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Couple arrested after calling 911 to report people, opossums in - wistv.com - Columbia, South Carolina (http://www.wistv.com/stor... http://whns.images.worldn... )
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"A man and woman were arrested Sunday morning after repeatedly calling 911 to report seeing people and opossums jumping out of their refrigerator and microwave at a house on Prince Street, according to investigative reports. Deputies said Brandon Terry and Casey Fowler gave them a mailbox number that didn’t exist, but deputies were able to track down the concerned couple at a home a few blocks away. Deputies immediately asked if the couple had taken any drugs." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
"Terry and Fowler said they had not. They did however have photos which they told deputies showed “worms coming out of the floor of their vehicle” and “midgets and other people camouflaged,” reports state. Deputies noted that the photos only showed a basketball goal and a tree but the couple argued that the people in the photos were camouflaged." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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California Has the Most Peaceful Bullfights on Earth | VICE | United States (http://www.vice.com/read/... https://vice-images.vice.... *:*&output-quality=)
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"Portuguese-style bullfighting is performed on horseback, and when all's said and done, the bull is just an excuse for the rider to show off his riding skills. The bulls leave the ring alive, although in traditional Portuguese fights, the cavaleiro wields several small spears and jabs the bull repeatedly in the back. But at the festa, the bullfighting was entirely "bloodless." Each bull that entered the ring left not only alive, but wholly uninjured. There were no spears; instead, the bulls were adorned with a small cloth on their back, onto which Velcro "spears" could be attached, and the object of the performance was to wrangle them, not to stab them. " - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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I'm Tired of Pretending Figure Skating Isn't the Best Sport Ever (But It Needs Help) | Joseph Erbentraut (http://www.huffingtonpost... http://i.huffpost.com/gen... )
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"All things considered, figure skating is the original reality show. And that's enough to let the sport, in many ways, speak for itself. It doesn't need an in-arena DJ spinning pop and hip-hop all weekend long during breaks and between performances. It doesn't need an in-arena host leading awkward trivia contests with fans. Just let the skaters skate -- and find a way to make it easier for interested viewers to find it on television. Only one hour of the event was broadcast on its network partner, NBC, over the weekend. This is insufficient exposure to build an audience." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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"At Skate America, the musical selections for the men's final were almost entirely dreary, ranging mostly from dirge-y movie soundtracks like The Piano and The Mission to tinkly, piano or string-heavy ballads. The uniformly dreary music created a low-energy vibe in the arena and, had it been on television, likely would have turned away viewers. Many of the musical selections among the ice dancers were similarly lacking in excitement, but more unexpected, energetic and diverse music choices could make a huge impact. (I heard enough Il Divo this weekend to last a lifetime.)" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Viral, 89-year-old standup is a joke thief: All Chuck Esterly’s jokes are stolen. (http://www.slate.com/blog... http://www.slate.com/cont... )
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"Amid all this praise, there’s one fact that not one of these sites has noted: Nearly every single one of Esterly’s jokes is stolen. In fact, some sites, like Splitsider, have even praised Esterly for sharing his “life experiences with the rest of us.” At first I thought just one or two sounded familiar, but when I started typing them systematically into Google, I found that nearly every joke had appeared elsewhere before—many of them verbatim. Here is a partial list of Esterly’s jokes as he has told them, and as they’ve been told before." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
Is it really joke theft if most of these are so old that comedians no longer use them? I understand the principle, but he's 89 years old performing at a community senior center. He had good delivery. Leave it at that. - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Won’t Someone Save this Scandalously Forgotten Chateau? | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... http://static.messynessyc... )
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"With every passing day, the Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers falls further into ruin; another stone becomes dislodged by strangling vines, what remains of the roof sinks a little lower. Nature is winning. She’s a sleeping beauty situated in the midst of a large wood, surrounded by a medieval moat in the town of Les Trois-Moutiers in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. There’s something distinctly magical about it, not its size or grandeur, because there are bigger and bolder chateau designs out there, but this place has that ability to inspire a thousand stories, to feed the imagination and ignite the flames of an inexplicable nostalgia…" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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Sleepy Hollow Has Three Strong Showings in the World’s Most Painful Date Contest (http://io9.com/sleepy-hol... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )
