Dan Poynter

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner Water Analysis

Overheard by proxy: inch

“Really I’ve always said, a 1/4 inch, an 1/8 inch, it all depends on the person.”

Dishes & Cookies

If you haven’t checked out my brother’s Airgunning blog, now is the time to check it out: his last post about teaching someone how to shoot was good, but his latest story from when he was in basic is a riot.

Guest of honor at a hemp party

No, it has nothing to do with smokin’ the reefer; the guest of honor at a hemp party is someone about to be hanged. And yes, the past tense for execution by hanging is hanged, not hung (hung is used for other forms of hang, like hanging your coat up or hanging out).

Brekky

slang for ‘breakfast.’

Frawgs

The following image is scanned from an old edition of The Virginian I picked up at 2nd Street Books in Osceola. I have no idea what is going on in the picture, as I haven’t yet read the book; I just picked it up because my friend Trampas was named after the character in the …

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Review: Igor

My patience for bad movies and even less-than-awesome movies is diminishing quickly. To that end, my reviews for bad movies will grow smaller also; it’s bad enough to lose 90-120 minutes of your life to a bad movie, but why give it the attention you would give a good movie when you really just want …

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These five words

The two Bon Jovi songs “I’ll Be There For You” and “Thank You For Loving Me” both have five-word titles, and both lyrics contain the phrase “these five words.”

Overheard: Crunchberry

“So I called my mom and I’m like, ‘I am going to choke to death on dry Crunchberry cereal and die alone in my apartment and nobody will know.’”

Timmy’s cough

Warning: this story is not for the squeamish. My friend Timmy was driving down the road. He was also just getting over a cold, and he had to cough. When he coughed, he coughed up some phlegm. While he would have normally just spat it out the window, he hesitated, as he had just washed his …

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