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Fortney H. Stark III

I can see why he might not be thrilled by his given name.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

If "Fish" is good enough for a detective under Barney Miller, it's good enough for the American Humanist Association! SO THERE! 😝

Edit: He was a DETECTIVE, NOT a Congressman! 🤦‍♂️

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larry parker's avatar

Miller.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

OOPS! 🤦‍♂️ I'll fix it!

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Die Anyway's avatar

And to be open, I had my own name issues as a child. My given name is Thomas but as a child my parents called me Tommy. At some point I decided that I didn't like "Tommy" and said I wanted to be Tom or preferably Thom (pronounced the same but spelled with the h). Fortunately my parents were ok with that and I have been Thom for most of my life.

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Straw's avatar

I had name issues after I married. My husbands father never forgave me for not change my last name to their family name. Like my last name wasn't worthy. It actually means a lot to me. It arrived to me from my father's father and my mother's mother and I know the history.

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Richard S. Russell's avatar

I dunno, Fort Stark sounds kinda F-Troopy to me and has its own appeal.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Now I’m trying to remember the fort name in F Troop without googling it. Something silly, as I recall.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Ft. Courage.

*whistles theme song*

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Joan the Dork's avatar

That's when you just lean 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 into it with 24/7/365 steampunk cosplay.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Are we to conclude that “Pete” was not his father’s name?

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Die Anyway's avatar

You know, I didn't think about that. "III" usually means your father and grandfather had the same name but maybe there are exceptions. I'm a Jr. so my father and I are both Thomas John but his family called him TJ and after he joined the Marines he was known as Jack. We never had to distinguish which "Thomas" people were referring to because we were never known by the same name.

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Fish Stark's avatar

Dad was Fortney Hillman Stark Jr but went by "Pete" for most of his life. So when I wanted to be called something different he didn't have much of a leg to stand on! ;)

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Thank you for explaining. I look forward to joining your organization. It sounds like you will be a great asset!

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Well, ain't that a fine fettle of Fish! Fish Stark sounds like the right kind of person to lead an important secular organization, and I look forward to hearing more about him and his work with the AHA as he grows into the role.

Greets, Fish! Wade on in; the water ain't deep!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Let just hope he keeps his head.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I won't take the bait on this.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

You must admit, though- that was a great line!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

It was, but I won’t be reeled in.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Yeah, right. As if you aren't hooked already.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

A gaff on my part. I'm a worm.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Pffff, Greyjoy killer 😝

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Fish Stark's avatar

Eat them up! Yum!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I am serious. Don't let anyone Robb you of it, you will Ned it 😇

Sinon, bienvenue.

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Mr.E's avatar

make good crab bait.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I was stoned the first time I saw that video, and almost peed my pants, I laughed so hard. I wondered afterward if it was a real song.

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Joe King's avatar

Congratulations to Mr Stark. It's good to see the young people taking charge, and he seems to be eminently qualified.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Isn't it though! I love it.

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Kay-El's avatar

I like all kinds of fish, seems like I’ll like this Fish too. Props for picking a name as a child that other kids could make fun of, (probably no more so than his real name), and standing his ground to be called what he wished.

If wishes were fishes….. 😂

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Len Koz's avatar

Gurney Halleck will see all these "comedians" in the arena.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

They will end in dishes ?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

And might be delish-ishes!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

With or without relish ?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

A fetish for relish? 😋

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Actually, I never enjoy-ish it.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Don't even need to be super-stishes.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Fish Stark.

If Iron Man and Aquaman had a baby?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Well, Iron Man and Namor, the Sub-Mariner.

