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Linda
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August 29, 2010
State Fairs last a lifetime.
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Linda
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May 6, 2010

Isn’t it ironic?
Betty Lou Lynn, the woman who portrayed Thelma Lou, on The Andy Griffith Show moved to Mount Airy, NC ( the town that inspired Mayberry) to avoid crime of big cities.
Last week, she had her wallet stolen in a local shopping center.
Police arrested Shirley Walter Guynn, of Cana, Va.
I find it doubly ironic that the dude’s name is Shirley.
Also posted in TV, news, question, weird
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By
Linda
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Published
July 30, 2009
For as many of my author friends who are ecstatic about the way their book covers turned out.. there must be someone in the wings feeling a bit put out.
Have you seen this story? Got to agree with the author on that one.
And then there’s this one: Yikes.
There is even a contest for the worst covers. Here’s the 2005 finalists.
Some bad book covers I found are funny because they’re out dated: like these
and some I have to say I like, you know, for the art.

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By
Linda
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Published
May 7, 2009
So, I went to a party. No news there.
I took pictures. No news there.
I let people draw on me. No news there.
I posted a picture of the drawing on Facebook. No news there.
Until… a few hours later when FB gave me a warning, then pulled it.
So, I’m posting the picture here.
No news there.
My new best friend, Kathleen drew that lovely anatomically correct body part, though some of the guys thought it a bit stubby and stubbly. My arm was the guinea pig for her art, as she boasted it was her forte’ in college…
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Tagged drinking
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By
Linda
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Published
April 2, 2009
I’ve written a few of these McSweeney-like lists, even had a few published. Dooce linked to one on her Twitter today. ( which is going to read like Portuguese to my mother) but here, I offer you two more.
What Could Have Been.
BY COLIN PERKINS
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The Life My Mother Planned for Me
A+
NYU
Ph.D.
HMO
IRA
The Life I Planned for Me
NFL …
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By
Linda
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Published
January 30, 2009
Man accused of drunken horse riding in snowstorm.
CODY, Wyo. – A man has been cited for public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town of Cody.
Police say they cited 28-year-old Benjamin Daniels after they received a call Sunday afternoon from a motorist concerned that a man was creating a road hazard by riding his horse on a street in conditions with poor visibility.…
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By
Linda
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Published
January 29, 2009
You’ve all seen them. The wild and sometimes disturbing t-shirts of T-Shirt Hell. My confession? I find even the creepy ones quite smart.

Well, it will be over soon. here’s a message from the owner/creator:
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I’m done. I’m finished. I can’t take the stupidity anymore, so I’m leaving and I’m taking my website with me. As of Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009, T-Shirt Hell will be no more.
No, I’m not selling out to some
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By
Linda
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Published
September 24, 2008
It’s true.
Every fortune cookie saying automatically becomes funnier if you add these 3 words: IN THE BED.
try it.
A closed mouth gathers no feet. in the bed
He who throws dirt is losing ground. in the bed
You can always find happiness at work on Friday. in the bed
Do not mistake temptation for opportunity. in the bed
A woman who seeks to be equal with men lacks ambition. in…
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Tagged writing
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By
Linda
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Published
August 14, 2008
Top dishonors in writing go to Washington man
BREAKING NEWS directly quoted from the AP:7 hours ago
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A grotesque comparison of a steamy love affair to a New York City street has won a Washington man this year’s grand prize in an annual contest of bad writing.
Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director and writer, took top honors in San Jose State University’s 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this opening sentence to a nonexistent novel:
“Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like
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By
Linda
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Published
August 6, 2008
It‘s not bad enough that we judge ourselves every time we look in a mirror, see ourselves in a photo, hear our out-going message on the voicemail… now we have opened ourselves up to a blogosphere that may not accept us.
They don’t understand, we whine. They didn’t get the joke. I stink at this. Who reads this shit anyway? Why does it matter? What am I supposed to say? Why do I have so many hits and so few comments? Who did I offend now?
I hear all of this from new bloggers and…