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Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "it seemed like a good idea at the time." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... ( Read more... )
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "it seemed like a good idea at the time." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... ( Read more... )
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"Helping never helps!"
Trying to prevent a minor ecological problem causes a disaster.
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Measuring economies only by the volume of money in motion, rather than its overall distribution. (This might need a little research.)
The Steamsmiths' phos lanterns are ready, but now a new player produces a lantern that uses ge as fuel, and suggests a field test for comparison.
Potatoes and corn are good sources of food, but we know what happens when you grow things in a monoculture. Are there other, less visible monocultures around us today?
Brod tries to coat his sword with blacking, as one would during a night mission where shining metal is undesirable.
On Hart's Farm, some of the children try to change shape just like their friend.
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http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/3088746.html
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Kudzu and other invasive species
"The fire-suppression sprinkler is not a bondage attachment point."
"Does anyone have access to a pair of bolt-cutters?"
These are original. Or, well, memories, not original thoughts.
"No, I didn't tell you she was dating someone else. You didn't seem to want to know."
"But everyone was asleep and I wanted to go to the playground!"
"The path is *here*, but I want to go look at that tree over *there*."
Similarly, "Oh, the freeway is under construction, I'll just take this exit and go t-- what the fuck is a roundabout doing here?!"
From the mythical _Arizona Bridge Builder's Manual_: Thou shalt build thy bridge across the FULL width of the river, for verily, Hundred-Year Flood height is a more pressing concern than thine aesthetic ideals.
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