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@MikeyDiMercurio

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Bestselling author, submariner, engineer, Harley owner, muscle car fanatic, MIT alumnus, Naval Academy graduate, relationship expert and hater of Tom Clancy

Northeast Kingdom, VT, USA
Joined February 2014
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Michael DiMercurio
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The oily and brackish waters of the Russian Northern Fleet submarine base part for the passage of the colossal special purpose Omega II-class submarine Belgorod, on a mission to hold the United States hostage. This gigantic submarine is armed with three Poseidon unmanned
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@pnshdvermonster Never worry about Child 1.0. Child 1.0 will sleep peacefully, laugh, eat well and generally be delightful. It's a trap set by Mother Nature to get you to have Child 2.0, who won't sleep, won't eat, screams 24/7, back talks and generally is a miserable human being.
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@VivekGRamaswamy I've crossed into Canada and back into Vermont several times, and in both directions, the border police treated me like a terrorist. I don't believe the northern border is a problem. I live a golf swing away from it and I've never in 8 years seen a single illegal. I have seen
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I'm going back to 1980. Who's with me?
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Michael DiMercurio
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@MattDursh Instead of designing this particular bridge to take a collision strike, make a policy change to have large ships be escorted by tugs until they are past the bridge supports.
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I've been thinking a lot about the nature of evil vs. good. My grandma died. We were close. I was a plebe at Annapolis. I put in a request to attend the funeral. The battalion officer, a full commander, denied my request. He smiled in my face and said stuff in Latin. He said,
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Unacceptable.
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Hey, since World War 3 is kicking off tonight, does that mean I don't have to file my taxes?
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@thehealthb0t Not all heroes wear capes.
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Michael DiMercurio
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@Alex_Oloyede2 You should at least apologize for the gulags, the kangaroo courts, the purges, the starvation of 40+ million people and the imprisonment of your population. That said, thanks for the WWII win. Much appreciated.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Back in the 70s, there was a commercial to make people stop littering. It showed trash by the side of the road and a Native American looking at the situation with a single tear leaking out his sad eyes. That's how I feel about America now.
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@DCRbooks Purity of essence.
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Universal basic income - UBI - is just a pretty name for godless communism.
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All because I said something about communists.
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Michael DiMercurio
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@KatyMontgomerie I don't need a study to state the obvious. Boys have penises. Girls have vaginas. There. I fixed it for ya. Cuz that's just the kind of guy (with a penis) I am.
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@ramzpaul Import the third world, become the third world.
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@elonmusk 8 billion people is about 7 billion too many.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Regret to inform, my good submariner buddy Mike Baka aka Baka Baka Baka Muhammad Jihad, has the glioblastoma and is living through his last hours.
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10 months
LT Anthony Pacino reports aboard the “project boat” USS Vermont and quickly learns that Vermont’s missions are all ultra-secret special ops. Vermont is tasked with hijacking a revolutionary submarine and Pacino is part of the mission to steal it. But survival? Not guaranteed.
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Michael DiMercurio
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If you still haven't read DARK TRANSIT, you're missing out!
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Michael DiMercurio
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When someone thanks me for my service, I look him or her in the eye, and say, “it was an honor and a privilege.”
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2 months
Al Jezira reported that "divers recovered the DALI's black box." Hey morons, the black box is on the bridge and got recovered by investigators walking up there. Not diving. Moral of the story - the media is not only batshit crazy liars but stupid.
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Michael DiMercurio
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You should understand. All my childhood, Dad was convinced I was “slow.” I overheard a fight between Mom and Dad. Dad insisted I was retarded. A decade later, I was 21st in my Annapolis class - first academically. I went to MIT on a full scholarship as a mechanical engineer.
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A DM with a communist. I doubt he'll listen, though.
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2 seconds after I typed “THE END” on the manuscript for PANIC SWITCH.
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Death from below.
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Michael DiMercurio
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@SaraMooreWagne1 Bravo for the English teacher. THERE ARE 2 SPACES AFTER A FOOKIN PERIOD! PERIOD, END OF SENTENCE.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Dear President Trump, Please don't fuck up the VP pick like you did with that idiot Pence. Signed, A fan
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@QueerMajority @thealiyahmoore I sincerely doubt this statistic.
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I love my Jewish friends but why the fuck do they always vote Democrat?
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Michael DiMercurio
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That would be me, circa 1968. Dad built the rocket. Mom yelled at him to find some bonding activity. Dad still insisted I was slow and retarded. In retrospect, he wasn't exactly wrong.
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Well, it finally happened. Despite my living at the end of the earth, where there are more mooses per square mile than people, a couple drove up to my front door. I'm in the path of the 100% eclipse, you see. Dude asks, can he park on my long-ass driveway to watch the
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@ScottAdamsSays It needs to be cut by 50% at least. It'll never happen. Not even to keep the budget constant. The death of America is too high up on the priority list. Right, @CIA ?
