Slimbolala

• OMGUT!

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  I feel that the existing batch of inter-slang acronyms—OMG (Oh My God), LOL (Laugh Out Loud), ROTFLMAO (Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off), AFAIK (As Far As I Know), etc.—has grown stale and inadequate (so late nineties), and I have therefore decided to create new ones. Henceforth, I [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:46pm EST
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• I seem ...

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  I seem to be in a musician-drawing mood. Perhaps we can view this as an inadvertent visual commentary on today's Saints-Redskins game: It ain't over until the (not) fat lady (with the towering coiffure) sings.' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:57pm EST
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• Day and Night

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  I played two "gigs" yesterday:
  A little before noon, just me and my acoustic guitar, for June's kindergarten class.* (The set list included Roger Miller's "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" and Huey Piano Smith's "Don't You Just Know It".**)
  A little before midnight, avec [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 7:56pm EST
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• Confusing License Plate

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  MRSPINEA lot depends on the gender of the driver. [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:14pm EST
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• Coin-ism: "Flustrated"

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  flus·trat·ed
  adj.flustered and frustrated
  I didn't make this one up. A co-worker was using it the other day to describe her state of agitation. (And apparently she's not the only one.) It seems to get it just about right.' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:07pm EST
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• Time for ...

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  Time for another round: name/deal? [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:04pm EST
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• Saints Fever

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  Our city has officially gone black and gold crazy. I'd like to see an analysis of regional cell communications: How many times has "who dat" been texted or shouted into phone in the last twenty-four hours?
  
  Who dat!' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:28pm EST
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• "Dig 'Em": ...

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  "Dig 'Em": Another example of our curious local custom car vernacular. (I like to joke that Sarah should get her Subaru tricked out in a similar manner. But what brand would be appropriate for a Subaru Forester? A preferred variety of quinoa?' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:47pm EST
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• "Turkey Lurkey." ...

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  "Turkey Lurkey." Yeah, I dunno. I generally feel compelled to draw some jokey little Thanksgiving doodle, and this is the best I could come up with this year. (You can't imagine the pressure!) Get it: he's a turkey; and he's lurking; hence, Turkey Lurkey.' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 7:31am EST
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• A Unified Theory of Sweet-and-Sour Cocktails

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  People often ask me, "Slim what's the meaning of life?" to which "I respond, I have no idea, but I will tell you my Unified Theory of Sweet-and-Sour Cocktails, which is almost as good and maybe even better." Are you ready? Behold the Grand Unified Ratio!
  2 part booze
  [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:33pm EST
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• Okay, so ...

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  Okay, so what's his deal? He's got a bit of a craggy detective à la Colombo thing going on, but then what the heck is he wearing? Is that some sort of pilgrim rain gear? (I drew it so presumably I ought to know, but [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:53am EST
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• The Funniest Cat Name I've Heard in a While

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  BumpyBecause he's blind... and he bumps into stuff. (Sorry, I thought it was funny. Does that make me evil?) [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:52am EST
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• Okay, what's ...

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  Okay, what's their deal? [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:08pm EST
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• [nt]

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:08pm EST
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• Clippity Cloppity

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  What technical, ethical, and legal obstacles must be overcome before we can shod our children horse-style? May I suggest that we resolve them promptly?*
  
  * Sadly, they don't exist, but if they did, I'd pay good money for the services of a shoe-nanny: Just come in the morning, convince [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:06pm EST
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• Why It's No Fun Playing "20 Questions" With a Platonic Idealist*

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  "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?"
  "None of the above."
  "What do you mean, 'None of the above'?"
  "I mean 'None of the above.'"
  "It's got to be one of the above. It's got to be something real."
  "It is real, and it's none of the above."
  "That's impossible."
  "It most certainly" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:30pm EST
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• Funeral tribute: ...

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  Funeral tribute: "MA DEAR" [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:22pm EST
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• The ...

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  The aftermath [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:41pm EST
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• Red sky ...

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  Red sky at night [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:28pm EST
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• Comic? Certainly. ...

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  Comic? Certainly. Ironic? I think not. (Are five-year-olds even capable of irony? I doubt it. I imagine in-depth ironological investigations would indicate that irony is a higher-order concept, the capacity for which doesn't develop until sometime around adolescence. But what do I know?)[...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:57pm EST
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• "In West Philadelphia Born and Raised..."

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  The other morning at breakfast, out of nowhere, June absentmindedly launched into a pitch-perfect correctly phrased and intoned recitation of the theme song from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air":
  "In West Philadelphia born and raised,
  On the playground was where I spent most of my days.
  Chillin' out, maxin'," [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:49pm EST
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• Les Brusiers, Circle Bar, Friday the 13th

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  So we're like, hey, Circle Bar, we're feeling kind of spooky, so can you give us some spooky shows, and they're like, okay, how about Halloween, and we're like, yeah, okay, that's pretty spooky, we'll take it, but have you got any other [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:38am EST
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• Hurrication

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  Hurricane warnings and school closures—huh. We're plenty to used to hurricanes or the threat of them disrupting the flow of daily life around here, but that's usually a summer/early fall kind of thing. Sure, Ida's been steadily marching across the Gulf for a couple of days now, giving us' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:07am EST
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• "To: Miss Toothfairy"

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  Ah, the minds of children: mysterious and endlessly entertaining. Louise recently lost a front tooth, and we put it in an envelope to go under her pillow. Louise decided to decorate the envelope—like such:
  
  
  The front of the envelope "To: Miss Toothfairy from: Louise" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:57pm EST
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• Sauer-Doubt

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  I was at the grocery store yesterday, and a bearded, ponytailed, middle-aged man in a fedora and vest stopped an employee to ask, "Is there such a thing as sauerkraut?" I wanted to interrupt and say two things:
  Yes! Yes there is! And it's the most wonderful food in' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:23pm EST
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• Our lovely ...

