Tag: overheard
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How To Make Partner
It would be nice to take credit for coming up with this joke, but I really didn’t add anything.
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Never Speak of This
In retrospect having take-your-kid-to-work-day scheduled during the school year only makes it that much cooler: you also get to skip school!
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LAMP Shade
This was based on a conversation overheard soooo many years ago
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Romantic Economy
Having received a first-class upgrade before, I sympathize with how tough this decision must have been.
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Ronald McDahlnald
One of my kids was also having trouble with this author’s name for her own book report (in a different class). We helped her remember it as “Rolled Doll” and when she practiced her presentation and had trouble I would mime like I was tossing something low to the ground (the imaginary doll) to help…
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Hashtag Numerology
Now I’m just waiting for all the automated phone messages to start telling me to enter a number “followed by a hashtag” because it will surely resonate better with the next generation than “pound sign.”
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The First One’s Free
Was it a spirit? Was it a 4-dimensional being? Was it a trick? It was something, and clowns were involved.
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Canadian State of Mind
I tried to look it up, and (just like in American English) I believe you could technically use “state” to mean “country” in England as well. It just feels so wrong here.
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In-Vest-ed
My spouse heard the elementary schooler start the “would you rather die in a fire” exchange but unfortunately did not hear the rest of it. We may never know what the real alternative option was, we can only be certain that they were contemplating death.