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Of course none of this applies to text-speak, which is clear and unambiguous at all times.

The fiction was that I had anything worth flashing.

GOP?

You can polish Poles, poles, and polls, but I'm not sure if there is actually a Polish polishing method.

This thread seems to have whethered on the vine. (Deliberate) I absolutely loved one, as it made me laugh so hard. The others, although good, don't tickle my fancy, and truly, this project is going to become a bit of a joke (parody of a serious story) and it should end with a terrific humorous line. I vote for "He smiled through the pancake batter dripping down his face. It was the most gratifying moment thus far in his short life."

I'm not entirely sure if you meant they first rub the sides of their noses with their forefingers and then with another leprechaun's nose or their forefingers.

Don't you just hate it when you have a clever line or plot and can't build a story to deliver it? It reminds me of that old joke, "and now for the sports scores" followed by only the scores and none of the team names. The ultimate in being out of context.

They are all good, but one stands out to me, and obviously to others, #7. A story is like a vacation, the best ones are adventures en route to your destination, and the worst are boring meanderings getting you nowhere at all. I do feel the one about reducing the number of characters a bit 'off' for writing, as I feel that one is more script oriented for movie stories.

He does, and he also has a live-in resource to consult.

You probably mean exchange.

Er, today

Damn. I've just spent 90 minutes of sleep time looking at 11 pages of funny photos. Damn you all! I'll be my own zombie tomorrow.

Oh swell, I'm totally thick, I hardly even saw that coming.

In Canada we also do Black Friday…when are American retailers going to jump on the Boxing Day bandwagon (day after Xmas)?

It's one judge's gift and will only last till the appeals start, if it goes the same way as so many other states. Sadly, the will to discriminate remains, even if it's not legal...

Religious intolerance will never fade away. It might be redirected onto some other victim group, but that's about it.

If you want a truly funny joke, at least to me, here is one. And this really is true. Whenever a letter is returned unopened to the post office it requires an official 'return to sender' endorsement which is supposed to give the reason for return. Options available are refused, moved address unknown, deceased, forwarding expired, and no such address. Several times per week, for a couple of years, we were at a loss as to how to endorse it when mail for patients was returned to us by the local hospital. The reason for that was a wit in their mailroom was sending it back to us with inked comments like "checked out, no longer with us, moved on, gone to a better place".

Yes, very amusing…Bart (former postal worker) BTW, none of us would have opened the first letter since it's against the law. And yes, I do know it was a joke.

She doesn't listen to me anyway. She did make me pay though. I was forced out of bed six times between 1:00 a.m. and 6:30 due to her revenge tactics...

Truly wonderful. I couldn't stop reading (my cat is really annoyed now).

The words 'handicapped' and 'challenged' probably more accurately deal with people with impairments of some sort. One might be justified in saying that I am hetero-sexually challenged as opposed to disabled. I suspect the descriptive word boxes we accept or choose about ourselves has much more to do with how much we wish to fit in with others than with the representative accuracy of the words themselves.

This stupidity is very much political correctness that's gone too far, sort of like banning Xmas trees in public places just in case others are offended, while the vast majority of those same 'others' are offended that they cannot see the pretty trees as well as the implication that they are so vulnerable and fragile that they need protection.

Des, your Ken is obviously totally self absorbed.

A pox on all writers, I say. They are nothing but trouble for hardworking cleaning crews. Only books without anything scribbled in them are good grammatically, in regard to points of view, and spelling. Admittedly though, they are boring as hell. Most usually I apologize to authors for pointing out problem areas, assuming, for the most par,t that I'm not reading things correctly...it sounds as if not all proofers or editors are that 'nice'. (Not that I'm nice)

Lovely 'short' story indeed. Being lactose intolerant (only in the sense that I react to it badly, not that I don't indulge myself) I try to stay away from poutine as I can't make it myself and can't risk it away from home; but gravy on fries (chips for you Aussies and Brits) is wonderful at worst, right up to sheer bliss.