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i am really good at being shocking
but shockingly bad at just being
by maigen thomas (@Maigen)
topic: pop culture
1.23.12
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So I'm a girl, right?
Right.
As a female, there's a general understanding that we don't require pick up lines to meet men or get a date. The joke is something like all you have to do is say “Hi.” While this may be accurate to a very large degree, I wouldn't say this is totally true. Friends of mine say that's not the case at all, but some of those people have spent an evening with me at bars near Times Square during Fleet Week, shooting fish in a barrel. I mean, flirting with military boys on shore passes. Same thing.
But me? Well, I don't exactly have a problem meeting people. I never have. I'm fairly outgoing; I have no trouble striking up conversations with strangers, and I seem to have a personality that helps make other people laugh and feel comfortable pretty quickly. I like being social, telling stories and impressing people. Just saying "Hi" isn't really my style, though. It doesn't always reflect well on who I might actually be on the inside, but if I want attention, I'll get it.
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it’s hard to find a bad biscuit
by dirk cotton
topic: humor
1.20.12
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It’s hard to find a bad biscuit in Chapel Hill, though I’ll admit I’m not sure why anyone would try. I told my lifelong friend Terry this and he said, “You’re a very lucky man.”
Terry appreciates a good biscuit.
Cars line up in the late morning at Sunrise Biscuits, just down the hill from my house, to buy biscuit sandwiches with ham, or sausage or bacon. Northbound traffic backs up into the right lane while they await their turn at the drive-in window and they back up in the center turn lane when they come from the direction of downtown.
I’ve seen a number of minor accidents caused by people pulling out of Sunrise into traffic, and more when people try to turn left in front of oncoming traffic from the center turn lane after waiting impatiently for someone to let them pull in front of the northbound line of waiting cars. Still others occasionally rear-end the line of cars in the right turn lane when they don’t expect stopped traffic right there after a blind curve.
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facing a bump
vouchers offered by continental airlines are the real deal
by jeffrey d. walker
topic: general
1.18.12
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It’s one of those things that you fear when traveling by airplane. You’re headed through the terminal to your gate, and you’re looking at the screens. Departures… departures… check flight number…
On time is what it said when we got to Cleveland on December 28th, headed back from Christmas with my in-laws, me, my wife, and our 8 month old. And then...
”Ladies and Gentlemen waiting for service to Ithaca…”
The plane we were supposed to fly on was… I don’t know exactly. Not available; crashed; on fire; filled with snakes. I don’t know – the staff always seems to say things to try to keep you calm, like that you’ll be moving in “about half an hour” [See "30 Rock", Season 5, Episode 14: "Double-Edged Sword"]. The problem was that the plane they were going to replace our original plane with had 11 fewer seats, and that they were “looking” for 11 people to volunteer to take another flight since the first was full.
It was snowing. No one was volunteering. Worse, we had not been seated together as a family on the original flight, and Linus and my wife were seated in an “exit row”, where they could not be since he's and infant. All in all, the situation made me nervous.
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welcome to scuzzy iowa!
a guidebook for caucus attendees
by tracey l. kelley (@TraceyLKelley)
topic: news
12.28.11
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The piece intended to demonstrate how Iowans are grossly unqualified to crack champagne on the bow of the presidential cruise ship every four years known as the Iowa caucuses.
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