Cliches

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• Death of a Cliche: Actually, There Really Are Bridges For Sale In England

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 541
  © Jimfbleak Finally, an answer to those red-faced salesmen and severe schoolteachers who kill conversations with leaden cliches about buying bridges. Turns out that not only can you purchase said architectural achievements in England, but the Swinford Toll Bridge is particularly nice and old. It’s not exactly ...
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 451
  Conditions on the ground were pretty dry.
  3 days ago

• Avoiding the Predictable

  
  A Christian Worldview of Fiction — Authority: 123
  From the brief amount of study I’ve done regarding the topic of derivative fiction, I’ve come to believe that the real error a writer should avoid in any genre is predictability. A dragon is not just a big snake, and a magic sword is not merely a very sharp piece of steel; at least, not unless an author fails ...
  4 days ago

• Do you use these jargon words and phrases?

  
  Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog — Authority: 466
  Today CIO advises CIOs who want to widen their influence to "cutthe jargon and stick to plain English as you seek to widen your -influence.Itll help you to be taken seriously in the boardroom too". It says: "Forget all that corporate speak - step up to the plate, post it throughthe letterbox. The best way for a ...
  6 days ago

• Bimbonic Australian Politics Note

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  As  you know, i very rarely into politics and certainly  not into Australian politics as it would surely bore the pants off those viewers from elsewhere. But today, I cannot resist and I thought some of you might like a forum to rave on about this morning’s political events. Please be nice and explain to peeps ...
  6 days ago

• Are Leos Really More Likely To Be Atheists???

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  Personally, I am a Pantheist but i’ve noted that loads of Leos are flamboyant atheists & i sometimes wonder (okay, usually wonder) if it’s because they think THEY are the deity. Seriously, the only celebrity Leo i’ve who does not seem to be an atheist is Madonna.  What do you think? Are Leos more likely ...
  1 week ago

• "The Definitive List of Clichéd Dialogue"

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 516
  Just about a month ago, I posted this : Writer Kevin Lehane, whose script "Grabbers" made the most recent Brit List , the UK equivalent of The Black List, has a blog called The Anthology of Codology . I was bumping around it the other day and hit this post: "The Definitive List of Cliched Dialogue" . The first ...
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• Are Aries Men The Most Macho Of All???

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  T his red “frictionator’ truck is apparently powered by an actual rocket. It is probably illegal in the parking lots of malls and the like but comes in v.handy for off-road desert truck racing and freaking out your neighbours so that they think twice before chucking a snail over the fence. It is also an ...
  1 week ago

• Interesting perspective…

  
  Mutantfrog Travelogue — Authority: 467
  From a half-Japanese consultant based in Kyrgyzstan : 「キルギス人と日本人は元々同じ民族であったが、魚が好きな人は東に行って日本人になり、肉の好きな人は西に言ってキルギス人になった。」と言う話をよく聞きます。 I often hear, “The Kyrgyz ...
  1 week ago

• For peaty sake! Men desert women in peat bogs

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 144
  Don’t expect a man to come to the rescue of his wife if she should fall ill in a peat bog: Thanks to Yahoo! Shine  for the Laugh o’ the Day. Posted in Cliches, Wrong words Tagged: bad cliche, bad cliches, cliche, cliche error, cliche errors, cliche mistake, cliche mistakes, Cliches, funny cliche, funny ...
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• Virgoans Of Fashion II

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  Fashion is FULL of Virgos. It really is. I think it’s because it allows them to delineate things non-stop. Think about it. Hemlines, detailing on handbags, subtle interpretations of trends, referencing and a bit of judgement… Carine Roitfeld, the French Vogue editor is fabulous. Whenever I read her in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virgoans Of Fashion Again

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  Karl Lagerfeld is uber-Virgo…& here he goes again…Talking to ID Magazine. “I hate people like me, but i make believe that I am not boring…” But your mind is alert all the time. “Because of that. You only have a head like a crystal ball if you are doing house cleaning all the time from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Orwell on Writing

  
  wordswimmer — Authority: 107
  Two classics of English literature–George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm–are familiar to most high school students, as well as college literature majors, but few readers seek out the pleasures to be found in the rest of Orwell’s oeuvre, which includes numerous short stories (“Shooting an Elephant” is one of ...
  2 weeks ago

• coming soon to hell tv

  
  ATLmalcontent — Authority: 135
  More proof that Jersey rednecks, along with sci-fi geeks, have taken over the popular culture. Note the classy pit stains at the 0:13 mark: Speaking of Purgatory, endure this preview of Satan’s latest, featuring man (does Seth Green count?) getting hit by (golf club) in groin:
  2 weeks ago

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon

  
  Ultra-Condensed Movies — Authority: 104
  [it is a DREAM MEADOW] Kristen Stewart: Ugh. This dream is lame. Is that my grandma over there? Wait a minute...its me! As an old lady! With my hot vampire boyfriend who will always be young and beautiful, so beautiful that I will never have the words to describe it because I am bad with words. R. Patts: Hey. ...
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• Astro-Party-Beast: Your Xmas Intentions

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 482
  Steven Meisel Okay so what are your Decadence Settings for this holiday season? Are any of you planning to go totally ape at some party?  Hide out at a health farm for the duration and emerge looking sensational in January whilst all your friends cower on their couches reading self-help books or yet to emerge ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Countdown to the Best Song of Alltime Continues

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 126
  This isn’t how we planned it – until the end of this past September, every day, we posted a new song from our Best 666 Songs of Alltime list , as a way to keep you in suspense (and to keep you coming back for more). Since then, while the site hasn’t exactly been idle (we promised you a new post every day, so by ...
  2 weeks ago

• ON THE PROWL AT LA’S COUGARCON

  
  Viceland Today — Authority: 143
  It seemed like a slam-dunk: Head over to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills with my girlfriend Molly, who’d act as my photographer for the night, to wallow in the sordid spectacle that was the Los Angeles Cougar Convention. Not only would I get a story out of it, but watching the cougars (women over 40 who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Don’t ever expect CostCola

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 434
  Who would ever think that a gigantic bulk store could be the underdog in a situation? Believe it. CostCo has decided to stop carrying Coca-Cola products at their stores. The reason why? Coke refuses to give them a larger discount for their products. Which, given the current economic climate, is pretty important to ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 Ways to Keep "Accountability" From Becoming a Buzzword in Your Organization:

  
  Maximize Possibility Blog — Authority: 116
  I have noticed an interesting trend over the past year or so. It would seem that more and more attention is being paid to holding others accountable for their actions. Maybe the recent financial meltdown, corporate scandals, and the general abuse of public trust are responsible for this trend. Perhaps organizations ...
  2 weeks ago

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