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The Ice Station's colors have been struck.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Listen, if I had my attorney pay off the extortion from a porn star / hooker, I would totally call that a legal expense. What the hell other cost code are you going to put that in? Groceries? Liquor? Clothing? Taxes? Come on, get fucking real.
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Michael DiMercurio
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I have a Rolex that has a replacement value (used) of almost $20,000. I told MySonThePilot when he was a teen that I'd leave it to him in the will. He scoffed. "Dad, my generation doesn't wear watches. We use our phones to tell time." Me: Yeah, smartypants, what are ya gonna
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I am actually curious right now. How many of y'all wear watches and why? I know like some can load like your card and stuff - but generally, since its purpose is to tell the time which the phone already does, why have a watch?
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Michael DiMercurio
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My post yesterday stating that UBI is just communism brought out all the godless communists. Too many to block each one. But know this - you communists suck.
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This totally happened.
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And the patriarchy! Never forget the fookin patriarchy!
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Good morning and Happy Apocalypse Day, frens, patriots and Americans! Another fine day to fight communism!
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@Alex_Oloyede2 Every time you Rooskies say "special military operation" I think of Putin winking. Just call it a war. Get it over with, willya? Take out Kiev. Then, Miller time. (That's American for, "mission accomplished.")
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@nmlinguaphile That's not the real reason for the end of the relationship. That's the cover story. That's the excuse. You should find out the real cause and if it's your fault, address it.
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@AmericanValue13 @VivekGRamaswamy Vivek and Trump are the only candidates making rational sense.
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A new pickup truck that costs $110,000? I don’t think so.
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For those of you who aren't sure why I hate that motherless whore Tom Clancy, here's a refresher course. People always ask me, "Mikey, why do you hate that motherless whore Tom Clancy so much?" and I always answer, I'm glad you asked that question. You see, when we were both
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@MikeyDiMercurio I don't understand the Tom Clancy hate, and I'm a little wary of this phrase "what happens under the ice... never happened," but I HAVE been looking for a new book to read...
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Michael DiMercurio
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In one hour, I shall go forth to shovel 8" of snow off a deck big enough to land a chopper on. If you don't hear from me, it's because I had a heart attack and succumbed to the elements. It was good knowing you. Good-bye, frens.
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I went to jump school at Fort Benning in a ridiculously hot and humid Georgia summer. Eddie Money was crooning on the radio as we spent the first week doing nothing but "policing the area" (picking up trash). Week 2? PT, long runs in platoon formation while singing airborne
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@MikeyDiMercurio @EODHappyCaptain Don't be too rough on him Mikey, I think some of those devices on his blouse tell us he jumps out of perfectly good airplanes. I'd say that isn't the smartest thing to be doing.
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Internal combustion. Accept no substitutes.
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@TheInsiderPaper Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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12 hours into the power outage. 25 degrees F. Refueling generator every 4 hours. Getting low on gas.
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Michael DiMercurio
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If so-called sanctuary cities can ignore federal law, and the feds themselves ignore federal immigration law, then certainly Texas can ignore orders from the feds. Your move, Biden, you empty, corrupt, demented fucktard.
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@Alex_Oloyede2 Come on. Use it or no balls.
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Michael DiMercurio
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People always ask me, “Mikey, what did you do with all the royalties from your book sales?” and I always answer, I’m glad you asked that question. I spent a lot of it on whiskey, loose women and muscle cars. The rest I wasted on alimony, child support, bills and taxes.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Good morning frens, patriots and fellow haters of that motherless whore Tom Clancy! Let us devote this day, like every day, to fighting the degenerate sweeping octopus of world communism!
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Michael DiMercurio
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@zei_squirrel Listen, pal, it goes to who invaded whom. Russia jumped over the line into Ukraine and are clearly in the wrong, okay? Palestine invaded Israel and are also clearly in the wrong. Now, erase the board and begin again. We'll stay here all night if we have to until you get it right.
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@RGRyan777 I'm reminded of Ex 1.0 saying she could no longer govern my out-of-control 15-y.o. son. I had her put him on a train. Picked him up. All through his high school he and I had a father-son bachelor pad. It was pretty cool. Today? He pushes Airbuses through the friendly skies.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Rate my setup. (The towel is to keep fookin cat hair off the office chair, since the dumbass cats love the office chair.)
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Michael DiMercurio
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@scottsantens Someone should model the outcome of Universal Basic Income. I, for one, think it will cause inflation to skyrocket, because you're creating free money, so money becomes useless, and then people are right back where they started - working to survive.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Funny how whiskey hits much faster than Advil. Better results, too.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Proving that these pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian pigs are just communists.
