Findings:

• No shit, there I was
• There was a time when I was a better person
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• I was there
• A knock there was upon the door
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There Was A Friend
• There was a baby in China
• I remember, there was one
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Was There a Time
• 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
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a man and a woman
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There once was a girl named Irene
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There Was No Leak
• Where I'm From, You'd Think There Was a Tea Party Going On in the Hostess Dumpster
• 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.
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was an old lady
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Was it ever there?
• There was once a Man
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was a cold day
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Before you, there was me
• There was a time before
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• there, I've linked insulting nodes to my own writeup to save others the trouble
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• and there was this girl
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• There's a special place in my heart for old suitcases
• There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
• Are we there yet? Pandeism and transhumanism
• There are two kinds of questions: logical and empirical
• When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
• we are already dead. this is all there is.
• I'd not trouble the universe with such things were it not for tumbling thoughts
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie's Double Trouble
• More Troubles for Bubbles
• Back when grunge was still cool
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• Is And Is Not As It Was
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• Why Smokey Bear was wrong
• She was steady
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• I'm not a geek, and I wish I were
• It was not death, for I stood up
• piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• Food was purer in the good old days
• Yesterday was Dramatic, Today is OK
• The night your father was stabbed in the back room of a convenience store. No mercy.
• Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen
• I wish I was a fish
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• man when you are telling me how it was
• I'm sorry, I didn't realize God was on campus today
• It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• all i ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• My skin felt like I was falling
• this is unlike the story it was written to be
• There is a speck of dust in my eye, honestly
• There is only one electron
• A drug that gives instant orgasms
• There's nobody to blame
• There is some goodness left in the World
• There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
• In Oxford City There Dwelt a Fair Maid
• There should be laws requiring electric cars to make the Jetsons flying car noise
• If there were no birds
• venomous lizards
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• There is No Such Thing As an Opinion: A Letter
• For there is no rule without its exceptions; and hardly an age without its monsters
• Our music, in place of breadcrumbs, is there to help us find our way back home.
• there are no gods in foxholes
• Is There a Polite Word For Murder?
• There isn't much to interpret, just the essence of man laid bare
• Rape committed by women
• The Trouble with Larry
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• If Dr. Seuss Was A Tech Writer
• I was aghast, yet intrigued
• The train station was fucking freezing and
• People wouldn't fall in love so often if it were more clearly marked
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Since I was knee-high to a grasshopper
• Heinlein was right- writing IS a disease....
• What if Microsoft was forced to release the Windows source code?
• The Haunting That Was Not
• I Was a Teenage Fairy
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• I was Chris to him
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• He Was a Crook
• was hael
• When I was Fair and Young
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
• I was floating in the ocean of his eyes.
• She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
• Jesus was a Gay Black Hippie Jew (song only) (recording)
• Why almost every node was written in the year 2000
• She was free
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• She knew what she was doing
• There are four lights
• there's a spider in my keyboard
• Be a problematic duck over there
• There are people for everything
• There's nothing harder than learning how to receive.
• I wonder if there is a God
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• There need to be more powers
• There is nothing inside of you
• There is a finite amount of information in the universe
• Two voices are there: one is of the deep;
• Are You Out There?
• The "Why is there not a node for the nodermeet on 12.6.03 in London" node
• there's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do
• What we found hiding there, furious and so alone
• there is nothing left, no joy, no wonder, just the office and cold soup
• There Will Be Blood
• There's no place like homenode

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