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		<title>By: ice9</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294195</link>
		<dc:creator>ice9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uggs insanely popular among Minnesota teens.  But they won&#039;t wear them in the snow and ice as that is a rough environment for quality footwear.

ps porcupines won&#039;t grease.

ice</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Uggs insanely popular among Minnesota teens.  But they won&#8217;t wear them in the snow and ice as that is a rough environment for quality footwear.</p>

	<p>ps porcupines won&#8217;t grease.</p>

	<p>ice</p>
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		<title>By: fxh</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294189</link>
		<dc:creator>fxh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ugg Bots?

JQ - I&#039;m surprised it gets cold enough in QLD to pull the old uggies on at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Ugg Bots?</p>

	<p><span class="caps">JQ </span>- I&#8217;m surprised it gets cold enough in <span class="caps">QLD</span> to pull the old uggies on at all.</p>
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		<title>By: Jacob Christensen</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294116</link>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Christensen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@31 Or was the double nature of Henry/Maria just revealed here? :-)

Anyway, I&#039;m clueless about Gugs. Or whatever they were called. And if I wasn&#039;t, I probably wouldn&#039;t tell you.

By the way: Chris&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/March08vita.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;homepage tells us his true age&lt;/a&gt;. Ah yes, the age of cassette tapes and radio mixes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>@31 Or was the double nature of Henry/Maria just revealed here? :-)</p>

	<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m clueless about Gugs. Or whatever they were called. And if I wasn&#8217;t, I probably wouldn&#8217;t tell you.</p>

	<p>By the way: Chris&#8217;s <a href="http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/March08vita.pdf" rel="nofollow">homepage tells us his true age</a>. Ah yes, the age of cassette tapes and radio mixes.</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
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		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oooops! Not Henry at all - just Maria mooching about his house and using his laptop....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Oooops! Not Henry at all &#8211; just Maria mooching about his house and using his laptop&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Henry</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294080</link>
		<dc:creator>Henry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What amazes me is that Ugg boots are still in fashion anywhere (as opposed to just comfy and useful to wear). It&#039;s got to be at least 3 years since Sienna Miller and co were wearing them. Maybe they became fashionable in America a couple of years after the UK?

As far as I can see, the only fashion-worthy reason to wear Uggs is that although they don&#039;t flatter big calves, they are kinder to the averagely chunky thigh. Still not convinced, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>What amazes me is that Ugg boots are still in fashion anywhere (as opposed to just comfy and useful to wear). It&#8217;s got to be at least 3 years since Sienna Miller and co were wearing them. Maybe they became fashionable in America a couple of years after the UK?</p>

	<p>As far as I can see, the only fashion-worthy reason to wear Uggs is that although they don&#8217;t flatter big calves, they are kinder to the averagely chunky thigh. Still not convinced, though.</p>
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		<title>By: John Quiggin</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Quiggin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You could also do a whole post on the &quot;brow&quot; and gender aspect of ugg boots. In Oz, they started out at as gender-neutral footwear at the low end of middlebrow and, as these things typically do, declined to &quot;low&quot;, to the point where I remember a colleague noting the prevalence of ugg boots in an Australian city as an indicator of terminal economic and social decline. But, they are really comfortable boots, at least when worn in the bitter (&lt;20 C !) Australian winter. So, lots of people like me have them for wearing around the house and so on.

Then, thanks to the trademark bandits noted above, ugg boots suddenly became fashionable, but only for women, to the point where, when I last bought a pair, I was asked if it was a gift (happily, the hypothesis of metrosexual cool did not even occur to the salesperson).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>You could also do a whole post on the &#8220;brow&#8221; and gender aspect of ugg boots. In Oz, they started out at as gender-neutral footwear at the low end of middlebrow and, as these things typically do, declined to &#8220;low&#8221;, to the point where I remember a colleague noting the prevalence of ugg boots in an Australian city as an indicator of terminal economic and social decline. But, they are really comfortable boots, at least when worn in the bitter (&lt;20 C !) Australian winter. So, lots of people like me have them for wearing around the house and so on.</p>

	<p>Then, thanks to the trademark bandits noted above, ugg boots suddenly became fashionable, but only for women, to the point where, when I last bought a pair, I was asked if it was a gift (happily, the hypothesis of metrosexual cool did not even occur to the salesperson).</p>
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		<title>By: kid bitzer</title>
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		<dc:creator>kid bitzer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yes, there&#039;s a strong resemblance.

but i decline to endorse your identity, since then by substitutivity of boots into an extensional context we would have to conclude that george clinton is chelsea clinton, and thus that parliament is the white house.