Aquaman isn’t a part of the Marvel Universe. Arthur Curry is by the Distinguished Competition. :)

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

It's one of those crossover events or something.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Amalgam. The mercifully brief unholy wedding of Marvel and DC. *shudder*

But it's Marvel Universe canon (officially designated Earth-9062). And I actually did like Spider-Boy, the only one I bought.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Je l'avais dit 🎶

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Beware of NOGODZ wrath 🤣

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Quick OT

Our transphobic troll Alan Steed has been given one of these

imgur.com/gallery/AcDTY83

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Dammit, all the best stuff happens while I'm asleep.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Sweet, sweet insomnia is your frenemy 😁

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Once, Hemant posted an article at 3AM, my time. By the time I got to it, it was 4 hours old. That makes it difficult (to say the least) to comment with anything that hasn't already been said.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Weird, I don't remember an article posted at lunch time, the earliest was around 2pm 🤔

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I did say "3AM, my time." :)

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Yeah and you are 9 hours behind me, so 3 + 9 = ? 😁

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Stupid planet won't stop rotating. ;)

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Oh, pauvre petite pitchoun* transphobe persécutée.

* Provence, Southern France, word for a young child, usually an endearing term. Works very well with sarcasm too 😁

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larry parker's avatar

I saw their original comment, I didn't get to see the second one. : (

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Consolation prize.

First email (first part of the email irrelevant with trollouney) "By the way, you got a new record. Barely 20 minutes before luring a dawkins' groupie today."

Second "Hello again, the dawkins groupie from earlier is evolving to troll. Species temporary name Alan Steed, I hope for the poor John they are not related."

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

👍 An extra one for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 reference.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

I had a huge crush on Mrs Peel in my youth.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I know I did. One of many TV crushes. :D

That show was created by Sydney Newman, who also created Doctor Who.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Who didn't? she wore her catsuit well.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

For one second I was wondering what you were talking about. I know it under the name "Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir" (melon hat and leather boots).

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Lots of babble. Contradictory babble, at one point. AS talked about dignity and respect in the second one, seeming to forget his transphobia in the first one.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Sorry, I forgot to take a screenshot. I wanted him out of here before Samuel Abram thinks we are letting transphobes running amok.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I reported the first one and it wasn't too long after that that he got the boot (not sure how many others reported it to get him and and his hatred gone).

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I sent an email to Hemant after the first, he was still in dawkins' groupie territory and not quite a troll then and I said as such. OTOH, the second time was doubtless.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

AS called that lame, hateful claim that transgenders choose their sexual orientation a fact (it's not and they don't). That was more than enough for me.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

See my newest answer to Larry ;)

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cdbunch's avatar

But you didn't give Joan a chance to (sorry the only word for it I know) bitchslap him.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Not this time, we have a new trans member since yesterday, and I don't know if they are used to our way to play with trolls.

Wait a couple of hours, this one was an early shot. There will be others since damkins was mentionned.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

❤️😁

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NOGODZ20's avatar

OT

Batshit blonde dimbulb FOX Newscrazy Maria Bartiromo has jumped the shark. She's now accused the Biden Administration of trying to assassinate Donald Trump (as opposed to the Republican kook who actually DID try).

From Farron Cousins on yesterday's "Ring of Fire":

youtu.be/uQrKqiPhapI

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Ah, Fox News... when everything is drowning in shit, you can always count on Fox News to be the overflowing sewer main responsible for the flood.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Just plain insane!

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

And interesting considering how much they just paid out to Dominion voting systems. I thought they had acquired a little bit more sense. But I guess the libel laws in the US do tend to fable the libeler rather than the libelee. At least if you're a public figure of some sort.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Very early OT but it's too good. I love the taste of unhinged morons tears 😁

https://youtu.be/FDzgD76t3ZA?si=4h7NMdAT5tpJHwht

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NOGODZ20's avatar

They won't stop digging until they reach the earth's core...and maybe not even then.

The Ruskies really favor Trump, don't they? All the more reason to defeat him. Preferably in a landslide.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Agreed. I don't know if it's possible, but the way Trump has been acting up lately, I still hope for at least a 10-point spread in the popular vote, with Trump losing ALL the battleground states and maybe even Florida!

If that doesn't wake that dipshit up, nothing will.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

And Texas – don't forget Texas. Christ, I hate Ted Cruz and I'm not even American.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

His own family doesn't like him.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

The dog especially hates him.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I so hope Snowflake lauched himself/herself at Cruz's crotch, fangs bared.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He left SnowBall to die, in a freezing house, during a power outage.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

A journalist asked someone in Congress, a politician, or an aide, why people instantly hate Fled Cruz. The reply was, "Because it saves time."