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"Jewelry literally growing on the tree for absolutely no reason other than to give Shannyn Sossamon a little stage business while she waits around for the Soucouyant to report back? Yeah, go ahead. Etsy listings of the damned." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
"And though we can admit that waiting a third of a season for her to vanish into the vine without a word was not helpful for anyone who hopes to get a sense of the larger arc—episode recappers, for example—it’s not like the explanation was likely to help. She murmured to a pond for six episodes and then peaced. What is that, if not a metaphor for life itself? (No, really, what is that, did this season just pinch-hit its first arc in the writers’ room to give them something to hang plots on while they cleaned house? Because they didn’t NOT do that.)" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Bitchslap: Column 61: Fifty Bullets In Your Head. (http://www.mcsweeneys.net... )
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" Last spring the Texas Legislature passed a Campus Carry law that will allow concealed handguns in classrooms, offices, and dormitories at the university where I work. This law will go into effect on August 1, 2016, which is — I am not shitting you; look it up — the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Whitman’s murder of 14 people on our campus. The building I work in every day still bears bullet holes from Whitman’s rifle. Which is why last month I found myself standing with faculty, staff, and students on the steps of the University of Texas Tower, the building where Whitman, first in a long, inglorious line of campus shooters, killed and died. We took turns speaking about the chilling effect of guns on free speech and safety. As befits those who work at an institution of higher education, we cited data to support our claims. We spoke to a large crowd of sympathetic listeners, plus a few counter-protestors, including a few students with signs that said things like, “Demand self defense on campus,” and “Campus carry saves lives.”" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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"On the contrary: guns make everyone around them less safe, especially women. As Dr. Deborah Azrael at the Harvard School of Public Health puts it, “What we know is where there are more guns, more women die. That’s just incontrovertibly true." Guns dramatically increase the rate of death by suicide and accident, and the evidence suggests they significantly increase violent assault. For example, a 2014 study by researchers at Stanford and Johns Hopkins universities found that Right To Carry laws increase the rate of aggravated assault anywhere from eight to 33%, and also increase the rates of rape and robbery. The exact rate isn’t clear, the authors note, because the gun lobby has worked so tirelessly to thwart researchers’ access to relevant data. NRA pressure has induced Congressional Republicans to defund the Centers for Disease Control’s firearms injury research center, and to forbid any injury research that could be used, even potentially, by anyone, to promote gun control. And let’s not even get into the harassment and threats that are a matter of course for researchers studying gun violence. “Bang, bang, you’re dead,” is the gun lover’s response to every threat — even the threat of accurate information." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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The Quivering Pen: My First Time: Lincoln Michel (http://www.davidabramsboo... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/... )
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"It would be nice here to craft a story of how those first publications inspired me to new heights of creativity, or else imparted an unrealistic idea of success that sent me into the artistic wilderness for years that I came out of with important life lessons to give you now. Yet nothing very interesting happened. I didn’t print out the acceptances, wrap them around a brick, and toss them through the window of the writing teachers who doubted me. I didn’t go on a two-month soul searching journey to another country. I didn’t get wasted and kick down the front door of The New Yorker’s offices, shouting “I have arrived!” Here’s what I did do: I kept working. And I made submitting a job." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
"I didn’t make writing a job. Probably to my detriment, I still think of writing as a magical art that thrives on inspiration, new ideas, and trying out different styles and constraints. So I kept writing with no particular direction except what I enjoyed and what challenged me. But submitting? I made that a rigid routine. I read and studied lit mags. I figured out which were the ones I liked and wanted to be published in, and then I submitted to all of them. When I got a rejection, I waited a couple weeks and sent a new story. I stole office supplies to mail submissions with. I bought a notebook and drew columns for each story, and watched the accumulation of crossed out names. When a story was accepted, I highlighted the accepting journal and made a new column. If a story never got accepted, I revised it. If I couldn’t figure out how to revise it, I scratched up the column and moved on. I didn’t carpet-bomb magazines—sending the same story to thirty places at once—but instead tried to have a story out at no more than three to eight places at once. Years passed. Acceptances accumulated and solicitations started to trickle in. " - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Halloween party ends in exorcism for 12 students - Taipei Times (http://www.taipeitimes.co... )
