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Pithy Posting Pearls
2006-05-26
Rantburg continues to grow, and it's now typical for us to have 100+ posts and 500+ comments a day. Please help us make this work. We (that is, Fred) are making site improvements such as the duplicates checker, and the mods are working to keep the posts moving. Contributors can help us substantially by doing the following to posts --

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    Posted by:Steve White

    #7  damns, a dupe, and we were just admonsihed on that. i am standing in a corner now.
    Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-05-26 14:12  

    #6  Re #4: Where should this one go: How about Moveon.org?

    maybe in bold and all caps, for easy reading.....
    Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-05-26 14:11  

    #5  Re #4: Where should this one go: How about Moveon.org?

    maybe in bold and all caps, for easy reading.....
    Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-05-26 14:11  

    #4  Where should this one go?

    A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. The robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, "What's your IQ?"

    The man replies "150" and the robot proceeds to make conversation about global warming factors, quantum physics and spirituality, biomimicry, environmental interconnectedness, string theory, nanotechnology, and sexual proclivities.

    The customer is very impressed and thinks, "This is really cool." He decides to test the robot. He walks out of the bar, turns around, and comes back in for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the perfectly prepared drink and asks him, "What's your IQ?"

    The man responds, "about a 100."

    Immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, about football, NASCAR, baseball, supermodels, favorite fast foods, guns, and women's body parts.

    Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one more test. He heads out and returns, the robot serves him and asks, "What's your IQ?"

    The man replies, "Er, 50, I think."

    And the robot says... real slow,

    "So.. is... your... party... gonna... nominate... Hillary... for.. president ???
    Posted by: Besoeker   2006-05-26 09:59  

    #3  Too late, Steve - we sent that to the nice lady in Nigeria. ;-p
    Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-05-26 09:52  

    #2  or, just send your bank account number and mothers maiden name and we'll cut out the middle man.
    Posted by: Steve   2006-05-26 09:48  

    #1  Thanks to you all, and they can be sent via the tip jar.
    Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-05-26 09:43  

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