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Richard: Sarcasm is the refuge of losers.
Frank: [Sarcastically] really?
Richard: Sarcasm is losers trying to bring winners down to their level.
Frank: [Sarcastically] Thank you for opening my eyes to what a loser I am!
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By Ilya Somin in The Volokh Conspiracy.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_05_06-2007_05_12.shtml#1178681057
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“This year is the 35th anniversary of the release of The Godfather, the famous 1972 movie based on the 1969 book by Mario Puzo. To celebrate, I recently reread The Godfather, and discovered that it has a lot of interesting material on on law and economics that wasn’t always emphasized in the movie.
Everyone remembers Don Corleone’s famous saying that he’s going to make ”an offer you can’t refuse.“ But for some reason, people forget that the Don also said that ”a lawyer with his brief case can steal more than a hundred men with guns“ (Godfather, pbk. edition, 52). One of the recurring themes of the novel is that people turn to the Mafia for help because of the corrupt and self-serving nature of many political and legal institutions that systematically allowed elites to plunder the politically weak. Puzo recognized, as sociologist Diego Gambetta explained more systematically, that the Sicilian Mafia flourished because it provided better ”protection” against crime and violations of property and contract rights than did the official authorities, who generally protected only the politically powerful elite. To a lesser extent, a similar dynamic enabled the America Mafia to emerge in Italian immigrant communities in the early 1900s, as Puzo vividly portrayed in his chapter on the rise of Don Corleone.
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“Dear Prof. AWB,
I was in your British Literature class in the fall of 2006, and for that class, you gave me a grade of C. I need to have a better grade for this class. As far as I know, I got an 86 on the first paper, and I didn’t complete the second assignment. I don’t know what I got on the final essay or exam.
I would like for you to change my grade to at least a B. If this means I must complete the second assignment, I will attempt to set aside time to do so. Please address this matter immediately.
Thank you.”
Via Kieran Healy.
1. If something can be nerfed, it will be nerfed.
2. The only times you see rare herbs, rare mineral veins or chests on your minimap is when you’re on a gryphon.
3. The moment you decide you can ninja AFK a minute is when the raid leader is watching you.
4. The items you so desperately want from an instance never drop until the first time you’re there with an alt. Who can’t use it.
5. The one time you roll a 99, someone else will roll 100.
6. Anyone who plays more than you has no life. Anyone who plays less than you is a scrub.
7. The moment you fly into a port is the moment you will see your ship sail away.
8. Nightfall only procs when the last mob dies.
ViaJoystiq.
lol. awesome.
My so called life* 