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  1. Vince Higgins

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    Oscar Leigh Inexplicable lunch fiend Contributor

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    It's fair to say it's been a bit drippy in Australia recently...
     
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    Oscar Leigh Inexplicable lunch fiend Contributor

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    Do you ever just hold a noodle above your cat or dogs head and watch them snap it up bit at a time like an eating conveyor belt? It's fun.
     
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    I was thinking... I’m not Brad Pitt, I don’t have a car, I don’t carry a comb up my sleeve just in case, and I’m not a rocket scientist.

    Does that mean I’d impress Shania Twain much?
     
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  5. big soft moose

    big soft moose An Admoostrator Admin Staff Supporter Contributor Community Volunteer

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    she's probably too old for you
     
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    Probably, yeah.
     
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    Russia invaded Ukraine, so I'd better rush out and sell all my Disney stock.
     
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    Had a bolt of inspiration this weekend and realized the aesthetic I'm going for in my WIP is "Venus of Willendorf in an NPR tote bag", and no I don't know what that means either.
     
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    I enjoyed the joke, yet the philosophy teacher in me can’t help but point out that it denies the antecedent. However it will now feature in my lessons on logical fallacies.

    “X may not be Brad Pitt, but according to the truth table, Shania Twain may be unimpressed for other reasons”.
     
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    That asshole doctor at the local clinic is a pretty nice guy.

    Had a slight case of rhoid rage I needed fixed

    [​IMG]

    No you wouldn't, and you're a sick person if you made it this far :)
     
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    If I'm sick then I don't want to be healthy
     
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    Screenshot 2022-03-03 at 13.png

    What can i say...

    (aside from that - apparently in canada it is so cold that moose are getting their tongues stuck when licking cars for salt... my question has to be how exactly do you stop a moose from licking your car if it really wants to?)
     
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    This post taught me a lot about myself.
     
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    Catriona Grace Mind the thorns Contributor Contest Winner 2022

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    Maybe if I offered you the beverage of your choice?
     
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    This afternoon has been as lazy as hell - what more can I say!
     
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    Ah yes, the good ol' days when gas had only skyrocketed by 30 cents.
     
  17. big soft moose

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    the problem is ladies keep offering me coffee. But when I go in with them there’s never any coffee
     
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    I assure you, sir, if you want coffee, I shall serve you coffee. I myself am not included in the offer, so your person is safe. :D
     
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    My work colleague just taught me a great waste of time. Open your phone’s text messenger / WhatsApp and send someone a message. The catch is you’re only allowed to use the word the phone predicts and displays above the keyboard. Just keep tapping the middle word of the three it predicts, i.e:

    I don’t think you could do that any other way you could have it and I do not have a look and see what it is but it’s just a coincidence I wanna is a little more than that one way to go through it all you do is have to use it for a little more time.
     
  20. GeoffFromBykerGrove

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    Maybe the Doctor gave him an iPhone to play with. It would be impossible to tell the difference.
     
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    My lewd anime hat finally arrived, and I am happy about it.
     
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    Vince Higgins Curmudgeon. Contributor

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    Or an impending earthquake, which in the past was regarded as a signalling of the end of the world.
     
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    Vince Higgins Curmudgeon. Contributor

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    My wife and I have watched a TV show called Mom, about two mother/daughter alcoholics. One day while randomly perusing Youtube for music videos I discovered the source of the shows theme song. It is the overture from an opera called Ruslan and Ludmilla, by Russian composer Mikhail Glinka. He is said to have influenced Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin.
     
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    Really random thought: my husband's first dog was named Rimsky-Korsakov.
     

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