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You could have heard a pin drop
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| 31 May 2011
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Posted on 06/01/2011 11:30:52 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:30:56 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
Oh, this one is an absolute keeper, BIG TIME.
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:34:15 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:35:19 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Herman Cain stopped for gas in South Carolina and inadvertently won a Primary debate.)
To: TLI
When I read it, I thought the same thing
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:35:25 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: RockinRight
Don’t know, though I have my doubts (The quote about asking for land is iffy, I think—we do have military bases in foreign countries)
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:36:33 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Still funny no matter how many times I read it.
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:39:33 AM PDT
by
Vendome
("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
To: ShadowAce
French Combat Deaths for the Battle of Normandy = ZIP ZERO NADA!!!!! Look it up!!!!
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:40:00 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:41:14 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
To: RockinRight
First two have been floating around for some time and are well-attested.
No idea about the others.
To: massgopguy
When I was first reading this, I was expecting the “I flew in here in 1945, but I didn’t stop” line
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:43:41 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
we do have military bases in foreign countries We don't own any of them except Gitmo.
We pay outlandish rent for the others.
To: massgopguy
Not to mention the French firing on our landing in Africa.
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:45:11 AM PDT
by
hometoroost
(Love the Onion story on a closed-ceremony "transparency" award. Oh wait, that actually happened.)
To: Dan(9698)
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:45:22 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: massgopguy
Not to mention the French firing on our landing in Africa.
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:45:25 AM PDT
by
hometoroost
(Love the Onion story on a closed-ceremony "transparency" award. Oh wait, that actually happened.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:45:43 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
( Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
To: RockinRight
Checked Snopes about Powell:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/powell.aspI was actually search for "you could hear a pin drop", figuring that by now, they'd have investigated all of them.
Short answer: the spirit of it is true for Powell, but it was overly simplified. Full text is at snopes.
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:46:57 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
06/01/2011 11:48:04 AM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Professional Engineer
To: ShadowAce
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