Tag: frivolity
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August 17, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
Beethoven's Grave
When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard.
A couple days later, someone was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where . . .
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April 23, 2007 03:43 PM EDT --
Dateline: Internet
Rumor has it that it is no longer kosher to post satire or parody anymore on Gather. My guess is that the heads at the GIANT dot com company are bowing to pressure from all sides. It's . . .
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September 24, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
Hello again, good citizens of Gatherville. It's Monday, which means it's time for another trip down Good Humor Monday lane in the Gather Essentials: Writing group.
Something new today. . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
Everybody's probably heard of NaNoWriMo , which has been underway for 12 days now. For those unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, a writing event which . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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April 24, 2008 04:05 AM EDT --
"Scream at the top of your lungs until someone pays attention." That's great advice if you've fallen down a well or an elevator shaft. If you're a parent with young children, it's . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Obviously the Humor Gang has recovered from the long July 4th weekend. (For those living at latitudes and longitudes not tormented by American electoral politics, there is less of an excuse, for instance . . .
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July 14, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
The happiest man in the world is a pink little guy I used to care for at the Faribault State Hospital in Minnesota. "The Colonel" was born with severe Down's Syndrome, yet he enjoyed . . .
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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April 14, 2008 05:20 AM EDT --
(with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge )
I was sitting at the bus stop,
Awaiting the number nine.
When an old man sat beside me,
And asked me for the time.
"It's 2:30," . . .
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June 01, 2006 07:19 AM EDT --
My wife and I took the kids to the zoo this weekend. The zoo wouldn't take them so we had to bring them back home with us.
ba-dum-bum-CHING!
(That joke never gets old. Never gets funny, either.)
So . . .
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September 17, 2007 09:26 AM EDT --
Greetings denizens of Gather! Tis Monday once again (no really it is, I checked my calendar), which means it's time for Good Humor Monday here in the Writing Essentials Group. Today rather . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:39 PM EDT --
For all intents and purposes, the following is a suicide note.
Okay, I'm not really killing myself (you can stop emailing the suicide hotline number), at least not my physical self. . . .
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June 05, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
About a month ago I wrote a post explaining how the popular meanings of old proverbs could possibly differ from their original intended meanings. There are quite a few proverbs out there so that initial . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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May 05, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
I remember my son's coach ticking his way through the roll-call before the soccer games: "Joshua, Jeremiah, Jason, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua".
You get the idea.
To . . .
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May 08, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
Imagine the day after the 2008 election. The Democrats will be whooping it up, having bagged the presidency and padded their power in the House and Senate.
They will be giddy as newly weds - . . .
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June 11, 2008 06:45 PM EDT --
O, thou sacred vow,
What hast thou bound me to?
To a life without freedom,
To a life without sin,
To a life without frivolity.
Vow,vow,
What hast thou bound me to?
I wanted him,
Oh, how . . .
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September 16, 2008 03:28 AM EDT --
In this dream, I find myself in a house where the backyard is shared with everyone else on the block - somewhat like all of the neighbors had torn down the backyard fences to make one open area.
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