But some of us, the weirdos especially, are less lucky and fall mostly into loneliness when young.

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"We were like the weirdos in the desert, " says Cohen.

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Nutley gets it going briskly enough, unveiling a fine array of local gossips and weirdos: but none of them quite takes fire as a character, and the film itself loses heart.

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Support from uber-weirdos MausKramp and funketeers Matrix Club Mix.

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Women, who are in the minority on the site, get hit on relatively a lot, which means they spend a lot of time vetting suitors to separate the weirdos from the worthies.

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The derby renaissance started about a decade ago in the Lone Star State, led by a "hilarious mix of misfits and weirdos" who formed the Texas Rollergirls, according to Christina Pocaressi, or "Voodoo Doll, " an early skater.

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For as much as gaming is moving forward in recent years, gaining acceptance among the public as an art form that appeals to more than just teenage boys and shut-in weirdos, some in the industry seem to be doing everything in their power to reverse course.

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Listen to the weirdos.

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Ruy Teixeira, the author of a forthcoming book on America's forgotten majority, points out that the most important group of independent voters is the white working class, the people who regard the Republicans as agents of the rich but worry that the Democrats have been taken over by weirdos.

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