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ScottBurson
on Aug 4, 2011
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$1 chip tests for HIV in 15 minutes, fits in your ...
While I realize that joking around is discouraged here, maybe it would be best if we didn't turn the humor detector all the way off.
I
thought it was a hoot, anyway.
prodigal_erik
on Aug 4, 2011
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The problem is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
. It's hard to get far enough beyond the actual nutjobs that we can tell you aren't one.
dhimes
on Aug 4, 2011
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raganwald is usually pretty good about it [edit: meaning, of course, that I usually enjoy his posts], but this one was so close to the edge because of all the controversy last year that I thought I may have missed something.
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I thought it was a hoot, anyway.