No matter how you work it, "ground chicken" and "Italian chicken sausage" just doesn't cook up as well as the real thing for a good pot of tomato sauce.

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While trying to weed the vegetable garden, I found another nest of yellow jackets.

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It is difficult to get to work when both roads you can use are blocked off!

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There's a secret vault in Lego-land where every set ever produced resides!

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This non-novel was brought to you by John Brunner using Spicers Plus Fabric Bond and Commercial Bank papers interleaved with Serillo carbons in a Smith Corona 250 electric typewriter fitted with a Kodak black-record ribbon.

(John Brunner, Stand On Zanzibar, Chapter: Context [28])

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What's so hard to understand about Slower Traffic Keep Right?

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After arriving at the company picnic and making one circuit of the grounds, the young lady asked if we could go home yet.

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Somehow I must teach OldDog and NewDog what it means when I have a day off and can "sleep in"!

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Two hyperactive dogs plus one cranky child equals no coffee in the morning.

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Mr. Postman brought me books signed by Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.

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"One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph."

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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I'm in love with Agatha Heterodyne!

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Gawd, the female characters in this webcomic are hawt, hawt I tell you!

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For Father's Day, I gave the young lady a copy of The Daring Book for Girls.

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Father's Day is kind of depressing, given the state of health of my own father.

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Nothing wakes up your day like stepping on a nest of yellow jackets; I think I collected ten stings.

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NewDog likes to block the stairway from the deck to the yard, engaging OldDog in a stare down.

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I am currently watching Being John Malkovich.

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So many books, so little time, so many ex-lovers to bury!

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My favorite song as a young child, and one that I still sing to my 8-year-old daughter, is My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.

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