Tag: satire
group name: randommusings
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May 29, 2008 06:22 PM EDT --
Do you know what an outhouse is? If you are smarter than a head of lettuce you will know. A survey of the most popular articles posted during the past week shows no less than seven games where . . .
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June 06, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
On May 29th I published a game entitled "Name Something Found in an Outhouse". It was intended to be a spoof on all those mundane games asking Gather members to name something found in . . .
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June 06, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
Marketing gurus have seen fit to replace many of our common household words with other, softer, more genteel terms, in an attempt, I suppose, to counter the rising tide of sex, violence, corruption and . . .
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July 10, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
St Brigid did not apply for the role of Patron Saint of Poetry and when she was asked to judge the Celestial Festival of Poetry competition her comments proved to be controversial and caused . . .
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September 10, 2008 08:01 AM EDT --
Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' Should be Withdrawn from Public Libraries.
‘To Kill a Mockingbird' should be withdrawn
From public libraries. It puts to scorn
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September 22, 2007 05:42 PM EDT --
After being promised rain since last Wednesday and getting not one drop, it is finally raining!
Imagine this non correspondent's amazement and jubilation when she, while sitting in bed with laptop . . .
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June 11, 2008 01:37 PM EDT --
Warning! We are being invaded by killer tomatoes from Mars. They may look innocent, but they are deadly. As if tornados, floods, forest fires, volcanos, avalanches and hurricanes weren't . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:56 PM EST --
There have been numerous reports recently in such prestigious magazines as Inventions Today as well as in the New York Times , the Saskatoon Trapper and other newspapers, of significant new inventions . . .
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September 14, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
Most boaters know the difference between WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) and MSDs (marine sanitation devices). Congress on the other hand seems to spend as much time regulating MSDs . . .
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February 05, 2009 03:29 PM EST --
Have you read the Stimulus Bill? I doubt it. This proves once again that surveys mean very little. The bill is 647 pages long. If you're interested, you can find the full text at www.huffingtonpost.com . . .
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June 21, 2008 07:31 PM EDT --
I love what people write on Gather...or pass off as articles. I love the word games that are so utterly entertaining that I skip them. My absolute favorite is people griping about something . . .
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August 04, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
In a previous article today I wrote about the two year War of the Blueberries. It started several years ago when I told Papa I wanted blueberry bushes in my front yard so that in the morning I . . .
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November 25, 2007 04:33 AM EST --
Here's a game for all you game fans out there in Gatherland. I hope you don't find it too difficult.
Post a word, any word, containing one or more letters, starting with any letter and . . .
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March 15, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
I've written a number of serious articles recently, even some fictional short stories and a couple of poems. From time to time it seems the devil gets into me and prompts me to write something . . .
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September 09, 2008 06:51 PM EDT --
A quick survey of the top 50 posts on Gather for the past 7 days turns up some interesting, although disturbing statistics. No less than 17 posts out of the top 50 in terms of most discussed (or . . .
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October 19, 2008 06:22 AM EDT --
God is an elderly white gentleman. That stands to reason. If His only begotten son, Jesus, is white then God must be white. Right? Here is the incontestable proof. Here, . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:05 PM EST --
I took the fact that my parents were my parents on blind faith. There was no DNA testing in the 40's. If they were not my real parents then it was the biggest conspiracy of all time. Some of . . .
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January 20, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Vector Mornington of Tweedsville, Ohio, reports that the town council has just approved the hiring of a grammar watchdog to work under Police Chief Deke Reese. The duties of this new protector and . . .
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June 04, 2008 11:41 AM EDT --
A Little Boy's . . .
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June 29, 2008 03:40 PM EDT --
A little clause in the Constitution of the United States of America has made this country the laughing stock of the entire world, not to mention the country with one of the highest murder-by-gun rates . . .
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