Another gem from Craigslist Personals:
EXCEPTING APPLICATIONS - 41
Somehow to my ear this a combination of “accepting” and “exceptional”. I am sure this lady and 10,600 other people didn’t realize they created something better than a common spelling error.
Maybe Dave can weigh in.
Excepting applications
Exceptional candidates
Expected to apply

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Once in a while I try to search for the links to my blog. I like to know who has time to read this stuff or liked it enough to link, email or even add it to their Google Reader. Apparently no search is comprehensive and I keep finding new links all the time. The [...]

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While many bicycling enthusiasts are fighting for their chance to become the next road-side memorial, there is such a thing as riding for fun with no other agenda but to enjoy the scenery, breathe fresh air and get some exercise. It’s easy to spot a casual bicyclist: they are not dressed up as a gay [...]

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Couple of weekends ago I was sitting at the Harvey House Diner inside the almost empty Union Station, drinking a strawberry milkshake and reminiscing. Not that long ago this place was crowded with thousands of people as the second largest train station in the country, filled with sounds, voices and emotions. Today it spends [...]

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Today was a nice day to bring your garage sale to the masses at the City Market .

Garage sale wedding dress.
Just as much happiness,
For half the price.

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On this day 22 years ago Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and became the world’s worst nuclear disaster. I don’t have much of a Chernobyl personal story. It happened right before the May Day when we were looking forward to a weekend of camping and drinking. Soviet Government did not even acknowledge the disaster and [...]

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Today, on April 22nd, 2008 all progressive humanity celebrates 138th birthday of the Leader of the World Proletariat, founder of the USSR and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Vladimir Illyich Lenin. Something like this would make a traditional headline in every newspaper in the USSR as recently as twenty years ago. For [...]

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I am not sure why I thought it was a great idea to post my personal thoughts here, I guess I am not that anonymous. While I don’t have much control of what’s going on in my head I didn’t have to spill it all out here. I just thought that writing it out and [...]

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Feeding waterfowl
Is a lot like dating women
but you can’t f@ck a duck..
( does not apply to Chimpo)

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With all the controversy surrounding local exhibit of dead bodies I was reminded that this is not my first time not attending a viewing of a preserved cadaver. Thus, ground-breaking series “Behind the Iron Curtain” continues with a short new installment: Lenin’s Mausoleum.
For over 80 years the Soviet and then the Russian people [...]

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