Tag: wimsey cult
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April 01, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
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Congress Shows Courage & Resolve
George Bush Acknowledges A Mistake
Dick Cheney Shoots Self During Duck Hunt
Gather Recovers Focus . . .
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June 29, 2008 09:09 AM EDT --
In honor of my upcoming birthday (July 6), Peter Wimsey is sending me a set of vintage postcards to post as articles. I am truly grateful for this gift (and the resulting Gather points.) . . .
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July 06, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
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If you have not visited a Gather Yard Sale before, the concept is very simple.
Here is a selection of articles bidding for the attention and response of readers.
I have . . .
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July 05, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
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This is a detail of The Last Judgement by Michaelangelo
The painting is in the public domain.
I just saw a great article about the death of . . .
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August 19, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
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Among the Comments to the late article, Ode to Gather, were numerous original poems submitted by talented readers in imitation of the article and other works . . .
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September 16, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
I can tell that you are a person who is eager to make friends by the way you accost total strangers with earnest pleas for attention.
In this, you are very unlike me, who prefers to relate . . .
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March 25, 2008 10:37 PM EDT --
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This article is published as "background" to a forthcoming story about a vintage postcard.
The world's largest building in the Corinthian style . . .
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September 10, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
The Wizard has recently acquired, through perilous exertions and an astonishing exercise of wits, an amzing compendium of useful advice and spells.
Not wishing to hoard this wisdom from those . . .
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February 18, 2007 10:42 AM EST --
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The Special Investigation Report Team at the Non News Network
New York
The Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Americans are no longer required . . .
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March 04, 2007 01:16 AM EST --
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Xanthe recently published a brief account of an Ash Wednesday visit to St. Xavier's, and Wurdzgurl recently published a handsome printing of Eliot's "Hollow Men". . . .
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August 30, 2007 04:18 PM EDT --
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Dear Senator Craig;
It really hurt, seeing you standing there with that stony look on your adorable, wrinkled face and saying that you had never had a sexual . . .
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September 04, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
A recent article published on Gather contains allegations of astonishing dishonesty and stupity.
While this is not a novel occurence on Gather, the seriousness . . .
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July 13, 2008 07:04 AM EDT --
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The Gather Yard Sale is a way to draw attention to decent articles that are quickly buried in Games and Point Counts, or Coupons, or fraudulent internet "fact sheets". . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
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This article was posted, originally, one year ago, in celebration of Arbor Day on Gather.
This nation's anuual celebration . . .
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May 16, 2007 08:45 AM EDT --
David McGill, one of the few gifted Gather News Correspondents and someone who should know better, tagged me to contribute Five Positive Things About Myself.
I just offered Five Positive Things on . . .
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September 02, 2007 04:24 AM EDT --
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Something about the holy quiet of the early hours on Sunday morning reminds me of harmony and hymns. This morning, I have been humming one . . .
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March 22, 2008 10:35 PM EDT --
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On April 9, 1909, Aunt Blanche sent an Easter card to Miss Garnet Morris.
Aunt Blanche posted the card in Centerville, Pa, and it was recieved by Garnet Morris in Spartansburg, . . .
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April 18, 2008 07:25 PM EDT --
A well-established prinicple in the history of psychology,especially industrial psychology, is called 'The Hawthorne Effect". The term was coined by Henry Landsberger (1955) in a critical . . .
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June 14, 2008 09:26 AM EDT --
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Among the never-used postcards in my collection are a number of linen cards(named for the textured paper that resembles fabric) in very good condition.
These cards include . . .
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September 14, 2007 11:38 AM EDT --
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Like many devoted Gather members, I was saddened to learn of the sudden and catastrophic disappearance of the Subaheim-Wurbizer Family.
As a long-time friend of the family, . . .
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