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fontanelles reviews – StumbleUpon

http://fontanelle.stumbleupon.com/ Dear Fontanelle: YOINK! **BUMPITY-BUMP** As a Lincoln groupie, I always enjoy stumbling across new quotes from the Great Emancipator. Fontanelle has uncovered one that’s very new to me. I imagine it dates from around the Battle of Chancellorsville (May, 1863): “I never loved America. All I ever wanted was sex and booze and pills. […]

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ABC-3D. The coolest book ever. [VIDEO]

http://www.wimp.com/coolestbook/ BobbyVardar sent me this link to a pop-up alphabet book like no other. Inventive and witty.

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50 Strange Buildings of the World | Village Of Joy

http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world?_pt=1 I was all set to thumb down this list of “strange buildings” – I’ve seen pages like this, full of context-less pictures, far too often. And then I saw this library in Kansas: So a thumbs-up it is.

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Y.P.R.: 11 Words That Sound Offensive, But Arent

http://www.yankeepotroast.org/archives/2008/09/11_words_that_s.html “All these trees are infested with cockchafer.”

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Memo to Petraeus and Crocker: More Laughs, Please – NYTimes.com

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/memo-to-petraeus-crocker-more-laughs-please/ Dick Cavett makes a case for the pen being mightier than the sword (and the military’s propensity for dulling its instruments), proving his point with a hell of a last line – an inky coup de gr

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Onomatopoeia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia Word of the moment: Onomatopoeia (occasionally spelled onomateopoeia or onomatopoeia) is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as “click,” “clang,” “buzz,” or animal noises such as “oink”, “quack”, “flap”, “slurp”, or “meow”. The word is a synthesis of the Greek words […]

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Pilcrow – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow Carrington‘s mention of “pilcrow” in our conversation the other day brought out the word nerd in me. Punctuation marks are so pervasive and auxiliary to a words that it’s hard to remember that they had to be invented at some point. I have a feeling a good part of my morning is going to […]

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Womens suffrage – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage An interesting distinction of which I was not aware: suffragists (peaceful protestors) suffragettes (violent protestors)

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http://www.macchiato.com/humor/how_i_met_my_wife.htm Cute little piece for language nerds that will leave you gruntled and more than whelmed. And I’m seriously considering stealing this line for my “about me”: I was, after all, something to sneeze at, someone you could easily hold a candle to, someone who usually aroused bridled passion.

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