CTRL+V THREAD! [Part Ⅻ] (999)

1 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8212 17:58

CTRL+V THREAD! [part Ⅺ]

901 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8630 13:43

Note: I'm not sure why, but I've had my boxers glitch on me before.

902 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8630 19:51

>>901
"It's a Clubberfuck!"

903 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8631 01:09

904 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8631 17:13

by KUPTO DATE - ‎1969 - ‎Cited by 1171

905 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8631 18:04

0) "Face"
1) "Fact"
2) "Fade"
3) "Fady"
4) "faik"
5) "Fail"
6) "Fain"
7) "Fair"
8) "Fake"
9) "falc"
10) "Falk"
11) "fall"
12) "Falx"
13) "Fame"
14) "Fand"
15) "Fane"
16) "Fang"
17) "Fard"
18) "Fare"
19) "Farl"
20) "Farm"
21) "Faro"
22) "Fash"
23) "Fast"
24) "Fate"
25) "Faun"
26) "faux"
27) "Fawe"
28) "Fawn"
29) "faze"
30) "feal"
31) "Fear"
32) "Feat"
33) "Feck"
34) "Feed"
35) "Feel"
36) "Feet"
37) "Fehm"
38) "Fele"
39) "Fell"
40) "Felt"
41) "Feme"
42) "Fend"
43) "Feod"
44) "Fere"
45) "Ferm"
46) "Fern"
47) "Fers"
48) "Fess"
49) "Fest"
50) "Fete"
51) "Feud"
52) "Fiar"
53) "Fiat"
54) "Fice"
55) "Fico"
56) "Fief"
57) "Fife"
58) "FIFO"
59) "Fike"
60) "File"
61) "Fill"
62) "Film"
63) "Fils"
64) "Find"
65) "fine"
66) "Finn"
67) "Fins"
68) "Fint"
69) "Fire"
70) "Firk"
71) "Firm"
72) "Fisc"
73) "fise"
74) "Fish"
75) "Fisk"
76) "Fist"
77) "Fitt"
78) "Fitz"
79) "Five"
80) "fizz"
81) "flab"
82) "Flag"
83) "Flam"
84) "Flap"
85) "Flat"
86) "Flaw"
87) "Flax"
88) "Flay"
89) "Flea"
90) "Fled"
91) "Flee"
92) "Flet"
93) "Flew"
94) "Flex"
95) "Flip"
96) "Flit"
97) "Flix"
98) "Floe"
99) "Flog"
100) "Flon"
101) "Flop"
102) "Flow"
103) "Flue"
104) "Flux"
105) "FNMA"
106) "Foal"
107) "Foam"
108) "Foge"
109) "Fogy"
110) "Foil"
111) "Foin"
112) "Fold"
113) "Folk"
114) "Fond"
115) "Fone"
116) "Font"
117) "Food"
118) "Fool"
119) "Foot"
120) "For-"
121) "Ford"
122) "Fore"
123) "fork"
124) "Form"
125) "Fort"
126) "Foul"
127) "Four"
128) "Fowl"
129) "Foxy"
130) "Fozy"
131) "Frab"
132) "frag"
133) "Frap"
134) "frat"
135) "Frau"
136) "fray"
137) "Frea"
138) "Fred"
139) "Free"
140) "Fren"
141) "Fret"
142) "Frey"
143) "frim"
144) "Frit"
145) "Friz"
146) "Froe"
147) "Frog"
148) "From"
149) "Frow"
150) "Fuar"
151) "Fubs"
152) "fuck"
153) "Fuel"
154) "Fuff"
155) "Fuga"
156) "Fugh"
157) "fugu"
158) "Full"
159) "Fume"
160) "Fumy"
161) "Fund"
162) "Funk"
163) "Furl"
164) "Fury"
165) "Fuse"
166) "Fuss"
167) "Fust"
168) "futz"
169) "Fuze"
170) "Fuzz"
171) "fyce"
172) "Fyke"
173) "Fyrd"

906 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8632 14:38

Yes, but everyone knows that a violent gaijin man may have taken some of that money, and handed in the rest, to throw them off his buttery scent.

907 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8632 17:23

Are farts acid, neutral or alkaline?

Farts tend to be rich in carbon dioxide, and may also contain hydrogen sulfide, the substance primarily responsible for the stench of farts. If a fart were to be dissolved in water, carbon dioxide would interact with water to produce carbonic acid, and hydrogen sulfide would make hydrosulfuric acid. These are both weak acids, so farts (at least when in solution) are mildly acidic.