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cdbunch's avatar

Ted Fucking Cruz -FIFY

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Hell, if we could flip Texas, I would break out what's left of my 18-year-old MacAllan and drink a toast to Harris, Walz, and the Democratic party!

As for Cruz? He's a waste of protoplasm!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He's a smarmy, smug, jerk who thinks (quite mistakenly) that he is the smartest person in the room. He also helped to push all those lackwit-fundy-judges into positions in the texas courts.

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Mr.E's avatar

we are not even 100 percent sure it was Russia that did this. their are lots of deplorables who support trump

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Apparently the Chinese heavily favour Harris. So maybe they'll balance each other out. :)

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

I heard the opposite, and that it is the Iranians who prefer Harris. Putin and Xi consider baby donny to be a useful idiot.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Didn't the Iranians recently hack both campaigns?

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Probably.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He's been laundering the oligarch's money for decades. First through his casinos, then through his (overpriced) real estate.

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cdbunch's avatar

There is no bottom, apparently they're in an unobtainium drilling rig.

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cdbunch's avatar

Assuming that the part of her being in a hit-and-run accident were true, I find it hard to believe she'd remember clearly the face of the woman who hit her. There is nothing in that story but the word of a woman who was hit 13 years ago, as a 13 year old child. The doubling of 13 also sounds suspicious to me.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Funny what can be found. An authentic Alisha Brown victim of a car accident but in 2016 in Hawaii

https://www.khon2.com/local-news/its-hard-to-believe-that-im-alive-two-years-later-crash-victim-still-in-recovery/

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Mr.E's avatar

It was Obama driving that car... even though secret service will not let him drive any more.

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Mr.E's avatar

the website in question has been taken offline.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Looking forward to seeing Fish Stark take on the NatCs and the new Contract on America known as Project 2025 (no matter how many times the Heritage Foundation changes the name or tries to hide what they want to do).

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Donrox's avatar

After discarding christianity, I considered Unitarianism, but as an apatheist they still had too much woo.

And they are still a church, full of posers, cliques, and busybodies.

I prefer the comradery of the Friendly Atheist community!

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

French words of the day : Fiche le camp* Don 😇

* Hit the road.

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Donrox's avatar

I won't be back, no more, no more!

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Congratulations and good luck!

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Bagen Onuts's avatar

The far-right is angry because they're being judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin.

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Mr.E's avatar

Trump judge people by how much they can help him at that time.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

I judge Trump both by the content of his (bad) character and by the weird color of his hair. *smiles*

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cdbunch's avatar

The Daz3d store calls it's model of his hair Solid Gold hair.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Can someone invoke Rumpelstinskin ?

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

You just did. *smiles*

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

No, I don't have straw to transfo....

*Book a ticket plane to Norway*

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

I will be boycotting that store now that I have learned of it associating the weirdness on top of Donald Trump's head with a singing show that I immensely enjoyed as a child. *smiles*

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Solid Fool's Gold might be more apt.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

Solidly foolish gold.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

A fellow modder?

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cdbunch's avatar

Wonder how often he ran into a 'legal names only' teacher. I'm betting 0.

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ericc's avatar

His primary and secondary schooling predates that historic revolution in conservative Christian theology. After all, he is a whopping 29.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

What are the Egyptians even doing there? Didn't they all drown in the great flood? They were already ancient by the time of Genesis.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

They raised themselves from the dead in order to learn how to wrap mummies./s

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NOGODZ20's avatar

OT

Anyone want to tell him or should I?

gocomics.com/wumo/2024/09/03

That steer must be a MAGAt

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larry parker's avatar

He doesn't have a beef now but wait till he gets to the factory.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Talk about horns of a dilemma.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Stop hoofing you two.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Yep, they are trying to steer you wrong.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

You know me, I won't cow.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Seen but not herd?

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

I ain't telling him. Definitely want to steer clear of that one.

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