Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "you don't have to be dead to be important in the South, but it helps"

• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• You don't have to be a vegetarian to like vegetarian food
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• I don't want to be alone
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• Don't worry, Be Happy!
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• Don't be seduced by the taco bar
• you have to be close to catch it
• I don't trust your seemingly innocent motives (this may be my last meal)
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• I have to wonder how this can be a metaphor for my life
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Even the dead will not be safe
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• The guy who may as well already be dead and therefore doesn't care about the consequences of his actions and is able to move with perfect freedom for the remainder of what will likely be a tragically short life
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• I don't lose the irony that I believe my reflection to be a stranger
• Be careful and don't fall down
• painting stars that have not come to be
• Don't be afraid, you've just got your eyes closed
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• Don't be sad, I'll make you happy
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• Don't be sexist. Broads hate that.
• When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• Things to consider if you think someone might be dead
• Don't want to be lonely no more
• I know what it's like to be dead
• Names that should never be given to important files
• Don't be a smartass and expect to be taken seriously
• Have we done enough to be saved?
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• You do not have a right to not be offended
• you have to be kidding
• I have a feeling it will be in my dreams
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• If a given feature can't be found in a Freeware application, you don't need it
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• the space where you are needs your help to be empty again
• Unborn to-morrow and dead yesterday, why fret about them if today be sweet!
• Don't Be Evil
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• Not all disagreements have to be a flame war
• I have good reason to be thirsty today
• I had hoped our relationship would be a long and happy one, but I'll settle for short and exciting
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• I'm trying to see little old ladies as versions of my mom; it helps me be a better person
• Don't Be An Ass (user)
• Don't Be An Ass_root (category)
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• It's better to be heartbroken than to have a heart not worth breaking
• You will be a tear-stained diary entry, and it will have been all your fault
• this used to be a nodeshell? you don't say...
• Don't be sexy. I said stop that.
• You give me wings. Don't be surprised if I fly.
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Don't Be Afraid
• Don't want sex, be sexual
• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
• Act as if you are in a dream; be daring and don't apologize
• Don't be an IM phantom
• I have always considered warnings to be a kind of dare
• In short, don't be an asshole
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• Meditation doesn't have to be spiritual
• Don't be sad
• Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• Billy, Don't Be a Hero
• Strangers have been, and continue to be, very kind to me. Thank you.
• Don't be a monkey. Let go of the banana.
• don't be absurd (user)
• I don't plan to be dismembered in the next three months
• Starving in the greenhouse
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• I can't be a scientist because I don't believe in God.
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• You have to be in hell to see heaven
• Pay attention, this will be important later
• don't be absurd_root (category)
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• You gotta be dead to get your music played here.
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• If you have to scream to be heard, you have nothing profound to say
• Why you don't deserve to be a professor
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• Your first relationship will be nuked: Don't give up
• When the log rolls over we will all be dead
• Don't be smart too, I couldn't stand it
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• When you know things are just meant to be
• Your first writeup will be nuked: Don't give up
• don't be a fool, it's nineteen-ninety-five, the girls are just friends
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• Ah, if you should turn out to be a fairy I don't think I'd put you in a jar
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• To do is to be
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• The Ten Commandments revised
• If you behave there will be cake for the miscreants we call your brothers
• Claiming to be a lesbian
• Don't feel comfortable with girls? Have a daughter.
• Jack Be Nimble
• We shall be nothing a hundred years hence
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• I don't even have the energy to kill myself
• Working in a library is never as much fun as you think it might be.
• Moments such as these are superfluous to my life; nevertheless, they deserve to be remembered.
• How to be a jerk and piss off your SO
• Now this is the way the Internet is supposed to be!
• If you tolerate this your children will be next
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten
• It's OK for dance music to be repetitive
• Damn it Feels Bad to be an Angsta
• Blessed be
• Glory be to the Father
• I Want to Be Inside You
• In twenty years your favorite song will be playing in an elevator
• I refuse to be "deciphered"
• I'll be
• Authors who refuse to be photographed
• Waiting To Be Opened
• How to be Happy, Dammit
• Which is not to be found in our obituaries
• How the Internet Came to Be
• The Thing that Should Not Let it Be
• i be an retarded (user)
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• How to get Apache to be a bit more secretive
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
• every partial order can be extended to a total order
• asking to be bathed in light
• You cannot be in love with every beautiful thing you see
• you make my life a little harder than it has to be
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Cheers, my lips have frozen but hemlock goes down easy
• Don't lament but rather embrace the removal of human interaction
• You must be 18 or older to enter
• The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All
• Must be a lesbian
• I have a punklin and you don't
• This poem can be put off no longer
• Want to be a lawyer?
• This would be easier if we did it backwards
• node that will be my legacy
• asking only to be stared into, offering no reward
• ordering a pizza can be a painful experience
• The secret mission of E2 is to train us to be reference librarians
• The Big Bang as the origin of matter
• Everyone is just trying to be farther meta
• Men And Women Will Never Be The Same
• Pray ferverently to what gods there be
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• Laundry should be free
• Time travel, as I think of it, will never be invented
• Valentine's Day shouldn't be a chore
• If she were an insect, she'd be a moth in search of a flame
• Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• It's Tough to Be a Bug
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• I'M GUNNA BE WICKED RETAHDED: Come for the scenery, stay for the BAP (another E2 nodah pahty)

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