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Old 05-29-14, 05:27 AM   #811
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Old 05-29-14, 06:52 AM   #812
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Old 05-29-14, 12:03 PM   #814
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Old 05-29-14, 12:06 PM   #815
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Old 05-29-14, 04:22 PM   #816
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Old 05-29-14, 05:35 PM   #817
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"I freed the what?!" Abe Lincoln the next morning after a bender.
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Old 05-29-14, 05:37 PM   #818
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"I freed the what?!" Abe Lincoln the next morning after a bender.


That's as bad as Val Kilmer's line from Real Genius: "In the words of the immortal Socrates...'I drank what?'."
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Old 05-30-14, 04:55 AM   #819
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Old 05-30-14, 04:35 PM   #820
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Old 05-31-14, 11:23 AM   #821
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

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Old 05-31-14, 11:27 AM   #822
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Old 06-01-14, 12:32 PM   #823
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Old 06-02-14, 04:14 AM   #824
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