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The first Halloween after we moved to Chicago, we didn’t know whether to expect any trick-or-treaters. Our place was a third-floor walk-up.
Nothing happened, until finally the doorbell rang, “Trick or Treat!” and we buzzed them in.
Three young teen lads tromped up the stairs to our door, where we saw they were in normal street clothes, but looked like they’d been slimed (as they say in Ghostbusters).
I said, what are you guys supposed to be?
They looked at each other and said, “We’re a mess!”
They got all our candy.
(They told us they’d just been attacked by kids throwing eggs – ah, youth.)
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Hopes lie dead and buried.
Trains of thought derailed.
Trains of thought derailed.
Everything is ruined.
All good plans have failed.
Nothing turned out right.
Bill collectors pound the door.
My coffee cup is empty.
I guess I'll have some more.
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Steamboat Willie,
by Walt Disney,
invented twerking.
Steamboat Willie,
by Walt Disney,
invented twerking.
You can look it up.
Posted by: Dark Light, Day of Confusion
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I have to confess, I still don't know what intersectionality means.
And neither does my spell-checker.
In town, they replaced a 4-way stop with a roundabout. All intersectionality thereafter became tangential.
(I only retain enough HS Trigonometry to make obtuse jokes like that.)
Image from "Getting From Here to There" series in Daily Doodles, 2013. There is a larger version
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