metaphysical issues, including attempts to define the multiverse (each more arcane than the next, except for the most fannish), as well as citations in the original tongue from Celtic, Aramaic, and Dark-Age Latin. Experts abound. None can agree.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 11:51 AM by Faren Miller&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #185 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dubya discussion is referred to post #666 on Henley blog. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 12:41 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #186 from protected static</title>
         <description>comment from protected static on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Observation that poster claiming to have broken Henley's thread doesn't really feel the least bit guilty and they shouldn't try to pretend otherwise. Subtext of jealousy obvious to anyone with a functioning synapse or two.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  1:00 PM by protected static&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #187 from Mario Milosevic</title>
         <description>comment from Mario Milosevic on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a <a href="http://conditionalreality.blogspot.com/2006/02/this-sentence-is-title-of-this-post.html" rel="nofollow">link</a> to a post that anticipates some of the metapoints referenced in this comment thread.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  1:50 PM by Mario Milosevic&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #188 from oliviacw</title>
         <description>comment from oliviacw on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dubious linkage of samurai/gunfighter discussion to transporter technology, complete with contemplation of the question, "can you ever fire the same gun twice?"</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  2:06 PM by oliviacw&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #189 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peevish reiteration of thread's first YASID. Imputation of nefarious motives to persons who have been ignoring said YASID.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  2:55 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #190 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Humble apologies for previous post. Blame placed on work stress/caffeine/lack of caffeine.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  2:56 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #191 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Effusion of gratitude for mention of book/TV series/movie/language/fraud/folly/truth/knitting/citrus fruit. Description of how book/TV series/movie/language/fraud/folly/truth/knitting/citrus fruit has changed poster's life.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  2:58 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #192 from Bernard Yeh</title>
         <description>comment from Bernard Yeh on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Quote of outrageously erudite and funny comment by host or commenter.</i></p>

<p>Reminder not to drink beverage of choice while reading this blog. Demand for a new display from the perpetrator.<br />
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	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  3:38 PM by Bernard Yeh&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #193 from MattW</title>
         <description>comment from MattW on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reminder of <a href='http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/5/31/7738/22985' rel="nofollow">similarity to previous material</a>.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  4:11 PM by MattW&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #194 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Observation that "nothing new under the sun" comments fail to take into account the enjoyability of each recurrence for participants.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  4:49 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #195 from Rich Magahiz</title>
         <description>comment from Rich Magahiz on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment spam offering pharmaceutical enhancements to the body part of your choice.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  5:07 PM by Rich Magahiz&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #196 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment spam flagged by alert poster.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  5:25 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #197 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two hard boiled eggs. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:08 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #198 from Graydon</title>
         <description>comment from Graydon on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Weary assertion that the previous poster could make sense if they tried.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:13 PM by Graydon&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #199 from CaoPaux</title>
         <description>comment from CaoPaux on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fnord.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:33 PM by CaoPaux&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #200 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Assertion that hard boiled eggs make perfect sense in the context of a completely different blog encountered earlier today, but usually aren't eaten with Spam(tm). </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:41 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #201 from Dan MacQueen</title>
         <description>comment from Dan MacQueen on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Complaint that previous comment was badly formatted, and cannot be read (names of versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Lynx which failed to display previous comment included in parentheses.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:42 PM by Dan MacQueen&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #202 from Keir</title>
         <description>comment from Keir on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rant at previous poster over his use of IE, explaining in great detail the advantages of Firefox.</p>

<p>Explanation on how to obtain Firefox that poster thinks a child could follow, but none the less involves installing Cygwin.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  7:59 PM by Keir&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #203 from CHip</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Disagreement with praiser of X, with arguments that he didn't stop writing Y nearly soon enough.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  8:37 PM by CHip&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #204 from A. J. Luxton</title>
         <description>comment from A. J. Luxton on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cryptic conspiratorial response to CaoPaux with some confusing numerology and giggling.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  8:55 PM by A. J. Luxton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #205 from John Houghton</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Troll elbows his way into the conversation, farts loudly, and then starts picking his nose while sniggering annoyingly.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:07 PM by John Houghton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #206 from Paula Helm Murray</title>
         <description>comment from Paula Helm Murray on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment spam offering pharmaceutical enhancements to body parts one doesn't have.  (what is zis 'package' and why do I want it bigger?)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:10 PM by Paula Helm Murray&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #207 from John Houghton</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post consisting solely of a malformed <a>link</a> to  a supposedly wonderful site apropos to the conversation. Poster never returns to provide working link.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:36 PM by John Houghton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #208 from JennR</title>
         <description>comment from JennR on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alert(?) reader notices comment spam(s).  </p>

