# Funny Moments in Far-Flung Futures in Fiction

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 11, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-moments-in-far-flung-futures-in-fiction/553414 "2010-09-11T16:16:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-moments-in-far-flung-futures-in-fiction/553414/61 "2011-02-27T17:39:36Z")

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> [@Steve\_MB](#):
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> You think John McCain would stand on principle. Doctorow (assuming that he is in fact modeling the character on McCain) thought he would blow with the prevailing political wind.
> 
> Score, based on the facts on the Arizona primary ground in 2010: Justin Bailey 0, Cory Doctorow 1.
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> The notion that the government would not resort to the use of convenient scapegoats strikes me as… overoptimistic.

_Cough_ [Iowa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion) _cough_

I knew Clay Hartwig.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-moments-in-far-flung-futures-in-fiction/553414/62 "2011-02-27T23:36:58Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> _Cough_ [Iowa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion) _cough_
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> I knew Clay Hartwig.

Tap tap tap. Is this thing on?

Psst. Post 56

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