• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• A knock there was upon the door
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Once upon a time. . .
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• once upon a time in Lamu
• Once Upon a Time in China II
• Was There a Time
• Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Once Upon a Time in America
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Once upon a time
• Once upon a time, in an age before the Internet
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was once a Man
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Once Upon a Time in China
• There was a time before
• There is a different time scale
• Once there came a man
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• The first time I knew I was different
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• Interesting Times (Wherein I Chance Upon a Cryptogram)
• Once upon a time in Carlsbad Springs
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• I was adored once too
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Last time I was in Chicago I broke my ass
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• Upon listening to Miles Davis for the first time
• I was once young and had a home
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• I take a long time to ejaculate. Do I have a problem?
• I was there
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Where Once Life Was
• There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
• Where's the kaboom?
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a baby in China
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• there's a first time for everything
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Was it ever there?
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Once upon a place called home
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• There Was A Friend
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Upon Time and Eternity
• I was put on hold for time to gnaw me raw.
• Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
• and there was this girl
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• I was a nice guy once
• Finding air where matter once was
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There Was No Leak
• Where I'm From, You'd Think There Was a Tea Party Going On in the Hostess Dumpster
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• Once upon a starry,
• I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
• At that time I was taken up with alchemy
• Upon my indulgence, I was dissatisfied
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There are times when they seem to be right
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• every noder was once a normal human
• There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• Once upon a pair of wheels
• There will be time
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Dawn was a lucky time to give birth
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• Upon the hills where day was done
• I was floating in the ocean of his eyes.
• Once Upon a Mattress
• what once I was
• Most of the time I just sit there, waiting.
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Before Time Was
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• I once was a clueless young noder
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• 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 once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• There was a man and a woman
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• I was a teenage time traveling combat waitress
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• I remember, there was one
• There were times better than this
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• I was in a commercial once
• Somewhere there is a syphilitic prostitute who is doing time
• She was locked in time
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• our voices, once clarion, have been muted by time and mortgages
• No shit, there I was
• Before you, there was me
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• Time is nature's way of stopping things from happening all at once
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Leather-bound organizer
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There is no time paradox
• There's a time and a place
• There was a cold day
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• crunch time
• Enquire within upon everything
• Upon this obelisk record the words of your dead and remember.
• Disgusting Pox Upon the Earth
• It was a dark and stormy night
• God was created in man's image
• So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
• As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life
• Is And Is Not As It Was
• Indian Ocean Islands
• I was sure it was her
• The Hungry Ocean
• The Portland Oregon Everything Tea was actually a Suicide Cult Initiation!
• The ocean will one day give up its dead
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done

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