Back in the 1930’s, William Lyon Phelps of Yale found the following sentence gleaming out of the pages of a freshman essay: “The girl tumbled down the stairs and lay prostitute at the bottom.” In the margin of the paper, Professor Phelps commented: “My dear sir, you must learn to distinguish between a fallen woman and one who has merely slipped.”
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Is it weird that it never occurred to me there might be female Storm Troopers? MissionThread
et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
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et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
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Thank goodness for the internet.
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It has often been said that if you have to explain a 
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Today, you get a bonus OBT because this is just too fantastic to keep to myself.
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What are YOU looking at?
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“Jean-Paul Sartre said “hell is other people”. It is not. Hell is this patio.”
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Shirley is completely lovable. I adore her slightly cranky way of telling a story, I am amused by how easily distracted she is, and I love her self awareness. I am in awe of the fact that she’s 100. Shirley needs to write a skincare blog. Continue reading
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. . . Probably because I’m hooting loudly at these fantastic animal comics, drawn by Simpsons illustrator, Liz Climo. 
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