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"After hosting a haunted-house party for Halloween on Thursday, a dozen students from Tainan’s Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science experienced acute discomfort that some attributed to possession by malicious spirits, and the students were subsequently rushed to a nearby temple to undergo a mass exorcism. In response to speculation on social media, Chia Nan University secretary-general Wan Meng-wei (萬孟瑋) on Saturday said that the afflicted students were members of the Chia Nan University Student Association who were working as staff at the haunted-house party, and no other participant at the event reported any symptoms." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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"University officials said that while the school at the time decided to respect the decision of the students to seek help from the temple, it would review its procedures and put policies intplace to deal with future medical emergencies. Chimei Medical Center Department of Psychiatry doctor Kao Pei-hsin (高霈馨) said “cramming excessive numbers of people into a closed space with poor ventilation might induce panic attacks.”" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Reductress » Moisturizing Techniques That Might Finally Convince Your Jerk Cat To Sit On Your Lap (http://reductress.com/pos... http://reductress.com/wp-... )
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"Exfoliate before lotioning up. A weekly exfoliation will remove dull particles from your epidermis and buff your skin back into good condition. Removal of dirt, oil buildup, and dead cells will leave your skin feeling baby soft, and make your legs look like an enticing place for your heartless cat to finally spend some fucking time." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
"A steam-filled room after your shower will help to settle the moisturizing product into your skin while your pores are still open, and your cat may enjoy the warm room and may attempt to join you. Moist skin is more receptive to emollients than dry skin, just like a different cat is more receptive to touch than your own cat. This practice should provide faster results for you and your relationship with your cold-hearted dipshit of a pet." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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The Chinese Village of Long-Haired Rapunzels | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... )
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"For the Yao minority of ethnic women, hair is their most prized possession. The ancient settlement is known across China as the “Long Hair Village” and is even recognised by the Guinness world book of records as the “world’s longest hair village”. They grow their jet black hair up to 2.1 meters (6.8 feet) long, and manage to keep it looking strong and healthy (and free of greys) well into their old age. Their secret? They wash with fermented rice water. You know, that milky-colored liquid left over from rinsing or boiling rice. It’s been the secret to beautiful hair for these village women as well as imperial princesses in the East since ancient times." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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The Text - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/w... )
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"Inspired by the dance films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Text is a short dance film that explores the medium and influence of this process of capturing dance." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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There's a better explanation of the process here: http://www.danceinforma.c... "The framing, photography and editing – both sound and picture – of the dance was done exactly as would have been in a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance. The technical execution of the photography is more an homage to Fred Astaire than the dancing itself." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Toddler bites, kills poisonous snake he found in his backyard | Fox News Latino (http://latino.foxnews.com... https://pbs.twimg.com/med... )
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"Doctors determined Lorenzo had apparently bitten the venomous snake and killed it. The boy had blood in his mouth and on his hands, and acted as if the snake was one of his toys, refusing to release the animal, Ferreira said, adding that she needed help from her husband to force the child to open his mouth. " - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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I was just thinking they needed to rename him, or give him the middle name, Hercules. - Jennifer D. - - (Edit | Remove)
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Dining with Alligators | Messy Nessy Chic (http://www.messynessychic... http://static.messynessyc... )
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"The strangest thing about this terrible tourist attraction, is that I couldn’t find a single newspaper clipping or record of an incident involving a visitor being bitten by a crocodile. For almost half a century, more than 1,000 exotic gators were the snap-happy neighbours of a tight-knit community in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. A major tourist attraction from 1907 to 1953, Alligator Farm amassed a small fortune for its owners, Francis Earnest, a one-time mining camp cook, and his partner “Alligator” Joe Campbell. This is a real photograph of some young ladies dining in a pond of swarming alligators at feeding time." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
