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In the 1990s, the FBI Raided the World’s Horniest BBS

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Is It a Rhetorical Flush?

rusty says he didn't understand what questioner's asking about the name of his cat or his grandparents political affiliation. I have to ask about, i need to know if this was a rhetorical flourish, flourish of yours, or if it's something you actually saw. Ye, like, there were that few irs back then, it that you could, like, you could just do that. And also, like, every user on a b b s was a stress on the system, right? It was costing whoever was running it a little bit more money. So there's incentives to kind of narrow it down.

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