Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "This is like being a court official and having somebody request a trial by combat."

• Being Asian is rather like having large breasts
• only by consuming pieces of one another can beings such as we exist
• by people who know what salsa should taste like
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• Being resigned to having your corpse facing the enemy
• Trial by Jury
• The Trial by Existence
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• A conversation with old country guys is like being a chicken dentist
• I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor
• Notes on ruining the beauty of barren places by being there
• Three Puerto Rican girls walked by like accordion music under the trees, looking like they'd accept nothing less than perfection.
• one by one their blades will grind to a halt and stand still like a white forest.
• Days go by like sweet summer breeze; I don't know I... can't feel them anymore
• In the movie of his life, the part of Keanu Reeves will be played by a block of wood, and the critics will pan it for being too expressive
• Having narcissists for family is like not having family at all (category)
• Guide to determining if you are constantly being mauled by bears
• Being pulled over by the cops for speeding
• How to avoid being urinated upon by your baby boy
• being beaten into an unhealthy state by other people's pasts
• Being rejected by someone you really respect
• Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
• When being chased by CIA trainees, don't mention Belgium to the waffle house physicist
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• having you by the short hairs
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• The ceiling seems like it's tired of being our tripmeter.
• Being betrayed by one's own body
• It is far better to be bored by somebody else than to be bored by oneself.
• trial by wager of battle
• trial by duel
• curved penis
• The Trials and Tribulations of Having Your Own Secret Hideout
• haunted by nodeshells, like pronouns signifying other worlds
• There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
• I feel like I'm being watched
• Hold Me Like You Need Somebody
• Accidental death odds
• a lot like the appeal of being electrocuted
• The trials and tribulations of being an E-mail technical support representative
• The reluctant backpacker's guide to being hit by lightning
• I remember books being like air and food and water to me
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• a voice like pebbles being shoved through a harmonica
• Ruminations on being run over by a dump truck
• on the occasion of the city having fallen to the forces of evil, and there being no hope left among the people
• trial by fire
• These women who must live like the high Sierra white pine, fed somehow by the alpine wind
• feeling like a failure by meeting goals
• trial by ordeal
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep noding even as one is being devoured by EDB
• Despite being surrounded by perverts, I manage to have a great time
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• What it's like to be questioned by the FBI
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury
• The Wild Colonials
• What it's like to be raided by the FBI
• And our cars all jumped forward like bottles on a table thumped by a drunk
• i don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it feels like to be gored by a chainsaw
• trial by cheese
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• This place like an old jacket, made alien by time.
• Trial by congress
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• The dubious distinction of being criticized from the left by the Ku Klux Klan
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• on being hit by lightning
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• E2 is like getting old, having friends die, and running into them on the street
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• Your radical ideas about this being like David Foster Wallace have already occurred to others.
• Being licked to death by kittens
• The world is warm and likes having us in it
• The relative risk of being attacked by a shark
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• Being tickled in the neck by a girl you know a little bit
• e2 is like having a conversation with yourself
• Physical beings having a spiritual experience
• Spiritual beings having a physical experience
• being
• human being
• Beings of pure energy
• Are You Being Served?
• Just being quiet and close
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• in love with being in love
• Being John Malkovich
• The entire point of being an adult
• Being and Nothingness
• Two Golden Rules of Being a Woman
• Christians don't believe that "being good" gets anyone into Heaven
• Being and Time
• Now that we're being so open and honest
• Being a Christian is magical and foolish: Maybe we're all caught up in a collective psychosis
• Being a Green Mother
• Human beings will believe anything
• Creativity, the essence of being human
• Being There
• The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
• Human being emulator
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
• Being serious without taking yourself too seriously
• Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
• what does being a sociological researcher entail?
• there's good and bad in being a database administrator
• The joy of Being a Technician
• Tell me a story about being really alive
• do you allow yourself to imagine being with someone?
• stop being so English
• Why I think I'm a disgusting human being
• Being short
• The only thing worse than being uninformed, is being informed and not caring
• The curse of being named Tim
• being complimentary
• Jewel not being mean for a minute
• Being really smart and taking lots and lots of drugs
• A sexist joke I'm allowed to tell, due to being a woman
• Reasons for Not Being at Work
• The Importance of Being Educated
• Sometimes, all you can be is a friend
• Being an artist warps the mind
• I don't even know when I am being sarcastic anymore
• dr's Hospital Adventure : it's weird being recognized as somewhat of a celebrity
• The honor of being a rat
• Being put on hold
• You are my electronic human being: my second chance, my way to mend the past.
• Why I hate being single
• A Nocturnal Upon Saint Lucy's Day, being the Shortest Day
• "Gay" being used as an adjective for something bad
• The Everything guide to being a pizza driver
• Being an Eagle Scout no longer means anything
• Why are chimneys being demolished?
• Being Designated Driver on New Year's Eve
• The Greatest Fear In America Is That of Not Being Politically Correct
• I Enjoy Being a Girl
• famous for being famous
• Florida being promoted for its hockey
• she being Brand
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• On being the Older Woman
• Imagine if you achieved a higher state of being from the Weather Channel
• Things I hate about being a conservative Republican
• Being the outsider at a party
• Why some people do not enjoy being in nature
• On the topic of being alone
• Great Chain of Being
• Adolescents: Beings of inherent evil
• Being with an older woman
• In a school with over 20,000 people, there is no danger of being recognized later
• The Story That Is Still Being Written
• On being the first person to finish a test
• We're on our way to being GODS!
• On Being the Right Size
• The new rulers of the world are being decided upon
• Being Digital
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured
• Being rich is as much a trap as being poor
• Being both black and white
• the problem with being a member of the dominant culture
• It's a sin this not being ready, this not being up to it
• The disadvantages of being left handed
• Single Being
• What would aliens think if they talked to an average western human being?
• being true to your nature
• No one dreams of being a guidance counselor
• On Being the one who goes away
• The girls' guide to being a girl
• How to transcend animal instinct and become a superior being
• Being in a relationship is not a guarantee against loneliness
• The curse of being gifted
• All things being equal
• There's nothing noble about being a soldier
• You can't stop thinking of her: this is how you explained it, a proof of your being in love.
• Tired of being angry
• An hour later, I swing my leg over his and we dream of being young
• The day we were married the leftover doves from his days of being a magician hummed little love songs in the attic
• Bruxa Maria de Zuzaya is being tempted
• On being American
• On being a college radio DJ
• The joys of being jailbait
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

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