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  1. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It was a rhetorical question.
    (Lifted from the movie 'Snatch')

  2. Re:Herodotus' History on Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed · · Score: 1

    Neither, it was a "hydraulic ram".

  3. Re:Flying Snake Experts? on Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed · · Score: 3, Funny

    As God is my witness, I thought those things could fly.

  4. Re:Asset stripped.. on Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory? · · Score: 1

    What is the Google motto?
    Something like 'Do Know Evil'?

  5. Re:At least it wasn't an Aztek on Slashdot PT Cruiser Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought you were going to tell us about the time you blew a seal.
    Or was that a walrus?

  6. Re:euphemism for "lie" on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    Exactly!
    What he meant to say was "If you like your privacy, you can keep your privacy."

  7. Re:Get Ready on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, the AK-15 is way more reliable than the AR-74 and has more penetration.
    Everyone knows that, just ask Louis Armstrong (the first man on the moon).

  8. Re:So now she's a sociologist, too? on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your input Al Gore.

  9. Soylent is a real time saver. on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 1

    Soylent is a real time saver.
    You can warm it up and pour it right into the toilet.

  10. Re:Karma on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 1

    Well, look at the bright side: Free Smog!
    --
    It seems the U.S. has truly lost, it has even outsourced its smog production.

  11. 5 minutes to midnight? on Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight · · Score: 2

    Is that Eastern time or Zulu?

  12. Re:Hmmm... let me guess? on Mathematical Model Helps Estimate Optimal Timing of Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    For more detail check the newspaper, perhaps the Perl Harbor Gazette.

  13. If I had a hammer? on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 1

    If I had a hammer there would be one less folk singer.

  14. Re:They foraged for 2-3 hours per day on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 1

    So, you're more of a vagitarian?

  15. Re:All the news that matters on US Customs Destroys Virtuoso's Flutes Because They Were "Agricultural Items" · · Score: 1

    "So those too stupid for the Army are sent over to the TSA, right?"
    --
    No, they go to Congress.

  16. Wrong. on Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? · · Score: 1

    Google already provides this service, to the appropriate clients.
    Just serach for Soros and ###ACK ###80x805 Disconnect

  17. Re: The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    Lucky the ruling politicians and media aren't like that...

  18. Re:Diet usually indicates lifestyle on You Are What Your Dad Ate · · Score: 1

    I think you are conflating hobo's with bum's.

  19. So, this is why my kids on You Are What Your Dad Ate · · Score: 1

    So, this is why my kids like BlackJack and Hookers?

  20. FTFY on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 2

    No native American plants require honey bees for pollination..
    Many native American plants require do require bees for pollination but the imported (and possibly undocumented) European bees just don't do the job.
    --
    See Native Bees of North America: http://bugguide.net/node/view/475348

  21. Re:Do be a Do Bee on Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies · · Score: 1

    A Romper Room reference?

  22. Re:It sounds like London's logic on Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End · · Score: 1

    I first thought of the city and could not understand the reference.
    I suspect you are referring to Professor Leslie London and his "Affirmative Action and the invisibility of white privilege," article.
    Google led me to: http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper/archives/?id=6412

  23. Re:Why do people accept this false premise on Smart Cars: Too Distracting? · · Score: 1

    A failed education system.
    When politicians/media/social activists team up to constantly cry that the most expensive (and under performing) system just needs more money, then more money, then more money (the only solution), what hope is there?
    After all, why replace that Edsel when what you really need to do is pay the driver more?
    What is that you say?
    You are stuck in a ditch and the wheels are flat?
    Clearly you are not paying your driver enough, think of the children!

  24. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Suppose the are Coyotes.
    1> Procure large vehicle
    2> Stuff vehicle with people that pay all they have to get into the U.S.A.
    3> !!??!!
    4> Everyone meets their Prophet.
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    Now how about wishing a painful horrible death on the people who did it.?

  25. Re:Let's see what the judge says... on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    I trust you will say hello to him in your high school reading class, perhaps on your way to the reading comprehension class.
    Take note that above his reply is the AC stating "Can you point to a ban on firearms in Washington DC? No, you can't because such a thing never existed".
    Then you choose to vilify him over which one of the many gun laws used to ban ownership/possession/use of firearms was overturned?