Category: life
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The Great Greedo Migration
“May the Fourth” is coming up, so here’s a couple of Star Wars history facts related to the movie scene this throw-back comic was based on: This scene was revised between the original and later releases, and not everyone agrees with how it was changed. (I’m on Team “Han Shot First”.) The actor in the…
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Fortunately
I mean, obviously. It’s the opposite of un-obviously.
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Who Wants To Be…A Scout?
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was such a stressful show to watch.
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Pollaxe
When your spouse is into etymology you pick up a lot of random stuff.
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Healing Potion
Thank goodness we were having all that bad weather while I was taking this medication, so I didn’t turn to ash.
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Calcium Deficit
All the times I found myself in the kitchen seriously considering if it would have been better to still be sick because then I could at least have as much [food containing calcium] as I wanted…
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Garbage Jenga
We really felt for the people working at the kid party venue who were waiting to clean the room and had to watch the garbage tower grow more and more unmanageable.
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You’re Scaring Him
I mean, once you have kids, you’ll wonder why you waited so long! (Even if only because you’ll imagine it would have been easier to handle when you were younger and more energetic in general.)
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Dead Ringers
Sadly, I did think that the basic plot of The Lord of the Rings was enough in the cultural zeitgeist that stopping someone over spoilers was a joke in itself. Then I remembered how many years it’s been since the movies came out.
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Persuasion 100
My kids have definitely figured out what kinds of things will motivate me.