<p>Adds parenthetical to the effect that the (non)recipe posted by the hostess is quite good, although it involved all household saucepans and shooing the cat away from the cabinet in which the (rarely used) filter funnel lives.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006  9:41 PM by JennR&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #209 from John M. Ford</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abrupt turn into a discussion of filter funnels, their (mostly improvisational) uses and where located in various kitchens, pantries, garages, etc.  Subthread collapses shortly after a wistful but vain request for a downloadable video of <i>Filters of Tomorrow,</i> a 1956 promotional short whose SF content was not limited to the presence of Al "Captain Video" Hodge as Osmosis Master.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 10:01 PM by John M. Ford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #210 from John M. Ford</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Five posters, three citing Snopes, insist that "Filters of Tomorrow" never existed, while a sixth claims it was written by Isaac Asimov.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 10:03 PM by John M. Ford&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #211 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>discussion of whether a disassembled and reassembled person is the same person as before tangents into a discussion of the differences between Descarte's mechanistic philosophy and postmodern phenomenology. Discussion generates micro-tangents mentioning: Socrates, Plato, Zen Buddhism, ghosts in the machine, mind-body differentiation, and cheese. </p>

<p>Someone not involved in any way with the discussion until this point posts a network diagram that shows that mapping the discussion posts by topics creates an image that resembles the Virgin Mary.</p>

<p>Entire tangent discussion is completely dropped. Original Teleporter-debate posters post that they will simply agree to disagree and move on.</p>

<p>Someone then asks about implementing a Force-Shield using real world technology. Two camps emerge.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 11:42 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #212 from Larry Brennan</title>
         <description>comment from Larry Brennan on 13.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Filters of Tomorrow" discussion morphs into deep dive on the relative merits of coffee brewing methods. Press-pot and Melitta factions emerge. <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> parody with coffee theme is posted.</p>

<p>Specualtion begins on the inevitability of a coffee-shop singularity and its impact on a future highly-caffeinated society.</p>

<p>Yerba Mate based Hamster Chow is proposed as a new product.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 13, 2006 11:54 PM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #213 from Glenn Hauman</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post with massive spoilers hidden from casual viewing.</p>

<p>&lt;font color=#FFFFFF>It was a sled. She's her sister <i>and</i> her daughter. You are the bus driver.&lt;/font></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006 12:12 AM by Glenn Hauman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #214 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Late-night lights-out observation that Yerba Mate hamster chow is not needed, as critter in wheel a few feet away is literally blurring.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006 12:27 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #215 from Madeline F</title>
         <description>comment from Madeline F on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>...SAM!</p>

<p>Digression on much-missed science fiction author continues.  Octobers lonesome.  <a href="http://www.sonic.net/~roelofs/humor/zelazny_agnostic.html" rel="nofollow">Agnostic's Prayer</a> linked.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:14 AM by Madeline F&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #216 from candle</title>
         <description>comment from candle on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Combination of cheese and philosophy in prior post leads (via mention of <i>The Cheese and the Worms</i>) to a discussion of the merits or otherwise of the Catholic Inquisition in the middle ages. Discussion is rapidly settled by terrifyingly erudite post quoting all relevant sources and implying something equivalent to personal experience of the middle ages.</p>

<p>Topic is returned to solely for the sake of pointing out that no-one had yet made the obligatory Monty Python reference. Uninvolved poster points out subtle Monty Python reference in erudite post and in the process implies that entire thread was not only reading all posts but actually following the argument.</p>

