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“We knew there were no weapons of mass destruction over there; but Coretta knew there were weapons of misdirection right down here.” Joseph Lowery at Coretta King’s funeral. Wow, nice work. Bush was *in* the audience. Guess he doesn’t hear that directly too often and…
Apostrophes
Aaaaargh. I can’t bear it any longer. I have just read about three posts from well educated friends using apostrophes in plurals. Please, please, please read back over what you’ve written and think about it: is the apostrophe in place of something? (don’t=do not,…
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Snake charmer
Today was a hoot. Not only did I get to trek out to Lysterfield to pick up the lion for Dad, but seedy_girl and thorfinn and I went for lunch in the Dandenongs and drove around the mountain tourist drives in the lovely sunshine and then checked out a property for sale…
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Now, this is fascinating…
Lifted from insomnius, because I’ve been very lazy and not working on Wikipedia/Wikinews recently, so I was unaware of this: I’m sure you’ll see this splattered all over your internet, but I think it’s hilarious that the block of IP addresses used by US Congress has…
Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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