908 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 05:43

In one published in 1805 book by Buch von Van de Vivere over the tomb of Canova, which is present also in a German translation of the same year, clearly shows that it is from the Christian is arisen thought out grave monument, although the impact of Clarification is noticeable. The funds and the interpretation of language of allegory Canova created the symbols and figures that in the thinking of antiquity found use and in the early Christian period, to mourn and to bury him a man's death.

909 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 07:21

>>908 "markov chain or garbled machine translation?" check out the new drinking game I just invented

910 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 13:28

I will always love the "Just learn japanese" answer.
Japanese is known as the language you can learn on one weekend

911 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 15:45

>>910
watarkshee wah neehoengo toe eeee desoo

912 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 17:22

scale_fill_distiller(palette='RdYlGn', na.value='grey20')

913 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 17:51

watch?v=q81ptFSA4mk

914 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8634 19:00

Stock images to depict Muslims (left) and a violent gang rape (right)

915 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8635 20:41

There is a point where refusing to give up makes you stop being an admirable young spitfire and start being a cautionary tale.

916 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8637 01:44

917 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8641 04:09

In the edited clean version of the song, the word "fuck" is replaced with "love", and a line in the chorus ("I see you winding and grinding, up on that pole") is rewritten as "up on the floor". "Pussy" and "nigga" are played backwards, and "dick" and "titties" are blanked out

918 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8641 04:14

Princess Elise's necrobestial kiss with Sonic's dead body.

919 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8641 16:48

There were rumours about a clown who appeared in public toilets & would grab children asking them “do you want death or a happy smile?” if they chose a “happy smile” he would take out a knife & slice their mouths.

920 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8642 04:03

922 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8642 12:31

During the screening, numerous people got up and left during the initial cat drowning sequence. Three months later, Werner Herzog called Korine to give praise to the film overall, especially the bacon taped to the wall during the bathtub scene. He told The New York Times, "When I saw a piece of fried bacon fixed to the bathroom wall in Gummo, it knocked me off my chair. [Korine's] a very clear voice of a generation of filmmakers that is taking a new position.

923 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8642 21:16

"I enjoyed this dumb joke because I, too, am dumb and a joke."

924 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8643 10:29

>>921
QUALITY!

925 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8644 00:24

maybe I'm really autistic but I thoroughly read through anything before making a strong opinion let alone post about it

926 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8644 03:26

hits like a truck, holding a truck, full of bees

927 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8644 09:13

Wewlad, this is some shit-tier shit.

928 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8644 18:04

929 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8644 20:23

You may notice that function func is called with two parameters, one of type int the other
of type unsigned .

930 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8644 20:23

You may notice that function func is called with two parameters, one of type int the other
of type unsigned .

931 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8645 13:46

You may notice that function func is called with two parameters, one of type int the other
of type unsigned .

932 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8645 13:47

You may notice that function func is called with two parameters, one of type int the other
of type unsigned .

933 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8645 14:15

10 PRINT "You may notice that function func is called with two parameters, one of type int the other of type unsigned ."
20 GOTO 10

934 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8645 15:05

Day 324 (02 Nov 2013)
There truly is no goal behind what I am doing.

After Google reformed the comment system so that it required Google+, W00ge stopped.

935 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8646 20:59

936 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8646 21:48

>>935
I half expected this to be something like Happy Tree Friends.

937 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8646 23:38

Lamprey, the brainchild of Robert Carr, also made "Operation Rescue", where the object was to kick fetuses to a demon, who would eat them.

938 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8647 14:54

Memes: A Microcosm of Art History

939 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8647 18:05

(Acronyms are not just any set of initials. Acronyms are only sets of initials that can be formed into words. For example: NATO, DARE, and UNICEF are acronyms. FBI, KGB, and CIA are not acronyms, just assholes)

940 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8648 05:44

HEYおねーさん
ENGLISHでしゃべれるって聞いたよ
Wanna be PALS

941 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8648 15:12

parkinson's weed

942 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8648 15:59

943 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8651 18:23

This rule allows us to solve such vexing questions as: should a parent have the right to allow a deformed baby to die (e.g., by not feeding it)?4 The answer is of course yes, following a fortiori from the larger right to allow any baby, whether deformed or not, to die. (Though, as we shall see below, in a libertarian society the existence of a free baby market will bring such "neglect" down to a minimum.)