<p>First poster suddenly feels out of his/her depth and makes mental note to read up on *everything*.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:15 AM by candle&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #217 from Andrew Willett</title>
         <description>comment from Andrew Willett on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insouciant expression of curiosity as to how Teresa can tell that the hamster is blurring if the lights are out.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:24 AM by Andrew Willett&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #218 from Lizzy L</title>
         <description>comment from Lizzy L on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Orgy of Monty Python references followed by multiple silly comments whose ultimate lines all contain the word "Spam." </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:29 AM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #219 from Lizzy L</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam spam, eggs, spam.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:30 AM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #220 from Lizzy L</title>
         <description>comment from Lizzy L on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anti-spam. No spam allowed. Falling spam. Department of spam. Poster departs, spammed.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:33 AM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #221 from Julia Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Julia Jones on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newish reader realises that favourite sf author is regular poster, and delurks in squeeing extasy. Newish reader has major fit of embarrassment on realising size of audience for squee, and vows never to post again.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  1:34 AM by Julia Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #222 from Sam Kelly</title>
         <description>comment from Sam Kelly on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment that blurring hamsters would produce 37.6% of the energy requirements of South Wales.</p>

<p>Gratuitous explanation that that's South Wales, Wales, rather than New South Wales, Not Wales.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:06 AM by Sam Kelly&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #223 from Sam Kelly</title>
         <description>comment from Sam Kelly on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mispost intended for next thread, attempting to start a tangent concerning a recent visit to a museum in a foreign country most of you won't have the chance to visit, and enthusing over an <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1333_styleandsplendour/" rel="nofollow">exhibition</a> that's over now anyway.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:19 AM by Sam Kelly&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #224 from Kevin Marks</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blatant and offtopic attempt to get you to vote for poster's neologism <a href="http://xrl.us/kue3" rel="nofollow">WiFired</a> and win him $240 worth of music.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  4:03 AM by Kevin Marks&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #225 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A return to the Wonder Woman sub-thread with the wild claim that Joss Whedon has narrowed his list to  two prospects for the role: Angela Lansbury and Julie Andrews. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  5:26 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #226 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Embarrased admission that the Wonder Woman digression was in the <a href="http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991" rel="nofollow">other thread</a>, followed by disgruntled comment that Wonder Woman should be discussed here, too, being an Important Topic for Our Time.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  5:38 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #227 from Paul A.</title>
         <description>comment from Paul A. on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Belated addition to teleporter discussion, disassembled-reassembled identity subthread, largely in order to plug sf detective novel by Sean Williams turning on this very point.</p>

<p>(Parenthetical remark that novel's solution would attract sarcastic comment from author of "The Simple Art of Murder". Reassurance that novel is nevertheless worth reading.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  7:38 AM by Paul A.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #228 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Monty Python references lead to expected mention of Spanish Inquisition. Discussion develops about comparisons of Inquisition to Department of Homeland Security and Cheney to Torquemada. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  7:56 AM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #229 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Observation that we already did the Spanish Inquisition.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  8:51 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #230 from AliceB</title>
         <description>comment from AliceB on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Requisite "You never know when they'll turn up."</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  9:02 AM by AliceB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #231 from AliceB</title>
         <description>comment from AliceB on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long list of possible uses for spoiled rhubarb.  Segue into hard boiled eggs, their presentation, variations and uses in religious settings, followed by an in-depth analysis of the laws of kashrut and a passing mention of WMDs (making an unintentional but funny joke).</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  9:27 AM by AliceB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #232 from AliceB</title>
         <description>comment from AliceB on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Offense taken at joke.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  9:29 AM by AliceB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #233 from AliceB</title>
         <description>comment from AliceB on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Long apology to prior poster, our hosts, all various religious, ethnic, racial groups and nationalities.  Fawning thanks for the use of hands and eyes and the possibility of being able to contribute at all after long and very detailed description of disease (trolling for advice from any possible doctors reading this post).  God bless you all.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  9:34 AM by AliceB&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #234 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Completely off topic comparison of Asimov to Zelazny. Suggestion that <i>Robots of Amber</i> would have been ideal collaboration.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006 10:06 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #235 from Lizzy L</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obligatory Harlan Ellison reference, immediately deleted by moderator.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006 11:14 AM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #236 from Janet Croft</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insanely funny and clever first chapter of Robots in Amber posted after disgustingly short interval by Mike Ford. All others retire from the field in embarassment.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006 11:50 AM by Janet Croft&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #237 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster notices that his posts have been praised by mediator and moved to top entry of thread. Overwhelming self-consciousness ensues. Poster tries to live up to impossibly high self-imposed expectations. </p>

