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• There are times when they seem to be right
• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• How can a man stand when they cut off his feet?
• We must remember them or they cease to be.
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• Automobile tire pressure
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• This must be the night when I remember how to fly, when the breeze catches my weight at last
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• They shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever
• You can learn a lot about someone from the way they die
• How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country
• the moment when they take possession of you
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• How to tell when a guy just wants to be friends
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they pour it out
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• SunOS, Solaris and how they relate
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• Be patient, you will get your patent. And they will pat you on the back.
• Recessive traits aren't what they used to be
• When they cut through the mountains to lay highways
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• A half-man, half-monstertruck ex-CIA vampire must save the world the only way he knows how: with ROCK
• they does not know what it might be to live without them
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• when they take my blood
• it's a pity we only appreciate some once they're gone, when they can no longer defend themselves
• Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• If you're not able to accept peace, then you must be willing to accept conflict.
• When they come they'll eat the fat ones first
• How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
• They Might Be Giants
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• In the future, hairstyles will be just like they are now
• remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they cut it out
• Where do they go when they walk out and leave the body behind?
• Too many people say nothing when they mean "I love you"
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• They say the prettiest girls get to be angels
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• Moments such as these are superfluous to my life; nevertheless, they deserve to be remembered.
• How to tell when your dog just wants to be friends
• Chipirones en su tinta
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• They knew what our pain would be.
• How They Encountered the Flutterbudgets
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• They will not be named!
• How it feels to be interviewed (when you know the answers)
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• How to get rid of spiders before they get rid of YOU
• i've heard that's how they did it in ancient egypt
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• seedless grapes
• They must have faces
• how do they feel, those unblinking eyes?
• When you kill people they die
• Eye contact at a distance
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
• The Enigmatic Head of They Might Be Giants
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• The economy has hit everyone hard. Well, everyone who hasn't lost track of how many houses they own, anyhow.
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• What people really mean when they say "Justice for X"
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• Things never were what they used to be
• You know a writer has made it when they stop posting on e2
• when you are young they assume you know nothing
• When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• How to be strong for her, when all you want is to depend on her
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• taters haster be peelt an' boilt fore they kin be masht an' et
• They be killin' some hog over thar'.....
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• They will be lucky for you. Allah favors the compassionate.
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• It must be morning when she dreams.
• Frontiers are not easy, nor are they meant to be
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• we are starving because we are afraid of our own hearts, and there must be another way
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• How could anybody know how we got to be this way?
• How They Came to Bunbury
• How they Matched the Fuddles
• If people weren't meant to be eaten, they wouldn't be made of meat!
• The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• DPI, resolution, physical printing size - how they interrelate
• The sky will hold them. They will be an ocean apart.
• Don't try to make the moment last. You can ruin it that way. Just learn to savor it and, when the time comes, learn how to let it go.
• play dumb
• Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
• Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
• Japanese origami legends and how they changed my life
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• I thought ALL women looked for a wedding ring when they talked to ANY man
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• What Italian guys are really talking about when they say "Ey Oh"
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• not what words are used, but how they are used
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies
• When they say "Gotta have it!" they mean it!
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• When people say "All-American", they seldom mean me.
• They don't touch me the same way
• Where do they keep the car keys when they transport cars?
• By the way, those chairs, they spin
• Beliefs become religious when they become self-referential
• When left long enough, students will always discuss cartoons they watched as kids
• Live so that they cry when you're born and laugh when you die
• People don't flail when they die
• How They Drank at the Forbidden Fountain
• Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• Why girlfriends get annoyed when they remember things you don't
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• Children are people readers and they know when you are fiction
• Sometimes birds are lions and prides of pigeons shake the ground when they roar.
• I like my breasts the way they are
• You are brave and wonderful even when they nuke the damn thing.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• twelve ways to do and be is enough for cats
• How to be a geek
• How to be a badass
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• No. 43: How Not To Be a Geek
• When shall I be free?
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• How to be a good customer
• When did you choose to be left-handed?
• How to Be Alone
• How to be a lardass
• How interracial coupling can be eugenic
• how does it feel to be carried out to the trash?
• You must be 18 or older to enter
• How to be a street musician
• The Way It's Meant To Be Played
• Don't be an ass at a restaurant
• Attention must be paid
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• How to disappear completely and never be found
• How To Be Funny
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• It must be the Friday night before Valentine's Day.
• It's hard to be an addict when you're broke
• How to be a professional public transit passenger
• God must be deaf
• How to get Apache to be a bit more secretive

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