Tag: humor
group name: famiilyhistory
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April 20, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
(edited version after receiving permission to use her real name)
Dazed preoccupation, glowing skin, picture in hand to remind her he wasn't a dream, giggles and visible jitters. She showed all . . . more
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April 22, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
For those of us sentenced to Catholic school, back-to-school shopping promised few thrills beyond walking to Kresges with all the neighborhood . . . more
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August 14, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
I shared my childhood experience, knowing she would ignore me the same as I had shunned those who tried to warn me. Glasses and braces . . . more
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April 16, 2006 02:47 AM EDT --
Hah! Got you with that title, didn't I? It's true too but probably not in the way you expect. Let me tell you about Barry, okay?
I was 14 and my girlfriend Linda had two stepbrothers, . . . more
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September 13, 2006 12:49 AM EDT --
Tonight during my teevee hour with the dawg I watched a "LEGENDS:" show on the comedy Channel.
"RODNEY DANGERFIELD" was the subject.
My poor skills do not do justice to begin to . . . more
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March 21, 2006 09:52 AM EST --
Don't play B17. "It was our song, it was his song, now it's over." What's your B17?
Ok, maybe not even a B17. How about just a sad-arse wallowy perfectly pathetic dribbling tune . . . more
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April 17, 2006 03:32 AM EDT --
I am a dyed-in-the-wool thrift store shopper. The GW department store or the Sally Ann are my favorite haunts for chic clothing. I can't remember when I didn't shop at the thrift store. . . . more
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July 30, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
Yesterday was a bit of an anomaly for me. You see, I had it all to myself....
Fred, Dani and Alex left at 6 am for a Phoenix - San Bernardino - Phoenix turn around trip in order to get my . . . more
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April 28, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
I slowly creep from between warm sheets
And pull my boots upon small feet,
I think again of my warm bed,
Put on my coat, place hat on head.
I step into the frosty night,
My heart is thumping . . . more
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June 30, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
This piece was originally written as an exercise (describe a favorite place in under 1500 words) for another would-be writer's group.
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February 27, 2007 12:49 AM EST --
This child is not distraught because it is 39 degrees outside and she has no clothes. Nor is she concerned . . . more
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October 29, 2006 02:20 PM EST --
We were too old, flat chested, and boring to be real Girls Gone Wild, even if we had wanted. Besides, this happened in the days when college students, not under-chaperoned high schoolers, comprised . . . more
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April 01, 2006 09:40 AM EST --
It's so sad. To think a human would sink that low. To toss the dignity of a perfect feline to the winds of shame. I've been shaking my head ever since I heard the news.
Darren Lynn . . . more
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March 29, 2006 12:24 AM EST --
"Gram, wait until you see the material I just got at Glen's!"
"Oh honey, it'll be perfect. Look at those oranges"
"Well, can we cut it out now?"
"Cut what . . . more
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November 01, 2006 11:46 PM EST --
(Day One Here)
It was close to five by the time we exhausted decent choices and found a vacancy in what could have been (with a few updates) the Bates Motel, convinced the drunk behind the counter to . . . more
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November 23, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
It was 1995, we worked tech support for a contractor to one of the biggest "traditional" computer makers in the world, (no not THAT one), and were nursing users through the conversion from Windows . . . more
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June 11, 2006 04:39 PM EDT --
Great great grandmother Esther was wild,
Never a husband, many a child.
When long in the tooth
She tarred her own roof.
Ain't nobody dared get her riled.
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October 04, 2006 06:22 PM EDT --
I posted some fire pictures yesterday, and my friend Jim Radcliff responded and we got talking about a certain event. It's worthy of a whole post for its own sake.
There's a place up above . . . more
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March 04, 2008 06:30 AM EST --
Following my years as a part time scullery maid I graduated from Banyo State High School in 1979 with reasonably impressive results and a tertiary entrance score that qualified me for placement in just . . . more
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January 04, 2007 10:10 PM EST --
She's four years old. Just. Her name implies a virtue. After fifty-four years, I have not learned this virtue with ease.
As her family birthday party will not be until this coming . . . more
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