<p>chokes. </p>

<p>Poster is not seen on thread for several days. Eventually returns citing "deadline at work" as reason for absence.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:20 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #238 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reference made to Marx.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:23 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #239 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reference made to Lenin.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:24 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #240 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reference made to Trotsky</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:24 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #241 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>reference made to Stalin </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:25 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #242 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>new poster asks basic questions about Marks, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, revealing zero knowledge of the topic. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:26 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #243 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference made to Don McLean.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:28 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #244 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>old time poster answers question about Marks, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin in such a way to not actually convey any context to how they relate in history. Seemingly random facts are presented in unrelated topics. old timer closes by summarizing, indirectly, that to not know these things is to be a danger to a healthy democracy.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:29 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #245 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>new timer poster who asked original question thanks old timer for answering question, even though none of made sense to anyone but those who already know, and publicly vows to read up on it.</p>

<p>New timer is never heard from again.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:30 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #246 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acknowledgement that <i>American Pie</i> quote about Lenin/Marx or (Lennon/Groucho Marx) is unhelpful to a full understanding of precursors to the Cold War Ear.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:35 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #247 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Discussion of rhubarb leads to discussion of poison in leaves, which then forks off into discussion of all the plants and animals which are poisonous if eaten. several posters ponder how early man would have figured out what was safe to eat and what was not safe. </p>

<p>someone suggests that "Early Conservatives" would have been their choice for taste tester.</p>

<p>flame war ensues.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:36 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #248 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brief typo correction, consisting of the words, "or indeed Era."</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:36 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #249 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster notes that "two hard boiled eggs" comment was a reference to Marx, and honks. Digression towards Firesign Theatre comic works is anticipated. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:47 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #250 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Question about Antelope Freeway and Fredonia.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  2:54 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #251 from Faren Miller</title>
         <description>comment from Faren Miller on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Green eggs and spam!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  3:16 PM by Faren Miller&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #252 from Glenn Hauman</title>
         <description>comment from Glenn Hauman on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Return to Spanish Inquisition thread, since after all, no one was expecting it.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  4:19 PM by Glenn Hauman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #253 from CaoPaux</title>
         <description>comment from CaoPaux on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Relief that minimalist contribution succeeded in amusing at least one of august company.  Post illuminated with Snoopy dance and/or kowtowing emoticon(s).</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  4:56 PM by CaoPaux&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #254 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snarky quotation from Dorothy Parker.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  5:12 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #255 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Philosophical quotation of James Thurber, from "File and Forget."</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  7:48 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #256 from Thena</title>
         <description>comment from Thena on 14.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lurker de-lurks, delcaers de-lurking wiht numerous typose of excitement, and makes remark ambiguously pertinent to one or more abandoned threads.</p>

<p>Comment that we've already been there.  Nitpick about typonese.  Remark that 'typonese' is offensive.  Query as to which abandoned thread lurker is de-lurking to.  Remark as to obviousness of answers a, b, and c.  Digression ensues. </p>

<p>Lurker re-lurks, mission accomplished. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 14, 2006  9:26 PM by Thena&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #257 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>discussion of science fiction story involving time travel degenerates into issue with the world-rules the story used around time-travel. Time-traveling world rules for a number of stories are volunteered by numerous posters as thread seems to tangent but gain focus at the same time. However, when the "only organic material can travel through time" rule employed in "Terminator" is listed, another poster comments that said rule was, to quote, "stupid". Thread quickly tailspins into a flamewar regarding what time travel rules are "not stupid". Two camps emerge in thread: (1) All time travel is allowed, paradoxes must sort themselves out somehow, otherwise the current thread of time would have collapsed in on itself and we wouldn't be here. And (2) time travel into the past is not possible. Only traveling into the future is possible, and therefore, paradoxes cannot occur.</p>

<p>Poster in group (1) informs a poster defending group (2) that his methods show numerous logical fallacies, a lack of understanding of even basic quantum mechanics, and disregard for basic concepts, such as conservation of energy.</p>

<p>Group (2) poster responds by giving group (1) as a whole the title "camp bonehead".</p>

