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26 Feb 2007, 23:59
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What would you like to be remembered for?
I was just wondering if you could go down in history for any one act what would it be? Some great invention, curing cancer, conquering the world, etc...
I'm not totally sure what I would like to be remembered though being involved in some great new space discovery would be pretty cool.
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27 Feb 2007, 02:11
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
id like be remembered for single handedly ending the funds wasted in the space project
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27 Feb 2007, 02:18
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
Just on a side note we were asked who are our heroes in class today.
I said my hero is black and Irish, I call him God, some refer to him as Paul McGrath. Muchos Banter, the lads got it, the girls didnt. As we went round the room people were in general rather boring.
I thought it couldn't get much worse until a girl said my hero is Nelson Mandella.
I burst out laughing and went "Your hero is a terrorist?"
It was a joke, some laughed, some didn't get it. She hates me.
I would quite like to cure all cancer. That won't happen, so being remembered for something like first man on mars would be pretty immense. That probably also won't happen but in the whole lottery of life, I am sure there is more chance that will happen than me curing cancer.
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27 Feb 2007, 02:21
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'd like to be one of those teachers that people look back on 20/30/40 years later and go "wow he was one of my best teachers, he really influenced me" at a school reunion with their friends. That'd do for me.
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27 Feb 2007, 03:09
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'd like to remembered as the next Shigeru Miyamoto
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27 Feb 2007, 09:39
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
i'd like to be the next richard branson
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27 Feb 2007, 09:43
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'd like to be remembered as the person who gave Oprah Winfrey aids
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27 Feb 2007, 10:53
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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id like be remembered for single handedly ending the funds wasted in the space project
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This would be a good one, although probably not in the way its meant. Adding some intellectual honesty and competent management to, say, NASA would improve it no end.
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27 Feb 2007, 12:03
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I will be mentioned together with Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao and the likes of "Apo" öcalan.
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27 Feb 2007, 12:12
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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I will be mentioned together with Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao and the likes of "Apo" öcalan.
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I know you did that deliberately hoping someone would call you out on it so you could make some bizzare comment and feel intellectually superior for a few seconds but seriously.
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27 Feb 2007, 17:35
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
To be remembered as someone who made a positive affect to the lives of the people that knew me and to be remembered with a smile..
As a legacy, that will do me fine.
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27 Feb 2007, 17:47
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I would like to be remembered as the guy who mapped human genome and, subsequently, exterminated stupidity from human species.
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27 Feb 2007, 18:21
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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I would like to be remembered as the guy who mapped human genome and, subsequently, exterminated stupidity from human species.
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You're more likely to be remembered as someone who doesn't understand genetics.
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27 Feb 2007, 18:27
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
i'd like to be the guy that not only skrewed you all over but the guy who came back and did it again.
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27 Feb 2007, 19:34
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Angry Young Man
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
hold on i need a blackboard and a piece of chalk to tally up marks zingfest
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27 Feb 2007, 19:46
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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You're more likely to be remembered as someone who doesn't understand genetics.
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I agree completly, that those are my chances
but,
as are you...
its quite ignorant to imply that you understand genetics.
And cognitive ability is confirmed to be tied to genetics.
He who does understand genetics fully, will be a single greatest man in the history of humankind.
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See alot up there
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27 Feb 2007, 19:46
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
Apart from me does anyone have a realistic thing to be remembered as
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27 Feb 2007, 19:53
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I want to be remembered for ruling with an Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove!
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27 Feb 2007, 20:18
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Apart from me does anyone have a realistic thing to be remembered as
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In all due honesty, i just wanna be remembered by my kids (whenever those will be aquired) as a good father... nothing else is really important. I care little about the world and humanity, and even less about my own place in it.
everything else is egocentrical ambitions that will never get a move.
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[Destiny] awaits, ex- [Omen]
Nothing on the top
but the bucket and the mop
And an illustrated book about birds
See alot up there
But dont be scared
who needs action, when you got words....
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reading this line is explicit acceptance of my superiority over you
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27 Feb 2007, 20:42
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Apart from me does anyone have a realistic thing to be remembered as
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depends on your realism, everyones is very different.
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27 Feb 2007, 21:08
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
"curing cancer" or "being part of the space program" isn't very realistic.
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27 Feb 2007, 21:16
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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"curing cancer" or "being part of the space program" isn't very realistic.
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Originally Posted by Tomkat
I'd like to be one of those teachers that people look back on 20/30/40 years later and go "wow he was one of my best teachers, he really influenced me" at a school reunion with their friends. That'd do for me.
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27 Feb 2007, 21:18
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Bad Girl
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
We dont allways get remembered for what we wanted to be remembered for, Edward John Smith probably didnt want to be remembered forever for his part in history.
So you cure cancer, then 50 years down the road someone discovers that your cure is lethal for future generations, but your still memorable.
The person who 1st created DDT was a hero...
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27 Feb 2007, 23:11
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'd like to be remembered for something other than posting on this forum.
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27 Feb 2007, 23:35
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'd like to be remembered as me.
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28 Feb 2007, 01:04
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Which one are you?