944 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8651 18:38

Les Français méritent mieux que ça, Madame

945 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8653 10:36

わざと上げてるあげ足とったら負けだる
タコ 

946 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8653 12:53

Francisco Ricardo Cázares

947 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8654 01:40

file:///G:/Year 11/11 IPT/T2 SQL.docx

948 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8654 08:52

sakuslut69.jpg

949 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8654 22:10

You cannot have a sustainable movement for ending violence without marginalized women at the grassroots level booted into its matrix and present in movement spaces.

950 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8655 12:17

16871374

951 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8657 19:58

Vibrating egg day

  • R-18* 練習* 女の子拘束尻神様ローター風俗店バイブINパンツ調教オリジナル10000users入り

952 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8658 08:00

".

953 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8658 08:00

>>951 I want to see this

954 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8658 08:08

> I put on my magic underwear and MAGA hat
> I cast Lvl. 3 Mormonism. You turn into a sharply dressed missionary.

955 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8658 23:11

956 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8659 00:20

Upon hearing someone is a "professional" or "expert," walking (and painting) in the opposite direction is prudent.

957 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8659 01:52

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD5HfM3DZt8

958 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8659 11:44

959 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8660 10:22

Upon closer examination of this storehouse, all the food is rotten they really needed that fish

960 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8660 23:40

¯\(ꙮ)

961 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8661 00:01

962 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8661 00:27

963 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8661 04:34

964 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8661 10:03

Pick the battle mount -> Fast cat and bear
Pick the tank -> I'm sorry to hear that

965 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8661 19:13

This episode originally had a darker ending involving Mrs. White kidnapping Dewey and heading down south of the border to Mexico. She dyes his hair black and renames him, "Pepe".

966 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8664 09:24

big dicks still swingin and slurpees still flowin

968 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8664 11:33

gone forever, don't come back you disgusting losers

969 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8665 04:53

アッラーフの他に神はなし. ムハンマドはアッラーフの使徒である.

970 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8665 10:06

971 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8666 20:24

Among his listed favorite activities are:

dancing at a funeral;
killing a dog during a birthing;
forcing excrement into the mouth of a crying baby;
fanning the flames of a burning house;
taking a debtor's wife as payment;
grabbing the nape of an elderly man;
relieving himself in a well;
poking holes in rice paddies;
driving stakes through green pumpkins;
stomping on the back of a hunchback;
pushing down on a man squatting to relieve himself to cause him to sit in his own excrement;
kicking the chin of a disabled man;
wielding a stick at a dealer in pottery;
stealing bones from graves;
breaking an engagement by spreading malicious rumors;
scuttling a ship in high seas;
punching a boil on a man's face;
slapping the cheek of a man with a toothache; and
opening the lid of a neighbor's bean sauce jar in the rain.

972 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8666 22:02

973 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8668 16:30

It is quoted by Ibn Kathir, in his Qur'anic Commentary, the Tafsir ibn Kathir,[8] and they are graphically described by Qur'anic commentator and polymath, al-Suyuti (died 1505), who, echoing a hasan hadith[9] from Ibn Majah,[10] wrote that the perpetual virgins will all "have appetizing vaginas", and that the "penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal".[11]

974 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8668 17:13

In practice, the curriculum is not even so much a sequence of topics, or ideas, as it is a sequence of notations. Apparently mathematics consists of a secret list of mystical symbols and rules for their manipulation. Young children are given ‘+’ and ‘÷.’ Only later can they be entrusted with ‘√¯,’ and then ‘x’ and ‘y’ and the alchemy of parentheses. Finally, they are indoctrinated in the use of ‘sin,’ ‘log,’ ‘f(x),’ and if they are deemed worthy, ‘d’ and ‘∫.’ All without having had a single meaningful mathematical experience.

975 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8669 03:11

ENHC0010585

976 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8669 04:35

OMG WHO THE FUCK IS SO LAZY THAT THEY CAN'T COOK THEIR OWN RICE

RICE COOKERS DON'T SAVE YOU ANY TIME, FAG. YOU JUST WASTED YOUR GODDAMN MONEY. NOBODY SHOULD NEED A MACHINE TO DO SOMETHING SO EASY.

977 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8669 13:01

I COOK WITH MESQUITE. GIVE MEAT NICE TASTE OF WOOD. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

978 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8671 14:31

a marine came home from ending monarchism in the Galaxy and went to to his favorite bar. he saw a moe azn commodore and tried to buy him a drink. "no thanks i'm straight" the azn qt said. the marine ripped off his shirt "are you still straight?" "not anymore but i have a wife" he replied. The marine pulled out his ax. "u think the friend zone scares me? i just got back from a war zone." Yang sent his wife a text message not to wait up and started kissing the marine and his ax. all the other patriots in the bar got up and started clapping and didn't stop until the marine and the qt3.14 azn commodore were OTP. repost if you believe love can blossom anywhere, even on a battlefield!!!

