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No, You cannot ride the dog {and other choice phrases}

January 11, 2011 Kids
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You know-there are certain things I never really pictured myself saying {but nonetheless have found myself uttering}.  Here’s a small sampling. Keep in mind most of these were followed by insane laughter-or at least a little snickering {sometimes while trying to keep a very stern face!} “NO-YOU CANNOT RIDE THE DOG. Get off the dog [...]

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New Site Tells ALL YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS

January 7, 2011 Life
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There’s now a site where people can go to see your address, phone number, income, pictures of your house, your social network profiles…just about anything a weirdo would want to know. Spokeo is the name of the site and you can search for yourself to see if you’re on it. Apparently this is only for [...]

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Toyota doesn’t make cars for bloggers?

January 6, 2011 Random

Recently Toyota made an ad that has quite a few people offended. See if you can understand why. Now-I can understand how some people (bloggers and other media) would be insulted. I can also see how some people would say that bloggers are being over-sensitive.  I’m sure that what Toyota meant was that they don’t [...]

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Let’s Just Rewrite History-Shall We?

January 5, 2011 Random

Would you rewrite Shakespeare? How about T.S. Eliot? Would you change the words of Maya Angelou? If you didn’t like what Malcom X had to say would you attempt to rewrite what was said in new textbooks? Then why change the words of Mark Twain? Many of us have read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [...]

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Ranking system for #FollowFriday

January 4, 2011 Blogging

If you’ve been on twitter for any length of time there’s no doubt you’ve seen one of these: #FF followed by (or preceded by) a bunch of twitter names #FollowFriday followed (or preceded) by a bunch of twitter names Now there’s a ranking system.  FollowFriday ranks twitter users based on the number of #FollowFriday recommendations [...]

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