"The farm offered such attractions as watching the alligators being fed with live chickens, perform tricks and wrestle with humans. And as you can see, you could ride a saddled alligator around the park. The gift shop hawked a wide selection of products made with alligator skin, including shoes, luggage and wallets. For the residents of Lincoln Park during the alligator farm’s heyday, it wasn’t just the nocturnal bellowing of the reptiles that became a nuisance. When rain flooded the nearby reservoir, which it frequently did, the water overflowed into the farm giving the alligators the chance to make repeated forays into neighbourhood canals, backyards and occasionally swimming pools." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Balancing Act: The Modern Revival of Slave Dances - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... )
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"The Juba dance, or hambone, originated in West Africa and made its way onto American plantations—and since slave owners banned drums out of fear of secret communication, those who were enslaved used their own bodies to create rhythm. Later in the 19th century, public performances of this dance were used in minstrel shows that depicted racist African American stereotypes in the world of plantation slavery. For generations, these remained the typical portrayals of African Americans in entertainment. This short documentary, Balancing Act, by Catharine Axley and Kristine Stolakis tells the story of Demarcello Funes, a young circus performer who teaches these dances to kids in the Prescott Clown Troupe, an after-school and summer program in West Oakland. It's a reclamation of an exploited tradition, providing valuable teaching moments. "You forget about history, you have to know where you come from," he says. "It was a negative part of African American history that I had to know in order to appreciate performing and being in the circus."" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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Watch: World's largest cat painting features 42 felines - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... https://scontent-dfw1-1.c... )
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"Polly Sartori, head of 19th century European paintings for Sotheby's in New York, said Kahler had traveled to the West Coast of the United States in 1881 and he encountered art collector Kate Johnson in San Francisco. "He was invited to her cat ranch. Now, Mrs. Johnson actually was very wealthy. She was a millionaire and she had this giant mansion. Some newspapers report that she had 350 [cats]. So Carl Kahler meets Mrs. Johnson at the ranch, at the mansion, and she asks him if he would paint a portrait of her cats," Sartori told CBC News. "So, for three years he spends time with the cats in the mansion doing sketches. And then in and around 1893, he does their portrait. He takes all of the sketches and he puts together this monumental-sized giant painting of 42 of her cats."" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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National Geographic's Photo Of The Day: Something's Fishy - Socks On An Octopus (http://socksonanoctopus.c... http://cdn.socksonanoctop... )
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"Researcher Ian McAllister used an underwater housing to get this intimate portrait of a wolf wading through the intertidal zone on the British Columbia coast in Canada. This wolf took a break from eating herring roe to investigate the photographer’s half-submerged camera." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Hahaha yeah, the website name is weird. - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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"Remember You're Not Dead Yet": Reverse Memento Mori - The Toast (http://the-toast.net/2015... http://17rg073sukbm1lmjk9... )
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"YOU SHOW THAT SKULL WHO’S BOSS, LADY. Guess who’s not a skull yet? YOU." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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'Unreal' photo of goat lounging against police cruiser goes viral - AOL (http://www.aol.com/articl... https://scontent-dfw1-1.x... )
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"On Monday night, officers in Granby, MA were summoned to West Street after receiving a report of a goat on the loose. During their search efforts, the goat found the police officers instead. According to the officers who found - or were found by - the lively goat, the animal approached their police cruiser and began licking the driver's window. The goat continued to stand on his hind legs and lick the cruiser window until his owner arrived to collect him." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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Michelle Dorrance Receives 'Genius Grant' (http://www.danceinforma.c... http://www.danceinforma.c... )
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"In late September, it was announced that tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance was one of the recipients of the “genius grant”. This honor, more formally known as the MacArthur Fellows Program, was bestowed upon 24 people, of all different fields, who all demonstrate creative potential. Dorrance was recognized for her innovative style of melding the traditional tap dance form with the choreographic intricacies and storytelling aspect of contemporary dance. Dorrance and each of the recipients are given $625,000 over five years to spend however he/she chooses! We had the honor of speaking with Dorrance, who is also a Capezio Athlete and just a wonderful ambassador for the tap community in general. She greets this tremendous award with such humility, and we look forward to seeing where she will go next!" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
