(n.) someone best left alone in a room with lots of beakers and chalkboards in the hopes that they'll accidentally figure out how to make nuclear weapons. or root beer. whichever.
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To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls "external coexistences," as Satan "squat like a toad" at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel's spear. To respond in damages is to contribute to the maintenance of the plaintiff's attorney and, incidentally, to the gratification of the plaintiff.
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(n.) any of a series of organic substances derived from a specific set of carbon monomer bases which living beings assimilate through digestion in order to perpetuate their lives, as though it will fill the holes in their sad little existences
Sky water that makes your already bad day even worse
(n.) the fat of a pig
(n.) one of the more tolerated rodents, perhaps due to its twitchy nose and big flappy ears. tends to jump around looking for carrots and being very velveteen and watership downy and so on
(n.) a force. the water we swim through, in every conscious and unconscious moment, and take woefully for granted.
(also: death)
(also: this is water)
(also: death)
(also: this is water)
A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness toward widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
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a partnership between russia and a number of other eastern european states that existed between 1922 and 1991. this union formed one of the major blocs in world politics at that time, along with the nato bloc consisting of the united states and its buddies, and the third bloc that didn't give a damn.
the soviet union and the nato bloc were in a state of cold war for decades following world war ii, which was such a bonding experience that everyone felt a little let down when it finally ended. as a memory of those happier times, america and russia continue to occasionally dick with each other.
the soviet union and the nato bloc were in a state of cold war for decades following world war ii, which was such a bonding experience that everyone felt a little let down when it finally ended. as a memory of those happier times, america and russia continue to occasionally dick with each other.
The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.
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a very silly and not-at-all good thing that happened in south africa
sounds aptly and surprisingly like "apart-hate" when pronounced correctly.
sounds aptly and surprisingly like "apart-hate" when pronounced correctly.
hell
Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.
His light estate, if neither he did make it
Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,
Is portable improperty, I take it.
—Worgum Slupsky
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His light estate, if neither he did make it
Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,
Is portable improperty, I take it.
—Worgum Slupsky
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An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
(also: alexander graham bell)
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(also: alexander graham bell)
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A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word simulation is from simia, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model Simia audibilis (or Pithecanthropos stentor) — the ape that howls.
The actor apes a man — at least in shape;
The opera performer apes an ape.
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The actor apes a man — at least in shape;
The opera performer apes an ape.
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One who holds the conviction that the governing authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
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Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. It's the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.
One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
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sign-up or face the consequences!
“"observers" must obey the call.”
join