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I've always been bothered by those "Property Of Blank University" t-shirts that used to actually be the loaned (or stolen) property of college athletic departments but have now become popular enough that you can find them, for sale, in nearly any university store or gift shop in the US.

Here's my response:

PROPERTY OF
PIERRE-JOSEPH
PROUDHON

For those that don't know (and that's certainly many), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is the nineteenth century French anarchist and mutualist most famous for saying, "La propriété, c'est le vol!" In English: "Property is theft!"

By request, this has been played through this. Unmodified or post processed in anyway, it sounds a little like a bad dub. But I thought I would post it as an example for other folks to see what is possible.

Allie and I were laughing at the Songsmith videos the other day but this is too awesome.

Listen, son, we need to have a talk. This isn't going to be easy for either of us. You are not my son. I'm sorry, I know this will come as a blow to you. But the fact is, no son of mine plays Oregon Trail like you do.

The first sign something was wrong was when I watched you choose the banker as your occupation to start a game. The banker? Really? Were you not aware that the banker has no point modifier?

For some time, I managed to convince myself that you preferred the banker simply because his vast resources allowed you to purchase the maximum number of oxen. I was sure that you were attempting to set a speed record of some sort. Of course, I knew that the game limited you to 40 miles a day regardless of the number of oxen, but I thought you would figure that out for yourself. But you weren't about to figure anything out. Not about Oregon Trail, and not about life.

Rubber duckie, you're the one
You make bath time lots of fun
Rubber duckie, I'm awfully fond of you

For a while I waned to be uploaded into an immortal machine intelligence when I died, but then immortal machine intelligences got all POPULAR.

Yeah, I want to downloaded into a robot too. Though technically I'd still die, but my robot counterpart which was mentally just like me would live on. So I'd still experience death. Which is sort of the annoying part.

A red star up on the Christmas tree
A hammer for you and a sickle for me
Good will to all men, lets celebrate
By purging the enemies of the State

Rick Astley and Foster's Home for Imaginary Kids conduct the largest rickroll in recorded history, when you consider how much of America tunes into the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (And maybe the first live, in-person rickroll with Astley himself?)

And to think, Allison went but I found about it on the internet first.

"Like they're reading a science article written by a journalism major"