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  Our lovely Audubon Zoo resides in our lovely Audubon Park, and one of the curious consequences is that one can be traipsing around with kids on some mild Saturday, doing park-ish things, and can spot, over some unassuming fence, a wayward giraffe stealing [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:17pm EST
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• Eesh!

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  I woke up today with those terrible name puns from the closing credits of Car Talk—you know, "Russian chauffeur: Picov Andropov..., Head of Working Mother Support Group: Erasmus B. Dragon...,"* etc., etc.—running through my head on continuous loop. What the hell is that about?
  
  * Or whatever. Shouldn't' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:59am EST
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• Hog lot ...

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  Hog lot field, Poplar Branch Farm [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:28pm EDT
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• [nt]

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  Sheep [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
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• Happy concentric ...

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  Happy concentric circle shoe dance [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
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• [nt]

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  Streetcar [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
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• "Breathe... Breathe..."

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  A bunch of our friends just had babies,* and more than one used a doula. I'm inspired and have decided to hang up my shingle as a:
  dude·la
  n.
  A doula for dudes.I'll help freaked out newbie dads develop their personal birth plan and provide emotional and physical support [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
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• Return of Les Living Brusiers: Pumpkin Rock!

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  Les Brusiers return from the dead—or more precisely, from a lengthy hiatus (various life journeys: living, loving, learning, etc., etc.)—for an ultra-spooky* Halloween Spooktacular at the Circle Bar this Saturday. See you there.
  
  Pumpkin rock!
  
  * Well, as spooky as loose and [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
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• Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

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  Recently, on something-close-to-a-whim,* Sarah and I switched designated sides of the bed. And I don't mean like just for a few minutes or just for an evening. I mean like permanently. Like I used to be on the near side and she used to be on the far side, but' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
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• Cute smile ...

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  Cute smile and everything, but I swear they used a Bumpit on my child. (Warning: That link plays the genuine as-seen-on-TV incredibly irritating ad, so think twice if you're at work.)' [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
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• "Pads on Ice Cream"

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  I was playing with some musicians the other night, not earnest amateurs like myself, cobbling together scant scraps of knowledge into some elemental semblance of a musical construct, but genuine semi-professional and professional hepcat gigging musicians, the kind who travel places to play in front of large groups of people [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 7:56pm EDT
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• "ONE ...

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  "ONE WAY" [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 10:33pm EDT
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• I second ...

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  I second that emotion. [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
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• On the Goat Walk*

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  Today I saw a well dressed and by all appearances sane man walking a goat on a leash down Esplanade Ave.:
  
  
  
  The man was carrying some hay and what I took to be an industrial strength poop bag. The goat didn't seem particularly' [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 7:53pm EDT
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• [nt]

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  [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:40pm EDT
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• Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!

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  Returning from my school to my work today, without even trying, I practically ran into the Presidential motorcade. I work a stones throw from where they held today's town hall meeting, and when I found my usual route barricaded and thronged with police and onlookers, I detoured into the' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:14pm EDT
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• Wildflowers, Grayton ...

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  Wildflowers, Grayton Beach [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:20pm EDT
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• Beat-Dead-Horse-Boxing

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  It seems the girls have inherited my beatboxing tick (or "beat-dead-horse-boxing", if you prefer).* And when the three of us get going simultaneously (but not quite synchronously), sputtering and clicking beats of our own amateurish devising, let me tell you, Sarah just absolutely loves it. (Especially in the [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
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• Louise and ...

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  Louise and June, back from the beach [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
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• Vine[c]ar

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  Usually my car smells just fine (thank you very much), but periodically (once a week, let's say), I get in and it smells very strongly of vinegar. What's up with that?*
  
  * In the absence of an alternate explanation, I'm forced to assume that a lockpicking hobo is' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:51am EDT
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• Bob Dylan ...

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  Bob Dylan meets Eraserhead (meets Kid 'n Play)?' [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
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• Ironic Inventory

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  We've focused on ironic mustaches in great detail (and more recently touched on ironic eye wear), but these are just a few select genres in a broader pantheon of ironic accoutrements. Might I suggest that we assemble an Ironic Inventory, a comprehensive taxonomy of ironic accessorizing? (And we'll [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:54pm EDT
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• Tizzy Tuesday: A Vegetable By Any Other Name...

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  Those close to me know that if they want to send me into a logico-linguistic tizzy, they can just say:
  "Did you know a tomato is really a fruit, not a vegetable?"Let's proclaim this Tizzy Tuesday, get all righteous and indignant, and lay this half-truth (/half-falsehood) to rest once and [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 6:55pm EDT
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• Pines and ...

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  Pines and hands, Grayton Beach [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 8:51pm EDT
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• Wildflowers, Grayton ...

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  Wildflowers, Grayton Beach [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
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