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  <body>If you have a pool of genes and you only use this pool of genes you end up with something like the royal family: a bit limp, a bit stupid and a bit samey with major problems.

What you need to do is get out of the pool- go somewhere else and inject some new genes and create something better.

It keeps the pool fresh.

Key:

pool:website
genes:artists/styles</body>
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  <title>Interbreeding and its pitfalls (now with key)</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-22T01:53:11-05:00</updated-at>
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      <body>noone wants to hop in a pool full of stagnant water..with no chlorine of course...</body>
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      <body>Did someone piss in the pool?</body>
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      <body>The machine of the gods is correct again. I give this metaphor a metaten on a scale of metaone to metanine. He did one better if you don't want to do the math.

True story one time when I was a lifeguard a kid got out of the pool and started peeing on the side of my lifeguard chair, so I just leaned over the side and said jump in the pool and pee in the water like everyone else, one of the top 5 reasons I'll be attending hell, if indeed there is one.</body>
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      <body>&lt;img src="http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5581/89595829dc5.jpg" /&gt;</body>
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    <comment>
      <body>Philip J Fry is one smart doodle.</body>
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      <body>The movies have taught me that imbreeding leads to raping and eating random people.</body>
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      <body>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a8LnLjI7sY</body>
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    <comment>
      <body>Otherwise we will all end up like this:

&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/sawasands/cat_glamourshot.jpg" /&gt;</body>
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    <comment>
      <body>or this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9dzLxLvxc</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;quakerninja said:&lt;/cite&gt; Philip J Fry is one smart doodle.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

also an offender of interbreeding, from the roswell episode were he goes back in time and accidently kills his grandfather and then sleeps with his grandmom.</body>
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      <body>"while some places are screaming 'revolution revolution', some places are screaming 'evolution evolution- give us our thumbs'!!" 

Bill Hicks</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;ShirtFight.com said:&lt;/cite&gt; Otherwise we will all end up like this:

&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/sawasands/cat_glamourshot.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

thats beautiful though.</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;augie said:&lt;/cite&gt; or this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm9dzLxLvxc&lt;/blockquote&gt;

always reminded me of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPjfqWCscJk</body>
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      <body>relevant</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;xjoshuabelangerx said:&lt;/cite&gt; relevant&lt;/blockquote&gt;

</body>
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    <comment>
      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;wotto said:&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;xjoshuabelangerx said:&lt;/cite&gt; so, so relevant&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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    <comment>
      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Ameeee said:&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;wotto said:&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;xjoshuabelangerx said:&lt;/cite&gt; elephant&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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      <body>&#8220;The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.&#8221;

- Oscar Wilde

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      <body>"My Gondsman companion promised me that he and his fellow inventor priests would one day replicate every spell in any wizard's repertoire, using natural elements in the proper combinations.  But there was no mention of the discipline any wizard must attain as he perfects his craft.  There was no mention of the fact that powerful wizardly magic is not given to anyone, but rather, is earned, day by day, year by year, and decade by decade.  It is a lifelong pursuit with a gradual increase in power, as mystical as it is secular.
...
He thought me, or, for that matter, anyone who achieved a level of skill in the fighting or magic arts, arrogant, because he could not appreciate the sacrifice and dedication necessary for such achievement."

- Drizzt Do'Urden</body>
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