August 2012
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“Paragon Cable in New York recently began a new approach to customers with...”
– U.S. News & World Report, July 31, 1995
Aug 31st
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(Most sharks have at least four parallel rows of teeth—if one tooth breaks or is knocked out, another tooth moves forward to replace it.)
Aug 31st
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Aug 31st
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“It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries.”
– john masefield
Aug 31st
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what beats when they put a flag on a crane next to a highway nothin’ but nothin’ i tell you
Aug 31st
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WARPAINT
is the answer is always de answer robin egg’s blue of sorts
Aug 31st
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haven’t washed my hair since beforE AUGUST ELEVENTH really @ an impasse here plz advise
Aug 31st
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fleetboxes asked: who is this man harassing my woman
Aug 31st
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amerovingian asked: my talent is my curse.
Aug 31st
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amerovingian asked: wrangle snakes for money. buy mansion.
Aug 31st
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state of the union: 1. in two weeks i’m homeless. NO. in two weeks, i’m going nomad. 2. i caught a SNAKE today
Aug 30th
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see also: whip cream mash potatoes
Aug 30th
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amerovingian asked: would you like some grillcheeses?
Aug 30th
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“writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their...”
– gore vidal
Aug 30th
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15th and Kennedy Boulevard
Municipal Services Building Plaza Jacques Lipchitz, 1976 “Government of the People”
Aug 30th
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family crest
“i don’t want to be a teacher, nor a preacher, so i do what i want.”
Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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“Of all the unlucky vessels I ever heard of, she was the most unlucky.”
– david cartwright, an owner of brigantine merchant ship mary celeste
Aug 30th
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one thing i do like about people is when they call grilled cheeses grill cheeses
Aug 30th
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amerovingian asked: you'll be savaged, with or without.
Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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amerovingian asked: Bring your swimmies.
Aug 30th
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amerovingian asked: I ate a Ham Rove.
Aug 30th
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fleetboxes asked: well fuck that because they're not there anymore and life sucks and sigh
Aug 30th
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Aug 29th
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reduplication: a morphological process that repeats or copies all or part of a word to produce a new word, e.g., wishy-washy, teensy-weensy, hurly-burly
Aug 29th
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“don’t mention the war.”
– john cleese (b. 1939), british comic actor and author: basil fawlty, on the pending arrival of german guests, fawlty towers, 24 oct. 1975
Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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amerovingian asked: i sever your thumbs with economic sanctions. your move.
Aug 29th
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amerovingian asked: worthy fucking adversary
Aug 29th
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amerovingian asked: Emma? Am I wrong? Am I wrong?
Aug 29th
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amerovingian asked: whatchu know 'bout the civil war?
Aug 29th
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Aug 29th
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Aug 28th
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common crow
16-20” and all black. Most intelligent of birds; can count to three and four; possesses complex language and social structure, though extremely inept at commitment. 
Aug 28th
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“You’re unhappy. I’m unhappy too. Have you heard of Henry Clay? He...”
– larry david
Aug 28th
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Her middle initial “F” stands for Frances, but she wants to change it to Frank, Fahrvergnugen, or Forklift. She wears a cast, not because she has a broken arm but because it causes an annoying, itchy feeling on her arm which she enjoys scratching.
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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sigh five
Aug 28th
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Aug 27th
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Set in darkness. Crash against front door. Martha’s laughter heard. Front door opens, lights are switched on. Martha enters, followed by George.
Aug 27th
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“My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.”
– karl kraus
Aug 27th
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Committed to learning the principles of Latin grammar as a child in Mexico in the 1650s, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz recalled that she cut her hair very short, and if she had not “learned such and such a thing” by the time it grew out, she “would again cut it off as punishment for being so slow-witted.”
Aug 27th
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Aug 26th
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Aug 26th
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ASHCAN SCHOOL: NAME GIVEN TO A GROUP OF US...
Aug 26th
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Whiskey was the cash crop of western Pennsylvania. Readily transportable and salable, corn liquor stored much better than the grain from whence it came. Some of it no doubt gurgled and jostled in jugs and barrels swaying across the mountains on the backs of mules to slake the thirst of easterners with jangle of coins in their pockets. Westerners, even when they hungered for the word of God,...
Aug 26th
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mydearmarquis: whorevidal: While aboard a ship on which a fire broke out, Ivan Turgenev as a boy in 1838 is purported to have shouted in alarm, “Save me, save me, I am my mother’s only son.” apart from this post being perfect you have the best url  DOYOULOVEMENOWMOMANDDAD??!!!?
Aug 26th
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