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[randomness]

"It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door." --Pete Hamill, in The Atlantic.

Comments

[dodecahedron]

Yeah. Insert silly Internet Tough Guy image here, only in this context the phenomenon is not just on the Internet.

(by the way, link is malformed)

[rfrancis]

Essentially a more polite version of John Gabriel's etc.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, your link is bunged up.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

True... but I think the people celebrating the hardest are the "Jacksonians" (we call them rednecks), and they are the people who volunteer for the military.