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This post was originally going to be titled, “Let it begin…” Something with a little more optimism, some hope, some glee. But all of those happy people feelings were dashed last night at 8:45pm. At exactly 8:45pm last night, a large part of the student population at the large southern state school I attend...
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Here in Madison, WI we are in the middle of frigidly cold winter.  The past two days were in negative tens with windchills in the negative thirties.  My nose has been stuffed for the past two weeks so I am starting to suspest that I am doing something wrong.  Would someone help me clear...
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Hello. Nobody seems to be around except tough_love. Well, I’ve decided to rejoin society by trying to get famous. I won’t tell you where I’ve been, because you’ve never been and you just wouldn’t understand. Dial-A-Stranger is a podcast/site run by Mercedes and Zachary. Every week they tape and broadcast phone calls to strangers....
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The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet! Wow. It’s really funny. If you have a blackberry and you try to change your font the sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” previews that font. I always thought that was so weird....
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In the UK-of-the-day spirit … Motherlode, a New York Times blog, reports today that a 70-year-old woman has given birth in India. It only mentions in passing that her husband is even older: 72. The real story, of course, is the 70-year-old woman’s record age, and whether or not it’s irresponsible for her to...
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There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru. See for yourself: http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Miscellaneous/
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The Heard of Elephants are not ones to follow the pack. Preferring to push the boundaries as they create, they created a collective that sees no boundaries. Located in Highland Park, California, you will not find them on any tourist map. At least not yet… In other words, if your artistic philosophy matches theirs...
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Useless knowledge of the day (UK of the day – catchy right?): The dot over the I is called the “tittle.” Okay…since it’s the first UK of the day i’ll give another one.. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Well then … Hollywoodlife.net reports that Kirsten Dunst has a stalker. So unfair. I’ve never had a stalker. Nobody’s every cared enough to stalk me. I’m as captivating and good looking as Kirsten Dunst, in my own way. Don’t get me wrong. I know stalkers can go overboard and do crazy things. And even...
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I’m probably in the minority here, but I was raised Mormon.  My mother has been Mormon her whole life, and my dad did convert for a time while they were courting and for some time after they got married.  He got fed up with the church before I was born, though, and for as...
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