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1:49

The creepy dog

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2024/11/15

We have an awesome back yard and patio, but the neighbor's dog stares through the chain link fence.When it does this, it looks creepy and judgmental. So, we replaced the chain link fence with a solid wooden fence. The dog still finds a way to get up on the fence and stare at us. And it looks even creepier. No matter how high we build the fence, the dog still manages to get up there and stare at us. We moved to another neighborhood. No back yard. No patio. No fence. And, thankfully, no creepy dog

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1:17

Radial design

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2024/11/14

There's a difference between not liking a symbol and not liking the cause it represents.I find the Isle of Man flag to be ugly, with its radial and rotational symmetry of freaky feet. But as for the Isle of Man itself, I really don't know much about it, nor do I care to learn. Similarly, the Nazi flag also has rotational symmetry in the symbol. It's nasty. It's sharp. And the people who use it are awful people. I don't care if it's an inverted symbol for peace. So, Clarence, these cookies are

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1:34

Peppermint Flatty

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2024/11/13

All the way back to the third grade, Miss Othmar's class, you could see how Marcie would look at Peppermint Patty, calling her Sir.Kids would talk, do horrible things. You know how kids can be. Patty may have been a tough tomboy in grade school, but when she got to high school, she started to blossom. Marcie wasn't cool with this. Patty went on hormone blockers, had her breasts surgically removed. She was scheduled for the bottom surgery when she found Marcie making out with Charlie Brown under the

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1:16

The marketed moon

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2024/11/12

I'm a technical writer. But every now and then, I get asked to write marketing copy. I'm not a marketing writer. I'm a technical writer. My mindset is explaining things and teaching, not selling and promoting things. The marketing people say give it a try. So, I do. And it's awful. But we work on it together, and it comes out not half bad. We do this again and again, and I feel myself change. I fall to the floor, my body contorting. The marketers howl at the full moon. And I, the newest member of

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1:27

The day after

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2024/11/11

If The New Yorker weren't horribly biased, I'd imagine a cartoon where a reporter is poking her head into an editor's office and asking if President elect is one word, two words, or hyphenated, and you see through the glass that the editor has hung themselves. But The New Yorker is nowhere near that self-aware or capable of self-deprecation humor. Hubris is funny, until it happens to you and your narrow world-view. Besides, I'm sure some cartoonist has already tried to submit a cartoon like this. No

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17:20

Weekly Challenge #968 – Blood Test

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2024/11/10

Tangent Lisa Lizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Mind RICARD — Bloods — I swear that when you reach a certain age, it gives doctors a licence to prescribe a whole range of medicines they've been itching to give you for years. So they ask you to pop in for a blood test. A simple blood test. Nothing to worry about - just routine. Give us a call in a week and we'll have your results. Those results, once you reach that magic age, open the

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2:04

Delivery times

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2024/11/09

So, the US Postal Service can deliver hundreds of fliers, pamphlets, letters, campaign posters, and other junk mail from every candidate, PAC, voter's organization, and special interest, but they can't deliver my ballot on time? They claim it's because of systemic delivery delays. But if there's systemic delivery delays, why is every flier, pamphlet, letter, campaign poster, and other junk mail being delivered before Election Day? If there's delays, this crap would still be arriving after Election

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1:16

The lines at the parks

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2024/11/08

So, the pandemic closed all the theme parks and the movie theatres. People got laid off across the board. But mostly the hourly workers, the people who do their best to help you forget the world for a while. Waiters and waitresses, hotel staff, entertainers, shopkeepers. The executives, on the other hand, gave themselves raises and retention bonuses. All while begging for government bailouts. They put together their reports to give to the investors. All while the laid-off workers lined up at food

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1:23

Arlington’s toxic waste site

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2024/11/07

When the Union needed a place to bury all those dead soldiers during the Civil War, Lincoln had them commandeer Robert E. Lee's house and estate so the enemy general could never go home. Over the years, hundreds and thousands of soldiers and politicians and important people are buried there. And then there's the Kennedys. Three alcoholic, drug-addicted date-rapists and the money-grubbing socialite that was already halfway out the door when the bullet splattered her husband's brains across the

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1:20

Float on

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2024/11/06

Whoever shot Ben and threw his body into the canal, we'll never know. He fell with a splash. Ben floated downstream, and when he reached the High Bank Locks, the lockmaster took out Ben's wallet, charged Ben the toll, and allowed Ben to float further downstream. The lockmasters at Charm Fields, Fenton, and Greenmoor did the same. Ben had just enough to get him to the river, and tourists took photos of him as he passed through Port Burke. Eventually, the cops got involved. Fishing him out of the

