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    In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    none of you come close to my ruling of Gravity.


    oi! you! gravity! keep working!


    see how awesome I am!

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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I can nothing; nothing at all when my eyes are closed.
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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    01/19/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: *see nothing*
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: Were your eyes closed?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: Not even Phosphenes? Those are the floating dots/fireworks you see when your eyes are closed.
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    Image of subryu subryu
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I have the power to instantly rewind DVDs.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @subryu: Gadzooks!
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    Image of I see the light. It burns! I see the light. It burns!
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I have the power of fart-triloquist. I can pass gas, and you will always think the other guy did it. My kryptonite is if I'm in the room alone...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/19/09

    @burnsgoinin burnsgoinout: Or with just one other person. However, with my power to irradiate all of the various acids and organic compounds that comprise flatulation in the atmosphere, you'd be bathed in an eerie green glow, so your sound projection counts for nothing.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I have the power to change form into an ass, however it doesn't work unless im logged into giz.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: I'd started to think you'd lost that power.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Of course he didn't, he voted for Ron Paul didn't he?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:


    no i've just lost the time where i usually use that power... not so much desk work since we laid off some of the technicians.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.:


    ... on top of that, i wont shut up about how i voted for ron paul. ass, see?

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    01/19/09

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: Your ass has been sorely missed.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I am Obscure Facts Man. I was born/created on the 13th day of the 13th month in the lab of a mad scientist with the cloning and the duplicating and the mayvin! I am the bastard child of Cliff Clavin and Angus MacGyver, and have the ability to craft things using a Gerber Multiplier, a Wenger Traveler, paper clips, and duct tape. Also, in most situations, I can come up with a fact that is useless, but is relevant to the topic being discussed.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @TacoThrowing_GitEmSteveDave: That's the most trivial power I've ever heard of.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: You'd think that, but there was a super hero known as "Antenna Lad" who had an even more useless power.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Uselessly trivial even!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/19/09

    @TacoThrowing_GitEmSteveDave: Superiority through obscurity...


    Where have I heard that before?

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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    01/19/09

    @TacoThrowing_GitEmSteveDave: The Bumblebee Bat of Thailand is the smallest mammal in the world. It weighs less than a penny.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @FredicvsMaximvs: The penny wass the only widely used US coin to have the person on it facing to the right until those stupid Jefferson nickels a few years back.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/19/09

    @TacoThrowing_GitEmSteveDave: Actually he could also clear up scrambled pr0n channels and tranmit them to any video monitor so his power wasn't entirely useless...
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/19/09

    @Jrsy is the dude, now with 2/3rds less Dude: *transmit*
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @Jrsy is the dude, now with 2/3rds less Dude: I think that was made up by his PR guy.


    @Lane Jasper: Facts are like statistics, as people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forfty percent of all people know that.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/19/09

    @TacoThrowing_GitEmSteveDave: And the other 60 percent don't care...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @Jrsy is the dude, now with 2/3rds less Dude: Well, at least 4 out of every 3 schizophrenics don't care.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I'd explain further as to why super powers are ultimately meaningless, but I'm just having a terrible time focusing. It's all these tachyons. They're muddling things up. I'd better follow them inside.
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I can work 60-70 hours a week at Motorola.


    Beat *that*!

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: Yeah, but that's only b/c you fired the people who were supposed to work the extra 20-30 hours. :)
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/19/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: Kathy Lee Gifford had a group of superchildren that worked 24/7 for several years.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/19/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: I could put that kind of time into my job too. I prefer however keeping it between 50-52 hours a week, otherwise my stingy uncle feels compelled to lighten my wallet significantly...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    Exactly like Zan the Wonder Twin, my power to turn into any form of water is activated when I fist bump my twin.


    Unfortunately, I do not have a twin.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:


    "Form of - a flatulent squirrel

    ...Shape of - a puddle of warm spittle."

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    I have the power to remain unaffected by the rays of stars of 5th and 6th apparent magnitudes. Also, I cannot be harmed by dodos.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Then how do you explain the time Kathy Griffin and that facebook'er beat the crap out of you in the alley behind Katz's Deli?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Apparently, they're D-Listers, meaning 4th apparent magnitude.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I was wondering why I heard whinnies for help behind the deli that day.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Perhaps. But they are also most certainly dodos.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: As opposed to the other days, when it was clear that the whinnies were just "food preparation."
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01/19/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I thought that was the barking?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    "Captain Libertine, SuperHero to the Single Girl" is still alive and very relevant.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    01/19/09

    In reply to In the Shadow of Technology, Super Powers Turn Meaningless
    Yes, but nobody has bested my super power of mashed potato control.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: Richard Dreyfuss?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: Homer Simpson?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: Chubby Checker?
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    Image of Gann Gann
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: Weird Al?
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: Yer mom?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: Snoop Dogg's and Martha Stewart's love-child?
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    01/19/09

    @Lite: Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.: My super alter ego, Cornman: American Vegetable Hero, would do well to have you as a side kick.


    Think of it, the ability to communicate with corn teamed with unheard of mashed potato control? We would be unstoppable.


    [us.imdb.com]

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