<p>entire thread implodes in incindeary attacks. After three weeks, only a few survivors remain. They pull themselves out of the rubble and start rebuilding.</p>

<p>A new thread is started regarding the poster buying a new pair of glasses and thinking about getting corrective surgery. Discussion wanders discussing the marvels of the human eye, optical systems in general, and laser surgury to correct vision problems. </p>

<p>Someone ponders whether it would be possible to take a powerful enough laser, some lenses, and build a Light Saber. </p>

<p>two camps emerge. </p>

<p>Flame war ensues...</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006 12:29 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #258 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone points out that as the duration of any blog thread continues, the probability of an incindeary flame war approaches one. And that this rule applies regardless of what topic started the thread.</p>

<p>Another poster provides a number of links to various threads that were quite long and even got "hot and heavy", but that the thread never actually turned into a "flame war". no insults were exchanged, the posters simply disagreed completely with each other.</p>

<p>First poster responds that the URL's posted point to threads that were simply too short to guarantee a flame war, and that had the thread gone longer, it would have flamed up.</p>

<p>Second poster says that's equivalent to predicting "it will eventually rain": if you wait long enough, the prediction is correct, but that makes the prediction completely useless.</p>

<p>First poster goes into long mathematical explanation of hyperbolic asymtotes, and how they approach a limit, but never actually touch it.</p>

<p>Second poster calls first poster "hyperbolic".</p>

<p>First poster tells second poster to "kiss my asymtote".</p>

<p>Flame war ensues.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006 12:37 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #259 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>several posters unplug, burn their computers in protest, then take up farming. Two groups emerge: those who use chemical pesticides and those who follow wholly organic methods...<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  1:29 AM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #260 from Keir</title>
         <description>comment from Keir on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Poem in pre-modern English by one of the regulars.</i></p>

<p>Post-Modern poetry, on the wonders of A. Warhol, Coke, and coke.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  2:35 AM by Keir&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #261 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mention of cats. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  7:50 AM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #262 from A. J. Luxton</title>
         <description>comment from A. J. Luxton on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comparison of cats to the royal family of Amber.  Puzzling digression into whether or not Prince Gerard could defeat the Incredible Hulk.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  8:20 AM by A. J. Luxton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #263 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Question raised as to exactly what would have made the Incredible Hulk that particular shade of green. Several heads explode.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  9:06 AM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #264 from Faren Miller</title>
         <description>comment from Faren Miller on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Question raised as to exactly what would have made the Incredible Hulk that particular shade of green.</i> </p>

<p>Green eggs!</p>

<p>Discussion ensues: maternal ova or Seussian dietary practices?</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006 11:19 AM by Faren Miller&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #265 from Greg London</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to Ayn Rand made.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  1:21 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #266 from Lizzy L</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Learned, long, incredibly boring post based on new poster's college dissertation on <i>Atlas Shrugged.</i></p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  3:57 PM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #267 from Madeline F</title>
         <description>comment from Madeline F on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attempt to answer previous commentor's call for kowtowing emoticon.  __o==2_</p>

<p>Expression of deep love of A.J. Luxton.  Suggestion that Gerard as a Norwegian Forest cat could beat Hulk using first-ranked cuteness.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  4:36 PM by Madeline F&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #268 from TexAnne</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*repeated hits on the "refresh" button in hopes that somebody's noticed how funny I am*</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  4:39 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #269 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acknowledgment that TexAnne is funny. Admission that   commenter's then-boyfriend recommended Zelazny and Herbert to her just over 30 years ago, neither of which she's read even today. Public admission that this perverse need to not read anything that relatives, friends or acquaintances tried to make mandatory (e.g. Harlan demanding the reading of Proust) may not be in the commenter's best interest. Assertion that the Hulk makes good coffee, and it's probably not green.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  6:55 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #270 from Julie L.</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Extended comparison between publishing scams and the current administration.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  7:23 PM by Julie L.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #271 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 15.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment that this is why no one trusts liberals any more, manee wordes mispeled.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 15, 2006  8:16 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #272 from Greg Machlin</title>
         <description>comment from Greg Machlin on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Embarassingly late post by lurker after all others have left party. Self-conscious reference to said lateness theatrically indicated. ("Looks around, whistles. Tumbleweed blows by.") Assurance lurker will keep up better with thread/website next time. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  1:24 AM by Greg Machlin&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #273 from A. J. Luxton</title>
         <description>comment from A. J. Luxton on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gasp of recognition towards Madeline F.  Stepping out of the meta, I do believe I know you from another shadow -- as an alternate version of myself, complete with (!!) declared gender.  Email to follow.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  1:41 AM by A. J. Luxton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #274 from Faren Miller</title>
         <description>comment from Faren Miller on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Suggestion that Gerard as a Norwegian Forest cat could beat Hulk using first-ranked cuteness.</i></p>

