What would our ancestors say?
What would our ancestors say?
If our ancestors came back today, what would they say to us?

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WHO is the President?
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Hey, does everyone in society have glandular problems now?
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"How's that group marriage thing we started working out?"Shpilkus wrote:If our ancestors came back today, what would they say to us?
Amazing desert structures & stuff: http://sites.google.com/site/potatotrap/
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"Let us say I suggest you may be human." -- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
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Git you some clothes on, young whipper-snapper!
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Re: What would our ancestors say?
Maybe they'd tell us why one of their women is bald.
The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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"Back in our day we *walked* to the Black Rock both ways uphill in the dad-blessed snow!"
Amazing desert structures & stuff: http://sites.google.com/site/potatotrap/
"Let us say I suggest you may be human." -- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
"Let us say I suggest you may be human." -- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Re: What would our ancestors say?
And when the winds came, they were 200 miles an hour, and Burning Man was really about the week-long walk back to your horseless carriage, if it was still there. And we liked it. WE LOVED IT.Bob wrote:"Back in our day we *walked* to the Black Rock both ways uphill in the dad-blessed snow!"
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"Can I have McDonald's no. 5 combo?"
In my world there's only legible and more legible.
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"Back in our day, we had this thing called 'actual reality' ".
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So you sit at your desk and pretend to shoot somebody on your magic-lantern box? What, the Hatfields moved?
(yes, my McCoys are Jews. Get over it!)
(yes, my McCoys are Jews. Get over it!)
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So, you say that men can marry men, and women can marry women? What goes where?
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Your burn has nothing on Chicago. Now that was a burn!
Oh my god, it's HUGE!
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"I liked Burning Man better when it was called The Maverick Festival."
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Re: What would our ancestors say?
let's get this straight,
It looks like a sausage it's suposed to taste like a sausage but it's made of beans for vegitarians to eat?
What the Fuck?
It looks like a sausage it's suposed to taste like a sausage but it's made of beans for vegitarians to eat?
What the Fuck?
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Oh yeah, this year I was totally twerping out at the fence. ~Lonesombri
...........................................Oh yeah, this year I was totally twerping out at the fence. ~Lonesombri
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Re: What would our ancestors say?
what, or who?knowmad wrote:let's get this straight,
It looks like a sausage it's suposed to taste like a sausage but it's made of beans for vegitarians to eat?
What the Fuck?
YGMIR
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Re: What would our ancestors say?
Would somebody PLEASE!!.............hep me change mah diaper! What are tape tabs?!!? gimme that, you don't know nuttin'
"AND!! what do you mean I can't git mah toothache powder or "Liquid Baby Sitter in a Bottle Elixir"?? Ain't they got any left at the Apothecary? How we supposed to git 'er done? Oooh looky!...there's a half a house rollin' away......you boys go git it before it crashes into that shine-eh space ship!"
"AND!! what do you mean I can't git mah toothache powder or "Liquid Baby Sitter in a Bottle Elixir"?? Ain't they got any left at the Apothecary? How we supposed to git 'er done? Oooh looky!...there's a half a house rollin' away......you boys go git it before it crashes into that shine-eh space ship!"
I'm the MAN in a truck, burner who is stuck, you're in luck! I'll whip out my BIG tow chain and not charge you, not even one lousy buck!
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The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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Re: What would our ancestors say?
We totaly got screwed on that Box of Beads deal...
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Oh yeah, this year I was totally twerping out at the fence. ~Lonesombri
...........................................Oh yeah, this year I was totally twerping out at the fence. ~Lonesombri
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Put your little glowing book away and pay attention when steering your buggy.
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Re: What would our ancestors say?
Well, if you went all the way back into your tribal roots, your ancestors would probably say:
"Everything looks great here, carry on."
"Everything looks great here, carry on."