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“There’s only one solution, intifada revolution. We must have a revolution so we can have a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America.”
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Typical conversation between Narrator @joecourtemanche and me.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Alright, enough horseshit shitposting on X. I am en route the Mancave of Cold War Victory to take up with Chapter 34 of Novel 12 (now 93% complete).
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@vivekwith00 Abortion history. You have to understand. In the 60s and 70s, abortion was such a divisive topic that no elected official would even state their preference and it was the third rail of politics no matter which way they went. The whole Roe test case and the Supreme Court
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Proof that women cannot be pleased.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Recently on a ship of this force, I was accused of "engagement farming." Dafuq is engagement farming? Let it be known, I post for my own entertainment. Fortunately, I think I'm hilarious.
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I have 5 identical pairs of pants, 12 identical shirts and I go out in the same jacket every time I leave the Ice Station. Leave poor Gene alone!
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Gene Hackman, 94, spotted in new photos wearing nearly identical outfit from weeks earlier
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Update: After my brief 30 second bouts with going catatonic during the lung function test - where I could see the room and nurse, but I'd lost consciousness and didn't know who I was, where I was or what was happening, leaving me floating - I had a strange night. First time in
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Some of you may know that when I was a kid, my father insisted I was (not kidding) "slow" and "retarded." I heard my parents arguing about it through the thin walls. Spun his head around when I got into Annapolis. Really fucked him up when I graduated academically first in the
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This is just pure communism. The OP is lower than whaleshit at the bottom of the ocean.
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Fucking aviators.
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And on the eighth day, God created The Submariner.
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2010 Hospital room Dad in a deep coma Nurses say he’s only got hours left. I was the last family member with him. I tuned the TV and MAD MEN was on. I said, “Dad, this show reminded me of you. You were like a real life Don Draper.” I kissed Dad’s forehead. “I’ll see you
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Truth, homies.
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Michael DiMercurio
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I'm a futurist. Here's what's coming - * digital currency controlled by the issuing guv'mint that can be switched off by said guv'mint * all vehicles will be electric. The state can shut down the vehicle at their option. * social credit scores administrated by the guv'mint
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I suppose it’s safe to toss out the manuscript printout now, yeah?
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I’m back!
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I smacked into a wild turkey at 60 miles per while on a Harley ride today. Bike is okay. Turkey? Not so much.
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If the GOP were a submarine...
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Alcohol is strictly prohibited on Navy ships and particularly frowned upon (frowned!) in submarines. That said, an op that spanned New Years Eve? The nuke mechanics distilled moonshine in the engineroom lower level purifier bay. The first batch went to the captain, XO and
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In 1956, photographers working in their lab on board USS Bennington (CV-20) noticed that the 55-gallon drum of alcohol used to dry film was lower than it should have been. When they tried to move the drum, they found it had become attached to the floor. They then discovered that
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Well, another Naval Academy classmate died today. Glioblastoma. Most lethal brain cancer there is. If I get it, I'm taking the Black Pill before I start urinating in desk drawers and screaming at The Millennials.
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@TheMarcitect People always ask me, "Mikey, if the globohomos want depopulation, how will they do it?" and I always answer, I'm glad you asked that question. Remember the Covid pandemic? That was a dry run with a low mortality rate. The real thing will have a 95% kill rate. But it can't be
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Totally gross movie on the hulu, "BIOSPHERE." Post apocalypse, last 2 survivors are dudes who work out every day and take care of their hydroponic garden and their fish pond. But the last female fish dies, imperiling the food supply. To their joy, one male fish spontaneously
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Hey writers, what's your main character doing in your work right now? Mine's busy dying.
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Michael DiMercurio
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@CynicalPublius I saw this happen to my Annapolis roommate. He stopped being a critical thinker and became an automaton - we called it “buying the program.” He bought the program. Traded in his soul to be part of the machine. We stopped being griends that day.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Scene: Chick-fil-A, pick up window Overly friendly ute: Sir, that's an amazing watch! Beautiful! Me: Rolex Submariner. Ute: The color is so cool! Me: It's from the 80s. Best decade in history! Ute: So cool. Have a good night, sir.
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Now, I ain't one to read my own reviews or look at - or brag about - my Amazon ratings, but 4.5 stars out of 5? With 443 reviews? I'd like to see that motherless whore Tom Clancy do that!
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Happy birthday, Dad. I’m drinking one of your habitual (but totally gross) Beefeater martinis in your memory.
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Iran has been begging for an asskicking since 1979. I say we give it to them.
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Michael DiMercurio
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Good morning frens, patriots and dear readers. Let us devote this fine day to fighting the sweeping octopus of world communism and hating that motherless whore Tom Clancy!
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