Tag: fun
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: well, this was bound to happen :
It’s finally official, there are more of them than there are of us. We’re outnumbered. More of who, you ask? Mobile devices, I answer. You shouldn’t be surprised, discouraged maybe, but not surprised. No one goes anywhere without packing at least one wireless device, millions of us have two or more. And in case cell phones…
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: take me out to the jewelry store :
For the last couple of nights I’ve kept an eye on the World Series. Baseball is, after all, one of the great American pastimes, right up there with apple pie and mom. Although I’m American and partial to our national pastimes, that’s not why I watch. I watch because I like the Cardinals. When I…
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: reach for it, pal :
The world has it in for regular-size people, have you noticed? Everything is just out of our reach. As proof I call your attention to the drive-through. The twisting and contorting these conveniences require are disconcerting, to say the least. A person could dislocate something important, like a spleen or a boob in the process.…
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: my last windmill has been tilted :
My days as a near-sighted Donna Quixote are done, kaput. I’m not kidding this time. My lifetime win / loss record stands at: Windmills 7,000 | Me 0 I’ll think twice, no, four times, before I’m drawn into another futile, unwinnable battle against the nefarious, illogical forces afoot in the land. Now, when I say…
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: forget waldo, where’s a pay phone? :
Batteries have the life span of a mayfly. Wait, that’s an unfair generalization and I apologize. Cell phone batteries have the life span of a mayfly. No, that’s wrong, too — my cell phone battery. This thing spends more time charging than the Light Brigade. It barely survives twelve hours before lights start blinking and…
the whirly girl 