<p>Yet another link to online photo of Emperor Horton, cutest of all Norwegian Forest cats.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006 12:22 PM by Faren Miller&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #275 from Shawn M Bilodeau</title>
         <description>comment from Shawn M Bilodeau on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quick skim by late poster mis-reads "Emperor Horton" as "Emperor Norton" and begins several simultaneuous threads on Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, it's variations, American attitudes towards royalty, alternate realities in which Texas maintained its independance and became an empire [including speculation on what citizens of said empire would think of the current president's claim to be a "real" Texan], Death, and death.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  1:24 PM by Shawn M Bilodeau&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #276 from TexAnne</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lengthy screed by fanatical Texan about the current "president" who is not in the least a real Texan. Gloomy remarks on the isolation of red-state Democrats.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  3:46 PM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #277 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment wishes everyone a Happy Easter.</p>

<p>Flame war ensues.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  4:19 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #278 from Fragano Ledgister</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Praise for the goddess Ostara/Eostre is followed by poster pointing out that she probably was only a figment of the Venomous Bede's imagination.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  4:24 PM by Fragano Ledgister&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #279 from Lizzy L</title>
         <description>comment from Lizzy L on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Multiple links to various religious and anti-religious blogs. </p>

<p>Flame war does NOT ensue; all posters take a deep breath and simultaneously and independently decide: <i>"Let's not do that."</i></p>

<p>World peace follows.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  4:58 PM by Lizzy L&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #280 from Kip W</title>
         <description>comment from Kip W on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Teresa's my witness: I did this whole thing as a fillo in the early 80s. ("Dull observation." "Witty topper!")</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006  9:26 PM by Kip W&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #281 from Xopher (Christopher Hatton)</title>
         <description>comment from Xopher (Christopher Hatton) on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remark that previous poster is out of form, out of context, and out of time.</p>

<p>*depiction of witty and/or impossible gesture*</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006 10:05 PM by Xopher (Christopher Hatton)&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #282 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden</title>
         <description>comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Confirmation that Kip did indeed do that. Further observation that it was darned funny.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006 10:15 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #283 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Question about unfamiliar term "fillo," and whether that's related to Usenet/ARPANet, BBS, or bits of paper.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006 10:37 PM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #284 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 16.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Area 51 is mentioned.</p>

