Category: daily drivel
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Road rage
I wonder if anyone else feels as I do that trucks should not be allowed to pass if they can’t go at least 70 mph. Science has not invented numbers high enough to count the times I’ve been stuck behind a lumbering semi that’s barely moving faster than the truck it’s supposedly passing. I understand… Read.
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butt pat
I am Scooter’s butt-patter. He is the kind of cat who demands that I show affection toward him by patting his butt. Spanking it, really. Some cats like this, I guess. I’m not into it, but I seem to be the one in our little family he prefers to get a spanking from. He cuddles… Read.
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lawn yawn
About a half-dozen of my neighbors were mowing their lawns when we got home from the office this evening. The guilt was so overwhelming I had to consider mowing, especially because our yard looked like a wild prairie after a week of rain. I like the look, but it doesn’t exactly fit in with the… Read.
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Lost In Space – Netflix reboot
I was a huge, HUGE fan of the Irwin Allen television show “Lost In Space” back when I was a tyke. Every kid I knew was a fan, because all the kids I knew figured it was more or less inevitable they would grow up to be astronauts. We were all born in the sixties;… Read.
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just die already
My Darling B picked up a copy of 1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveller’s Life List, by Patricia Schultz. I’m assuming Ms. Schultz means these are places you must see before you die because she considers them unmissable, and not merely rando places to see at some time before you die, the… Read.
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vast majority
White House chief of staff John Kelly tells NPR: The vast majority of the people that move illegally into the United States are … not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society. They’re overwhelmingly rural people. In the countries they come from, fourth-, fifth-, sixth-grade educations are kind of… Read.
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that foreign language English
I’ve got a copy of the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge on a shelf next to my desk at home, which I pull down and leaf through if, for instance, I’m in the middle of writing some drivel when my laptop decides it’s time to update the software without asking me.… Read.
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another song bites the dust
Most of the songs I ruin are songs that I like a lot, or used to like but don’t make a lot of sense to me, or sounded like great songs until I listened closely to the words. They Call The Wind Mariah is a song I never liked in any way. I thought it was… Read.
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hedge
hedge n 1a; a fence or boundary formed by a dense row of shrubs or low trees b: BARRIER, LIMIT 2: a means of protection or defense (as against financial loss) 3: a calculatedly noncommittal statement hedge vt 1: to enclose or protect with or as if with a hedge : ENCIRCLE 2: to hem… Read.
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Dream world
If politicians had to work in the same tiny cubicles in featureless office buildings that government workers typically have to spend their days toiling away in, there wouldn’t be any politicians. If politicians were bound by the ethics rules that prevent all other government workers from accepting gifts or payments for services, they wouldn’t bother… Read.
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