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"Other rock grunge bands such as Oasis and the Beatles carried this wonderful hairstyle from the 90s into the new millennium.
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2 weeks ago
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"I read an article a year or two ago about this very subject, photographers who volunteer to do pictures with still-born babies or premature babies who have been estimated to live a very short while. I couldn't find the one I read online, but here's..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I haven't read this book but saw it quoted somewhere and copied it down. It's what I thought of when I read your question. I'll put it here without comment or suggestion, and hope it helps you in your challenge.
"You risked your life, but..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"slotMusic has a unique advantage, since it's compatible with a vast range of devices people already own, including hundreds of millions of mobile phones.
You know what else is compatible with a vast range of devices people already own?
Things..." [
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2 weeks ago
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">>everyone loves Marineland
God, I hate that song. For, what, twenty years now it's been around, and each year you turn on the tv one day and bang, there it is, shattering your summer again. Each year you think, maybe this year will be the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dirtynumbangelboy, maudlin
3 weeks ago
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"if you have one of those fridge magnets with the Obama's doing the fist-bump, I love those too
Yeah, seriously, me-mail me too if you've got a spare, as I'd really like one. (Please don't make me search for them on ebay: damn website's just..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by brain cloud, jocelmeow, shitcock, Balonious Assault, EarBucket, Flunkie
Last month
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"The last link of this post, the "a lot of Wikipedias" one, is highly recommended, and could serve as a whole FPP unto itself. As one who is not fussy on the rest of this topic, I'm glad I was intrigued enough to click it. Thanks!
(And..." [
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Last month
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"The announcement was made when McCain and another masked figure rode up to the assembled press on motorcycles. McCain, wearing his visor up, got off his bike and walked forward; the other figure, clothed all in black leather, with a black visor,..." [
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"Brick is what you want if what you want is literary non-fiction. It's a consistently stunning collection of ideas, comes out only twice a year (so you look forward to it more like a book than like a magazine—it marks the changing of the seasons for..." [
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"(On preview: yeah, what everyone else said)
In This Very Life is a book I'm reading now. I've found it to be a very instructional and comprehensive look at one path of Theravada Buddhism (specifically from the Burmese tradition, a path which..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nooneyouknow, fiercecupcake
2 months ago
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"In Joe's defense, though, he is singing from the deck of a ship in a raging storm, in the epicenter of an earthquake, with flying objects too small to be seen on video flying toward him, and all the while being forced to power the amps and equipment..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by flatluigi, massless, Seamus, tehloki, dylanjames, Afroblanco, GoingToShopping, DreamerFi, Brocktoon, shinynewnick, duende, prinado, nudar
3 months ago
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"While "Hi, I'm so sorry about your wife. How are you feeling?" might sound awkward to you, I don't think it will be to him. That's the most important issue in his mind right now, and hopefully he'll be having similar conversations with..." [
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3 months ago
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"Oh boy, you need a song called "Always Keep An Edge On Your Knife" by Corb Lund & the Hurtin' Albertans.
Never sell the old .22, son, never sell the old .22
cause the old .22’s shot a gopher or two
so don'tcha never sell the old ...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hippugeek
4 months ago
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"This seems as good a time as any to post Norah Jones singing Don't Know Why. Except, see, she's not just singing about any man in this clip. She's singing about her friend Y, the letter, who never showed up when he was supposed to. Ahh, you'll figure..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
4 months ago
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"I'm getting three different answers from the three mods that all contradict each other.
Isn't this kinda the "Mom said no so I'm gonna ask Dad" phenomenon? If one said no, why would you bother pushing it further? See, the important point..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by srrh, nooneyouknow, DevilsAdvocate, iamkimiam
4 months ago
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""If you can't trust Santa, whom can you trust?"
I had no memory of Batman being so, well, learned. The dipthongs, the line about warming up your muscles on a climb: he's practically the Jeeves to Robin's Wooster. That's a dimension of..." [
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4 months ago
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"Let's not forget Bartleby the Scrivener!
