September 2011
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Poor Rich Boy
There are rich people and there are those who are poor. And although it’s easy to distinguish the two apart, it’s not true that they live in two separate worlds. There are no ‘separate worlds’, there is only people living with difficulties.
Trapped in different traps. Dealing with their difficulties the best they know how, with strength even in pain. A problem may be...
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Shared or Stolen?
jayarrarr:
Disclaimer: This post is for general information and is intended in no fucking way whatsoever to be legal advice, and should not be construed as such, ever, no matter how drunk you are. I am not your attorney. That would be weird. I will accentuate and reverberate the impact of this disclaimer by being funny and using words like fuck and shit a lot. Also, the following information is...
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One Of The Boys
It’s fun hanging with the guys when you’re not dainty enough for the girls. When you know they don’t see you as a girl, and you don’t have to prettify yourself or be on your best behaviour. And you can trash talk each other to hell and back and still be buddies.
But it sucks when the boys start acting like girls ( no offense), getting all sensitive about anything and...
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“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear...”
– Haruki Murakami (via slekes)
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“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting,...”
– Donald Miller (via slekes)
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“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
– Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (via bookville)
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The Book Xperience: Writers' habits series →
thebookexperience:
Salman Rushdie
“What I do for hours, every day of my life, is sit in a room by myself. When I stop for the day I always try to have some notion of where I want to pick up. If I’ve done that, then it’s a little easier to start because I know the first sentence or phrase. At least I know where in…
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Brain Food
Maltesers were created by Forrest Mars, Sr. in 1936, and originally known as “Energy Balls”. The current name is a portmanteau of the words “malt” (one of the main ingredients) and “teasers”. Despite the similarity in the name, Maltesers are not named after the European country of Malta or its people, the Maltese.
The current Maltesers’ slogan is...
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Brain Food
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
Forrest Mars, Sr., the founder of the Mars Company, got the idea for the confection in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting. Mars received a patent for...
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Brain Food
Hershey’s Kisses were introduced in 1907. A common myth is that the name comes from the “kissing” action by the machines used to make the candy. However, it is more likely an appropriation of a common industry term for a dab of chocolate.
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Brain Food
The oldest known lock was found by archeologists in the Khorsabad palace ruins near Nineveh. The lock was estimated to be 4,000 years old. It was a forerunner to a pin tumbler type of lock, and a common Egyptian lock for the time. This lock worked using a large wooden bolt to secure a door, which had a slot with several holes in its upper surface. The holes were filled with wooden pegs that...
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Pocketful of Miracles
Saw this movie last night and didn’t really know what to expect. It started off kinda boring and almost stopped watching it but good thing I didn’t! It had me laughing the rest of the way and I love the Cinderella ending.
Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from alcoholic street peddler Apple Annie (Bette Davis) which...
You should click this and buy my dad's book! You... →
laughingatmynightmare:
First of all, this young-adult/fiction chapter book can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It gives a unique and interesting insight into the world of a child with Muscular Dystrophy. I got my writing abilities from my dad, so if you like what I write, you will love this book.
Second, A PORTION OF EACH BOOK SOLD WILL BE DONATED TO THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION! I put...
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That painting's not so blue: From Lansdowne to St.... →
taketheatrain:
I hope it will make you smile
to know that I had the idea for this poem
over fifteen minutes ago
walking down St Clarens in the Fall sunshine
when I realised I had, for the first time in four years,
forgotten a notebook
and had to rush to the Bargain Club store
at Lansdowne and Bloor
to buy these $1 index cards.
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