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The Tuxedo

Well, go on. This ain't no peep show.

That's a winner! :thumbsup:

Sometimes people think they're in the caption contest thread, or post lines from TV shows. (And when the line's good I want to know what movie it's from -- might want to watch it some time... :) )

Close enough*. Winner! :biggrina: (* That's "The world's gonna end unless we have sex right now!". It's a chore to check answers when the wording isn't quite right.[/firstworldproblem])

Among the famous founders, just Thomas Paine, Samuel Huntington, and the Adams family. Also of course plenty of obscure figures -- Wikipedia says fifteen signers of the DoI didn't own any slaves. The exception that proves the rule. Sam Adams received a slave as a gift. He freed her...

Thanks. What movie do you guys want to unreliably claim this still is from?

Judaism and Marxism are religions. They're based on faith. Reason does not lead to faith-based initiatives. But that aside, Judaism and Marxism are conflicting religions. If reason somehow did lead inevitably to either one, that would inevitably preclude it from leading to the other.

"Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest...

Thanks! Let's see what y'all can make of this one...

Then why not be rid of him? If a few ramshackle colonists in America can send him packing, why can't we?

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion

The Greuthungi were a Gothic tribe, and the Goths originated in Scandinavia, so there must have been a previous west-to-east migration/conquest for them to have gotten to the Pontic steppe in the first place, presumably lost to history because the principles were illiterate. Also, I'd think the...

According to the OED: e·va·sive /əˈvāsiv/ adjective - tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation, especially by responding only indirectly. - directed toward avoidance or escape. Arguments have neither commitments to make nor selves to reveal; they do not respond but rather are responses...

What is it you feel I'm trying to fool someone about?

It makes sense that some words show up in both the prefix and suffix lists -- why let good construction material go to waste -- but why aren't the corresponding table entries white? What kind of navelslurper can't come up with a more creative putdown than assass?

Mission: Impossible

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I've seen Both Sides Now from both sides now.