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  • I recall walking into a chemist to buy my first packet of condoms in my reprobate youth; back in the middle-ages you could not simply pick them up from an easily accessible shelf, you had to ask for them.

    Apparently, size does matter « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • It will be Third World, maybe with some middle-ages mixed in, you know?

    Matthew Yglesias » Taking on the Banks With Mortgage Cramdowns 2010

  • This isn't the middle-ages and Obama isn't a knight.

    Is Camelot's future in Obama's hands? 2009

  • What a sad day when we feel we should congratulate a state office for simply not spreading middle-ages fairy tales.

    I'm Proud of Wyoming - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Now many writers may figure that all this effort is not really required, that the traditional middle-ages economic scenario can be pretty much assumed, and to some extent this is correct, as long as whatever story is being written really does fit into this kind of background and there are no plot actions that will disturb the status quo.

    World Building « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2007

  • Now many writers may figure that all this effort is not really required, that the traditional middle-ages economic scenario can be pretty much assumed, and to some extent this is correct, as long as whatever story is being written really does fit into this kind of background and there are no plot actions that will disturb the status quo.

    2007 April « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2007

  • It was not known to the Watering Team whether the subjects to whom the water was to be fed were randomly chosen by the inner-circle officials, but what was certain as the team met up with the target recipients of the water was that they were of all ages - some in their teens, some even past their middle-ages and many being above the age of sixty or sixty-five at least.

    Startling CIA findings on Longevity & Hindu Spiriualism: Sure to Make you feel Thrilled Paulina 2009

  • Dante's Inferno - The team behind Dead Space adapt middle-ages Italian religious allegory into a survival horror title.

    2009 - The Year In Advance Greg Tannahill 2009

  • | Reply | Permalink this is a perfect illustration of the 'cannon fodder' attitude of the ruling elite. it is unchanged from middle-ages to today. soldiers are only pawns to be sacrificed for the enrichment of the king/capitalist

    GOP Senate Leader McConnell Appears To Belittle Deaths Of American Troops 2009

  • Isn't that what they used to do with women in the middle-ages?

    The One With The Observations kisobel 2007

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