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10:11

Weekly Challenge #1021 – Poetry

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2025/11/16

RichardLisa Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Pencil case LISA The Dog Walk Afternoon. The light fails fast. The poetry of the season doesn’t escape me as a golden glow hugs the park: it’s a feast for the senses. Russet leaves rustle underfoot. Mustard and claret cling on in trees above. I forage with an urgency through damp, decaying debris in a thousand shades of brown. I find a perfect red mushroom straight from a fairytale but on I search to avoid a

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1:11

Elaine’s walk of shame

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2025/11/15

Every time Elaine drank herself into a blackout and woke up in some strange guy's bed, she swore she wouldn't do it again. Bagging up the guy's body, washing the place up, putting him in his own car's trunk. Over and over and over. One day, she'd slip up and leave evidence. A hair, being seen together on a camera. Dropping the car off at the chop shop. "Nice BMW," said the owner, looking in the trunk. "We'll take the disposal out of your finder fee." That night, Elaine went out to celebrate. And a

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1:16

Smut shows

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2025/11/14

Early Hollywood was pretty racy. Lots of violence and nudity in movies. So, the Catholic Leagues would produce lists of movies with ratings of each. Some were safe, that their parishioners shouldn't see. Others weren't safe. And then some they said if you saw them, you'd go straight to Hell. Sure enough, people used the lists. They skipped the safe movies and went to the naughty nasty smut shows. When the Hayes Production Code arrived, nudity and violence were curtailed and censored everywhere. And

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1:14

My first pizza

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2025/11/13

My first pizza was Barnaby's thin crust in Northbrook. Their sign had a brown potion bottle, but I always thought of it as a bowling pin. We also went to the original Uno's for deep dish. Greasy thick dough pies. Same with Godfather's. Gross. When we moved, a local joint called Rufini's got me back to thin crust. Until Little Caesar's and their Detroit casseroles turned me off. Abortion-soaked spongy toast. And I choked down Sbarro's only because they were free. These days, it's wood-fired brick

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1:19

Skipping English

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2025/11/12

Why didn't I make perfect grades in school? The work was boring. And my parents thought I wasn't emotionally capable of handling skipping grades. Except that I wasn't emotionally capable of dealing with being bored, either. Check my juvenile rap sheet. Eventually, I got a scholarship to a private school. And did college-level physics and math there. So, academically, I was ready for college. Except they required four years of English. Yet, when I graduated, a Junior was allowed to attend summer

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1:11

Swindle

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2025/11/11

When I was little, my parents compiled a baby book. It had photographs and report cards and vaccination records. And some Bank of Israel bonds from a rich uncle that would mature when it was time for college. Both were for ten dollars. Two pizzas on a weekend. Gee, thanks. But the page with the gift list mentioned three bonds, not two. So, I dug around the closet and found the third one. It was for a hundred thousand dollars. My parents had tried to swindle it. So, I swindled it back And it paid for

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1:06

Free lunches

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2025/11/10

I worked at a place that offered free lunches, free snacks, a free gym, and free power charging for electric cars. Oh, and free cheap cell phones. They didn't pay great, but with these perks, they added enough to the compensation to make it worth staying. When the pandemic hit, they didn't offer a lunch stipend, sent out three small boxes of snacks over two years, and that's it. People who asked about the perks were made to feel like shit by management, so they left. They tossed their free cheap

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9:17

Weekly Challenge #1020 – Gift

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2025/11/09

RichardLisa Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Poetry LISA Christmas Christmas was always the same at Mums. Everyone stayed over except Auntie Lizzie because she had to get back for her dog. She gave the best gifts but apologised saying she hadn’t got out to buy anything this year so, it was a shock when she handed me a present. It was a pricey looking necklace. “They’re real. Not paste.” Excited by this my brother unwrapped his even larger parcel. It was

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1:12

Nails

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2025/11/08

You know, I used to bite my nails. Don't remember a time when I didn't. Therapists told me that it was a form of self destruction. I said the suicide attempts were more important signs of that. I stopped biting my nails after Piper died. For some reason, promising a cat that I'd stop biting my nails worked. Aside from a rare pruning when I don't have a kit nearby, every few months or so, I've stopped. Of course, the cat's death provoked the last suicide attempt, but the gun jammed. Probably on a

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1:15

Whitney

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2025/11/07

When Bobby Brown died, he went to Hell. No waiting in line for Bobby. A bodyguard at the gates with a clipboard, unclipping a velvet rope gate and saying "This way, sir." A line of gorgeous women waited for him. With baseball bats. Bobby staggered along the line, suffering blow after blow, feeling bones crack, skin split, muscles tear, and blood flow and spurt and ooze. And at the end of the line, Whitney watched. And waited. At first, she enjoyed the spectacle. She knew Bobby was suffering. But she

