January 2012
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You can haz grammar: COULD vs WOULD
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Someone requested this a couple days ago, so I’m obliging. But the real issue here is essentially CAN vs WILL because, though also used as present tense auxiliary verbs, COULD and WOULD are their past tense forms.
Most people mix this up through polite questions like,
“WOULD you go to the store for me?” “COULD you make me a sandwich?”
But the difference here is actually really...
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10 Reasons The U.S. Is No Longer 'The Land Of The... →
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Assassination of U.S. citizens
President Obama has claimed, as President George W. Bush did before him, the right to order the killing of any citizen considered a terrorist or an abettor of terrorism. Last year, he approved the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaqi and another citizen under this claimed inherent authority. Last month, administration officials...
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Lincoln-Kennedy assassinations coincidences:
1. Both had seven letters in their last names.
2. Both were shot in the head on a Friday seated beside their wives.
3. Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln Limo, which was made by Ford.
4. Lincoln was in Box 7 at Ford’s Theatre, and Kennedy was in Car 7 of the Dallas motorcade.
5. Both assassins had three names with 15 letters (John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey...
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Two republicans discussing who they are going to...
Bob: So... who do you like for this thing?
Fred: I have to like one of them?
Bob: Well who are you voting for?
Fred: I've been closing my eyes and leaving the choice to God.
Bob: I did that for a while, but God kept voting for Jon Huntsman.
Fred: Who the hell is that?
Bob: No idea.
Fred: I guess the best thing we can do is go through all the candidates and figure out which one would make the best President.
Bob: Okay, Newt Gingrich.
Fred: His head is too big.
Bob: Michele Bachmann.
Fred: I met her husband at a rally.... he cupped my testicles.
Bob: Rick Santorum.
Fred: I don't know much about him. Whenever I try to google his name, the safety software I use to keep my son from looking at porn shuts down the computer.
Bob: Ron Paul.
Fred: I don't trust people with two first names. Plus I'm uncomfortable with how many vaginas he's seen.
Bob: Rick Perry?
Fred: He reminds me of John Wayne if he had terrible brain damage.
Bob: Mitt Romney.
Fred: Ugh. I guess.
December 2011
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Things Much Worse Than Same-Sex Marriage That Are... →
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WatchGodfrey Bloom on debt crisis.
Someone has finally said that.
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“Społeczny gniew nie wybucha wtedy, gdy wszyscy równo klepią biedę. Gniew pojawia...”
– Rozwarstwienie ekonomiczne, czyli tykająca bomba
WIDMO KRĄŻY PO ŚWIECIE, Edwin Bendyk
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November 2011
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Cherokee Legend
davidup:
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youths’ rite of Passage?
His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him an leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold Until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.
He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys...
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October 2011
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Collective Nouns
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Even though I’ve long been familiar with expressions like a pack of wolves, a murder of crows and a pride of lions I never realized just how many of these there were until now. Here’s a selection, with many more at the link:
A congregation of alligators A shrewdness of apes A cloud of bats A…
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10 random facts about US Presidents
(MY PERSONAL FAVOURITE) After President Bush Sr. vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister, a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit.
Grover Cleveland was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring the trap at a ...