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Tag: quotes

  • Letter with headline/subject "Your new 'simplified' Pension Annual Benefit Statement", with quotation marks around the word 'simplified' added for emphasis but giving the impression that it's not simplified, that's just what they're calling it.

    'Simplified'

    Well 'thanks' for the 'simplified' statement, I guess?

    Read more - about 1 minutes (8 words)

    • Note
    • posted 24 August, 2026
  • David Bowie on Zen Pencils

    205. DAVID BOWIE: Go a little further

    ZEN PENCILS ยป 205. DAVID BOWIE: Go a little further (zenpencils.com) Zen Pencils
    If you don't follow Zen Pencils already, here's a great diving-in place.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (14 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 14 June, 2018
  • Zen Pencils: Ralph Waldo Emerson

    197. RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Envoys of Beauty



    Zen Pencils

    Read more - about 1 minutes (2 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 21 November, 2016
  • Facebook post claiming "I did not post it", complete with unecessary quote marks.

    You did not post it? Of course you didn't... (x-post /r/itsaunixsystem)

    Read more - about 0 minutes (0 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 24 June, 2015
  • Kiwi Evolution

    A discussion at SmartData this morning:
    Dan: (eating a kiwi fruit) So why are kiwis hairy?
    Gareth: To give insects something to cling onto?
    Dan: Like "kiwi headlice"? But to what purpose? How does that benefit the plant?
    Gareth: Well, then maybe it's to make them look even more like gonads.
    Dan: Heh. But again, to what purpose?
    Gareth: To โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 9 December, 2009
  • Abnib Quotes

    It only occurred to me the other week that there are lots of people who would probably want to know about Abnib Quotes - people, even, that are quoted on it - that don't. And that's probably my fault for not blogging about it.

    So yeah - there's an Abnib Quotes. It replaces the long-defunct RockMonkey โ€ฆ

    Read more (130 words)

    • Article
    • posted 21 May, 2008

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