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• July 17th, 2008

  Did I see you in Park Slope on Wednesday?

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• July 10th, 2008

  Are vegetables good for cats?

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• July 4th, 2008

  Who's your favorite founding father?

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• July 1st, 2008

  Tipping flight attendants?

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• June 29th, 2008

  If someone near you litters, what do you do?

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• August 2nd, 2008

  Why is new York called the big apple?

  my understanding is that it was a reference to how cheap it was for the dutch to obtain it. there’s a saying, if something is cheap, that you got it “for an apple & an egg,” as in, for nothing. so new york (new amsterdam) was so cheap, so inexpensive, that they got it for an apple, but it was a really big buy… hence the big apple.
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• July 31st, 2008

  What's your favorite cereal(s)?

  @gailcalled—it’s because we want to recognize our own tastes in others, or feel superior, or because we want new suggestions
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• July 25th, 2008

  If your sister is dating one of the founders of a kitsch website, how long should the relationship progress before you are obligated to buy a website t-shirt?

  ask her. the free shirt idea is only a good one if he’s interested in giving you a free shirt—i can easily imagine a situation in which he would be looking at your potential purchase as a sign of support from you, rather than as an opportunity for him to give you a present, which may be interpreted as sucking up. it might be awkward for him to give you a free shirt if he doesn’t think you like the website (what is the website??). but yeah, ask her. “do you think you & lenny are serious enough that i should invest in a soapee tshirt, marta?” should do the trick.
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• July 25th, 2008

  Do you think the US would have been better off if Al Gore had won the election?

  forgive me, chica—i only take issue with the idea that we, that is, the united states, are suffering terrorist attacks when it is the US who is upon iraqi soil. i think that we are in the role of terrorist if we are on foreign soil. you said “our servicemen and women are suffering terrorist attacks every day in Iraq” but i don’t think it’s terrorism if it’s defense. that’s all.
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• July 25th, 2008

  Do you think the US would have been better off if Al Gore had won the election?

  @la chica gomela, that’s a ridiculous thing to say. if our servicemen/women weren’t on their turf, i highly doubt we would be “suffering terrorist attacks” there. on the contrary, the more urgent statistic is the number of iraqis upon whom we are inflicting terrorist attacks by being in their country against their will, perpetuating violence. (see def. terrorism, from dictionary dot com—“the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.”) however, i do agree that if bush had never sent us to iraq, this wouldn’t be happening, which i suppose was the more relevant response to the question.
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