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wastrel
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Thought it was Phobos
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And civil servants run on less than a third of the ketamine
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So happy to learn that there are still people out there who don't say 'lit on fire.'
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not convinced
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It depends...are US Republican AGs noted for their intelligence? Or is being a bootlicking moron one of the selection criteria?
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Baroness Vons Meneris
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I want to donate a T-pot intacticus to O. tetricus...willow-pattern I think.
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In the Darwin Wet when it rains and rains the grass and weeds grow up so thick and lush that mowing them smells like shelling peas, and sometimes hidden in the grass is some orange peel discarded by the schoolkids and so that smell suddenly swirls up in the mix. [Or sometimes a dog has...never mind]
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Good choice of orange for the T-cell: like fire!
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yep, its a wedding alright...
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weird medieval guys are a finite resource. They dont make them anymore.
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mouse party
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I never thought they'd start with the shoelaces! Brutal!
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Wi ae lock o his gowden hair, We'll theek our nest when it grows bare.
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If they de-Spanish-ify all placenames in the USA a lot of people are going to get very confused. On a different note, I like the whale with nasal tentacles; smart animals need hands.
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They are indeed a wonder of nature and also quite dreadful creatures. They thrive and multiply in tourist-rich (i.e. food-scrap rich) environments, their powerful earth-moving claws devastate gardens and they will forcibly (and obviously pointlessly) mate with your hens...
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This copper would have had a cerebral haemorrhage confronted by the Piranha Brothers. Oh yes, old Doug knew all the tricks - sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, satire...
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This copper would have had a cerebral haemorrhage confronted by the Piranha Brothers. Oh yes, old Doug knew all the tricks - sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, satire...
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I guess you mean in America, but bear in mind that Pokemon is banned in Saudi because it <<teaches evolution>> (or anyway something sufficiently evolution adjacent to contradict the Koran.)
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It flashed by as I scrolled down and I went back to it thinking hey they dug another baby mammoth out of the ice somewhere
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I see the droplet-shape not as a tear but as the eye, making the face a little sinister...some kind of djinn, perhaps?
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This is indeed a haunting book and disturbing on several levels; deep psychoanalytic horrors with a weird saccharine frosting. Such a lonely world, doomed and lonely.
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Coincidentally, my zodiac sign.
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...or indeed anyone from a generation prior to, say, our grandparents, because even the most superficial research will reveal that they believed and/or said and/or did things that we find abhorrent. Then we just need some efficient way to change all the names again every (say) thirty years...
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fun fact: the octopodal oesophagus passes through the centre of its brain. Since octopi eat spiky prey they often suffer brain-stabs (but they get over it.) If a god created octopi, this is a major fail, on a par with the one about routing Adam's urethra through the centre of his prostate