I would prefer not to...
Also, in 1999, Aung San Suu Kyi was toiling under house arrest in Burma when her husband Michael Aris, living in Oxford, England, was diagnosed with cancer. The junta denied..." [
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4 months ago
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"Always fun, though, to watch people trying to flag the attention of the perpetrator when not in his or her line of sight.
"Hey, you! You! Hey! With the headphones! Turn it--I can hear--I said I can hear--Can you turn that thing down please?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hulahulagirl, macinchik
5 months ago
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"From my understanding, China, India, and Russia each want Burma basically so the others can't have it.
For China Burma represents a buffer zone of protection in case anyone else attacks from the south, and also a pathway to water in case the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hap_hazard, hattifattener, Oxydude, nasreddin
5 months ago
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"ignignokt's No Country for Old Men is pretty brilliant. Not sure if it's made better if they don't play country, or if they do." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
6 months ago
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"(On preview, scrump beat me to some of this, in a really well-put way. But I'll post anyway to nth his comment.)
This story is true. This story is false. Actually, it's both. That's the trouble.
If you're saying it's true, you're saying that..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by JHarris, Wilder, gregb1007, misha, Araucaria, scrump
6 months ago
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"I probably should save this for a happier thread. But in the spirit of turning the frown upside down, I'll say it here anyway. I'm a new reader and an even newer member--quick check of the ol' profile nametag says...ohhh, the 66K Club! Well, maybe a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by h00py, jessamyn
6 months ago
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"My defining moment with 2001 came when I read the section which describes the ship using the orbit of a planet to gather speed and ricochet outward on its journey. I don't have the passage on hand, but there was a very neatly accomplished sentence or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kcds
6 months ago
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"Yeah, dobbs, but I was hoping for more. Henceforth:
The Love Song of N.S.F.W. Uncle Dirty
Let us bend then, you and I
and point our skidmarks at the sky
like peanut butter prized upon a knife
Let us go, through certain half-perverted..." [
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7 months ago
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"I remember reading Lord of the Flies and coming to the line "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill" and pausing for a moment as my whole understanding of the novel shifted, and thinking, wow, that sentence sort of..." [
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7 months ago
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"Note for all the lovers: Leonard Cohen is soon to announce the specifics of his first tour in over a decade. I believe tour dates and locations are to be announced March 11. Supposedly it's Canada/USA in May, Europe after that. Don't miss it, because..." [
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7 months ago
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"Wow. You know, looking at those nature.com pictures of the year (and specifically my favourites, the bouncing liquid and also number 8, "Dazzling Droplet"), I had a thought: I'm not God (and I don't mean to open the epic derail of whether..." [
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7 months ago
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"I'll just flesh out and clarify what a few have already pointed to, re: the rerecordings, etc...
That verse doesn't show up in any released version, at least to my knowledge. I do know that Dylan's posted lyrics are often wrong, and have more to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by drjimmy11, malapropist, jacobian
7 months ago
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"Timely question--I just came back from a class in which we discussed this very question in my own certificate program in editing. What my instructor recommended most was "hang around." Find a way to be nearby people who are involved in the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
7 months ago
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"loiseau: "I'm just imagining someone giving me a cowbell and expecting me to play it and having to say, "Are you for real?"
Precisely Kenny Buttrey's reaction when recording Bob Dylan's Lay, Lady, Lay--that is, until he tried it...." [
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7 months ago
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"Finally, a question that forces me to register for an account and make an honest reader of myself!
As a few responders have rightly noted, the thing with Dylan is that the guy is so creative and restless that there are several different versions..." [
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7 months ago
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"I have no facts directly relevant to WW2. But this is a cool question and I wanted to respond.
It's been several years since I read it, but one thing I remember from Aftermath: The Remnants of War was that farmers in France are still ruining saw..." [
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8 months ago
