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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:04 pm
Haven't played that in years, but I played it a lot as a kid.
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:06 pm
We had a croquet set growing up, did a lot of playing. Now it just makes me think of the movie Heathers.
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:18 pm
My girlfriend makes assemblage dogs out of old metal skates and croquet mallets and sells them for a couple of hundred dollars. She sells them faster than she can make them.
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:39 pm
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:18 pm My girlfriend makes assemblage dogs out of old metal skates and croquet mallets and sells them for a couple of hundred dollars. She sells them faster than she can make them.
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Pictures, please! So cool.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:21 am
p0rtia wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:39 pmsugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:18 pm My girlfriend makes assemblage dogs out of old metal skates and croquet mallets and sells them for a couple of hundred dollars. She sells them faster than she can make them.
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Pictures, please! So cool.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:15 am
Thanks! Love it!
What are the ears made of?
What are the ears made of?
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:46 am
Japan I think. Nikoli. Besides lots of Scotch tape, ballpoint pens, and other insundry office supplies, Mrs bequeathed me with an awesome pile of Sudoku magazines. Most are the common grocery checkout type from PennyPress printed on low quality newspaper that requires the lightest touch with a pencil, or you'll tear the page. She also found some printed on glossy bond like most glamor and news mags that don't take a pencil or pen very well at all.
Then she found a few that are on Goldilocks paper - just right. Matte finish that doesn't reflect the overhead light glare. Medium weight paper that endures erasers, takes pencils well, and doesn't leak pens. Staple bound for easy page fold over. Multiple puzzles per page. And challenging enough to offer hours to days of solving. They claim to be handcrafted with an eye towards beauty as well as function.
I think they are right.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:03 am
Happy 
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:12 am
License plates. The heads are old shoe forms, tails are springs and the leather straps from the skates, noses are wooden knobs, eyes are washers and bottle caps, and she uses a bunch of random stuff, too.
She bought about 500 of the wooden shoe forms from a defunct shoe factory several years ago and has already run out of them.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:14 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:23 am
Filing cabinets filled with so much stuff, you don't know where to begin. Who knew that packs of ball point pens could dry out?
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:33 am
Never heard the word insundry. Neither has the dictionary.bill_g wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:23 amFiling cabinets filled with so much stuff, you don't know where to begin. Who knew that packs of ball point pens could dry out?
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:56 am
Welcome to idioms.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:33 am Never heard the word insundry. Neither has the dictionary.
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:18 pm
bill_g wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:56 amWelcome to idioms.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:33 am Never heard the word insundry. Neither has the dictionary.
insundry vs and sundry : Common Errors in English
insundry or and sundry
“Sundry” means “various” in modern English, so strictly speaking expressions like “various and sundry” and “all and sundry” are redundant; but many redundant expressions are standard in English, as are these. “Sundry” used to mean “different from each,” which explains why the expressions weren’t redundant when they first evolved. They were a little like “each and every”: each single individual and all of them collectively.The fact that “and sundry” now doesn’t really add anything except a rhetorical flourish to the expression may help to explain why some folks mishear this phrase as “insundry.”
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Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:26 pm
God bless the English language! 
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:53 pm
https://x.com/TheWeightSaint/status/176 ... 34253?s=20
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:02 pm
sorry/not sorry, RBG leadership award ceremony canceled.
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:43 pm
Those clowns are what they consider deserving? Out of a vast pool that’s what they came up with?
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:09 am
The shortlist was Martha Stewart (woman, yes, also imprisoned fraudster), Elon Musk (prize asshole noted for his complete lack of leadership skills), Rupert Murdoch (promoter of lies and destruction of civil society), Michael Milken (how many imprisoned fraudsters do you need on a shortlist?), and Sylvester Stallone (what has he ever led?).pipistrelle wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:43 pm Those clowns are what they consider deserving? Out of a vast pool that’s what they came up with?
Stallone is the odd one out simply because he is the closest to an acceptable law-abiding person. The others are obnoxious or criminal right-wing scum.
Bullying is the leadership technique of those listed. Not to be rewarded.
I don't know anything about the Opperman Foundation but they have a very nasty infestation of Trumpism.
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:47 am
Their EQUALITY in all caps speaks to their professionalism (lacking), and the emphasis on choosing men (EQUALITY) is itself political. The whole thing reeks of butt hurt.
And Musk is known on twitter for championing anti-Semitic and racist tropes.
I bet they had a giggle over this pool getting an RBG award (apologies to Stallone, who is the oddball for not being bottom of the barrel). Any of us could name a more appropriate group off the top of our heads.
And Musk is known on twitter for championing anti-Semitic and racist tropes.
I bet they had a giggle over this pool getting an RBG award (apologies to Stallone, who is the oddball for not being bottom of the barrel). Any of us could name a more appropriate group off the top of our heads.