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Sophia's avatar

I'm on the market for a new planet. Any ideas?

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gatito bueno's avatar

excuse me miss sophia, but i think maybe that any planet that has humans on it is going to have these same problems.

this is exactly why we keep the location of the feline homeworld secret.

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Sophia's avatar

Good point. No hoomans invited to my new planet.

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Art Vandelay's avatar

Any chance my pronoun could be His Royal Highness (HRH)?

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el gato malo's avatar

if history is any guide, the trick seems to lie not in declaring oneself king, but rather in inducing others to back the claim.

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Guttermouth's avatar

"Being powerful is like being a woman. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher

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The Wiltster's avatar

Every time I think we have plumbed to the maximum depths of barking lunacy, another example rears its ugly-ass head. Lanyards color-coded, in response to a well-marketed flu? #GetsBumpyFromHere

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Publius's avatar

I guess they read Hawthorne's "The Scarlet letter" and thought, "we should be more current, let's do that, but mix in a little bit of Orwell to be more en vogue".

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Lisa Eckersley's avatar

The secret here is to ‘put on the green lanyard’, and then have the best day/week/year ever! The red lanyards might feel safe, but the green lanyards are out getting stuff done and enjoying it.

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NAUGHT NOIR's avatar

We're going to need a bigger boat

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Eric Turner's avatar

Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer's the name, writing's the game. You've never read my book... No? Well, it was allegorical.

Roland: Well, we won't hold that against you, that's for every man to decide for himself.

Perhaps, like Roland, these people are simply illiterate and desperate to hide that fact from others.

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Pamela van Giessen's avatar

Is the real world like this or is it just twitter?

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Guttermouth's avatar

I've already seen pronouns embroidered on clothing. So far (three occasions) teens or early 20s kids in allegedly "rebel" goth/punk wear.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Well you tie a red ribbon on the tail of a horse that kicks…

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cmpalmer75's avatar

Progressive liberalism is a mental illness.

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Sean's avatar

Spot on. The new caste system begins!

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Art Vandelay's avatar

Oh I am working on that as we speak!

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Dr. Seuss was a little too prescient.

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