(n.) a special kind of grown-up root beer that quenches the sweltering fires in both your throat and your loins

for some reason quite popular among cowboys in the movies. well. "some" reason.

(n.) a perturbing sea creature resembling a big slug with eight suction-cupped tendril arms. as with most perturbing creatures, someone has eaten it and decided it is a delicacy

(n.) a large cluster of stars rotating around each other for god knows what reason, possibly with a quasar in the middle.

our own earth hovers in the backwaters of a galaxy called the milky way.

n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See MOLECULE.) According to Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation — Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentleman. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class — altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.

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(n.) one conceived through an unauthorized act of carnal knowledge; often used as a casual insult to those sensitive about their parentage

charles bukowski: the man, the poet, the big big drinker.
and he will tell you to reinvent yourself,

and to go through your own struggles, rather than seeking approval from someone like him.

(1509 – 27 May 1564) Christian theologian who developed a strict brand of Protestant Christianity which stressed the doctrine of predestination.
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(v.) a british regional term for dithering, babbling, or jabbering

(v.) allowing someone to do something, when you have the authority to make such a decision.
(n.) the document proving you've got some set of permissions. generally has your name, photo, and some other important information. carry it with you, or else you're a goner! (technically spelled licence everywhere except the states but idkk man, https://www.grammarly.com/blog/licence-license/)

The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
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(n.) forbidden, not to be confused with elicit

An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
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(n.) see currency, medium of exchange, storehouse of value, moolah, simoleons, shekels, dinero, cash. something designated as having value equivalent to a certain amount of goods or services; this designated value is considered one of the lies that forms a central pillar of civilization.

The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
(also: radical)
(also: governing people)
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(n.) bribery artist

A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that —

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"Stone walls do not a prison make,"

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but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.
(also: crime)
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the bit of eastern europe that is least likely to be confused for russia. known today for being that place dracula and crappy cars come from

aeschylus (525-465 BC) was a playwright of ancient athens, perhaps best known for his oresteia trilogy ('agamemnon,' 'the libation bearers,' and 'the eumenides'), which is about a family caught in a bloody and endless cycle of revenge, as well as 'seven against thebes,' which is about some motherlover who tries to enjoy retirement but is repeatedly interrupted by his awful sons.

aeschylus was also an initiate into the cult of the eleusinian mysteries, joining cults being all the rage at that time.

aeschylus reportedly died when a hawk tried to smash a turtle open on the playwright's bald head, which the hawk had mistaken for a rock. this bizarre vagary of fate reminds us that one man's tragedy is always another man's comedy.

Propensitate of prejudice.

In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
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