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4170
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the answer's easy my husband greg
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4171
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i get to read about mother jokes from mesopotamia from years ago
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4172
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and my absolute favorite from years ago in luxor an inscription that describes schoolboys who cut class to go drinking
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4177
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by the way nasa has a space archaeology program so it's a real job
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4178
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twins
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4180
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what you'll do is sign in create a note that this particular is already taken
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4181
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these symbols endure because when we look at them we're looking at mirrors
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4182
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on my first day in egypt i worked at a site in the northeast egyptian delta called mendes dating to years ago in a cemetery
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4183
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never are we so present as when we are in the midst of the great past
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4187
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but we have a challenge
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4188
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countless invading armies have done the same throughout history
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4189
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i blame the middlemen the unethical traffickers and an international art market that exploits often ambiguous or even completely nonexistent laws
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4191
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sometimes an archaeological site can surprise you with its resilience
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4214
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people are now talking about whether my country is becoming a little england or as one of my colleagues put it whether we're about to become a nostalgia theme park floating in the atlantic ocean
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4215
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everybody was blaming everybody else
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4217
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young people didn't turn out to vote in great numbers but those that did wanted to remain
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4220
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if you could help me with that it would be fantastic
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4221
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which he did and has since become a great advocate of the whole idea
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4222
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my work for a long time has been involved in education in teaching people practical skills for sustainability teaching people how to take responsibility for growing some of their own food how to build buildings using local materials how to generate their own energy and so on
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4223
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but as we straddle the top of this energy mountain at this stage we move from a time where our economic success our sense of individual prowess and well being is directly linked to how much of this we consume to a time when actually our degree of oil dependency is our degree of vulnerability
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4224
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but i think to set the scene i want to show the next slide is not my attempt to show the worst ted slide in the history of ted but it is a bit of a mess
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4225
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the science budget is actually if you look to your left there's a purple set of blobs and then yellow set of blobs
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4233
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please keep your seat
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4235
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this is what her arm looked like when she came to my clinic about three months after her sprain
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4236
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they're certainly incredibly damage resistant
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4237
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so you never know where curiosity based research will lead and someday you may want a swarm of cockroach inspired robots to come at you
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humorous
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4238
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they can go over complex terrain like grass no problem and not get destabilized
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4239
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and they have nearly unlimited maneuverability with that same structure and unprecedented access to a variety of different areas
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4240
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and i started having these bizarre dinner parties on friday nights where people would come over and we'd do extractions and i would capture them on video because it created this kind of funny portrait as well
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4241
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you can kind of tell from their reactions
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4242
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and so i started doing this regularly
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4244
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so in a way i created sort of a genetic social network
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serious
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4245
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but when you open them you have different rarities of the toys
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4246
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now whenever you hear the word dark in physics you should get very suspicious because it probably means we don't know what we're talking about
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4247
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i'm sure
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humorous
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4248
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over the last century these two ideas have utterly transformed our understanding of the universe
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serious
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4249
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but when we look around us we see we live in a universe full of interesting stuff full of stars planets trees squirrels
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4266
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now that sounds absurd in singapore to say that because here shipping is so present that you stuck a ship on top of a hotel
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4267
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you can get a flag from the landlocked nation of bolivia or mongolia or north korea though that's not very popular
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humorous
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4269
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but shipping isn't that
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4272
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that time is called most of american history
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4273
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perhaps you've thought some of these things
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4293
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and meetings are just toxic terrible poisonous things during the day at work
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4295
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just cancel that next meeting
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4296
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and so what they typically do is they decide that all these people need to come together in one place to do that work
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4306
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they are very happy with their balls models of molecules
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humorous
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4309
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even einstein hated this idea he called it spooky action at a distance
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4310
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quantum biology brings together quantum physicists molecular biologists it's a very interdisciplinary field
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4313
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organic chemistry scaled up in complexity gives us molecular biology which of course leads to life itself
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4315
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this is nike building the marketplace for people who collect sneakers and my daughter
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4318
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and here's the best part have sneaker portfolios
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4319
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i have one of those
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4324
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i have about pairs but trust me i am small time
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4327
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someone is making the rules
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4330
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and are the ones who drive the marketing and the hype and the and the brand cachet and enable nike to sell millions of sneakers
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4334
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and what happened a month ago was that the chinese company they acquired the volvo company and then finally the swedes understood that something big had happened in the world
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4335
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in the developing world she said they had two billion people
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4336
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and i think in many ways we can sort of think of the use of the blue shell and the mayans as the first real application of the technology
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4337
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and so you do get these kinds of contacts and of course being british and also growing up in france i tend to be very blunt and so i had to explain to them very nicely that in their particular case there probably wasn't that much in there to protect in the first place
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4338
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and this led him to propose that material as a new material for intraocular lenses
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4339
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if we look at this schematic this is showing you what we think of as the typical tissue engineering approach
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4340
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i had no idea there were so many believers at a ted conference
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4341
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and when that happens the feeling is ecstatic and we reach for metaphors of up and down to explain these feelings
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4342
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i grew up at a time when actors from kuwait syria egypt used laughter to unite the region just as football can
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4346
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it's still going strong with positive press to die for
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4349
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we filmed that process and aired a documentary
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4360
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when they say to you what do you do you say i'm a statistician
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humorous
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4361
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she told this to one of her colleagues who said well what does your boyfriend do sarah thought quite hard about the things i'd explained and she concentrated in those days on listening
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4363
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well her colleague suddenly got much more interested than i had any right to expect and went on and said what does he model well sarah thought a little bit more about my work and said genes
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4365
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don't think you don't trust me anymore
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4366
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we're not top on people's lists for dinner party guests and conversations and so on
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4368
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imagine this half of the audience each get out coins and they toss them until they first see the pattern head
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serious
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4369
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so on this side you get out your coins and you toss and toss and toss
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4371
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in fact the average number of tosses till head is and the average number of tosses until head is eight
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4373
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the on ice just next to you you've got the glasses chilled to celebrate
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4374
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i have to say this sounds awesome
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4375
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so based on these studies i could say oxytocin is an immoral molecule and call myself dr
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4377
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so what we found was when was low people were more likely to take revenge when they're treated unfairly
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4378
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whyte i said i work with the conversational nature of reality
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humorous
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4380
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and when you get to santiago actually it can be something of an because there are people living there who are not necessarily applauding you as you're coming into town
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4382
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the first ritual is to eat a tapas plate of scallops or if you're vegetarian to contemplate the scallop shell
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4383
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i can't believe it
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4385
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for marlene mccormack who has already had her third play performed in off in dublin
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4386
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i'm sorry you have chosen them out unconsciously for that exact core competency
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4391
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and what actually happens is this frontier between what you think is you and what you think is not you
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4392
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and you leave an item of clothing that has helped you to get to this place
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4393
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and the full moon was illuminated by the dying sun in such a powerful way that even after the sun had dropped below the horizon the moon could still see that sun
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4394
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well i was so taken by this story i wrote this piece for her
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4399
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but when you think about it the only environment in which that would be true would be a flat desert empty of any other life
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4400
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santiago
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4405
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and like a good millennial i documented it on social media
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4407
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she said rosie you can't ask people questions like that
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4434
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the real show starts when the police appears
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4435
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somebody gives you a bet you will look at a crystal ball and you will see the future the future will be accurate
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4437
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and it goes with a book that says read my pins
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4438
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so it evolved
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4440
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so being an american i decided to set up a caucus
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4441
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if you think that you've forgotten high school
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4442
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and none of this pin stuff would have happened if it hadn't been for saddam hussein
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4444
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but that's the least of it
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