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Show quote | Sign In to save your setting (remove disclaimer). They have an application in the computer called Outlook or Contacts or Address Book or something like that. So they keep all the information in the computer, and they sync it up with their phone every day or every other day. So now instead of scratching out a name you get to delete the fuck. And deleting someone is an even more powerful feeling than simply scratching out a name. You know how to delete someone. You select a name, highlight the person and then poof, straight into the trash. Now, if its a really close friend of yours you might not want to empty the trash for about six weeks. Or, if its a little too harsh for you, a little too harsh to delete an old friend, you can always create a new folder, a special folder for dead people. You keep it on your desktop. Its kind of a digital purgatory. And the nice thing is every now and then you can open it up, and you can look inside. And you can see the people in purgatory. You can move them all around, you know. Move them around. Put them in little groups. Two people who didnt get along in life, put them in the corner; let them work it out. Let them work out in purgatory. Or start a fight. Have a big fight in purgatory. That's a lot of fun. Nobodys gonna get hurt. they're a fucking dead anyway. Then you put them in a big formation and have a parade - the purgatory parade of dead people. Ah, There's a lot of fun you can have with a computer, so enjoy your digital selves.
George Carlin, 2008
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