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This man is on fire. Just like the country, God bless it.

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Remember to keep indoors when one of these comes out. You’ve only got two lungs, and they’re codependent.

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Jul 4, 2023Liked by Dennard Dayle

Meat

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We picked our food group and we’re staying loyal to it.

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The best fireworks display you'll see today. Remaining fingers down!

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A stump is simply a medal you don’t have to fuss around pinning to something.

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CORN

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Wonderful writing -- "Work more corn into your day. Is there corn in your water? Your clothing? Your insulin? Be creative." -- no one at this BBQ is allowed to split an ear.

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Thanks! May your corn reserves remain bountiful.

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haha -- got a kid who works at an ethanol firm -- crushes corn into ethanol -- the scale of it all is ludicrous -- my favorite stat to work into a food post occasionally is 75% of the SKUs in a modern grocery store contain either corn or soybeans or both -- all of it so dumb

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I can only imagine how much crazier it is from the inside. Archaeologists will say we worshipped cobs.

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Haha -- I look forward to checking out more of your writing -- the whole post was withering -- When he talks about the scale of it our eyes glaze over. If we drive to visit him it's mostly corn in between once we leave the Twin Cities. Iowa is one big corn field and lots of windmills. The scale of it always makes me laugh. I like that only about 1% of the corn gets eaten by us directly. It is just an unkillable weed -- I looked at an old post -- about 10000 pounds for every man, woman and child per year --- a couple of small SUVs

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me : i had to come back to this tour de force

you: yes, i know you did

haha

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My schemes laid bare.

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I had to lie down after reading this. If I had just skimmed it, I would have had to sit down.

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I had to super-size the America Day special.

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You made the right call.

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So much good stuff here! My favorite is the Red Dawn Rocky 4 edit. Can we make this happen?

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This would only be the third most insane thing I’ve done in Lightworks. It may be time to change the world.

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Also, to clarify. We’re talking about the original Red Dawn, not the shitty Swayze-free, Sheen-free remake, right?

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One day I’ll know who that remake was for.

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I think it was for the love of corporate synergy. There was a video game around the time, if I’m not mistaken.

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