Category: stuff

Halloween Hangover

n. That miserable feeling you have November 1 from eating too much candy the night before.

Staycation

n., a vacation during which you just stay home, either by choice or dictated by finances. Speaking of which, I’m on it for the next two weeks! See ya.

Slutoween

n. A word coined to describe the recent trend in women’s and girls’ Halloween costumes to be increasingly immodest and/or trashy.

Bunto

So I learned another word in my sleep. Quite some time ago I posted how I had learned a word in my sleep–pickle-faced–and it was a word I hadn’t ever heard until my dream. Two nights ago it happened again. In my dream the word wasn’t explained. “I killed three buntos,” the guy said. When …

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Personal question

Last week when we were at the store picking up a couple of things, a clerk named Rachel had helped us. She is in high school. When Heather went back a couple days ago, Rachel was working again. “Can I ask you a personal question?” she asked Heather as she rung he up. “Suuurrrre,” said …

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Movies better than their books

People usually say that books are always better than the movies made from them. I can think of a few exceptions, whose movies are markedly better than their source material. I don’t intend to provide any justification for my view; it’s just a list: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, based on Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by …

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So you want a Jeep

My wife had wanted a Jeep ever since she was a kid (probably from watching too much Dukes of Hazzard and MacGyver). Anyway, the 20-year wait was recently over and we picked her up a 1988 Wrangler after my awesome Mazda finally bit the dust just shy of 350,000 miles. First, a Jeep Wrangler is …

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“There’s a guy outside…

Church was over and Tim came and got me and Rob. “There’s a guy outside and he says he wants to talk to a ‘church leader.’” Rob and I look at each other and go outside. The guy is tall and thick-built, middle-aged. He has a medium-sized brown and white dog. “I drove out here …

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Bad Computer

Found on a PC I went to fix:

Bamboo forest

I found and took a screenshot of this when I was searching for images of bamboo.