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"I'm pregnant. I'm sorry."

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It's not paranoia if they're really after you.

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I'll bet JC and the dirty dozen didn't drink wine like WE do!

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"I think that comes from being Eastern European and living on a steady diet of goulash and civil war."

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"My knowledge of indeginous Slavic folk music is sadly wanting."

Do I even need to credit this?

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Occasionally I watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition every Sunday night. Last night was no exeption. Well, there were actually a couple of exceptions.

Last night's episode featured a middle-class family from Charlottesville, VA who were in the process of building their dream home when the husband, a National Guardsman, got deployed to Iraq. The home they were in the process of building was not yet "in the dry" and so it was basically destroyed by the elements.

So the EMHE team brought homeboy back from Iraq after 4 gruelling months. (I think the usual term of deployment is like 2 or 3 years.) And built him a new 4,500 square foot home.

The neat thing about charity, I guess, is that you can give it to whomever. No one is any more deserving than the other, but a couple things were brought to my attention.

One is that while EMHE usually choses families whose stories are particularly heart wrenching, like Joe and Maritha took in 9 crippled orphans and then their house burned down and Joe died while carrying Maritha and all 9 orphans out of the flames one-by-one and now the widow Maritha and and the orphans live in a Winnebago under a bridge in the industrial section of town and 7 of the orphans have respiratory problems and Maritha makes ends meet selling pancakes out the back window of the trailer so they get a new house or something like that, this family was totally middle class.

But, okay, whatever. They got a new house. But then Toby Keith shows up and hands them the keys to a new Ford F450 Dually, SuperDuty, Club Cab, 4x4, Cummings Turbo Diesel, long bed truck. It's the biggest truck you can buy without upgrading to a Peterbuilt.

Which brings me to the quote of the week. I'm discussing this train wreck of an hour long Sears/Ford/Whirlpool Duet it uses steam and 1/3 less water so you're helping to save the environment despite the fact that the four of you live in a 4,500 square foot house and drive a semi commercial, particulary the part where they are given the keys to the aforementioned semi when Sarah blurts out, "Couldn't they have just gotten them a minivan with Stow & Go seating? That's what they really need!"

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"It's not bulimia if it's not out of control."

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"If Christ hadn't risen, he would have just rolled over in his grave."

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"I don't eat meat all that much, except for double cheeseburgers."

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I got a car just like yours as a loaner. It sucks!