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he's the one who wants to divorce his slut wife but isn't brave enough.
i quite like him
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28 Feb 2007, 01:08
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Victim of Marriage
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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he's the one who wants to divorce his slut wife but isn't brave enough.
i quite like him
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If only she were a slut, then I'd have a reason. But then again, sluts are probably the only women Yahwe is familiar with, so they must all be sluts in his eyes.
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28 Feb 2007, 01:09
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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If only she were a slut, then I'd have a reason. But then again, sluts are probably the only women Yahwe is familiar with, so they must all be sluts in his eyes.
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i understand why you felt the need to lash out at me.
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28 Feb 2007, 02:42
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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its quite ignorant to imply that you understand genetics.
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I understand that genetics is not the sole factor behind "stupidity" (even ignoring social and self-determination issues), and that there are no isolated genes for pretty much anything cognitive. Furthermore, you're a few years out of date for the mapping of the human genome thing.
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28 Feb 2007, 03:11
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I dunno...
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I would like to be remembered for writing something pretty good. Other than that, I'd like to me remembered as a good dad and a decent man.
PS. And I'd also like to be the man that filled a swimming pool with dweebs.
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28 Feb 2007, 05:16
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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i understand why you felt the need to lash out at me.
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I wouldn't classify that as lashing out, more along the lines of a poor attempt at a one line zinger.
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28 Feb 2007, 12:08
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Apart from me does anyone have a realistic thing to be remembered as
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I'm going to be remembered for being cool. On the internet.
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28 Feb 2007, 13:18
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Angry Young Man
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
long way to go on that front yet kid
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28 Feb 2007, 13:40
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'd like to be just memorable enough not to have a Wikipedia page. **** those fannies.
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28 Feb 2007, 15:18
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
Be remembered for being the most helpful guy that people took for granted.
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28 Feb 2007, 15:35
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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holy shit, are they for real ?
Seems hard to believe that something that few years back seemed like science fiction novel actually.. happen !
Well, its not what i meant tho, they have the map but not quite sure how to use it... So many more discoveries to be done \o/ Genetics own.
And my thread on eradicating stupidity via genetics was a joke relax bro \o/ It makes some sence, admit it
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[Destiny] awaits, ex- [Omen]
Nothing on the top
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And an illustrated book about birds
See alot up there
But dont be scared
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28 Feb 2007, 16:57
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I'm not sure I'm particularly interested in general fame (either post or pre death). Receiving recognition for your work (/beauty/cock size) can be nice, but that's usually secondary to the thing itself.
Among the people who know me personally I'd like to be thought of as a reasonable sort of fellow who despite being a **** on ocassion, ultimately wasn't too bad. That's about it really.
I'd obviously quite like for my ideas / work to have influence / impact, but whether people actually knew my name or put my image on fridge magnets or whatever seems pretty irrelavent really.
Obviously while alive it'd be nice to be known as the world's greatest lover (if only so I could dispapoint legions of girls) but beyond that I'm not sure it matters.
(Besides, the real individualist only needs self-love to sustain him.)
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28 Feb 2007, 17:16
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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holy shit, are they for real ?
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eradicating stupidity
relax bro
sence
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Fo sho.
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28 Feb 2007, 17:27
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I've never seen a big reason to want to be remembered. Ofcourse I would expect my family and such to remember me and I hope it is good and inspires them to be good and better people. In part I would hope I left inspiration on others to be better also. But as a religious person I don't care about being 'remembered' just about living a good life that please God so that in the next life I will be happy and good etc.
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28 Feb 2007, 17:36
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
Like Dante said sort of, I just don't care except that it would be nice if people would be talking about my love making skills even after life.
Everytime when I visit GD and I see this topic title popping up I spend a moment of time thinking about it and everytime I really don't know for what I would like to be remembered for. I'm not too sure if that's because I just don't see it as something valuable or because I'm just an empty uncreative **** without ideas.
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28 Feb 2007, 18:44
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Fo sho.
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28 Feb 2007, 18:58
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Originally Posted by SilverSmoke
Everytime when I visit GD and I see this topic title popping up I spend a moment of time thinking about it and everytime I really don't know for what I would like to be remembered for. I'm not too sure if that's because I just don't see it as something valuable or because I'm just an empty uncreative **** without ideas.
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28 Feb 2007, 19:14
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I don't really like the question. It seems to imply that vanity is action's main motivator, that your contentment relies on the approval of others.
I would, of course, like to improve my social and technological environment, in a way that benefits me and anyone I care for (this includes more people than just my friends and family), but I'd like to believe that is out of benevolence rather than vanity. I'm unsure how vain I'll be when I'm a rotting corpse anyway.
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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holy shit, are they for real ?
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I hope you're being sarcastic, this was enormous news in most areas.
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It makes some sence, admit it
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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i'd like to be the next richard branson
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Known around the world as that virgin guy?
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28 Feb 2007, 23:52
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USS Oklahoma
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
I would like to be remembered as one of those who knew Dante and Zhukov, the last living communists on earth.
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
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Originally Posted by Blastoderm
Be remembered for being the most helpful guy that people took for granted.
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I think 1-X has you beat there
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Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
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Re: What would you like to be remembered for?
Well he has.
Online.
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