Spare Change

The words that form our language, probably take days or even weeks to create. Just imagine a committee made up of 26 people, who represent each letter of the alphabet. The “S” group has a major proposal to put up before the...

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HUH?

(I rote this win I wuz a chile) Their was going to be a wedding! The invitations had been scent, and the quire would sing special hims that wood be herd throughout the church. The preacher nose about reaching a hire power for...

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It was the Poets

The Rhymers, the Metaphor people, and the Expressionists extraordinaire, were there at the beginning. They established verse and stanza instead of paragraphs, to build and maintain the flow of the story. Every emotion, feeling...

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I’m Confused

When someone is not feeling well, he is said to be “under the weather”. When he recovers from this malady, how do we describe his state of being? Obviously, he is not “over the weather”, but is it safe to say that he is...

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PHUN

The fone call from Phred at the farmacy was the tipoff. Phred had been writing about the ancient faraohs phights with the filistines, using phancy words and  frases. A phew pholks found the study phutile, and preferred the...

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Tell Me More

Happiness is an electronic device. The shining faces on cell phone commercials tell the viewer that smiles can be had by texting and tweeting. Google, Facebook, and Amazon answer your every question, supply you with thousands of...

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The Ultimate Put Down

Back in the 1960s, George S Kaufman was one of three panelists on a TV show called “This is Show Business”. Entertainers would perform and then tell the panel their problems. A young singer (looking about 16) named Eddie...

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