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02-14-2008, 05:32 AM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Los Angeles, which as I understand was once upon a time ago part of the United States of America
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I'm Tired of the Word "Surreal"
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Main Entry:
sur·re·al
Pronunciation:
\sə-ˈrē(-ə)l also -ˈrā-əl\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
back-formation from surrealism
Date:
1937
1: marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream;
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Does every new experience to Boobius Americanus have to be "surreal"? Can't something be remarkable, fascinating, fantastic, mesmerizing, astonishing, breath-taking, or anything else, or do we just qualify everything we don't encounter every day as being of a quasi-real, dreamlike occurence? Or, is everybody so fried on drugs that most events of one's day are hazy?
Yeah, I'm addressing you, America.  |
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02-14-2008, 12:46 PM
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Faraway Looker
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Austin, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Prince of Lombards
Does every new experience to Boobius Americanus have to be "surreal"? Can't something be remarkable, fascinating, fantastic, mesmerizing, astonishing, breath-taking, or anything else, or do we just qualify everything we don't encounter every day as being of a quasi-real, dreamlike occurence? Or, is everybody so fried on drugs that most events of one's day are hazy?
Yeah, I'm addressing you, America. |
What? Did somebody say something?
Sorry...I am astonishingly fried right now. It's surreal. |
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02-15-2008, 01:53 AM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Los Angeles, which as I understand was once upon a time ago part of the United States of America
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*shakes fist*
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02-15-2008, 10:51 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
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This is an awesome post. How cool is this? Pass me the water bong, man...
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02-15-2008, 02:59 PM
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Faraway Looker
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Austin, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OhioNative
This is an awesome post. How cool is this? Pass me the water bong, man...
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Not so much. |
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02-15-2008, 05:26 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by b. frank
Not so much.
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Help!!! I am trapped in cliche purgatory!!!!   |
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02-15-2008, 10:07 PM
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needs coffee
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OhioNative
Help!!! I am trapped in cliche purgatory!!!! |
It is what it is.  |
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02-16-2008, 10:15 AM
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demented & deranged optimist skeptic
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: MO Ozarkian in NE Hoosierana
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Looks like we are seeing eye to eye on this...
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02-16-2008, 01:13 PM
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needs coffee
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowCaver
Looks like we are seeing eye to eye on this...
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If not, we'll have to agree to disagree. |
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02-16-2008, 02:26 PM
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demented & deranged optimist skeptic
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: MO Ozarkian in NE Hoosierana
4,163 posts, read 2,669,586 times
Reputation: 5534
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mdtoaz
If not, we'll have to agree to disagree.
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Otherwise, we might be on the horn of a dilemma... |
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