Tag: poking badgers with a spoon
member name: Dame Ruth, Chief Executive Elitist D.
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May 02, 2008 04:17 PM EDT --
Since I have lived long enough to have been everywhere and done everything (and everybody), thereby acquiring knowledge beyond comprehension, I have acquiesced to Stephanie's request to produce . . .
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May 11, 2008 05:36 PM EDT --
Dear Neptune Society:
I have received your invitation to enter a drawing for free cremation. Although I find this offer very tempting, I would like answers . . .
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June 07, 2008 04:13 PM EDT --
A fun way to jump on the triple-points whore train: write a limerick using your name that describes some aspect of your life or personality. I'll start:
There was an old Dame named . . .
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June 21, 2008 06:26 PM EDT --
It was a perfect Disney day: clear sky, soft breeze, butterflies flickering over the roadside blooms, mockingbirds mocking each other from the gently swaying overhead branches. . . .
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July 26, 2008 08:50 PM EDT --
I published the following article on another site and have received some wonderfully thoughtful responses. As an experiment, I've decided to share it here, to see if there is any interest . . .
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August 15, 2008 04:08 PM EDT --
Sometime last year, I wrote a piece* suggesting some new events for the Beijing games. I would now like to present a roster of games for the off-year Geriatric competition.
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April 27, 2009 08:19 PM EDT --
Finally, at long last, after all these years and three months, I have shaken off the angel dust of Redneck Lane and now find myself smack dab in the center of suburban gentility. It has taken some . . .
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May 06, 2009 06:47 PM EDT --
I haven't been swimming in more than three years, so when the opportunity to take a dip offered itself yesterday, I lept upon it with glad cries. Needless to say, wrestling knee-length boobs . . .
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December 05, 2008 03:36 PM EST --
I purchased a generic item whose label declares "Compare with (Brand Name)". I compared them. Brand X is not as good as Brand Brand. Now what?
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January 11, 2009 03:24 PM EST --
This was originally published in March, 2007 during one of my periodic snits at the mismanagement of what started as a "site for writers". It might easily have been written . . .
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January 20, 2009 06:03 PM EST --
Listen, people...if you really like him as much as you say you do, can you at least learn to spell his name correctly?!
It's B-A- ONE R -A-C-K . O- NO SPACE OR APOSTROPHE . . .
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February 25, 2009 04:19 PM EST --
I can hear the wonder in your collective voices as you ask, "Who the hell is Ed Doud and why should I care?"
As part of my ongoing SEO experiment and burgeoning reputation as an intrepid . . .
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February 18, 2009 05:43 PM EST --
What in the everlovin' blue-eyed world, you may inquire, have these things to do with each other? And well you may ask! Thanks to the recent push for SEO titles, posts and tags here in . . .
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December 07, 2008 05:12 PM EST --
This is an edited version of a piece that first appeared in 2006. For some reason, it raised both eyebrows and hackles. Go figure!
Anyone who knows me is aware of my stance . . .
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January 24, 2009 05:36 PM EST --
Can someone explain the recent explosion of hobos as leading men in every movie and TV show I see these days? Why are men dressed in Armani suits and white doctor-coats being featured on screens . . .
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January 30, 2009 03:40 PM EST --
NBC has rejected a commercial for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals which had been scheduled for the Superbowl because it exceeds its level of acceptible sexuality. Evidently, scantily . . .
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February 19, 2009 07:23 PM EST --
From what I read on the tabloid sites, Angelina and Jennifer (I use their first names because we're all such close friends) will be meeting for the first time since the former "stole" the . . .
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January 18, 2009 12:12 AM EST --
In two days, P-E Obama will be taking the oath of office and will be using Lincoln's Bible in the swearing-in process. Under the circumstances, this seems an appropriate time to republish the . . .
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August 20, 2008 06:50 PM EDT --
After arranging to trade one to CC for a painting, it occurred to me that there might be other gatheristas who have something they'd like to swap for an inscribed copy of LIFE, DEATH AND OTHER TRIVIA, . . .
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February 01, 2009 12:30 AM EST --
In view of the current foofaraw (thank you Lady Lisa) centering around the birth of implanted octuplets to a California woman who already had given birth to six other in vitro children, I thought the . . .
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