"What advice do you have for other aspiring tap dancers out there? “Learn your history. Everyone alive on this planet who calls themselves a tap dancer should also be able to call themselves a tap historian. We stand on the backs of so many dancers who survived slavery, institutionalized racism and more, to create and innovate the form, only to barely be recognized. We are where we are now because of them, and we are nothing without them. With the terrifying shootings that are present in our culture right now, it is ever more crucial to be educated about the hard truths and history in this country and culture, and it is inspiring to be a part of an art form that finds its way through that history of hardship to express so much joy.”" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Gaudí's Barcelona Basilica, La Sagrada Família, Reaches Its Final Stage of Construction - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.co... http://cdn.theatlantic.co... )
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"52 years after Lawrence’s piece appeared in The Atlantic and 132 years after construction began in 1883, the magnificent Sagrada Família has reached its final stage of construction. According to the current chief architect, Jordi Fauli, six more towers will be added to the basilica by 2026, bringing the grand total to 18, each of which is dedicated to a different religious figure. The building’s completion is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the architect’s death, although adding the final decorative elements could take another four to six years after the towers are erected. When it’s finished, the basilica will be the tallest religious building in Europe, standing at 564 feet." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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Bookstores give away books for Halloween: Kansas man looks to start tradition - The Paris Beacon-News: Feature Stories (http://www.parisbeacon.co... http://bloximages.chicago... )
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"“It was just a really nice thing to do,” Judd said of how the Halloween book giveaway started. “In Chicago, our bookstore was down the street from the Projects, like a mile away, and kids would come down trick-or-treating, and I thought, ‘You know, why don’t we give away some books?’” Though Judd was worried that this would be a “terrible” idea, he was surprised to see the children become excited and happy with getting the chance to have their own book. “Children would come in, and when you told them, ‘Oh, you can have a book,’ their eyes lit up,” Judd said. “They said, ‘Thank you,’ afterward, and some of those kids had never owned a book.”" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Four Horsemen of Gentrification. (http://www.mcsweeneys.net... )
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"Then I saw when the Landlord broke one of the rent-controlled seals. I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Gentrify.” I looked, and behold, a green horse, and he who sat on it had a mason jar; and a fedora was his crown, and he went out pickling and to pickle. — Millennials 6:1, New Standard Greenpoint Bible (NSGB)" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)

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Hoichi No-Ears Solos for Ghosts | Myths RETOLD (http://bettermyths.com/ho... http://bettermyths.com/wp... )
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"So the Samurai is like “I represent a very wealthy very SECRET lord who would like very much to hear you play your biwa and sing about shit come with me right now or I will murder you and no one will care” and Hochi is like “Well shit, I guess I’m being kidnapped but at least I’m being kidnapped to a party” so he lets this mysterious asshole take his hand and drag him away." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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Okay, so now I've read the Myths Retold page and it's not really the same story. :-) But now I'm going to have to read the rest of the website, dammit. - bentley - - (Edit | Remove)
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Linguistic Anarchy! It's all Pun and Games Until Somebody Loses a Sign | JSTOR Daily (http://daily.jstor.org/li... http://daily.jstor.org/wp... )
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"Despite puns being found virtually everywhere, and not just in the English language, the socially acceptable response still seems to be overwhelmingly negative or at best ambivalent. Long-suffering sighs and side-eyes are not an uncommon response, even when there’s begrudging admiration, as suckers for punishment go amusingly viral or shamelessly organize events, such as Punderdome, that revolve entirely around the much derided wordplay. The fact is, quite a lot of ordinary people enjoy puns. So why is the pun looked down upon? Is its reputation as an inferior form of wordplay really deserved?" - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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a very enjoyable article - maitani - - (Edit | Remove)
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Vanessa Helsing TV Series Coming to Syfy. Get It? Get IT?! (http://io9.com/vanessa-he... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )
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"In this new interpretation, the central character is now a female, Vanessa Helsing, the next in a lineage of warriors who must lead mankind against a world controlled by vampires. When Vanessa is resurrected five years in the future, she learns vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is essentially humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost." - JustDuckie - - (Edit | Remove)
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I liked Van Helsing for what it was, and as a "B" movie with a better budget, it did not disappoint. I would give this a go, honestly. - Jennifer D. - - (Edit | Remove)
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