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a: Constitution/statists ~
b: holy water/ vampires

What: "The Constitution to liberals, Democrats, Statists and the TSA is like holy water, the cross or garlic to vampires, like silver bullets to werewolves, like water to the wicked witch, like sobriety to W. C. Fields, it terrifies and angers them!" Nice stream of analogy. Also see his comments that politicians are like bananas.

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Writer: sjmjax
LCC: JK
Where:
Date: Jan 23 2012 11:27 AM



a: Direct object ~
b: accusative case

What: "If you think in terms of formal grammar, it might be helpful to point out that in "I wrote my mother a letter, " letter is the direct object (what you wrote) and mother is the indirect object (to whom you wrote). The direct object is like the accusative case, and the indirect object is the dative."

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Writer: foxfirebrand
LCC:
Where:
Date: Oct 9 2013 3:08 PM



a: Orgasm ~
b: rainbow

What: They occur after a lot of activity, they only last a little while, they can be beautiful and real ones are rarely photographed.

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Writer: Lucrezia
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Feb 7 2015 2:11 PM


Mrna Splicing

a: mRNA splicing ~
b: removing unwanted object from our food

What:

for example, removing vegetables from our fried rice.


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Writer: azman salim
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Mar 12 2015 3:59 AM



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