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    benjaminalloverGabrielle Bluestone
    4/15/14 10:33pm

    No flabbergasted, but i do recommend perplexed. ETA: horrified, amused, and embarrassed. So fun!

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      joebenjaminallover
      4/15/14 11:00pm

      flabbergasted = fixed! thanks for the heads up! -joe

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      benjaminalloverjoe
      4/15/14 11:59pm

      So I imagine these are clustered into a small, finite number of emotional types and then the words people type are approximated to those categories...? Would you get the same result for 'contempt' and 'disgust'? Having seen 200, some repeat under different categories; would you say these are emotionally composite expressions or just ambiguous? So many questions about the process!

      I know a person who has some difficulty reading emotions on faces who loves this show (loves the predictability and the references) so I think he would find this both fascinating and maybe even helpful.

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    PrayForDentonGabrielle Bluestone
    4/15/14 10:46pm

    Whatever you do, don't select "horny."

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      BabylegsPrayForDenton
      4/15/14 11:16pm
      GIF
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    PsonicPsunspotGabrielle Bluestone
    4/16/14 7:04am

    I use the stares from The Office to teach my middle school students about breaking the theatrical "fourth wall."

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      Tucker973PsonicPsunspot
      4/16/14 9:55am

      Do they then engage you in a vigorous debate about how the fourth wall doesn't exist in a documentary format because the audience is already a part of the experience? Do you then counter by proposing that it is still a work of fiction, and therefore the audience is fictional, and the fourth wall does, in fact, still exist? Does the conversation turn oddly existential at that point?

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      PsonicPsunspotTucker973
      4/16/14 1:48pm

      If we could spend a week on "documentary versus mockumentary," and if that would allow me to show both This Is Spinal Tap and Harlan County U.S.A., I would be a happy man.

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    BabylegsGabrielle Bluestone
    4/15/14 11:13pm

    Valiant effort, and a lovely reminder of how this show carried the mid-aughts. Despite the desolate last few seasons, it really was, as this project tried to prove, a little dictionary of human emotion. Homerun!

    That's what she said.

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      Hatless Süspęçt and 6 othersGabrielle Bluestone
      4/15/14 10:27pm

      Does that make Fallon's talk show the database for emoticons.

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        Benedict CumsabunchGabrielle Bluestone
        4/15/14 11:25pm

        Fail.

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          Benedict CumsabunchGabrielle Bluestone
          4/15/14 11:42pm

          Another Fail

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            PrayForDentonGabrielle Bluestone
            4/15/14 10:47pm

            Also, Jim had one stare. It was called "Jim Stare."

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              CorvaxGabrielle Bluestone
              4/16/14 10:56am

              What you get if you make it through all 706:

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                PweasekweenmykokoffGabrielle Bluestone
                4/16/14 7:54am

                Now, I'm completely out of ideas.

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