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message 601: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments before I was a cropduster pilot who flew into a power line.


message 602: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Whew! That twenty-words-or-less rule is a tough one!


message 603: by [deleted user] (last edited Oct 24, 2013 05:18AM) (new)

[Lol! M!]

To choose or not to choose?


message 604: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Whether or not to be decisive is something I can’t make up my mind about.


message 605: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments My sister is the most indecisive person in our family.


message 606: by Ajay (new)

Ajay (ajay_n) | 1138 comments I am the sole owner of that trait in mine ;)


message 607: by [deleted user] (new)

Sole Proprietorship


message 608: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Leads to a loneliness that is exacerbated by the pretty pile of money that mocks us the meaning of purpose.


message 609: by [deleted user] (new)

Air Supply's "Lonely is the night, when I'm not with you. Lonely is the night, ain't no light shining through..."


message 610: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Through a glass darkly the light remained an outsider and after a time wondered at the meaning of darkness.


message 611: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments For now we see through a glass, darkly, but in Swedish we will see as in a mirror.


message 612: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments The wonder of a child looking through a kaleidoscope for the first time.


message 613: by C. J., Cool yet firm like ice (new)

C. J. Scurria (goodreadscomcj_scurria) | 4484 comments Ahh, how I wish to have innocence again!


message 614: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments But disillusionment was so hard to come by!


message 615: by [deleted user] (new)

The cook in the pantry was disillusioned.


message 616: by [deleted user] (new)

The cook has a black belt in cooking--one chop and you're dead.


message 617: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments He was hired at once to run a hospital cafeteria, to keep the census up.


message 618: by Christa VG (new)

Christa VG (christa-ronpaul2012) The paper work was one hot customer.


message 619: by [deleted user] (new)

...who just got out of the oven.


message 620: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments When he showed up late to pick her up for dinner and a movie, on his lapel the ghost of a perfume she didn’t wear, he had a feeling it wasn’t going to be the calm night Channel 12 had predicted.


message 621: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments His wife popped the Bobbit documentary into the DVD during supper, and he felt the ghost of a knife in a place no knife wants to be felt.


message 622: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments She grabbed the very last Hobbit: Extended Edition off the shelf, to the dismay of the mob standing behind her.


message 623: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Sometimes the temptation to turn the neighborhood dogs into Bilbo-like creatures was overwhelming, but she knew she had to stop. It was becoming a hobbit.


message 624: by Caitlan (new)

Caitlan (lionesserampant) | 2869 comments Laughing so hard I can't type.


message 625: by [deleted user] (new)

Watching Big Bang Theory's Season 6 bloopers


message 626: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments When Gloria wrote her memoirs, she titled the chapter recounting her teens and early twenties “The Big Bang.”


message 627: by [deleted user] (new)

Singing Gloria by Laura Branigan at the top of my lungs.


message 628: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments (Curious. That very song was in my mind.)


message 629: by [deleted user] (new)

It's my mother's favorite song :)


message 630: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments [[And one of my favourites, too.]]

Watching yet another cassette tape get eaten by the ghost in the machine.


message 631: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments The one I remember liking by Branigan was “Self Control.”


message 632: by [deleted user] (new)

[I like that song too]

To eat or not to eat the chocolates in the fridge.


message 633: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments That is not the real question.


message 634: by [deleted user] (new)

What makes the world go 'round?


message 635: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments The world moves on a woman's hips.


message 636: by [deleted user] (new)

I'm speechless O.O


message 637: by Guy (last edited Nov 15, 2013 01:09PM) (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments I wish being speechless was in my vocabulary so as to minimize sock-on-tongue syndrome.

[[ The Great Curve by David Byrne. ]]


message 638: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Guy wrote: “The world moves on a woman’s hips.”

Something quotable is difficult to follow.


message 639: by [deleted user] (new)

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."


message 640: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments It's not the size of a man's stick that is important, but how well he wields it.


message 641: by [deleted user] (new)

Size doesn't matter.


message 642: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments M: “Just leave the Beretta.”


message 643: by [deleted user] (new)

I really don't know how I could ever catch up with M and Guy.


message 644: by Guy (last edited Nov 19, 2013 09:48PM) (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments It is not a race to the finish, but one of a shared journey, in which no one is left behind, nor is there the need to catch up.


message 645: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments It was not at all the kind of journey for Skeeter, who, by nature, liked to be left behind to enjoy, in solitude, the things that really mattered and that went unnoticed by the incurious, imperceptive crowd.


message 646: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments On the day the sheep became aware of being a sheep the wool was removed from between his ears and the world metamorphosed.


message 647: by [deleted user] (new)

"Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full."


message 648: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments The little old hag couldn't help but bag her wool bags with the slags and mags from the village of Shearing.


message 649: by [deleted user] (new)

and they all lived happily ever after.


message 650: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments That they all lived happily ever after had largely to do with the fact that they lived far away from each other.


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