all of which can be shown to be false, via the boozilla theorem.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>yes, there&#8217;s a strong resemblance.</p>

	<p>but i decline to endorse your identity, since then by substitutivity of boots into an extensional context we would have to conclude that george clinton is chelsea clinton, and thus that parliament is the white house.</p>

	<p>all of which can be shown to be false, via the boozilla theorem.</p>
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		<title>By: chris y</title>
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		<dc:creator>chris y</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>George boots = &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?q=chelsea%20boots&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-30,GGGL:en&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chelsea boots&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>George boots = <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=chelsea%20boots&#038;sourceid=navclient-ff&#038;rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-30,GGGL:en&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;hl=en&#038;tab=wi" rel="nofollow">Chelsea boots</a>?</p>
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		<title>By: Salient</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294036</link>
		<dc:creator>Salient</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clicking over to Christopher Uggens&#039; website to give a quick scan through, the first thing I notice says:

&lt;i&gt;...please allow a few weeks for delivery.&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Gahh!&lt;/b&gt;

First we learn Phillip Hallam-Baker is actually a bot (with a reconstructed dalek laboratory to boot), now Christopher Uggen? Next thing I know it&#039;ll turn out &lt;i&gt;I&#039;m&lt;/i&gt; a bot.^1^

^1^This couldn&#039;t possibly be true. I only mention things like the wonderful Barnes &amp; Noble nook[tm][&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/?cds2Pid=30919&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;] from time to time because I like them and want to share! (And that&#039;s a fact.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Clicking over to Christopher Uggens&#8217; website to give a quick scan through, the first thing I notice says:</p>

	<p><i>&#8230;please allow a few weeks for delivery.</i></p>

	<p><b>Gahh!</b></p>

	<p>First we learn Phillip Hallam-Baker is actually a bot (with a reconstructed dalek laboratory to boot), now Christopher Uggen? Next thing I know it&#8217;ll turn out <i>I&#8217;m</i> a bot.<sup>1</sup></p>

	<p><sup>1</sup>This couldn&#8217;t possibly be true. I only mention things like the wonderful Barnes &#038; Noble nook&#8482;[<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/?cds2Pid=30919" rel="nofollow">link</a>] from time to time because I like them and want to share! (And that&#8217;s a fact.)</p>
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		<title>By: kid bitzer</title>
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		<dc:creator>kid bitzer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you mean george boots. he&#039;s the one i remember especially wearing them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>you mean george boots. he&#8217;s the one i remember especially wearing them.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Hurka</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294034</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hurka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of old, anyone for gogo boots or Beatle boots?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Speaking of old, anyone for gogo boots or Beatle boots?</p>
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		<title>By: JoB</title>
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		<dc:creator>JoB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>22 - Oops (yeah, so they tell me without ever inviting me over there) - but there has to be some place somewhere where Matt could figuratively transport Henry to to be also right even in August.

(by the way: I heard that Monclier is the new thing - a local famosity tells me that it is a lot more expensive than anything else and (presumably therefore although she doesn&#039;t quite make that point) a lot less people are wearing it - off to the shops, I guess)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>22 &#8211; Oops (yeah, so they tell me without ever inviting me over there) &#8211; but there has to be some place somewhere where Matt could figuratively transport Henry to to be also right even in August.</p>

	<p>(by the way: I heard that Monclier is the new thing &#8211; a local famosity tells me that it is a lot more expensive than anything else and (presumably therefore although she doesn&#8217;t quite make that point) a lot less people are wearing it &#8211; off to the shops, I guess)</p>
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		<title>By: bianca steele</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294032</link>
		<dc:creator>bianca steele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s probably at least as warm around here in August as it is where Henry teaches in September or October.  A ten year old in a bathing suit and shearling boots looks even sillier than a grown man wearing shorts and a heavy sweater in November.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>It&#8217;s probably at least as warm around here in August as it is where Henry teaches in September or October.  A ten year old in a bathing suit and shearling boots looks even sillier than a grown man wearing shorts and a heavy sweater in November.</p>
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		<title>By: JoB</title>
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		<dc:creator>JoB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bianca, that&#039;s probably because you don&#039;t live around where John Q lives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>bianca, that&#8217;s probably because you don&#8217;t live around where John Q lives.</p>
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		<title>By: bianca steele</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/04/most-of-my-friends-are-two-thirds-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-294030</link>
		<dc:creator>bianca steele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The documentation for WP suggests lack of support for regexps.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>The documentation for WP suggests lack of support for regexps.</p>
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