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    Six Million Ways to Die

    'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'

    Fox's Batman ad on MySpace to trigger flashbacks for 9/11 survivors?

    Remainders: Willie Nelson Busted for Treating His Glaucoma

    Paramount Turns Over Funds From WTC's MySpace Tip Jar To 9-11 Charities

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    Image of barb95 barb95
    04/25/09

    In reply to Six Million Ways to Die
    I'm surprised there was an Asbestos ad like that in the 80's. I thought companies knew that asbestos was bad for people during the 60's? I work in toxic tort law (asbestos litigation) and usually stuff from the 80's and 90's doesn't come up because companies were already removing abestos from their products/buildings.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    04/26/09

    @barb95: Everything old is new again. The *Greeks* knew asbestos was bad for you.
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    Image of boozeshaman boozeshaman
    04/25/09

    In reply to Six Million Ways to Die
    The link below is to an image MUCH creepier, as far as 9/11 premonitions go:


    [snarfd.com]

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    04/25/09

    @boozeshaman: Gawker already covered that one, too, last year I think a few months after Copyblogger did.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    04/25/09

    @boozeshaman: I got one better fer ya... and this was made in mid 2001...


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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    04/25/09

    In reply to Six Million Ways to Die
    I thought the removal of the asbestos was one of the reasons the building flattened like a pancake.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    04/25/09

    In reply to Six Million Ways to Die
    I *knew* this ad couldn't be from 1998. The type was too dated, the photo doesn't have the World Financial Center, and the text has no URL. Also, speaking from experience, the Port Authority had been removing asbestos from the building around this time.
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    Image of GregSamsa GregSamsa
    04/25/09

    In reply to Six Million Ways to Die
    Ah. Yes. [gawker.com]
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    04/25/09

    @GregSamsa: Good find. 1981 makes way more sense than 1998.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    I want to call it the "Okay listen up. You attack us and we wind up with southerners and midwesterners voting for a retarded cowboy in the next election and he hatches all these half-baked schemes to ride roughshod all over the world defending our "way of life." He pisses on our country and makes a mess and mockery out of your country or countries. Even though we in New York didn't vote for that asswipe at any time, you decided to attack us anyway. And then your idiotic actions caused a whole bunch of hillbillies to think the retarded cowboy kept us "safe" (regardless of the fact that the attack happened on his watch) and vote him back into office. And now look at the world. Are you happy now? So keep your terrorism to yourself and no one gets hurt. We mean that." Tower.
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    Image of The Defeatery The Defeatery
    03/27/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Plenty of people in the Midwest and the South didn't vote for him, either.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/27/09

    @The Defeatery: If plenty didn't, the fucking fool wouldn't have been president.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/27/09

    @BxgrlJeri: gah you're a fucking idiot. we deserved to be terrorized. sorry!
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/27/09

    @BxgrlJeri: i mean, you are aware that it only requires about 1/4 of the american people to have actually gotten up and voted for you to become president, right? and that bush garnered quite a few votes in ny (you know, the state that until recently had a republican governor, the city that's last two mayors were republican, etc etc)?


    blue states lose because they are full of smug retards who deserve to be blown up. srsly look it up, it's probably on the internet somewhere! signed, a born and bred new yorker who is sick of getting a bad reputation ffs.

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    Image of The Defeatery The Defeatery
    03/27/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Plenty did, which is why the fucking fool only won by a %1 margin. These "hillbillies" voted for the same guy you did.


    I guess I naively thought we'd moved beyond the whole us-v.-them, red-v.-blue, Fuck-the-South mentality. Especially after Obama carried 28 states in November, 27 of which weren't New York.

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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/27/09

    @The Defeatery: I'm still angry at the midwest and south and nothing you can say will make me stop being mad.
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    Image of surfandsun surfandsun
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    after reading all the comments supporting this post, yo, since when did "GROWING UP" involve a bunch of whining and yelling?


    And it is beyond tasteless to talk about having lost friends or family on an internet message board to give your comments added weight. Man up, for God's sake. You lost them, but they lost everything. Show some respect.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/27/09

    @surfandsun: dude what the fuck are you talking about? did you think that crying eagle was actually crying?
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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    Have you guys taken a look at how jingoistic our new passports are? Every page has a cringe-inducing lithograph of Americana that would make Michael Bay turn commie.


    Christ on a bike.


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    Image of Pesti-Esti Pesti-Esti
    03/27/09

    @Clarence Rosario: It's really there to please passive-aggressive foreign border guards. "I put my entrance stamp right on your Mr. Lincoln's face! Take that, silly American!"
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    03/27/09

    @Clarence Rosario: What. The. Fuck. My passport expires in 2011, and if that's what the new ones look like then, my days of international jetsetting are over. And how exactly do people resist the urge to draw boogers on Washington and a dead possum hanging out of the eagle's mouth?
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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    03/27/09

    @Pesti-Esti: @misslinda: Yep, I had to renew my passport last year for my wedding overseas. Honestly embarrassing to present it to a Croatian border official.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/27/09

    @Clarence Rosario: I like the conversation between Washington and Lincoln, even if I don't totally understand it.


    "Visas."


    "Visas."

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/27/09

    @Clarence Rosario: omfg i want a new passport so, so bad right now.
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    1 vote here for a massive picture of Michelle O's droolworthy guns on the side.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    I still don't understand why we couldn't just rebuild the twin towers, looking just like they did before, as quickly as possible.


    That would have made the most powerful anti-terrorist statement of all.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    i'd like to point out that ms. nancy sey of south carolina is making an excellent point -- we really should rename ALL of our buildings in nyc to things that tourists can easily understand and digest, because, honestly, who felt the brunt of 9/11 more than people who come to nyc on field trips??
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/27/09

    @allyzay: That's what jumped out at me too.


    "You people live here! Why should how you feel about it matter at all? What kind of perspective could you possibly have?!"

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    Naw, man. I want Freedom back! (Not as a God awful name of a sure to be terror target. That's just ridiculous.) But seriously, Who the frig told Bushie he could just take "Freedom" and put his dumbass stink-wad all over it?!


    I'm taking it back. Fuck that. William Wallace didn't die for no stinkin reason.


    "FREEEEEEDOMMMMM!"

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    Image of seancasio seancasio
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    The Crystal Sky Syringe. Junkie daydream number 26.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    Whatever, as long as it has an enormous crying eagle sticker on it.
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    03/27/09

    @gawkimo: And world's largest yellow ribbon magnet!
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    03/27/09

    @gawkimo: For naming consideration:


    1 Get 'Er Done

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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/27/09

    @La Mareada: Support Our Yellow Ribbon Magnet Makers!
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/27/09

    @britneyspearstears:


    That would only work if the foyer was decorated with plastic deer and chamo netting with occasional splashes of safety orange.

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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    03/27/09

    In reply to 'Freedom' Just Another Word For '8-Year Boondoggle'
    They hate us for our 1!!!!11!1!


    Actually, I applaud this decision. It was a cartoon name.

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