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Cleveland As Disfunctional Friend

a: Cleveland ~
b: disfunctional Friend

What: "Cleveland is like the friend you love dearly, yet at the same time you want to smack them upside the head for making the same mistakes over and over, and never learning from them. You want to give that friend a good shaking and ask them, "When the heck are you going to get your life together?"

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Writer: andrew61
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Where:
Date: Jun 2 2012 11:38 AM



a: Methamphetamine ~
b: farting in the hurricane of alcohol

What: "The policy makers need to get real and wake up to the facts. There is no epidemic of meth killing even a smidgen of the people that alcohol and tobacco are killing. By comparison, methamphetamine is like farting in the hurricane of alcohol and tobacco."

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Writer: Markham's Behavioral Health
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Where:
Date: Oct 25 2013 7:24 PM



a: same-sex marriage ~
b: food stamps

What:

"The Ninth Circuit reasoned that the right to same-sex marriage is like food stamps and antidiscrimination statutes: while withholding the right might be unconstitutional, with drawing it on a rational basis is not."


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Writer: Nathan Rouse
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Where:
Date: Mar 3 2014 10:33 AM



a: Surface tension ~
b: gravity

What:

"Surface tension is like gravity; it is the force of the water trying to stick together. "


Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Sep 9 2014 7:01 PM



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