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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    Maybe nobody remembers the Bible no more, but significant tribes were founded in the same manner we're discussing here. Lot escaped Sodom with his lucious daughters who each in turn fed him much vino and jumped him while he was smashed. That's two nights running in the cave, and two tribes for Israel.

    Genesis 19. Lore bless us all.
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    09/24/09

    @Tremonius: +2

    +1 for great recall on that passage (I always forget which one it is, and +1 for calling it lore. That's geek cred.
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    09/24/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: I am amazed often at how susceptable be the lord to his environment. Lie with dogs and fleas, you know. Like, when he was hanging around with a lawless breed of violent savages, he was one like to them. The New Testament was His rehab, but it only lasted to the Inquisition.

    Hearted.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    I don't know why that girl just hasn't been removed from his custody, given the extreme alchoholic events she's had to witness. Oh, dad's curled up on the floor eating a hamburger completely out of his mind?Oh, dad binged on vodka for a day and I had to take him to the hospital with alcohol poisoning?

    In approprirate shopping outings are the least of their problems.
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    09/24/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: I remember watching my mother drink so much that she couldn't walk for a few days. Oddly, I chose to remain out of concern and trying to help out.

    I know this feels like one of those "if I were them, I would do this" situations, but it's not. The reality is far different than what you imagine.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    Angelina Jolie and James Haven's kiss seem so quaint now.
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    09/24/09

    @ManchuCandidate: So does Ryan O'Neal's hitting-on-Tatum-at-Farrah's funeral bit.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    Good grief. Whatever happened to fathers not being able to deal with their daughters as people with sex parts, so they just didn't really speak to them, unless it was to give them a few dollars when they came home to wash laundry after college or tell them that their current boyfriend is a loser/punk/stupid idiot who knows nothing about cleaning a bar-b-que grill, obviously.

    Bring back awkward silences, disapproving glares, and "I don't know. Ask you mother." until you're 35 and you have children of your own and he becomes "Poppy," whom your children adore because he lets them feed the ducks on Sundays, and who you adore now, because he wasn't your "Friend" growing up.

    Does this exist anymore?
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    Image of PierceRadashack PierceRadashack
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    Woody Allen was ahead of his time.
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    The Lone Scout promoted this comment Maxichamp approved this comment PierceRadashack was starred PierceRadashack was unstarred
    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    You gotta go where you wanna go
    Do what you wanna do
    With whoever you wanna do it with
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    Celebrities! They're just like us! Um, wait a minute...
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    09/24/09

    In reply to Hasselhoffs Race to Jump on Inapropriate Relationship Bandwagon
    Hulk Hogan and his daughter creep me out: remember when he was spreading suntan lotion - on her upper thighs?? *shudder*

    [www.zimbio.com]
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    09/24/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: And the fact that his daughter looked almost exactly like his wife and he was weirdly jealous and overprotective of both.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    09/24/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: unwholesome.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    09/24/09

    @Atilla the Bun: A long, long time ago, there was a movie, and it was called Sweet Smell of Success, and in it a very powerful gossip columnist ended his sister's engagement by means of a slimy press agent. The columnist was extremely protective of his sister. Extremely. Like a rival. In the story, that was more prominently displayed than in the movie. But it got me thinking as a small kid. What is this magical switch that turns us off to immediate family? And why is it switched back on again in places like the Appalachians and Hollywood?
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    09/24/09

    @Tremonius: From my psych undergrad I remember there being studies done that most people imprint on those they get to know under 6 years of age as 'non-potential partners.'

    Then, of course, there's smell and bad biological reproductive for inbreeding. Kind of like how your body knows to breathe, it knows to not find that attractive.

    No idea on the Appalachians or Hollywood.
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    09/24/09

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: A movie I saw with a title I don't remember had maybe a Joanne Dru character who was informed the guy she was in love with was actually her long-lost brother. She swooned, thinking she must be crazy. I couldn't figure that one out neither. She was somehow supposed to recognize kinship with a guy she hadn't seen since she was a toddler? By smell, maybe.

    Then in Lone Star, there was a couple who found out they had the same mama and decided not to stop the party on that account.

    Then in The Fabulous Furry Freak Bros, Feewheelin' Franklin goes home to middle amnesia after long years in the Haight and comes upon a fine little lady in beads and fringe, and pretty soon they're in her bathtub, her assuring, "The parents aren't home." But they come home! Horrors. And Franklin, peering over the bannister down into the foyer at them, mutters, "Hey, these are my parents too ..."
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