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1:11

Sad thing

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2025/11/06

It’s a sad thing when you have to bury your own child. The last time, I got a sore back, using a shovel in the back yard. So, that’s why I called around and the neighborhood showed up with shovels. One guy got a backhoe from a nearby road construction crew. That was nice of him. We made a block party out of it. With lemonade and cookies and music and a volleyball net. Everyone had a blast. “Same time next week?” I asked. The crowd cheered, and I patted the dirt down. And called the foster agency for

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1:09

The job i suppose

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2025/11/05

I have a good job. With a corner office on the top floor. And a good parking space to charge my car. Good perks: free lunches, fully-stocked breakroom with tea and snacks. I can work from home when I need to. But why would I want to? Well, with the pandemic, I need to. I still have my job. But I work from my living room, not my nice corner office. I don't drive my car to that spot with the charger. And any lunch or tea or snacks are bought on my own. That's okay for now, I suppose.

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1:10

Collaborate

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2025/11/04

Every day, we have a team meeting. And when we go around the table... well, go around the list, since we're not at the same table while we work remotely... we say what we did yesterday, what we'll do today, and what blockers we have that need resolving. Then we leave our microphones on all day while working on whatever we're working on, saying something if we need assistance or want to demonstrate something. Repeat until it's time to go home... well... we're already home, so shut off the laptops and

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1:15

Fire your doctor

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2025/11/03

I fired my doctor and made an appointment with a nearby clinic with testing and other departments that will be a lot more convenient for referrals. A year since my last checkup is way too long, especially with the cholesterol meds running out of refills. And weight gain. And other things. I should walk more. And eat less. I don't drink, in spite of what my former doctor thought. People lie about that kind of thing. But when beer and liquor cause kidney stones, you stop. Trust me on this. Or don't

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12:07

Weekly Challenge #1019 – Assistive technology

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2025/11/02

Richard Lisa Tura Lizzie Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Gift LISA Cynthia's had a Fall It’s a tale as old as time: we were discussing the idea of assistive technology. Well, we mentioned things, they were refused. Luckily, Cynthia's house already had rails and ramps but the idea of wearing a medical assistance necklace was dead in the water. She really didn’t want a daily phone-call either, once a week on Friday was all she’d agree to. Cynthia fell

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1:19

Stacy the Liar

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2025/11/01

Politicians lie. It's what they do. It's the job. Stacy said one thing before she ran for for office. Then she campaigned on the opposite. Claimed she never said what she said in the first place. After she won, she denied having said either. Then admitted it, but said she'd learned more since taking office. Evolving her position to suit the needs of the people. Journalists printed her lies about her lies. And fact checkers claimed it was all true. When she ran again, she touted her experience. But

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1:09

Standup

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2025/10/31

Rufus Washington was the greatest standup comedian without actually standing up. He did his routines from a wheelchair, spinning tales from the ghetto on the other side of the tracks. Drug dealers, hookers, pimps, corner stores instead of grocery stores. Now, he traveled in a limo or a tour bus, with gorgeous assistants to help him into the chair... or bed... or the shower. When the limo got in a wreck, Rufus woke up in the hospital, screaming that he couldn't feel his legs. Turned out, he'd been

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11:36

Weekly challenge #1018 – PICK TWO It burns!, Fare,...

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2025/10/26

RichardLisa Tura Lizzie Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Assistive technology RICHARD Unstuck My son developed an interest in model-making and, like so many of his hobbies, I ended up funding the majority of it, but I reckoned it was educational and keeping him off the streets, so I never complained. I'd be tasked with finding model kits, tools and supplies, paint - the standard fare for such activities. Then, one day, he asked for horse glue. It took

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1:24

Making tigers disappear

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2025/10/25

Siegfried and Roy were stage musicians who used lasers, glitter, and white suits to amaze millions of fans who came to watch them on their Las Vegas stage. They paraded their white tigers and exotic animals around, making them leap and disappear. Roy was attacked by one of their white tigers and took years to recover before returning to the stage. He died during the Coronavirus pandemic. The next year, Siegfried died of cancer. Magic? The truth is, anybody can make tigers disappear. Well, more like

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1:20

Not worth a dime

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2025/10/24

President Roosevelt's face is on the dime because of The March of Dimes. Roosevelt had Polio, and The March of Dimes raised money for research to cure Polio. George Washington owned quarter horses, so his head went on the quarter. Abraham Lincoln said "A penny for your thoughts" to his wife before he was shot and killed, so his head is on the penny. Thomas Jefferson's life wasn't worth a plugged nickel, said his angry neighbor who argued over a border fence between their farms, so his head is on the

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