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This post gave me my EA Halloween costume idea! I’m finally ready for Boston.

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Yaaas! What are you going as??

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I’m going to sew wavy blue patches to a thrifted suit and go as an expensive outfit ruined without helping anyone

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I’ve found a problem with this costume:

If you sew wavy blue patches onto a suit, it doesn’t look like a suit ruined in a river. It looks like a suit someone sewed wavy blue patches onto.

I guess I’ll be in Boston as “Guy who has to explain his Halloween costume”

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I groaned audibly for 15 seconds at Rieslings and Persons. What goes into a derek parfait? Also nominative determinism that the man who tells us how to live has the first name Derek, which is close to Derech, the way.

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I get the 'parfait' bit, but can someone explain to me the Rieslings and Persons part?

In a derek parfait, I'd put seeds, which are arguably infinitely valuable in expectation. Except raw and shelled pistachios wouldn't be that delicious or, um, edible...so let me think on that for a generation or two

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Riesling is a wine (and... kind of sounds like reason?), that's all

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