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Seinfeld on Facebook

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Have you ever called someone up, and you're disappointed when they answer the phone?  You wanted the machine.  You know, and you're always kind of thrown off, you go "Oh, I eh, I - I didn't know you were there, I ah - just wanted to leave a message saying, sorry I missed you." So here what we have is two people who hate each other, don't really ever want to talk, but the phone machine is like this relationship respirator keeping these marginal brain dead relationships alive .And we all do it -- Why? So that when we come home, you can see that little flashing red light; You go "all right, messages." You see, people need that.  It's very important for human beings to feel they are popular and well liked amongst a large group of people that we don't care for. From legendary The Bubble Boy Episode. Just replace answering machine with Facebook. Of course there was no Facebook in the eighties. But the people were, well..., people if you know wha...

Riyo Mori

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My mom used to tell me that I should marry a Japanese girl, because only a Japanese girl would be able to deal with the mess I cause at home. After moving out, I have gotten tidier, but I might keep my mother's wish, if I meet one like Riyo Mori , who became Miss Universe 2007 last night...

Sweat baby, sweat baby

Mating seasons for homo sapiens sapiens is open. For those looking for a hook up phrase, here is the song with the best one in the history "you and me baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do it in discovery channel"

Ghost of electricty will be dead in thousand light years thank you...

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In my previous post I jokingly asked if Dylan was a Cylon, after his song All Along The Watchtower was used as the wake-up call for the 4 of the remaining 5 Cylons in the fleet. After thinking about it, I realized that Dylan can really be a Cylon... In Battlestar Galactica, the Cylon warships, named the Basestars , are just like other Cylons half machine half human. Each base star is for the sake of control and identity is a hybrid : Hybrids control the whole ship with their subconscious mind. Their consciousness, stuck between life and death utter incoherent sentences, which a certain group of Cylons interpret as words of god. Here is an example of their utterances: "Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force the embryo becomes a fish that we don't enter until a plate we're here to experience evolve the little toe atrophy don't ask me how I'll be dead in a thousand light years thank you thank you Genesis turns to it's source reductio...

Fack You Man, Japanese Swear Words or All Your Base Are Belong To Us

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An entry in my sisters blog reminded me of an urban legend about the Japanese language. I've hear in many places that the Japanese language does not have any swear words in it. It's a total lie, and is a result of Western ignorance, which tend to mock everything that it does not understand. As a follower of Myth Busters, I feel it's my duty to fight against this myth. There are two reasons behind this myth. First of all, there are complex levels of respect that is built in the Japanese language. Almost every word has versions of varying respect levels. Take the pronoun "you" for example, "Anata" is a very respectful way of saying "you", where as "Teme" is a form of "you", so rude, that is almost equivalent to saying fuck you every time you address a particular person [1] . They have different versions of numbers, so the two in "two people" is not same as the two in "two dogs". If you refer two fell...