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Babe, a new skaldic kenning just dropped

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Thanks to a triple word score, I managed a 106-point bingo tonight with BOOZIER (and BAA)

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I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs. Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

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It me.¹

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Wait, so Mr Burns' demand that Don Mattingly "shave those sideburns" was actually a reference to something? I had no idea.

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A completely top-down and uncollegial decision by York administration. This decision was made without any due process. Such a huge infringement on basic norms of collegial governance.

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I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said "Two tiny & childlike hands of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk an orange & clown-like visage lies, whose frown and pursed lips, & creepy combed over hair, Tell that its sculptor well that racist idiot's details read."

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My wife is astonished that I can do ANYTHING.

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Classics on the chopping block at York University—a major R1 institution. Please see the link below for ways to help.

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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I’m not into the speculation of what a Canadian insurgency might look like, but I am thoroughly entertained by the idea of Newfie code talkers. Maybe we should get a CBC version of Red Dawn in the works or something.

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okay folks I know we're all skeptical but just this once I say, let's see where this goes

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Most people don't know this but Ancient Rome was fully remote until Julius Caesar implemented a return to office program and well you know what happened next

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*See Bible for terms and conditions (certain restrictions may apply)

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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Having been to a fair number of Diana's deejay nights in the mid 2010s, I am quite excited about this.

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We also can't believe you're saying it. In fact, you shouldn't say it. FYI Steve Israel heads Cornell's Institute of Politics and Global Affairs. How deeply embarrassing for them.

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Researcher pans Saskatchewan water stewardship policy https://vist.ly/3mv98uf #cdnag #westcdnag #SKag

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Sometimes you just have to lay down the law

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TIL that before 2010 the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures was known as Mystics Quarterly, which makes it sound like a trade mag for the profession, with small ads and handy tips

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Just saw the chairman of the Munich Security Conference break down in tears. He knows we will all be at war before 2028. Europe knows war. They can see the conditions falling into place. So many Americans are so naive & ignorant about the danger they have put the entire planet into.

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Never mind woke Marxism, I can't even indoctrinate my students into formatting a bibliography consistently. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Important update: Occam's Razor has been renamed Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em's Razor. For coolness. It now states that whatever explanation is the most bitchin', no matter how gnarly it might be, must be the truth.

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Applying for the new position of Associate Dean of Anticipatory Obedience. Wish me luck!

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“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

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From now on when I teach rhyme riche, I'm using the opening of "War Pigs."

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Live from Pyongyang, it's Saturday Night!

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Gordon, it's 10:10 a.m. on February 16th #PhillipJeffriesDay

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Time for Canada and Ontario to lift the xenophobic international student cap. We need this talent and we can enrich this country by giving them a viable alternative to the US.

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Musk is obsessed with numerology and everything he does points directly towards openly being a Nazi. Bad stuff

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Wash clothes: 45 minutes. Dry clothes: 60 minutes. Fold and put away clothes: 5 to 10 business days.

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