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Wonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:21 AM Original message |
Poll question: Is Huxley's "Brave New World" pornographic? Some Texans say it is... |
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MrJones (571 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. I mean... |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 09:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
27. I can see why they don't want kids reading Brave New World |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. I read that at 14, It was a great read... |
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Atlant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 07:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. See? Didn't your teacher tell you you should have looked up "pneumatic"?NT |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:58 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Are you sure you aren't referring to "Naked Lunch" |
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Grins (508 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 10:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Gasp!!! |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:32 AM Response to Original message |
3. Should being called to the front of class be banned too? |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:32 AM Response to Original message |
4. What a bunch of fucking morons |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Malthusian drill and lax sexual mores |
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mhr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 03:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Immaculate Conception |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:33 AM Response to Original message |
5. Oh Please. |
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DrFunkenstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 02:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. It Encourages Teens To Separate Sex From Procreation |
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dobak (808 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
6. ugh |
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Feanorcurufinwe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. Thou art God |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. I grok that. |
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Room101 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 02:20 AM Response to Original message |
9. The bible is pornographic |
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FireHeart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 04:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. Oh hell... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 05:06 AM Response to Original message |
13. Not pornographic but atheistic |
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Atlant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 07:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Oh for Ford's sake! :-) |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 07:59 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Nothing explicit, but... |
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IrateCitizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
18. In Texas, anything portraying a woman as wearing anything but an apron |
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Enraged_Ape (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:11 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. And yet in Dallas, there's a titty bar (er, "gentleman's club") on every |
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Throckmorton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
19. What was it that W.T. Sherman said about Texas 150 years ago, |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
21. Pornographic or Prophetic? |
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Josh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
22. Parts of it are downright lewd |
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CheshireCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
24. Kids that age get aroused by anything |
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Atlant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 09:22 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I think you must be speaking hyperbolically. (NT) |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-03 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
25. I'd rather live in Huxley's future than in Orwell's |
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