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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:31 AM
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20 Questions: Which historical figure am I?
I might be anybody, but I'm definitely somebody you've heard of. Who am I?
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:38 AM
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1. Are you in the political field?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:39 AM
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2. No
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:39 AM
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3. No
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:40 AM
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4. No
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:41 AM
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5. Do you know how a web browser works?
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 02:47 AM by Omphaloskepsis
edit -- Sorry for being a total dick.. Looks like DU had some problems.. Sorry..
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:46 AM
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8. No
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:48 AM
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10. Please see the edit to my original post..
I'm sorry..
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:52 AM
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11. Yeah, it was taking a billion years to post
so I tried aborting by backing out and trying again a couple times and it somehow still carried all of them out. Don't worry about it.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:42 AM
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6. Wow, that's a lot of "No's". Point taken.....
....:yoiks:
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:43 AM
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Are you a woman?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:48 AM
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9. No
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 02:53 AM by Merrick
I'm a man
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:43 AM
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7. Are you male or a female ?
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:56 AM
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12. Thomas Kinkade? (nt)
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:58 AM
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14. No
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:04 AM
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20. It was "Which historical figure am I?"
Not, "This is how you paint light, bitch." And the you call this art crowd.

I think you rule.. The "bitch was for effect."

I do alcoholism way better then he does art..
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:08 AM
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22. "I do alcoholism way better then he does art."
You've got me convinced. :thumbsup:
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:34 AM
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37. Is that a compliment? I'm not sure..
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:35 AM
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38. Yep, and so is this:
:pals:

(Technically, though, Kinkade isn't a bad painter, in my opinion. I just loathe the colors and subject matter. :thumbsup: )
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:45 AM
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47. I hate that it seems like he is purely driven by profit.
He isn't a artist. He is a business man. He is the Wal-Mart of the art world.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:48 AM
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51. As a person making a living as an artist,
it's OK with me that Thomas Kinkade is the Wal-Mart of the art world, because I believe there always will be a market for original and "tasteful" art made with archival methods. It's OK with me that he's driven purely by profit, because I establish genuine, one-to-one relationships with those who buy my work and I don't think the Thomas Kinkades of the world can compete with that. :)
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:05 AM
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68. I agree.. I actually do the same thing for a living..
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 04:07 AM by Omphaloskepsis
Well different, but I still consider it art..

My main gripe is that if T.K. could make more as an accountant at Wal-Mart he would trade his knowledge for brush strokes for a fancy columnar pad.
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:57 AM
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13. are you a dimwitted chimp?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 02:58 AM
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15. No
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:01 AM
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16. What do you do for a living ?
or is it only 'yes' or 'no' questions ?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:03 AM
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18. Yeah, Yes or No only
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:03 AM
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17. are you an american?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:04 AM
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19. No
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:05 AM
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21. are you in the military?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:08 AM
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23. No
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:17 AM
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24. Science field?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:17 AM
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25. Art?
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:18 AM
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26. Letters?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:19 AM
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28. The arts, in general terms, yes
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:20 AM
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31. Theater?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:23 AM
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32. No
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 03:51 AM by Merrick
and sorry, but I didn't know exactly what you meant by "Letters?"
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:18 AM
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27. No. Not a scientist
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 03:19 AM by Merrick
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:19 AM
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29. Are you a musician ?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:20 AM
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30. Nope.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:26 AM
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33. Alive?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:28 AM
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34. No
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:31 AM
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35. are you a writer
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:32 AM
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36. Yes
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:47 AM
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50. LOL, I asked letters a half hour ago
Can anyone play this game? that's not a question

Did you write childrens books?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:49 AM
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52. No
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:35 AM
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39. European ?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:36 AM
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40. Yes
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:39 AM
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41. Did you write, " A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" ?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:42 AM
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43. No, not Joyce.
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:43 AM
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45. A young dog ?
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:41 AM
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42. are you french?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:43 AM
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44. No
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:44 AM
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46. did you write 1984
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:45 AM
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48. No, not Orwell
or Eric Blair
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:47 AM
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49. did you live in the 20th century
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:49 AM
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53. No
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:51 AM
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54. Fiction?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:52 AM
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55. Yes
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:53 AM
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56. Did you ever visit America?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:55 AM
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58. No
Edited on Thu Dec-29-05 03:57 AM by Merrick
I'm at least 95% sure he didn't
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:54 AM
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57. Are you British?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:56 AM
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59. No
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:56 AM
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60. Are you Irish ?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:57 AM
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61. No
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:57 AM
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62. are you a pre-Enlightenment writer
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:01 AM
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64. No
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 03:58 AM
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63. Are you Russian ?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:02 AM
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65. Yes indeedy
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:05 AM
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69. Did you write ...
long, dry, depressing novels ?

Oh, wait, that's ALL the Russian writers !
:rofl:
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:07 AM
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71. Philistine
I actually find Dostoevsky to be quite hilarious quite often
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:11 AM
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72. I am a sick man...
I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.

:toast:
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:03 AM
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66. Dostoyevsky?
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Merrick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:04 AM
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67. Yes.
:thumbsup:
Good job Baldy.

24 questions, though, so I guess I win!
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-29-05 04:05 AM
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70. PHEAR MY L33T 20Q SKILLZ n/t
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