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[Thael]

My parents told me about Mr. Common Sense early in my life and told me I would do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by.

Today I read his obituary. Please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance, for Common Sense had served us all so well for so many generations.
Obituary:

Common Sense

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Aspirin, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student, but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became
contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know my Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I'm a Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do
nothing.

>Author unknown

[Thael]

Doesn't this have phenomena have a name


This is weird, but interesting!
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[Avilister]

A friend of mine (Corey, actually) did some checking and was unable to find the Cambridge research this note indicates. Also, if you check things really closely, the order of letters in each of those words is pretty carefully chosen. In the cases of the particularly long words, the general 'shape' of the word is preserved by keeping characters like d b p and the like in roughly the same place. Note also the word "phaonmneal" which preserves the 'ph' combo. "pmeonhaol" isn't quite as understandable, is it?

[rydi]

the first letter has some truth to it, but then it felt the need to go all conservative.

there are reasons why parents don't get to know their kid is having an abortion. they might not let you get one, and it isn't thier decision to make, whether you have to live with a child your whole life.

the ten commandments are religous, not secular. half the people don't realize it, the other half just think their religion should be on top. both can go to hell.

that hot cup of coffee lawsuit, after i read the details, actually made sense. the machine that made it was malfunctioning, and several other complaints had been recieved. the coffee was almost boiling when it came out, far hotter than you expect "hot coffee" to be, and the woman was severely burned by the liquid when it spilled, not just scorched as a normal cup of coffee would do.

rights aren't bad, calling on people to take responsibility for their own shit goes both ways, and just because you call someone on their shit doesn't always mean you have a "victim" mentality.

that said, i do agree with the other stuff in the article, and the last bit is true more often than i prefer.

[Liquidprism]

I think that Cheyne and Stevens responses were more entertaining than the articles themselves.