August 2012
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A.C. Newman, Not Talking
Sophomore year I...
I’m glad when people talk about how Boardwalk Empire will be unwatchable without Paz de la Huerta because it’s an easy way for me to figure out that those people are not worth talking to.
christinefriar asked: THE JOE WRIGHT VERSION IS THE ONLY VERSION WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
If you know of anything more horrifying than being stuck in a very hot bubble bath with nothing to read, I don’t want to know about it.
The thing about Nicholas was that he was really rich and beautiful and he was a baronet, which was nice and sort of Jane Austeny. Still, it wouldn’t be long before people started saying, ‘You can tell he used to be good-looking’, and someone else would intervene charitably with ‘Oh, no, he still is’. In the end she would probably marry him and she would be the fourth...
“Ugh, I hate that guy, he’s always whistling! I hate whistlers.”
“OK.”
“Hey, you know what my least favorite painting is?”
“What?”
“Whistler’s Mother.”
”.”
In April 2008, Sheldrake was stabbed in the leg during a lecture at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was presenting as part of the tenth annual International Conference on Science and Consciousness. Sheldrake has since recovered. The assailant, Japanese born laborer Kazuki Hirano, allegedly stabbed Sheldrake because he believed that Sheldrake was using mind control techniques on him....
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Dadbro sent me a package and someone stole it.
skeetonmischa:
“Look for the Good in Others and...
“I mean, she definitely has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”
“What makes you think that?”
“She sincerely believes she’s the reincarnated spirit of Anne Frank?”
He is an architect and she until recently was vice president of Murray’s Cheese, the specialty shop in the West Village.
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Pulling the curtains open during storms to feel very small in the face of the elements
Fitting perfectly on a fainting couch
Dessert
Dear Angela,
I’ve heard from many community members about the ongoing problem of helicopter noise in residential areas of the Valley. When I first inquired about this problem, I was stunned to learn that unlike airplanes, helicopter flight is almost entirely unregulated. Since then I have introduced legislation, recruited support from my colleagues in the House, and finally have been...
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Honestly good for Mitt Romney for ruffling the feathers of the guy who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel.
LBJ: So leave me at least two and a half, three inches in the back where I can let them out or take them up. And make these a half an inch bigger in the waist. And make the pockets at least an inch longer, my money, my knife, everything falls out - wait just a minute. Operator: Would you hold on a minute please? [conversation on hold for two minutes] LBJ: Now the pockets, when you sit down,...
Dear Prudie, I like to check out VHS movies from my local library. The last one was a Civil War documentary about General Custer’s last stand. But I was appalled to realize that the tape contained nothing of the sort, and was a homemade pornographic film! As if this wasn’t disturbing enough, I noticed that two of the people “acting” on the tape bore a close resemblance...
the notes: “You wouldn’t know what a loan... →
“You wouldn’t know what a loan portfolio is,” she said, “let alone what it means to increase deposits by four percent in three days, or be able to boast a twenty-two percent return on average equity. How could you? You’ve been a teller here since the War of 1812.” She raised her voice, but not…