<p>Post dissappears without explanation.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 16, 2006 11:31 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #285 from Larry Brennan</title>
         <description>comment from Larry Brennan on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster mistakes fillo for phyllo. Recipe for triangular lobster-filled pastries is offered.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  1:39 AM by Larry Brennan&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #286 from fidelio</title>
         <description>comment from fidelio on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incoherent rant, from new poster, never heard from before--and never to be heard from again--on the lack of consideration presented by some people--not named--who are so inconsiderate as to share recipes using foods that provoke dangerous allergic reactions in people and are furthermore typically prepared in cruel and inhumane ways Several confused anecdotes relayed, giving in excruciating detail, episodes from the poster's own personal medical history as well as that of numerous relatives.  As poster loses steam, rant winds down, ending in inquiry as to status of last three manuscripts submitted to Tor. Both grammar and internal logic of not just the paragraphs but even the sentences in this rant is frquently lacking.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  9:02 AM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #287 from A. J. Luxton</title>
         <description>comment from A. J. Luxton on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Outraged response to one of first twenty comments, mis-identifying the author of the original comment badly enough that the perceived insult cannot be traced whatsoever by anyone who stumbles along later.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  9:15 AM by A. J. Luxton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #288 from A. J. Luxton</title>
         <description>comment from A. J. Luxton on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(fidelio ended world peace, you see.)</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  9:17 AM by A. J. Luxton&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #289 from fidelio</title>
         <description>comment from fidelio on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post by ordinarily active commenter who has been out of touch for a while. Observes that the phyllo pastries with lobster are really good with crab as well, but warns against use of fake Krab thingies. Offers to share recipes for phyllo-based pastries brought to a con three years ago. Anecdote about notorious writer.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006 12:47 PM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #290 from Patrick Connors</title>
         <description>comment from Patrick Connors on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notation that "filio" is a term for a small illustration used as filler, in this case in a fanzine.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006 12:56 PM by Patrick Connors&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #291 from Stefan Jones</title>
         <description>comment from Stefan Jones on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Filio is also a particle-board credenza sold by Ikea.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  2:09 PM by Stefan Jones&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #292 from Janet Croft</title>
         <description>comment from Janet Croft on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mention of Ikea sparks digression on bookcases, best method of construction, lack of sufficient, amusing or harrowing stories of collapse, as storage for cats, as chew toys for dogs.  Thread gallops off in all directions.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  2:26 PM by Janet Croft&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #293 from Sarah S</title>
         <description>comment from Sarah S on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nasty, if vaguely neurasthenic, complaint about the misuse of apostrophes. Post displays perfect apostrophe usage but a complete inability to manage commas. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  2:31 PM by Sarah S&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #294 from Christopher Davis</title>
         <description>comment from Christopher Davis on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mention of the conjectured apostrofly, which tends to leave extra apostrophes where they are not needed, but now and then removes one from where it properly should go.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  3:13 PM by Christopher Davis&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #295 from Sam Kelly</title>
         <description>comment from Sam Kelly on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Disgruntled grumble about the purportedly correct but in fact barbarously neologistic habit of distorting one's sentences in order to painstakingly avoid the appearance of a split infinitive, betraying some pretentions to a grammarian's dignity, and rather more confusion about the actual nature of an infinitive, split or whole.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  4:59 PM by Sam Kelly&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #296 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Ich bin ein Berliner" is quoted. <br />
thread forks off into discussion of jelly donuts.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  6:19 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #297 from abi</title>
         <description>comment from abi on 17.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"This is the sort of language up with which we will not put" quote brought up.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  6:26 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"Bad <em>N</em>, no dounut" meme invoked.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  6:26 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #299 from abi</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Memetic collision occurs.  Sugar and parts of speech are scattered everywhere.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  6:27 PM by abi&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #300 from Kip W</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Makes explicit the punch line carefully implied by earlier poster; feels entitled to full credit for witticism.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006  8:02 PM by Kip W&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #301 from CHip</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Thread gallops off in all directions.</i></p>

<p>Response that thread did that so long ago that pieces are now meeting each other at the antipodes.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 17, 2006 11:11 PM by CHip&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #302 from Petter Hesselberg</title>
         <description>comment from Petter Hesselberg on 18.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sharply worded warning from Depratment of Cerative Speling.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 18, 2006  5:31 AM by Petter Hesselberg&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #303 from Kip W</title>
         <description>comment from Kip W on 18.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notes waggishly that agreement on obscure point by two longtime antagonistic posters must surely herald end of world, as predicted in major religion. "Caps it off with quote from Bill Murray movie!"</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 18, 2006  6:33 AM by Kip W&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #304 from fidelio</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Link to knitted, fulled Stay-puft Marshmallow man.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 18, 2006  9:17 AM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #305 from Sarah S</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reference to Pepys Marshmallow particle, justified by fidelio's comment, but merely as an excuse for pointing out that Pepys' diary is online. </p>

<p>http://www.pepysdiary.com/</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 18, 2006  9:53 AM by Sarah S&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #306 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 18.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Link posted depicting re-enactment of popular movie using nothing but fruits, vegatables, and other food products for characters. A blender replaces the Carbonite chamber, and cheese graters are used for Tie Fighters. one-handed corkscrews are used for X-wing fighters. And the "death star" is implemented with two spaghetti colanders.</p>

<p>famous lines get equally mangled.<br />
"Use the fork, Luke-Warm."<br />
"Never underestimate the power of the Dark Bread"<br />
and the jaw-dropper:<br />
"Luke-Warm, I am your Waiter."<br />
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!"</p>

