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Offline Neon Genesis

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #30 on: Feb 17, 2012, 07:05:13 PM »
There should be one of these memes just for Christopher Hitchens.

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #31 on: Feb 17, 2012, 07:06:26 PM »
Speaking of alcohol!
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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #32 on: Feb 17, 2012, 07:36:06 PM »
I really liked this geology one... it's so true...

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #33 on: Feb 17, 2012, 09:19:28 PM »
Found the mommy one, it too needs more alcohol.
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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #35 on: Feb 17, 2012, 09:52:32 PM »
This has been circulating for years.

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #36 on: Feb 17, 2012, 10:03:48 PM »
Chew wins the thread :D
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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #37 on: Feb 17, 2012, 10:33:12 PM »
As seen on Neatorama.

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #38 on: Feb 18, 2012, 05:01:23 PM »
As seen on Neatorama.

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #39 on: Feb 18, 2012, 09:11:43 PM »

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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #41 on: Feb 19, 2012, 03:16:15 AM »
 :roflolmao:
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any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now;
let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #42 on: Feb 19, 2012, 05:33:49 AM »
beleth = serious cat...i can see that
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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #43 on: Feb 19, 2012, 07:42:42 AM »
Well played FX
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Re: 'What I Really Do' meme
« Reply #44 on: Feb 19, 2012, 08:43:32 AM »
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.  What statistic allows one to identify the Nations where Literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling and suppressing it.
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