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  1. CGar, do you see a Superman around to foil this Mad man’s world domination plans????!!! best start kissing up and abetting cause you dont run fast enough to be on his shit list after he takes over

  2. While Lech is creating electricity with the Jackals, I’ll be at home teaching The Champs the most effective way of using one’s underarms and cupped hands to make farting sounds.

  3. “I need a small light bulb so I can actually do something with the electricity (other than shocking my tongue or whatever).”

    Sorry, jackal, but I’m totally visualizing you as Uncle Fester now.

    (Sorry, that would be a TV reference to The Addams Family)

  4. MM, unfortunately, no. I definitely would have taken over the companies in retrospect – my aunt would have given them to me.

    My father was not easy, shall we say, and very single-minded, and my grandfather didn’t like me – perhaps an exaggeration – and, he, too, was very single-minded and only wanted my brother (first born) to take over the business.

    So my father and grandfather successfully bullied me into going to law school until I stopped fighting it, but couldn’t get my brother to take over the companies, so my aunt finally gave up and sold them.

    I spent the better part of the last decade selling off the commercial real estate, negotiating contract terminations, etc. Not fun.

  5. shit dibs is totally right

    a generator is pretty much just an electric motor in reverse anyways right so yeah i’ll do that

    there are a few old a/c units in the basement that i need to throw away – i’ll grab the motors out of those

  6. Doing a Denton here, running down the topics:

    On Argentina and the French Socialist Pig at the IMF,
    this episode brings to mind the opening of the book
    Hopscotch, by the great Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar:

    “Rien ne vous tue un homme comme d’etre oblige de representer son pays”

    which translates as something like:

    You will never doom a man as decisively as when you hold him up as an example of his nation.

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