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04-10-2024, 07:26 PM
This morning, I saw a reference to Sir Winston Churchill, and that got me remembering him. He deserves a great deal of credit for bringing WW II to...
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03-20-2024, 03:16 PM
Similes make me smile and I never metaphor I didn't like. All allegories are welcome; allusion, analogy, and alliteration too. Oh heck, any old...
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03-30-2024, 10:53 AM
Easter Zunday
by Ingeborg Bachmann
Last Easter Jim put on his blue
Frock cwoat, the vu'st time-vier new;
Wi' yollow buttons all o' brass,...
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04-04-2024, 05:32 PM
Cracker Steve the Somali Pirate
Steve was unemployed and spent his days at the library reading books illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. Of these, the...
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03-29-2024, 05:13 AM
Happy Birthday Bluebiird, et al, and many happy returns :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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Today, 09:51 AM
Thank you!
An assignment poem for today's Thursdays at Two poetry group: Gratefulness
Gratefulness
gently they came bringing
rains that...
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Today, 08:26 AM
I think all the characters had a sort of essentialness to them, but id vote for Kramer as the most valuable player in the show.
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM
Karshish-a different version of Jesus' ride to Jerusalem. Have to go back to it.
"Like two cathedral towers these stately pines"."My Cathedral"...
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Yesterday, 09:14 PM
mailed
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Yesterday, 09:10 PM
Agree with grrrr!
posted
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Yesterday, 09:02 PM
I had this problem last year that the Litnet page appeared broken. I went through Chrome, Opera, Safari, Edge, Iandex but the problem only...
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Yesterday, 08:48 PM
Synergy
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Yesterday, 06:58 PM
Oh yeah, I'm a big believer in swimming for health and flexibility. Evidently so is Kramer:
I can't say that I recommend swimming in the East...
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Yesterday, 03:20 PM
I meant to type in #448, not #488 above. I included the astonishing lines from John Gross in, I think, post #472. The context in which it is...
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Yesterday, 02:36 PM
moving in water and on a bicycle are both easier than walking and because of that, there's a good chance one or both of them will be pain free for...
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Yesterday, 02:16 PM
I do just a little bit of yoga every day, especially the breathing exercises but not much else. It's just too painful to do anything else darn it.
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Yesterday, 12:03 PM
Speaking of "irony"(post #488), in his book THE SHAKESPEARE WARS, Ron Rosenbaum regards John Gross' book as follows, "perhaps the definitive...
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Yesterday, 11:06 AM
well here she is kinda saying the opposite (an insertion rather than a substitution):
“We need much less pants than we think we need.”--maya...
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Yesterday, 10:58 AM
I put broccoli on the last frozen pizza I had but its hard to beat celery with peanut butter on it.
cola wins again. if you can believe it, I was...
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Yesterday, 10:50 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R1VakBLD1s
bread fruit! which was a large part of the mission of the hms bounty
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Yesterday, 10:45 AM
poppin, if you are not already doing so, by way of helping preserve your mobility, lemme encourage you towards swimming/water exercise and some...
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Yesterday, 09:43 AM
Dem bums! I got on an elevator the other day with guy who was wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers ball cap. Another guy takes a look at the ‘B’ on his cap and...
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Yesterday, 08:51 AM
energy
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Yesterday, 08:03 AM
allergy
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Yesterday, 06:17 AM
drippings
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Yesterday, 05:50 AM
Opera browser had me spoiled; Safari for Windows is working but I dislike its GUI... prolly the same for the other Jurassic browsers... at least...
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Yesterday, 05:45 AM
Back to Opera browser as a test... "You do not have permission to perform this action. Please refresh the page and login before trying again."
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Yesterday, 05:39 AM
Fighting browser issues AND internet throttling... using Safari for Windows and my cell phone hotspot for now. This page is not being kind: "do not...
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04-16-2024, 09:01 PM
^Good quote above. But what a remarkable contrast between the famous quality of mercy speech and the ill treatment accorded to poor Shylock. He sure...
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04-16-2024, 08:56 PM
Speaking of the Dodgers, Sandy Koufax retired because of arthritis in his arm. Same condition that ended my amateur pitching career. Am now in my...
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04-16-2024, 11:05 AM
I like this metaphor from my current read, The Moor’s Account:
The context is this: a young man is speaking with his father about his future....
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04-16-2024, 10:32 AM
I think by the 70s the cop shows had pretty much subsumed the cowboy shows. Both genres more or less followed the same formula. Movies too. The man...
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04-16-2024, 09:25 AM
I wish you luck with the new browser.
This may help with Garcilaso, it´s not an easy poet:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcilaso_de_la_Vega_(poet)...
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04-16-2024, 09:13 AM
postponed
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04-16-2024, 09:01 AM
postmodern
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04-16-2024, 09:00 AM
Hope Safari is the solution! :) If not, you may have to experiment with other old browsers.
fruit salad
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04-15-2024, 06:59 PM
prenatal
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04-15-2024, 04:34 PM
salad dressing
then LitNet replied "You do not have permission to perform this action. Please refresh the page and login before trying again." and...
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04-15-2024, 04:30 PM
renaissance
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04-15-2024, 04:10 PM
re: Browser - Jurassic, lol. This page wasn't allowing any replies for some reason and I couldn't get a work-around using Opera. Opera had been a...
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04-15-2024, 01:58 PM
Also, bounty, bah-hahahaha,
I gotta get one of those bed covers!
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04-15-2024, 01:55 PM
I found this from The Atlantic. It’s concerning the physiological limitations of the human body and the demands for ever more speed in major league...
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