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Jen Dyck-Sprout's avatar

Brilliant as always

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...dooo dooo dooo dooo dooo....

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Rick Lewis's avatar

"I want to know the best and worst of all of us so that I might know the best and worst of myself." First of all, there has never been a smarter thought than this. Second of all, "If your fake you shows up on my real phone I am going to teach it how to haunt you." : )

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...this is my promise to anyone that tests my prowess...

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

I've been mulling over possible titles for my newsletter that I have yet to start... Maybe I should call it "Unstupid"

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…loving that title!!!…i am considering a rebrand to “butt world”…

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

...dooo dooo dooo dooo...

"Okay, Dr Phil, I'm ready for my pill."

I don't know... this just came to me (from Nellie McKay's first album, I forget which song, I'm stupid).

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…i am ready to listen to that…

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

https://lyrics.lyricfind.com/lyrics/nellie-mckay-change-the-world

That's just the lyrics...

And here's the song\video:

https://youtu.be/96onScNJaF8?si=4RfrxpJ1j-fF-vdn

This song is very CansaFis, and the whole album is, for that matter. Maybe you two are related... I'm sure you are.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…i approve at anything that requires a parental advisory sticker…thank you for the recommendation…this is rad…breakfast delights!…

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

Haha... enjoy... she's truly amazing, only 20 or 22 when she released this (double) album... I don't have a single musical synapse in my brain, but some music does tickle me... That's all that art is supposed to do, right? Tickle your mind... Science does that, too... dooo... dooo... dooo...

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…dooo dooo dooo!…she is an insane talent…so cool to hear new things too…very appreciative…

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

Truly one of a kind.

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David Marlow's avatar

As the great Buckminster Fuller said decades ago, "It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival."

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...yet we make McDonald’s over and over and over again...doo doo doo doo...being named Buckminster is almost a guarantee of greatness, yet parents around the world are settling for Phil (sorry Phils)...that quote rules...thank you for sharing :)...

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David Marlow's avatar

Name as destiny...not to be confused with being named Destiny.

You're most welcome. Th article was a marvelous musing, thank you for sharing it.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...i think i will name my first born “protectdadatallcosts”...and my second child “atleastbeentertaining”...i knew a woman named Destiny in high school and she always struck me as more of a Fate...what power us name givers get (direct reference to Powers Boothe)...

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David Marlow's avatar

Weird, Powers Booth came to my mind this morning on a completely different topic. I always thought that was a cool name.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...awesome name...good actor too!...

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Dominik Gmeiner's avatar

Doo doo doo Beep boop. Thank you

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Kat Koh's avatar

"Meanwhile I needed over one thousand words to just tell you how stupid I am." Where you chose to place this, so good.

Keep hitting us with that self aware, self deprecating stuff that reveals how smrt you be

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

....doo doo doo doo doo...

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Lee A Smart's avatar

This is one of your best, my friend. Your writing has improved a ton since we met last October. I love all the proof you have for each argument. People really are stupid and unbelievably smart. The nuclear bomb proves both at once. ...Booom boooom boooom boooom...

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

... a.g.i. could prove out to be even stupider ...doo doo doo doo doo...

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Jeff Giesea's avatar

Damn you for putting baby shark in my brain. 😂

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...blame society...dooo dooo dooo dooo dooo...

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Steven Puri's avatar

Dude, I usually find some wry thing to pick up on in your writings and couple it with some odd pop-culture reference, but man. Man. Today's letter just hit me like a ton of bricks in the center of my heart. Great writing. I'm depressed af about how true what you wrote is.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

...if we are going to build something great...it is going to need a ton of bricks...glad you enjoyed this brother :)...and sorry i depressed you...doo doo doo doo doo...

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