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May 2000 Georgia Institute of Technology Several students sat around the lobby, transfixed on the television. They watched a daytime talk show whose title today was “Men with Harems”. It featured a man who had numerous girlfriends, all of which had just found out about one another, there, in front of the audience. Most of the conversations were bleeped out due to the curses the women on stage slung at one another and the man to whom they were all involved with. The parts that were not formed a kind of talk show sub-language consisting of odd derogatory phrases, mispronounced words, and exaggerated gestures. August Thatcher looked at the man at the center of this storm on the stage with a frown. His name, at least for the show anyway, was “Jimmy” and he sat slouched in the chair with wearing
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