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1:24

Show your ID

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2024/11/05

When Freddy bought cigarettes, he showed his ID. When Freddy bought some beer, he showed his ID. When Freddy used his credit card, he showed his ID. When Freddy picked up his prescription, he showed his ID. When Freddy checked in for a flight, he showed his ID. When Freddy was stopped for speeding, he showed his ID. When Freddy bought a gun, he showed his ID. When Freddy went to vote, he refused to show his ID. You know, because it's racist voter suppression by hateful Nazis. And then Freddy bought

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1:29

Poetic justice

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2024/11/04

I know an asshole who was a restaurant industry attorney and lobbyist. Ensuring that kids who got hurt in fast food restaurants couldn't sue. Viciously smearing people who were sickened by the unhealthy products. Screwing over franchisees with insane contracts, supplier price hikes, and map stacking. Colluding with others in the industry to bribe lawmakers at every level for minimal safety standards and no employee benefits. The Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease, Cancer, Poverty, and Stroke industry

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10:32

Weekly Challenge #967 – Safe

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2024/11/03

LisaLizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Blood test NORVAL JOE With her husband safe and sound inside the ambulance and speeding away to the hospital, Mrs. Withybottom wrung her hands together and looked around. "I think I should go to the hospital to be with Thurgrave." The butler put a hand on her shoulder. "I'll drive you, Mitzi. I mean, Madam. Then I can return and keep an eye on your daughter." "No way," Mandy said. "I'm coming with

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4:01

The plan

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2024/11/02

My grandmother had severe dementia and Alzheimer's. She lived to 99 and drained my parents dry. So when my mother was diagnosed with both conditions, I asked my father what the plans were. He said he had plans. And didn't tell me. They moved to a city near me. Then, when my father got sick, instead of putting my mother in a facility or getting a caretaker, I was stuck babysitting her. Turns out his plans were to dump her on me. So I came up with a plan, too. I've blocked everybody's calls, and to

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1:33

The dealers

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2024/11/01

I lived in a suburb of Columbus for nine years. There wasn't much to do there. It was a dry town, but there was beer and more surrounding it. Marijuana grew wild by the train tracks. We'd harvest it by the bag and put it in a guy's attic to dry. Except that it was too wet and soaked through their ceiling, which collapsed. So, we dried it in a model home's oven at night. I didn't smoke any, though. I just sold it in school. But for cheap. Because the more they were stoned, the better the grade

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1:29

UNIFIL

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2024/10/31

The problem with peacekeepers is that you assign them to a mission for a year or so. And they're told that they can't socialize with locals. No dating, no hookers. All these soldiers, mostly men, told to keep it in their pants for a year? Yeah, that's how the crimes happen. Against the women soldiers, but also the local women and girls. So, we developed robot soldiers and patrols. They don't rape. They don't steal. But they do kill. They kill a whole hell of a lot of people. But they don't rape them

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1:38

God sized hole

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2024/10/30

I am an atheist. I do not believe in God. Even when I went to church, I thought "What is this crap?" A guy standing at the end of the room, telling fairy tales and fables. For years, people said I had a God-sized hole in my heart. Which I tried to fill with drugs, booze, and sex. When I finally found God, I tried to fill that hole in my heart. And God said "Wow. Look at all the drugs and booze and sex." I'm still an atheist. But, damn that motherfucker God partying it up in my heart.

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1:40

Fascist accounting

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2024/10/29

Oh, fascists. So efficient with their accounting methods. The streets may run red with the blood of their victims, but their balance sheets are all in the black. The Chinese charge the cost of bullets they use in executions to their families. The Soviets charged rent for every troublesome comrade sent to the gulag. And for every tree they chopped for wood to keep from freezing to death. The Nazis charged a fare for every passenger on the death trains. And American public schools have a long list of

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1:26

Take him home for thanksgiving

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2024/10/28

My father died about a year ago. I have no idea what was done with his body. Some creep from the hospital kept calling about it. "We need to know what to do with the body." "Take it home for Thanksgiving dinner." "WHAT?" "Not to eat. That would be sick. Just sit him at the table." "WHAT?" "Come on, that's less sick than eating him. I think. Just don't expect him to say grace." I don't remember what happened after that. I blocked him like all the other callers and turned off my phone. And picked up

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10:24

Weekly Challenge #966 – PICK TWO Throwaway, Flight,...

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2024/10/27

LizzieRichard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is Safe NORVAL JOE Mrs. Withybottom shouted from upstairs, “Father’s awake and he’s thrashing around.” At her voice, a butler stepped into the entry and frowned. Linoliamanda asked, “What shall we do?” Billbert took out his phone, “I'm calling an ambulance." An eternity later, a fire engine and ambulance roared up the drive. The paramedics raced up the stairs with a stretcher. Huddled below the

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