Tag: humor
group name: thewriters
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March 24, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
I ought to tell you that I love you. But if I do, you'll have to hem & haw and either lie with an I love you of your own or you'll be honest and I'll get mad and we'll . . . more
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August 22, 2007 10:50 PM EDT --
[I posted this article four months ago under another name to a global warming topic. Thought it belonged here.]
(This story takes place in 2007 B.C. though, of course, the people in the story . . . more
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December 01, 2007 09:17 PM EST --
Dear
Please excuse this holiday letter, I have had to write it in lieu of calling you, like I would love to do, but we don't have a phone.
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April 07, 2008 01:14 AM EDT --
If I had a hammer...
I'd break a lot of glass and china and walls and maybe some heads.
I'd break into banks and outta jail. . . . more
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January 19, 2008 08:51 AM EST --
The other day I got carded at the Goodwill. I had stopped in to drop off a bag of stuff, and found just a few things I wanted. The young woman ringing me up smiled and asked sweetly, "How old are . . . more
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August 27, 2007 06:17 AM EDT --
Outside the attic window,
a bird flew against the glass;
not hurt, he flapped again and chirped.
Up the attic stairs, thunderous steps
the sound of one hundred elephants, times two;
it . . . more
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March 31, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
I tried going the extra mile , but I got blisters. How'm I supposed to walk back not one but two miles on oozing blisters? Well. . . I didn't.
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April 07, 2008 12:05 AM EDT --
This is the fourth in a series about my week in charge of my own life, while Hubs is on vacation. The previous installments are:
Home Alone - I'm No Cinderella
Home Alone - Hunting . . . more
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April 08, 2008 07:49 PM EDT --
Welcome to suburban Atlanta, where fast food restaurants crowd four and five deep into every intersection. Every corner of every intersection.
Burgers? Of course. Fried Chicken? This is the south . . . more
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September 03, 2007 07:15 AM EDT --
Mao well lives up to his name.
Mao, I wanna go out.
I let him out the back stairs.
Mao, he whines, less than a
minute later, I wanna come in. It
is cold on the back stairs. Besides,
there are no . . . more
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September 16, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
With apologies to Judith Viorst.
Rewritten but originally written in 2006. Presented now for Back to School and Back to Pre-School.
* * . . . more
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April 30, 2008 09:52 PM EDT --
I've had it. Quite seriously, I am fed up with my cell phone.
Not the service. No. It works quite well. Too well. I get calls, clear calls, any time & any . . . more
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December 07, 2007 10:40 AM EST --
So...I'm thinking. I've never been a big one for the holidays. I can remember loving Christmas and all that came with it when I was a kid, but then something switched. It's probably because . . . more
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March 13, 2008 01:19 PM EDT --
Nick was entangled in a blood feud, but not the way he thought.
(A genre I aspire to: Humorous science fiction. This is just the beginning of a 7,000 word short story. Any comments/suggestions are . . . more
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February 10, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
The new week is starting and we here at Writing Essentials: Humor Monday are going to do our best to send you out into the world with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Well, at least the smile . . . more
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August 04, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Welcome to Humor Monday Update.
Not only are there plenty of posts here to get your week off to an amusing start, there is excellent prose and poetry as . . . more
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August 08, 2008 01:23 PM EDT --
As I am apparently being drafted to run for the nation’s highest office, I thought I should clarify my positions on several key issues.
Unlike most politicians, I like to keep my political . . . more
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September 17, 2007 05:20 AM EDT --
Yook, a big, red fire fruck!' Teeden yelled as he ran to the window.
'Teeden, don't' say 'fruck' say, 'ter-uck.' Can you say 'ter-uck?''
'No I . . . more
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December 07, 2007 08:56 AM EST --
What a gift it is to have small children. You always have toys and you get to watch all those great kid movies. I can’t tell you how many times my daughter and I have shared . . . more
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March 03, 2008 07:38 PM EST --
Have you ever wondered why Alice doesn't live here anymore?
Having nothing better to do one Spring Break, I visited Alice's former home.
I wouldn't live there anymore either. . . . more
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