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Malice or incompetance[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#8)
by dickcaro on Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 11:45:32 AM PDT

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." ascribed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Or, to phrase it another way[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by sconeu on Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 06:59:34 AM PDT

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Or vice versa.

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Technically, all of them except for Lemon and Navy.  The others, with the exception of the "correct" answer, are names.

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