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    Default Some signs that the American Dream id dying

    Your Dodge Durango SUV is now your master bedroom

    A tip for the security guard means a quicker exit from the airport

    Mickey Bloomburg is sworn in as mayor of Disneyland

    The dollar is being replaced with the IOU

    A new campsite opening in Central Park for office workers

    Learn mandarin and get better service in a Chinese restaurant

    Salad submarines are now called lettuce and tuna kayaks

    The pepper pot for your meal is in your face

    A food stamp distribution center has opened on Rodeo Drive

    Police sports & baseball clubs now practice with real heads

    Product guarentees from Walmart are in Chinese and the refund office is in Beijing

    Big shipments of part used tires, some with treads, from China

    Life sentences for stealing used cooking oil from McDonalds

    Cuba is exporting used De Soto and Buick autos to the US

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    Quote Originally Posted by G0GQK View Post
    ...Cuba is exporting used De Soto and Buick autos to the US
    ...and Jay Leno is buying them...
    “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
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    "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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    What's a "Dream id" ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WA6TKD View Post
    What's a "Dream id" ?
    It's when you dream who you'd like to be...that, or since the letter 's' is next to 'd' on a keyboard, me-thinks it's a typo.

    Seriously, the American dream isn't dead--anybody who has a good or novel idea can make money. Great example: the guy who "invented" the Pet Rock back in the 1970s--he made millions off of people buying rocks. (If that isn't truly American I don't know what is.) In fact, it's now being offered in a USB version: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/c208/

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    Quote Originally Posted by WF7A View Post

    Seriously, the American dream isn't dead--anybody who has a good or novel idea can make money. Great example: the guy who "invented" the Pet Rock back in the 1970s--he made millions off of people buying rocks.
    Someone told me dog bites man isn't news, but man bites dog is. So, I bit my dog and I'm still not famous.

    Can't get a break.
    A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

    -- George Bernard Shaw

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    The pepper pot for your meal is in your face

    Police sports & baseball clubs now practice with real heads




    Perhaps it is a cultural thing, but I don't get these

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    Re: The pepperpot reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana_Pepperpot (pepper spray in one's face)

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    Quote Originally Posted by WF7A View Post
    It's when you dream who you'd like to be...that, or since the letter 's' is next to 'd' on a keyboard, me-thinks it's a typo.
    id. Human psyche.

    noun Psychoanalysis .
    the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/id

    Basically the OP is about what makes you... Well, you or the view of your place in the eyes of others.
    There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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    I sit corrected. Thanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by WB2WIK View Post
    Someone told me dog bites man isn't news, but man bites dog is. So, I bit my dog and I'm still not famous.

    Can't get a break.
    I hope Fido doesn't get sick from the bite.
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