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do you like cocking?

Posted on 02/09/2009

a new profile on the dating website just caught my eye. there’s a screen shot of it below. (sorry, i’m such a fucking laggard that it’s of lower quality than britney spears. so just in case you can’t read it without your glasses, i’ve also transcribed it word for word below in purple.) ‘He describes…

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SABC monkeys.

Posted on 31/08/2009

nice one on fucking up the survivor finale, you brain surgeons. we’ve only been waiting 12 weeks for it. and you managed to cut out my favourite part, when the bitter, twisted losers get to kick the almost winners in the shins. this is almost as bad as the time you cancelled survivor to put…

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it's the thought that counts.

Posted on 31/08/2009

it isn’t really. that’s just something we say to be polite. it’s actually the gift that counts. and everybody knows it. there’s been a lot of talk about gifting this weekend because it was ‘nephew 5’s’ barmitzvah.(for you yok’s out there, a barmitzvah is a right of passage for a jewish teen, and also a…

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the six year old

Posted on 30/08/2009

did you know that for every question you and i get, a six year old gets fourteen questions? it’s true. i’ve had my six year old niece staying with me for the last couple of days because the family circus came to town, so i know this to be true from personal experience. 11:18pm on…

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devil's dictionary – 'A' is for 'amyl nitrate'.

Posted on 29/08/2009

for those of you who just joined us, here are a few more direct translations shamelessly copied from ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’ which was written by my boyfriend, Ambrose Bierce, in 1871 – you can read more about it and see a snazzy picture of the man himself, over here: http://amillionmilesfromnormal.blogspot.com/2009/08/devils-dictionary.html ‘Ambidextrous, adj. Able to pick…

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meet match #83

Posted on 28/08/2009

on the dating website you can click through to a section where they show you all your matches. so everyone types in what they’re looking for and the computer does some maths and generates a list of all your calculated matches. so here is one of my matches: meet ‘match # 83’, well that’s what…

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thursday se phuza

Posted on 27/08/2009

it’s been a while since i’ve given you random cool stuffs off the internetweb. so here it is, courtesy of the people who brought you the internetweb (drum roll please) – stuffs:

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the devil's dictionary.

Posted on 27/08/2009

Ambrose Bierce is not a friend of mine. nor have i ever shagged him. but, had i been around when he was alive in 1817 i would have most certainly given it a good go. moustache or no moustache. he was a genius. in 1875 he started work on a book called ‘the devil’s dictionary’….

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i forgot to remember

Posted on 26/08/2009

i’ve written myself a note in my cell phone. i do that sometimes when i really really want to remember something very very funny, or moving or clever or important. i wrote it on saturday night, i remember that much. i was away for the weekend and we were sitting around a big fire talking…

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what the hell is naugahyde anyway?

Posted on 26/08/200928/11/2013

my very good friend and uber talented lady, ‘the design goddess’ and i often trade stories about the online dating website. where she too has been exposed to some of the freaks and lunatics hanging around out there waiting for us to click on them. since we surf similar circles, we’ve been known to give…

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