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Centigrade Conversions

By Reid Collins on 6.30.04 @ 12:06AM

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"Yep. There it was, inside front section. The whole Cheney quote: "F--- yourself," directed at Senator Leahy. Now, I figure it's a misquote. You never say "f--- yourself" without putting 'go' in front of "f--- " as part of the compound verb. When you leave out the "go" you simply say 'f--- you.' They musta got it wrong."

"But whatever possessed the paper to print out the whole word, you suppose?" (Innocent again.)

"So they could print the rest of the sentence, the part after the dirty quote that says, 'said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.' That's the part they wanted in, the idea it takes Moore more than an hour to get across, that here's an important guy doing this thing we disapprove. So much so we even offended you by spelling it out. The Cheney thing is a documentary reduced to a newsstory boiled down to an editorial.

"Lemme ask you, think you ever would have read in that same paper, '"I did not have sex with that woman," said the man whose finger is on the nuclear trigger that could destroy civilization'? I don't think so.

"Now to important things. Where we going to get our Fourth of July fireworks in a town where you can't even smoke a cigarette?"

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