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• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• Yeah, but still
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
• Why is windows-bashing okay, but Linux-bashing bad?
• The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
• New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
• I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
• Study, study, study, but maybe just to learn
• armed with nothing but their own vision
• Butterflies are passive aggressive and put their problems on the shelf, but they're beautiful
• Love cookies
• You noders still fucking suck, but your needing my wisdoms bad
• Calling, always calling, not understanding, but calling still.
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• this is the song that lets you know that things are still not okay
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• I secretly admire Cruella De Vil. PETA will be kicking down my door any second.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• It wasn't the prince that saved the damsel, but a pirate with a secret.
• Small but still a person
• The fire behind their eyes died slowly and silently until nothing but the shells remained
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• I'm tone-deaf, but it's okay
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• knocking a person down
• one by one their blades will grind to a halt and stand still like a white forest.
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• These dead open their bodies to the living like a door
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• we have the most gigabytes of infodata but we still shoot each other on the streets
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Nowhere to go but down
• Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
• Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• You suckers still fucking node, but your noding wisdom. My bad.
• Cheers, my lips have frozen but hemlock goes down easy
• Boston sports fans and their teams: A brief but angsty perspective
• But seriously, a tragic thing happened down the street
• But can you still cry like a child?
• Hours pass, but she still counts the minutes
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• that moment of panic when you flush the toilet but nothing goes down
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• like you're blind but still can see
• Santa's festive fear mongering wasn't going as well as he'd hoped, but the other Santa and I were enjoying the gingerbread.
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• Things people put up their butts
• Maybe you were inherently complicated, maybe you've been complicated over the years, but know that you are complicated.
• we are learning how not to forget, but we still don't know what's true
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Do masochists enjoy slamming their fingers in a car door?
• 3 Doors Down
• we're all here to die. but if you think that's all it is, you still have the bag on your head.
• I put my head down and hoped to God she wasn't looking at me
• Breaking down a door
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• Highly ornamental cultivars of brambles still have as many thorns as their wild counterparts
• Laid down on the bed that wasn't her own
• Knocking On the Door of Heaven
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Sexist jokes
• United States Coast Guard Academy
• Phillips Academy
• Cisco Networking Academy
• Soap opera hitmen
• Academy Award
• Shady Side Academy
• California Academy of Sciences
• Academy Awards ceremony
• Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
• Cranbrook Academy and School
• Oscars - 2001 Academy Award Nominations
• Ursuline Academy
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• 73rd Academy Awards
• The Austere Academy
• Thetford Academy
• 74th Academy Awards
• Bergen County Academies
• American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Magnaur Academy
• Benet Academy
• Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts
• Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy
• National Academy Press
• National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth
• Academy of Music
• Royal Hibernian Academy
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Swedish Academy
• United States Military Academy
• Starfleet Academy
• Scratch DJ Academy
• 75th Academy Awards
• Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
• Milton Academy
• Dream Academy
• The Academy
• Khan Academy
• The Umbrella Academy
• Knightley Academy
• The Umbrella Academy is about damaged people
• Everything But the Girl
• butt
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• but
• butt set
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• There is no god but God
• Good from far, but far from good
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
• Every Which Way but Loose
• separate but equal
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Butt joint
• Butt shaft
• Butt weld
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• The odds are good, but the goods are odd
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• Monkey Butt!
• butt breath
• I'm not anorexic, but I'm working on it
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Japanese puns that are not funny but at least are puns
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• Something Childish, but Very Natural
• Genuine but Insignificant Cause
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• But what are they really thinking?
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• But I digress
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce

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