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Aren’t they [Mennonites] ‘good people’, as the expression goes?[/quote]
Did I ever tell you about the time (two years, actually) I dated a Mennonite? And how her extended family, never having seen a Jew before, inspected me carefully, paying special attention to my feet?
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Doesn’t this seem weird? Do you known why this was so?
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“Are his feet cloven?”
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Wait you guys got cloven feet? I could have dated a gal with cloven feet? Who wouldn’t want to do that? Why does nobody tell me these awesome things?
Did I almost forget this was the questions thread?
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Have you seen this?
NB: this is one of my bots, nouns chosen at random, and this declarative sentence is past a horizontal rule and thus “safe”.
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Shouldn’t you have worn
just to mess with them a bit? 
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But isn’t your post in the wrong thread?
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Bollocks?
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Weren’t they reasonably nice people who simply had been living in isolation for too long (where “too long”=centuries)? And weren’t they in any case infinitely more worldly than the distant cousins who had gone full-on Amish? Do you know, this was my first close encounter with a form of anti-otherness I thought had gone extinct in the middle ages, and made me permanently sensitive to the stereotypes society perpetrates about the physicality of other minority groups?
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Who’s going to the James Turrell Akhob while in Vegas this week?
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Welcome back…where have you been?
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Is it wrong if I tell door-to-door salespeople trying to sell house upgrades that I rent even though we actually own the house? Why do I feel moderate guilt every time I use the magic invocation to get those parasites to leave?
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Don’t I have fun pointing them to the no solicitors sign? Isn’t always amusing when they go but this isn’t soliciting while I say please stick around while I call the police?
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Don’t I just refrain from answering the door?
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You know what SCUM’s about, right?
The SCUM girls always liked me, presumably because I admitted to being the inferior sex but was nonetheless willing to put up a good fight if it meant I’d get laid. Was that the beginning of wisdom, or the nihilism of youth?
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Didn’t I just tell someone in Home Depot the other day that we already have solar panels? I have no room to judge you.
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Are you talking about Valerie Solanas’ manifesto, or something else?
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In the late 70s - early 80s there was a small group of young women, mostly from the University of Maryland in College Park, who called themselves the Society for Cutting Up Men and gave the SCUM manifesto as their inspiration. Several were inordinately physically attractive, and all were very very smart, and most were quite scrappy. Rarely have I known women quite so willing to plant a hard fist in a man’s face.
Why should the fates of the groovy and the creepy be intertwined?
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Doesn’t this tickle me pink? Don’t’ I want to have a class one day where I make the class read Solanis’ book?
Also, did you forget where you are? Should I remind you of the thread?
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