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Robusto

02:10

@It'sOver I thought about weighing in on this and then I remembered I don't really give a shit.

Word of the day: confuck (portmanteau of confuse or confound and fuck: they did this just to confuck with you.

Note that it takes the "with" complement due to fuck in the latter position of the word.

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Cerberus

04:03

@RegDwigнt @MattE.Эллен @Robusto Look what I chanced upon in an old folder:

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06:58

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Matt E. Эллен

08:43

@Cerberus ah the memories!

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RegDwigнt

10:56

@Cerberus I have a ton of these. I'd show you, but they're at home.

I never delete anything.

I have a whole folder named "ELU" going back to the beginning of time. With all kinds of images and text files and everything.

@Robusto I feel like it wants to take the against. Maybe by analogy with conspire.

> They whispered in dark corners and went out late at night and confucked and confucked. But the emperor Claudius knew they were up to something.

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Robusto

13:58

@Cerberus Them was the days, ne?

@RegDwigнt So he did. And Messalina got her just deserts in the end.

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Cerberus

15:42

@MattE.Эллен Sweet, huh.

@RegDwigнt Good, then I can clean out my Dropbox!

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Cerberus

@Robusto We were good!

Robusto

15:57

@Cerberus Yes, and fighting battles on a shoestring!

I still think we should have called ourselves "Phantom Limb" ...

The Shins - Phantom Limb [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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I have no idea what music videos actually have to do with the music.

Joan of Arc, conquistadors, the Donner Party? Why not Charlie Chaplin as emperor of Rome?

Deja mucho que desear.

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RegDwigнt

21:18

@Cerberus you can clean out your Dropbox regardless.

@Robusto some people are just determined to be good at whatever they touch. (Otherwise, what is even the point.) Others suck balls even if they never touch a thing.

@Robusto for a video from 2006, it looks remarkably like a video from 1996.

RegDwigнt

21:46

Speaking of music and years, Rhapsody in Blue is in the public domain now. Joy to the world.