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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:25 PM Original message |
Could somebody please explain to me how I can pull myself up by my bootstraps? |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. Easy. Make sure you are born to wealthy parents. |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I recently argued with a libertarian DUer ... |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. No, they are already born with their boots up.... |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's even harder |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 03:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. It's easier to pull yourself up if your boots don't have any soles |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. Good Question |
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Suich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. I don't know... |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. Follow Dick Cheney's example: Fuck over everybody who can be fucked over. |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Something about honor among.... |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. It's easy. First, you bend over.... nt |
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EllenZ (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. It refers to an attitude one has. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-22-06 11:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. You insensitive, bloated plutocrats are all alike... |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. That... |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
12. The trick is to do it one leg at a time. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
13. For my father, poor son of a Southern Baptist preacher, it was being |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-23-06 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. I have no idea how anyone can |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I have lived on $10/hr |
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sabbat hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. work 18 hour days |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
18. Somewhere, there is a great Coleman Young quote about bootstraps |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
19. "If you work hard, put your nose to the grindstone, you can be successful, too!" |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 03:00 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Amen! Ramen! Whatever! |
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k_jerome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-09-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
20. thats just a repub trick to get people to bend over... |
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