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Duh, I don't know my name85

English Surnames

We all have one, some of us change them, but where do surnames come from and what do they mean? When researching a family tree you are soon able to follow branches of your tree by the surnames alone.Genealogy...

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Writing Impacts Your Personal Life

Every writer understands on some level that writing helps them work through issues. Writing assists in toning down inner demons and angst. Writing as therapy gets assigned by counselors all the time. Even...

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Gifts for the Person who has Everything

Looking for something interesting, something outside of the box to buy for someone on your list? Just don't know what to buy? Here's a list of interesting, yet relatively useless gadgets and toys to buy that someone whom you just don't know what to get.

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patful profile image68

Satire: A Writer's Lethal Weapon

Satire is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer's arsenal---and yet many writers don't realize the influence that a well-crafted satire can have on readers. Saturday Night Live, Jon Stewart, Dave...

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Monty Python's Life of Brian69

A Guide To Irony

A guide to: what is irony, how to be ironic and the best ironic humor.

1 comment    humor funny comedy
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail Video Clips

Collection of some of the best video clips from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  Pop Culture Confessional is a weekly column where our writers can divulge and indulge in their most deeply embarrassing cultural passion — and then tell you why it actually rocks. Everyone has a few...

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DeputyDoug profile image48

The Front Fell Off :)

This video is circulating on the internet via e-mail as a true story even though it is a comedy skit done by Australia comedy duo John Clarke and Brian Dawe. They are discussing an oil spill that occured in...

0 comments    funny comedy australia
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In Praise of SPAM

SPAM - noun, [food] lunch meat, trade name of product; Spam - noun - [unsolicited email message] often commercial, messages transmitted through the Internet as a mass mailing to a large number of recipients; In 1937, Hormel Foods was looking for a distinctive and memorable name for their Spiced Ham. Kenneth Daigneau, a Broadway actor and, just by happenstance, brother to a Hormel executive, was the winner of $100 in a contest to come up with the name Spam. The rest, as we say, is history. market

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Earl, one of my cats, being himself.39

Finding the Funny Even When You Feel Rotten

Actually right now I am too fatigued to write this. But being a compulsive blogger/writer/whatever I find I just have to do it. First the whining. I'm aching all over. Communal AWWWWW! I am always in some...

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