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Death to Retail

Mitch Hed­berg had an excel­lent bit where he talked about buy­ing a dough­nut. This is how it starts: “I bought a dough­nut and they gave me a receipt for the dough­nut… I don’t need a receipt for the dough­nut. I give you the money and you give me the dough­nut, end of transaction.” He would [...]
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Infectious Thought: Raid encounters

(Warn­ing: infec­tious thoughts are dif­fi­cult to root out once they take hold.)Most sim­ple raid encoun­ters are kind of like a magic bukkake scene, espe­cially with many flashy cast­ers in the raid. (If you don’t know what bukkake is, don’t search for it while you’re at work.)Apolo­gies.
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Texan Sayings

In my April 2008 issue of Writer’s Digest, there’s a short arti­cle by G. Kyle White called “Back Up Your Work for Free”. Here’s the first sentence: There’s a say­ing in Texas: If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it’ll change. Ah, Texas. Com­pare this to Mark Twain’s famous quote: If you [...]
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