Professor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things


	Professor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things

Socratoad

5-21-2007 7:09 PM

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humor, humour, satire, the onion

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5-22-2007 5:20 AM

cementedminds

Excellent!

5-22-2007 12:28 PM

gingembre

This reminds me of another thing, very similar yet slightly different.

5-22-2007 1:31 PM

Socratoad

Sorta reminds me of: If things soon don't change they will remain as they are, but if they change they will be different. Unless notified otherwise which is not the fact in this case

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