April 2011
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today twitter directed my attention to a literary...
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reverse retard
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. someone with a habit of overthinking the simplest of concepts—who reads the phrase “girls drinking cosmos” and imagines female astronauts slurping intergalactic ether through bendy straws—which is a symptom of an educational overdose, whose only known cure is the ’90s teen sitcom Saved By The Bell.
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reality check: what to expect when publishing... →
dialecstatic
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. hearing a person with a thick accent pronounce a certain phrase—the Texan “cooler,” the South African “bastard,” the Kiwi “thirty years ago”—and wanting them to repeat it over and over until the vowels pool in the air and congeal into a linguistic taffy you could break apart and give as presents.
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The Art of Giving Up (Psychology Today) →
“In other words, most of us sacrifice our present-day enjoyment for the sake of a future that may never really arrive, as a set of studies by Kivetz and Keinan showed. “
in a nutshell, this is the motivating force behind an argument laid out by a friend five years ago for why he started smoking out of the blue. to my memory—which, as has become apparent to me in recent...
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wytai
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
acronym [“when you think about it”] a feature of modern society that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from zoos and milk-drinking to organ transplants, life insurance and fiction—part of the faint background noise of absurdity that reverberates from the moment our ancestors first crawled out of the slime but could not for the life of them remember what...
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on strumpets
me: last night i won the favor of a table instantly by knowing what a "strumpet" is. when i laughed & told this to my coworkers, they didn't know the word. is it really that odd of a word?
mom: yes. but a perfectly suited word for a brumble household! no one in my family would know it, but of course i do!
me: because you're a strumpet.
mom: i just pulled into the post office parking lot as you texted to mail your wonderful package & now you don't get it... ME a strumpet!
me: i meant that in the fondest way possible.
mom: actually, given all i went through to have your dad's class at night to get him to date me...
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f. scott fitzgerald
1. 'Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.'
2. 'You'll always be like this to me.'
1. 'Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.'
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Watchnot to sound like a prick or anything, but i already understand how nuclear energy works. i’m all about this video solely due to its mouse traps, fake cheese, and whiffle balls.
