Tag: humor
group name: englishalphabet
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June 23, 2007 09:37 PM EDT --
Onomatopœia, words which sound like the sound they're describing, are fun, and I enjoy using them in casual writing. Common onomatopœia include zip, click, and tap. Non-word utterances . . .
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July 15, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
One of the most useful mnemonic devices in my life is the "I Before E" rule. I often have trouble with transposed letters, and sometimes neither "ei" nor "ie" looks right . . .
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May 15, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
Tagged again, by a person I am sure doesn't know my views on these, so I will play nice, but no tagging anyone else, ever, the madness stops here. Here's my five more positive things:
1. I'm . . .
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June 29, 2007 02:31 PM EDT --
The Interrobang WTF Is That
I was innocently eating watermelon while listening the NPR one afternoon earlier this month when Says You! informed me that there is a punctuation mark for grammatical situations . . .
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June 21, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Early this afternoon my current avatar, known on the street as Frightening Icon, or F'con, demanded it be given net time or it would get its own namespace. Switching hats from namespace owner to Gather . . .
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June 18, 2008 12:22 AM EDT --
One of the best-known and best-loved children's books ever published is Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon , which has been translated and parodied countless times but remains forever beloved . . .
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September 08, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Dateline: Sept 8, 2007
This correspondent has learned through unnamed sources that Osama bin Laden, contrary to his very public fundamentalist Muslim agenda, has a taste for designer clothes - clothes . . .
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March 21, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
This afternoon, in a startling move on Gather, a woman deleted an unfinished article.
"I'd saved it, hoping to finish it later", she explained, "but when I re-read it I realized that . . .
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July 14, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
Their, There, They're, Little Writer
They're over there with their homophones on, little writer, and they can't hear you pounding the keys over here. No, I know how frustrating it is to have . . .
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July 08, 2007 09:15 AM EDT --
Some of my gather friends have cautioned me about getting too upset over the antics of our entertainer in chief, lately, although I, personally, can't see how anyone not brain dead couldn't. . . .
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April 22, 2007 04:25 AM EDT --
My son was turning nine and wanted to have a birthday party. I agreed and asked him to make up a list of friends so we could send out invites. When he gave me the list I noticed . . .
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December 09, 2007 11:38 PM EST --
My local bookstore phoned this morning to say that the book I ordered last week had arrived. I was welcomed to pick it up at my convenience.
The news delighted me. The book is a . . .
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February 04, 2007 08:31 PM EST --
This is an attempt at humor and should not be in any way confused with fact or authorization of any sort. If you do not understand humor -- and I believe a sense of humor is not only required for . . .
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July 23, 2007 08:24 PM EDT --
Ol' Dick has a hard time keeping up with his schedule of friends to shoot in the face, new branches of government to invent, and fighting that enormous obstacle to good governance, the . . .
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February 01, 2007 12:20 AM EST --
Many of us have to attend important business meetings on occasion. It's usually a formal setting with reports and other important papers at hand, and often boring enough to require coffee . . .
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July 24, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
This is a link to a video of the March 15th edition of Bill mahr's New Rules segment. A few laughs, a few smiles, and a few good points to ponder. Couldn't agree with it more, myself. . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
I'm sorry, but I had to put up a link to this. This is just too good, after putting up the link to the Sheehan/Chickenhawk video, I was rummaging around utube, and when I played this one, . . .
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August 18, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
I recently attended a family reunion, where I paid my respects to the older generation and joined them in welcoming the younger one. Our newest member is Riley John Tyler, which is a fairly euphonous name, . . .
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June 01, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
(Another borrowed and slightly updated joke.)
An award should go to the Virgin Airlines gate attendant in Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted . . .
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November 08, 2007 08:18 AM EST --
I won't issue the obvious disclaimer about who, or what, I do or don't consider ignorant and stupid here, those that know me, and agree, don't need one, and the ones that don't . . .
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