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Atheists & Agnostics

awoke_in_2003

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10. The pride of stupidity...

Reply to immoderate (Reply #9)

Sat Aug 13, 2016, 09:53 PM

Aug 2016

I saw a similar look on a co-workers face when he said "if we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" I just walked out of the room before my IQ dropped. It is moments like this that I wish I would just memorize the game show scene from Billy Madison.

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