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“The world’s finest obituary”

has been found by Billy Kimball: The 11th Earl of Coventry, who has died aged 68, succeeded to the title at the age of six after his father was
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My mother in days of yore

  I just cain’t get over that car in first one, or that dogs used to look like that.
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Hobo Jack

A Hobo Day By Oklahoma Red Drifting around from town to town after traveling east for a few days I crossed the road to restart the adventure perhaps I
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An audiobook’s introduction

This is the opening of the “Life on the Mississippi” CD I just put in: Life on the Mississippi. Written by Mark Twain. Read by Michael Prichard. Introductory details
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The term “studied nonchalance”

must have been created by someone watching that kind of “commuting” skateboarder. The ones who push themselves on down the actual road in traffic. Is it legal to do
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A glimpse into the way paleontologists see themselves

I’m listening to some Teaching Company lectures (I guess they’re called The Great Courses now, but I don’t like that) called “Major Transitions in Evolution.” The lecturer is a
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BREAKING

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The beginning of an Amazon review of paper

I can’t say that this paper will get you the job, but…
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God, it would be hell to be French

I don’t know if life would be for me if it took that long to say cord protector, one of my favorite words.
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