Re: Guest Post - Nick S

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Korea will always have been a single country.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:02 AM
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The way it's going now, the Beloit list 18 years from now will have entries like "Bruce Jenner has always been a television character, not an Olympic athlete". It's just so badly put together.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:14 AM
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We will have always been at war with Eurasia.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:15 AM
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It's too bad that LB is on vacation, I expect that she would share my reaction that it's hard to imagine Archie Goodwin looking like this.

Doesn't anybody else find it odd that Ender is now, "The Maple Jordan"?


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:41 AM
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Doesn't anybody else find it odd that Ender is now, "The Maple Jordan"?

I was relieved to find out this referred to his nationality not his skin color.



Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:56 AM
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2: Kim Kardashian has always been a respected politician.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:57 AM
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5: Now explain the "Maple" part.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:59 AM
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Kim Kardashian has always been a respected politician

As god is my witness, I thought these exact words when I read the post.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:05 AM
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7: Jordan has always been a country not a basketball player.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:37 AM
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8: Oh, no! That means it's bound to happen, right?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:39 AM
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Lubbock has always been an autonomous city-state.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:44 AM
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Strategically leaking sex tapes of yourself has always been the key first step for any budding politician.


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:53 AM
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The Archie Goodwin I think of was a comic book writer and artist.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:55 AM
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12: "Old Hickory," for example.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:58 AM
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Homeland Security has always had biometric scanners at the movie theater.

Tallahassee has always been on the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Olympic Games have always begun with a mass arrest of demonstrators.

It has always been illegal for black people to vote.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:02 PM
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5: Now explain the "Maple" part
1. canadian flag
2. May-ple Jordan vs My-kle Jordan
See, it works on two levels.


Posted by: Annelid Gustator | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:09 PM
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The season for skiing on real snow always starts in January and ends by Super Bowl Sunday.


Posted by: bill | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:24 PM
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I suggested one in the previous thread - thinking of Chris Pine as the captain of the Enterprise - but that assumes that the next movie isn't a complete flop, and probably at least one after that too.

Comic book movies are just another type of big-name movie, and if anything more critically accepted than the average blockbuster. Comic books, on the other hand, are less familiar than a five-year-old miniseries on the Cyphi Channel.

Going to Mexico for a cheap vacation has always been tantamount to suicide. Cuba, however, is fine.

Quidditch has always been a more popular sport than ultimate frisbee.

Gay people have always been able to get married.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:40 PM
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They vaguely remember the Kennedys from history class. The Palins, by constrast, have always been in politics.

Phones have always had thumbprint-readers.

USB ports have always been called ear jacks.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:54 PM
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12 to 9. This may only make sense for British commenters.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 1:07 PM
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The Archie Goodwin I think of was a comic book writer and artist.

I would be very happy if the basketball player's wikipedia entry eventually includes a "Famous Name" sub-header which referencing the writer.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 1:23 PM
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which


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 1:23 PM
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Kim Kardashian has always been the Captain of the Enterprise.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 1:51 PM
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Let's not get too deep into your fantasy life, Walt.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 2:00 PM
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All of our fantasy lives, my friend.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 2:12 PM
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The very complicated fantasy life of a balding 40-year old man in a basement somewhere . . .


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 2:15 PM
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The class may or may not know Jordan has always been a country, but they will know Katie Price has always been a Tory MP.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 4:10 PM
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when you're in a dream
the time passes so slowly ...


Posted by: joel hanes | Link to this comment | 08-24-12 12:23 AM
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Alex, you never struck me as a flighty optimist before. It's clear from the outside that by the time the Coalition's fixed term is up, the UK will break up and England will be so devastated that it will have to be evacuated. Babies today will grow up never knowing what a "Tory" or an "MP" are. The English ghetto from Arrested Development will go from being a joke to a cruel reality in major cities around the globe.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 08-24-12 3:21 AM
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If it means we get to keep Charlize Theron, then I can live with that.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08-24-12 6:56 AM
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