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My new favorite passage of writing

comes from Burkhard Bilger’s “The Strongest Man in the World,” a piece about strongmen. He writes about the weird supplements these people take, like “Xtreme Shock” and “Mutant Pump”:
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The News from Sohh.com: Snoop Dogg Thinks Lady Gaga “Has A Snake Or Knife In Her Pussy”

For some reason I’ve been reading Sohh.com every day for probably six years. I thought it might be good to share with you some of the stories I’ve read
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MOVIE MADNESS: City Beneath the Sea

I’ve been feeling adrift lately, not sure why. Something to do with the seasons perhaps? Closer to the sea now…could that be it? Anyway! That’s why I decided to
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Having Internet issues – can anyone help out?

Woke up this  morning after a great sleep and was surprised/happy to come across an article on Hartford Courant’s website about me! The only problem is that I can’t
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Now taking your questions

Dear John, I have roughly one thousand eyes, and I need ALL of them – yep, ALL of them – to see anything. All of my eyes have to
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New Stampman review!

I moonlight as “Stampman,” something of a personality in the stamp world (don’t ask). I thought I’d post my latest stamp review here in an attempt to bridge the
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What I learned on my road trip

About seven minutes after I started my road trip to LA, I had to pull over because a big storm hit and I couldn’t see anything. That’s a picture
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Farewell, Nintendo Power

Wow. A few days ago, I wrote a post about video games that ended up going massively viral. At the top, I happened to put an image from a scan
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Food advertising techniques

I saw this ad in Wyoming.
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A mysterious sentence about horseshoe crabs

from The Crab That Crawled Out of the Past: When one first meets a live horseshoe crab, the animal seems almost as unbelievable as the legendary Loch Ness monster
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