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• Lil Wayne Has Hometown Farewell Show Before Jail

  
  Urban Music 2000 Blog - Music News, Celebrity News, & Gossip — Authority: 123
  Lil Wayne emerged as a top-selling musician known for his clever wordplay and risque lyrics, but like rappers before him, he’s staring down a year behind bars at the peak of his career. The artist returned to his hometown of New Orleans for a performance Monday on what he’s calling his farewell tour . ...
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• Entrepenurial Photographer has YOU in view

  
  Jacquie Phelan's Weblog — Authority: 116
  IMG_4852 Originally uploaded by mtguru This is me before the start of the Napa SingleSpeed World’s in 2008.  I think I’m takng a picture of mtguru.  It was my fourth world championship among the single cognoscenti, with each year’s outfit more stunning than the last. The tie, vest, shirt and jacket ...
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• Snow business

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  .... like show business! Yet more Christmas punsterism . Forgive me. A few weeks ago, the students of the University of Wisconsin at Madison took advantage of a heavy fall of snow to have a massive snowball fight. They were hoping to get into the Guinness Book of Records - but, as it was all a bit impromptu, no ...
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• Acne No More Review

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 140
  The eBook on Acne No More is the number 1 selling book in times past in the internet for a reason… Thousands of people of all ages have fully cleared them selves of there acne state and have accomplished clear skin naturally, w/o using drugs, or over the counter creams, just by using the step by step technique ...
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• Scary Santa

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  I watched Jeunet and Caros La cité des enfants perdus again the other day. Id forgotten that this was the opening sequence. It reminds us, helps us to understand that the whole Santa concept is deeply weird, and can be - really, perhaps, should be - deeply disturbing to young children. I was at a kids ...
  6 days ago

• The Christmas Card list

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  Hymer Trimming Arthur White Chris Mars Wee Viv Chris McR Di Wright Mayor Daseby Mary-Ann Bright Ant Mayall York Chris Mrs B. White Christmas punnery! There are doubtless many versions of this (although, oddly, I couldnt seem to dig any up on the Web). I think I first ...
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• Wednesday Wordplay: Benjamin Franklin’s fear of Santa

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 134
  Inspirational Quotes The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.             — Dee Hock Never criticize a ...
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• More Keats & Chapman

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  Some years ago, I ventured to make a few attempts to emulate the elaborate punmanship of the great Irish humourist Flann OBriens Keats & Chapman stories. This was my favourite of these efforts. Keats and Chapman, continuing their warm but occasionally fractious companionship into the 1930s, are ...
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• Finally....

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  After more than 7 years of enduring variously crappy Chinese Internet connections.... after 2 years or so of massive censorship interference and steadily disappearing web-based proxies.... after several months of gradually disintegrating functionality with Tor/Privoxy/Firefox.... finally , I have signed up ...
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• The apronym submission form is back

  
  Creative Output — Authority: 109
  About a dozen years ago, when the emails between my friend Tony McCoy O’Grady and I seemed too clever for the standard LOLs or ROFLs, we began to invent more interesting alternatives to these acronyms, such as LAUGHTER : Launched An Unexpected Guffaw Hearing This. Encore Requested. This soon expanded to acronyms on ...
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• Nose jobless

  
  Jacquie Phelan's Weblog — Authority: 116
  I dressed up in red, and pushed off to witness “Crank for The Bank”, a foodbank benefit ride/race hosted by Fairfax Cyclery and the Gestalt Haus. The driveway has a pronounced lip on it, and as I jounced down that two inch drop, my saddle gave up its forty year job. What I felt was a distinct sag all of a sudden. ...
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• Repartee

  
  The Idea-smithy — Authority: 114
  (Click to see the full idea-toon) Based on a true story! Okay, only a part of it…my words, that is. Mercifully the guy (unlike the cartoon dude) is smart enough to get the point and wise enough to guffaw. But for those specimens that are not and who guile you with their malintentions, here’s putting ...
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• My favourite pun

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  One of the regular items in the Irish Times humour column written by one of my great literary - and drinking - heroes, Flann OBrien , through the middle decades of the 20th century was his series of "Keats & Chapman" stories .  These were beautifully crafted little anecdotes which imagined the two ...
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• Adding Insult to Injury

  
  BuboBlog: a Baby-Daddy's View of San Francisco — Authority: 127
  Do you realize weve been misquoting Rodney King for the past 17 years? He said, "Can we all just get along." But somehow weve gotten it into our collective head that it was, "CANT we all just get along." (I learned this while doing research for my Lego Space Police post .) Wikipedia has a handy list of ...
  2 weeks ago

• A motto, or a name?

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  Continuing an occasional series of re-treads of highlights from the e-mail bulletins I used to assail my friends with in the first half of the Noughties….   this little bit of whimsy is from the early months of 2001.   One of my correspondents - cruelly recalling that in one of my past lives long ...
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• Wednesday Wordplay – Cher before Bette Davis

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 134
  Inspirational Quotes A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.             — Leon Tec, M.D. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.             — Cher The real power behind whatever success I have now was ...
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• On clues that reveal too much

  
  Crossword Unclued — Authority: 112
  Some time ago, this question came up on the Hindu crossword forum: Isnt there a limit to the length of the word that is given gratis in a clue? THC 9575 (M.Manna): Editor accepted strange way to be removed (9) E{STRANGE}D Sometimes we might get a, the or similar small components ...
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• WATCH!

  
  bjkeefe — Authority: 120
  The first one was my favorite: ( alt. video link ) Great tagline at the end, too. (h/t: twishtoo )
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• Go out and buy!

  
  Froogville — Authority: 433
  The other day,  this post  from blog-buddy JES put me in mind of a favourite tale I heard from my father many years ago, which I added in a comment (unfortunately, in a brain-dazed state, I added it to the wrong post ).  I think it bears repeating here.  I dont have that many fond memories of my dad, but ...
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• Actroid up for sale

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 465
  Whats an actroid? Its a wordplay on "android" and "actress", which ends up as a robotic actor. From next month onwards, Japanese office store Sogo & Seibu will accept pre-orders for Actroid life-sized, animatronic female robots. These wont be able to be mobile, as they are limited to sitting still and smiling ...
  2 weeks ago

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