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"My younger sister used to tell incomprehensible jokes as a child. One of my favorites:
Two penguins are taking a bath. One says to the other, "Can you pass me the soap?" And the other says, "I can't, I'm a radio!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thebrokenmuse, MaHaGoN
7 days ago
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"Examine the lives of wealthy people. Find or manufacture a need for them, for which your specific set of talents, quirks, and strengths are ideally suited.
Look in odd places to find these - they may not happen where you expect them.
I am an..." [
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3 weeks ago
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Seeking stories in mp3!
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3 weeks ago
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"Marco polo? Capture the flag?
Sardines! The opposite of tag - where the one "it" person hides, and -everyone- else tries to find them. When one person finds the "it," they then stay and hide with them, until everybody but..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kosher_jenny, flatluigi, horsemuth
2 months ago
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""What do you do?"
"Well, I work at night and I make a lot of money . . . "
Always gets me a good laugh, that description. If I don't want to offend, the response is more like:
"I'm an equine stylist."
Which..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mathowie, Greg Nog
2 months ago
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"Contour drawing, most definitely. It's fun and easy, and can be done blind or non-blind.
You're looking to find the prominent lines in the subject - the outline, the large wrinkles and sharp contrasts and overlappings and corners that define the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stuboo
2 months ago
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"My favorite part about equestrian sports and the snobbery therein is that anyone who dislikes or fails to understand it is immediately and permanently classified as a lower life form, an unsophisticated, tasteless, ignorant clod, and ignored...." [
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2 months ago
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"As an animator, I study motion. I notice the way people walk. Can identify people I know from a very long way off, even without my glasses sometimes, simply by the way they move. The variation is amazing - slight limps no one else would notice, a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by agregoli, roombythelake
5 months ago
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"The answers to life, the universe, and everything, brought to you by Spirograph.
Who knew?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
8 months ago
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"Um, these have been around for a while...
And yes, some horses snore. I know of what I speak - I spend all night long next to horses. They also make some pretty weird and creepy groaning noises. But nobody cares if they snore, because nobody..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grod
8 months ago
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"They probably could have bombed the heck out of it with regular bombs, but what justification was there for that expense? The villagers weren't actively trying to infect anyone else. Much more economical to just keep them shut off, and maybe they'd..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mediareport, amberglow
9 months ago
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"saysthis - I don't in fact have serious data about this, but I can tell you a few of the probable reasons:
- it has never been a worthwhile venture to keep an animal for "a few trips into town a week," or anything of the sort. Remember..." [
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9 months ago
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"For hunter-jumper riders:
Hunter Seat Equitation, by George Morris, is the Bible of hunters written by the God of hunters, and starts from the ground up - literally. The first chapter is on mounting the horse. It goes from there to the highest..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
10 months ago
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"Screw up. Go ahead, do it. Freak out. Let her deal with it, and notice the way she doesn't leave you over some silly mistake, doesn't hate you forever, and doesn't try and hurt you. Kiss, make up, relax, and be happy...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Womanscientist, Skyanth
10 months ago
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"Well, what the heck else are you supposed to take pictures of? Tourism is an inherently amateur practice. There are thousands of professional and non-professional but extremely talented photographers who've taken thousands upon thousands of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by pamccf, emyd
Last year
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"Ugh, do I ever hate Moore. Roger & Me was fine, and I even watched Bowling for Columbine and didn't hate it terribly... until I learned about all the crap he pulled there. Touting a cause is fine. Doing so by pulling "facts" out of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by melorama, rockhopper
Last year
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"Whatever happened to just... lavender blue, dilly, dilly... dilly...? Silly." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
Last year
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"Um, ikkyu2, I generally like and respect what you say around here. But please do not tell me I need "self-discipline" to just get over it.
I've worked with horses since I was 6 years old, and have been closer to them than to many..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last year
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"po: why would you want to be jealous of someone who spends all their time drugged up on IV, in pain, having constant nausea, and feeling like they've been run over a truck a million times?
posted by divabat
I'd prefer that, sometimes.
Spending..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tastybrains
Last year
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"Jealousy breeds judgment. There are many of us who wish we could have been hospitalized for exhaustion. We are jealous of those of you who have slightly less strong constitutions and actually show physical signs of exhaustion, i.e. passing out, etc...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tastybrains, jtron, bugbread
Last year
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"Ah-hah. THAT must be where Shelob lives, and the government knows it!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
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"I gained 34 pounds of muscle in a day, once.
Couldn't fit it in my freezer. Took me the better part of a day pounding pavement with it in a shopping cart, trying to give it away to the neighbors. Damned 4-H raffles...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last year
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"This creeps me out on a number of levels.
Then again, so does seeing people I love in coffins with chemicals in their veins instead of blood, and the thinly veiled stench of formaldehyde trying to keep flesh from rotting and only partially..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
Last year
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"Dear Stynxo,
Thank you for your latest submission, post numbered 60426, title "Digging in the Back Yard." We have examined it carefully and must unfortunately disagree with your assertion that it represents "the Best of the Web...." [
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"Don't think so highly of humanity. We have no power to stop evolution.
Evolution is solely concerned with the ability of a species to survive to reproductive age and reproduce. If medical technology helps that to occur in more individuals, it is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jason's_planet
Last year
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"This article makes me weep. For the beauty of the music, and for all the things we've missed along the way. Thank you." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by petsounds
Last year
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"Dude. They're making official contests out of something I did for years, and nobody told me?
I'm totally peeped off, man.
(This is completely peeping awesome.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by miss-lapin
Last year
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"As has been said, it's mostly about complementary qualities, rather than pure opposites. Where one is strong, the other is often weak, in a continuous chain of give-and-take that seals a couple together like a zipper.
Besides which, as my darling..." [
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Two years ago