979 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8673 10:26

/tts soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi

980 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8673 14:03

>>979
Haha, Drew Pickles. I watched those videos when I was younger.

981 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8681 04:32

A liberal Zeon Zanscare AEUG lawyer professor and psychoframe doctor was teaching a class on Zeon Deikun, known Spacenoid

”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Zeon and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than General Revel!”

At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-Earth Titans Pilot champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the Earth Federation stood up and held up a rock.

”Where is this rock from, pinhead?”

The arrogant professor smirked quite Zeekishly and smugly replied “The Asteroid belt, you stupid Earthnoid”

”Wrong. It’s Came from our mother earth. If it was from the asteroid belt and evolution, as you say, is real… then it should be a Newtype now”

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of The Life & Times of Ghirin Zabi. He stormed out of the room crying those Zeek Z’gok tears. The same tears zeeks cry for the “spacenoids” (who today live in such luxury that most own refrigerators) when they jealously try to claw justly earned wealth from the deserving Earthnoid job creators. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Ghiren Van Aznable Haman, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a sophist AEUG professor. He wished so much that he had a zaku to blow himself up from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

The students applauded and all enlisted in the EFSF that day and accepted Jamitov as their lord and savior. An eagle named “Bask” flew into the room and perched atop the Federation Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and Revel himself showed up and enacted anti zeon movements across the board

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the zeek plague SPACE AIDS and his soul floated off into space because it wasn’t bound by mother Earth’s gravity.

982 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8681 17:24

>>981
slow clap

983 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8681 17:26

Anal Development Ignorance Ignorance Deca-ass Paripi Bimbo Black Gal In The Big Penis Of DQN Of Saffle

984 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8681 19:52

la cuenta asociada a tu tarjeta de pago que será tramitado en los próximos 5-7 días laborables. El importe del reembolso aparecerá en tu próximo extracto bancario.

985 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8681 21:36

986 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8681 23:01

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ ΜΟΥΝΙΑ

987 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8683 21:11

┌(┌ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)┐

988 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8684 02:09

The findings suggest an evolutionary shift in socio-sexual signalling function from behinds to faces, two hairless, symmetrical and attractive body parts, which might have attuned the human brain to process faces, and the human face to become more behind-like.

989 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8685 20:56

スパンキング

990 Name: ((●)トェェェイ(●)) : 1993-09-8687 18:38

Stengl, V., et. "Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by Ultrasound
Enhanced Hydrolysis of Mg-alkoxides." N.p., 22 Feb. 2003. Web.

991 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8687 21:40

I don't intend to stay more than a few days

992 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8687 23:04

Category:Articles that randomly break into song

993 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8688 03:34

The setup involves an auctioneer who volunteers to auction off a dollar bill with the following rule: the bill goes to the winner; however, the second-highest bidder also loses the amount that they bid. The winner can get a dollar for a mere five cents, but only if no one else enters into the bidding war. The second-highest bidder is the biggest loser by paying the top amount he or she bid without getting anything back. The game begins with one of the players bidding five cents (the minimum), hoping to make a ninety-five-cent profit. He can be outbid by another player bidding ten cents, as a ninety-cent profit is still desirable. Similarly, another bidder may bid fifteen cents, making an eighty-five-cent profit. Meanwhile, the second bidder may attempt to convert his loss of ten cents into a gain of eighty cents by bidding twenty cents, and so on. Every player has a choice of either paying for nothing or bidding five cents more on the dollar. Any bid beyond the value of a dollar is a loss for all bidders alike. A series of rational bids will reach and ultimately surpass one dollar as the bidders seek to minimize their losses. If the first bidder bids ninety five cents, and the second bidder bids one dollar (for no net gain or loss), the first bidder stands to lose ninety five cents unless he bids $1.05, in which case he rationally bids more than the value of the item for sale (the dollar) in order to reduce his losses to only five cents. Bidding continues with the second highest bidder always losing more than the highest bidder and therefore always trying to become the high bidder. Only the auctioneer gets to profit in the end.

