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- phrase Things that have happened in the past will happen again.
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chained_bear commented on the word history repeats itself
The Onion:
History Doomed To Repeat Itself, Reports Man Who Just Dropped Food On Pants
November 18, 2008 | Issue 44•47
DENVER—After dropping a chili dog in his lap Tuesday, area resident Marcus Nielson addressed the food-related blunder, calling it but another example of how history, marred by the inevitable folly of man, repeats itself. "Will mankind never learn?" asked Nielson, gazing into the middle distance, his outstretched palm holding a limp and sodden paper plate. "Sausages, ground beef, onions, garlic—oh, what blind and obstinate fools we've been!" According to friends, Nielson has previously compared the spilling of macaroni salad to "the inexorable march of time: its conclusion already a certainty," likened the tipping over of various beverages to the "age-old dance between balance and chaos," and once, after falling down an entire flight of stairs, remarked, "Jesus fucking Christ."
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December 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word history repeats itself
Haha!
Maybe if he got those stain-repelling pants, history would stop repeating....
December 3, 2008