<p><br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 18, 2006  2:49 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #307 from Karen Funk Blocher</title>
         <description>comment from Karen Funk Blocher on 19.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Discussion comparing merits of <i>Hardware Wars</i>, <i>Porklips Now</i>, and any other parody trailers commenter can remember.  </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 19, 2006 12:10 AM by Karen Funk Blocher&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #308 from fidelio</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Link to site with pictures of the Bloody Assizes as portrayed by Peeps; Judge Jeffries is played by a Thanksgiving turkey Peep, and the one who will become Captain Blood by an Easter rabbit Peep, with the ears bent down into an Errol Flynnish 'do.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 19, 2006  9:02 AM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #309 from fidelio</title>
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         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>poster realizes link not working due to HTML error; reposts fixed link and URL with incoherent apologies.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 19, 2006  9:03 AM by fidelio&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #310 from Glenn Hauman</title>
         <description>comment from Glenn Hauman on 19.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster points out that previous poster is not alone, as blog host also screwed up HTML link on Sidelights. General soothing noises made in both directions.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 19, 2006 11:45 AM by Glenn Hauman&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #311 from Greg London</title>
         <description>comment from Greg London on 20.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nekkid chicks<br />
WOOOHOOO!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 20, 2006 10:27 PM by Greg London&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #312 from David Goldfarb</title>
         <description>comment from David Goldfarb on 21.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>notes possible comment spam on ""Blog""</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 21, 2006  4:58 AM by David Goldfarb&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #313 from TexAnne</title>
         <description>comment from TexAnne on 21.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poster dissolves in giggles.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 21, 2006  6:38 AM by TexAnne&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #314 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Incomprehensible acronym that only makes sense to members of a totally different forum or email list.  </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:25 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #315 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Subsequent request for clarification of acronym and other more common acronyms such as LOL and K/S by internet newbie. <br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:27 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #316 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rambling response by another poster about the origins of acronym on Usenet or FidoNet or Genie.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:27 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #317 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Digression into discussion about slash fiction with many links marked not work safe.<br />
</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:28 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #318 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Complaint that some links are not work safe. Long rant about how this is a family forum.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:29 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #319 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment that previous poster was not forced at gunpoint to open the links.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:32 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:32:19 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #320 from Hilary Hertzoff</title>
         <description>comment from Hilary Hertzoff on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very embarrased comment from first poster about how she didn't mean to stir up trouble and will now gracefully retire back to lurking.</p>

<p>Apology for posting multiple times.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  1:33 PM by Hilary Hertzoff&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:33:54 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #321 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on 22.Apr.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clueless poster adds comments days after all the cool people have moved on to another thread. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 22, 2006  8:36 PM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:36:36 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #322 from John M. Ford notes more of the old spamflakes</title>
         <description>comment from John M. Ford notes more of the old spamflakes on 17.May.06</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like another iteration of the same brainless bot.</p>

<p>Remember, buy gray-market crap from morons.  It keeps them out of politics.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted May 17, 2006 12:49 AM by John M. Ford notes more of the old spamflakes&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #323 from Fragano Ledgister sees persistent spam</title>
         <description>comment from Fragano Ledgister sees persistent spam on  9.Apr.07</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It keeps on coming, like a zombie.</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April  9, 2007  7:42 AM by Fragano Ledgister sees persistent spam&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #324 from Jon Meltzer</title>
         <description>comment from Jon Meltzer on  9.Apr.07</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spam. </p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April  9, 2007  7:44 AM by Jon Meltzer&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:44:59 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #325 from Mary Aileen sees still more spam</title>
         <description>comment from Mary Aileen sees still more spam on  9.Apr.07</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>credit card debt</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April  9, 2007  2:23 PM by Mary Aileen sees still more spam&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:23:01 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Blog&quot; -- comment #326 from Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey spots Return of Son of Comment Spam</title>
         <description>comment from Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey spots Return of Son of Comment Spam on 11.Apr.07</description>
         <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The gnurrs come from the voodvork out!</p>]]>
	 &lt;p&gt;Posted April 11, 2007  5:03 PM by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey spots Return of Son of Comment Spam&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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