994 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8688 17:23

A vlog by a girl who originally just wants to make her gothic older sisters feel loved and sexy, and winds up being coached by her anonymous userbase into seducing her own older sisters, who are conjoined twins (two heads on one torso, nothing duplicated except the spine, one arm and one leg controlled by the twin on the same side), who also have two fully developed prehensile tails growing out from the tailbone (complete with all systems fully developed, skeletal, muscular, nervous, etc. each tail is controlled by the twin on the same side, their tails can, and will, be used like tentacles for tentacle sex), genetic disorders that makes them incapable of producing pigment (type 1 Oculocutaneous Albinism, completely colourless skin, completely red eyes), or hair (type 1 Alopecia Universalis, they wear wigs), and four additional fully-functioning breasts along the milk lines of the body, that is, an additional breast below the natural breast, and another one below the additional breast, making six in total (type 1 supernumary polymastia, three breasts to each twin along the same side), the vlogging sister ultimately records a homemade incest porn streamed live via webcam, without either of her sisters knowledge.

995 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8688 17:52

>>994
that was quite a ride

996 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8688 19:04

The erotic 10th century Islamic writer Abu al Hasan ibn Nasir al Katib had even made a point to emphasise how pleasurable oral sex is on a woman in his "Encyclopedia of Pleasure"; he tells of the story of Hubba al-Madaniyyah who discovered it for herself accidentally.[3][8] The story goes that she had had a bath, and came across an innocent puppy who got excited to see her genitals.[3] Before she was aware of what the puppy was doing, it began licking her vagina.[3] It became so pleasurable to her that she lowered herself, and when she reached orgasm she could not stand up, even though she wanted to.[3] As she could not raise herself from the power of the orgasm the "helpless animal had died from heavy pressure".

997 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8689 04:38

Possibly the dollar auction strikes you as nonsense. It’s a lot different from a real auction. Don’t think about auctions, then. One way to recognize a dollar auction in real life is that it inspires certain figures of speech: “throwing good money after bad”; persevering “so that it all won’t have been in vain” or because there is no way to quit and “save face”; having “too much invested to quit.”

Have you ever called a busy company long distance and been put on hold for a long time? You can hang up, in which case you’ve made an expensive call for nothing. Or you can stay on the line, paying more with each passing minute, and with no guarantee that anyone will take the call. It’s a true dilemma because no simplistic solution makes sense. Provided you really have to speak to someone at the company and there is no less-busy time to call, you can’t categorically resolve to hang up the instant you’re put on hold. It’s equally ridiculous to say you’ll stay on the line no matter how long it takes. There could be some problem with the switchboard and you’d never get connected. It’s difficult to decide just how long you should wait, though.

At crowded amusement parks, people end up waiting in line an hour or more for a ride that lasts a few seconds. Sometimes you can’t believe you waited in line so long for so little. The reason is the “human-engineered” serpentine queues that prevent patrons from seeing how long the line is. You patiently work your way up to a certain point, then turn a corner and see a whole new part of the line. By the time you appreciate just how long the line is, you’ve already invested too much time to give up.

Allan I. Teger found that dollar-auction-like situations are frequently created or exploited for profit. In his 1980 book, Too Much Invested to Quit, Teger notes, “When we are watching a movie on television only to discover that the movie is poor, we are reluctant to turn it off, saying that we have watched it so long that we might just as well continue to see how it ends.... The television stations know that we are reluctant to turn the movie off once we have begun to watch it, so they will often increase the length and frequency of commercials as the movie progresses. Seldom do we turn off the movie with only 20 minutes remaining, even if the commercials are coming at the rate of one every five minutes.”

Strikes that threaten to ruin both labor and management have much in common with the dollar auction. Each side wants to stick it out a little longer; if they give in now all the lost wages or lost profits would just be money down the drain. The dollar auction resembles architectural design competitions (architects invest their own time and effort designing a prestigious new building, but only the winner gets the commission) and patent races (competing firms invest research and development funds on a new product, but only the first to patent it makes any money). Repairing an old car – playing a few more hands of cards to recoup losses – waiting for the bus a few minutes more before giving up and hailing a taxi – staying in a bad job or bad marriage: all are dollar auctions.

As we’ve seen, these game-theoretic dilemmas have a way of being discovered at an appropriate moment in history. The conventional perception of the Vietnam conflict – particularly the psychology popularly imputed to Presidents Johnson and Nixon – is pure dollar auction. “Winning,” in the sense of improving American interests to a degree that might justify the lives lost and money spent, was scarcely possible. The main agenda was to push a little harder and get a nominal victory – “peace with honor,” so that our dead will not have died in vain. Shubik recognizes the Vietnam war as an “exquisite example” of a dollar auction but doesn’t recall it being an inspiration for the game. He believes the game predated his 1971 publication by some time, which might have put its genesis before the late stages of the war.

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