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Which play was it where Lord Fields exclaims "Great googly-moogly!"?

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Yes, it is #Father'sDay. No, a paternity suit is not the appropriate attire.

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Today is Fathers Day, on which we commemorate Sam Fathers, son of Ikkemotubbe. Enjoy your day, Sam.

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"mostly peaceful bombing" is too dumb to be called "Orwellian."

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Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats. And because it's Father's Day tomorrow, here's a picture of your dad. He wasn't sure you'd remember to send him a card, so he painted it himself.

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Suetonius should have included Sid. If pressed for space, he could have omitted Otho, who was pretty much a waste of space. And Imogene would have made a swell consort.

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I like David Tennant in almost everything he does, but I must admit, I'm always expecting him to reach into his pocket for his sonic screwdriver.

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—Roger Daltrey just showed up in the episode of Dangerous Davies I'm watching. —Who? —Yes.

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Why, yes, I do confuse Donald J. Trump with Roscoe P. Coltrane. How did you know?

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Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

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I received an alert that Amazon was at the door. "Hello," she said. "I'm Hippolyta."

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A reminder of where you can find Gilead, Moses, and Rice- Krispie Snack Treats: rhepoems.blogspot.com/2025/06/lent...

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Remember when Stone Cold Jane Austen delivered a Stone Cold Stunner to Linda McMahon? Those were the days.

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My guide to revision: The first thing we do is, let's kill all the adverbs.

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An iconic hot dog, says the article. Iconic this, iconic that. I blame the Byzantines. I'm going to see if I can't find an icon of Athenogenes of Pedachtoë eating a Coney Island dog.

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I see that Amazon is selling "pre-loved" products. Does market research show that this crap really works?

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Disgusting abominations are the worst kind. Give me a toothsome abomination any day. —EM

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Do you believe in Flyting Chaucers?

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From Yahoo News, the ideal premise for a new suspense thriller: President Bill Clinton tried to alleviate the cheese hoard through Dairy Management Inc. It's a marketing and strategy agency within the USDA that had a $140 million budget to use in figuring out how to get rid of the surplus of cheese.

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In Limbo the trumpets Played flat for the strumpets And every pale bimbo As past them there fell, Their legs held akimbo, The men into Hell. —The Strumpets & Bimbos

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep *** If you go out in the woods today, You better not go alone It's lovely out in the woods today, But safer to stay at home —Dr Crumley take-home exam: Frost and the Teddy Bears—compare and contrast.

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These are the forests primeval, The murmuring swine and the ham hocks.

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It's my fault, not Shakespeare's, that this sounds sarcastic. Perhaps I heard too many complaints on the order of "God forbid you should clean your room without being told."

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my dad: people today are too sensitive me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric

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It would come in handy if "in loco parentis" meant something closer to what it sounds like.

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Does China's rare-earth policy threaten our supply of Gardol? ("This surfactant," says Wiki-P, "is amphiphilic due to the hydrophobic 12-carbon chain and the hydrophilic carboxylate." I hadn't known that.)

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Between them Doctor Who & Pres. Trump average one heart apiece.

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Is it true that financial planners get their information by inspecting the entrails of sacrificed sheep and poultry?

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Just for a day or two, let's shift our discussion from Covid to Ovid. What's a c when it comes to the art of love?

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Happy 80th birthday, John Fogerty. Hope you're not stuck in Lodi. Again. When I was a kid, Fogerty Park was right next to my elementary school. I'd like to think it was named for one of your ancestors.

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"Captain America: Brave New World" is now streaming on Disney+. I'm believe it was co-written by Aldous Huxley and Miranda.

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Charge that to upstart inexperience. Where were they all not twenty years ago? They think too much of having shaded out A few old pecker-fretted apple trees. Frost is speaking of trees, of course; but these days I seem to feel that way about almost everyone.

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