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RDCanecutter

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  1. As the King of Spain commands, there go I.
  2. Yesterday after dark, when I'd normally be lounging around like Jabba the Hutt, I went out and claimed my first conquest. A nice rectangle like starting out in that old Tron motorcycle video game. My plan today is to add another "box" to the north, touching on the nearest rival exploration. I should be able to add hexes to already-explored streets by walking on alternate sides of the streets. I have to remember to set my phone so it doesn't go into sleep mode. I notice people have cheated and have used the app while driving, you can tell by how the paths are disconnected dots instead of braided hexes.
  3. OK, my ass needs some exercise, I signed up. Let's hope it's digital crackrock. It's terra incognita for about a mile around my house. It shall be MINE.
  4. Sometimes you just gotta say fuckit.
  5. Tha mi gu dòigheil! Up to about Day 412 on Duolingo. I have obtained spousal and community (her friends and sister) approval to trek to Scotland and take a longer course. Or maybe to Nova Scotia, they have a school there as well. Actually seems easier to get to Scotland. About a week ago I started mixing in a little Dutch between Gaelic lessons after hearing a linguist say that he studies Dutch because it's Silly English. What I've seen so far is 3/4 interchangeable with English. Made me realize that my cousin's Dutch husband isn't really speaking English, he just pops in the occasional English word and otherwise putters along in Dutch. I still close out every session going back to Gaelic.
  6. Reminds me of the first time I heard the word "slurry."
  7. What? Too good for Palermo?
  8. Ukraine needs to capture Murmansk, then start working their way south from there.
  9. I never postured myself as some three-piece suit type.
  10. They don't eat lettuce. Maybe if CiCi's pizza goes up too much.
  11. Reminds me of the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds when the commuter train shoots past full of flames. Ring of Fire: A friend taught English in Taiwan. He would have little kids belting out that song every morning.
  12. My theory is that Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are all the same state with three different personality disorders.
  13. That may have been a non-rhotic adaptation because othuhwise it'd come out as "AH-cee". That's how I talked until I mingled with twangy hillbilly kids who teased me about making "guard" rhyme with "God." So I overcorrected. Gard in heaven. But honestly, my RC fixation came as an adult. In childhood I was more of an Old Dutch Chocolate man. It has vanished along with the stores and towns where I'd get it during backroad trips to Flawda.
  14. New? That's been the mantra as long as I've been alive. Though in fairness to Mississippi, they recently got a bug up their ass and improved their reading scores from 50th to about 35th place. Or else 15 other states just slid behind them. Flip a coin.
  15. You make that sound like a bad thing.
  16. Change "install ceiling fan" to "perform interpretive dance in East German cabaret," and I've got that list locked down.
  17. How were they even able to see him with all that camo on?
  18. THAT'S THE LIE THEY SPOON-FEED US, SHEEPLE!
  19. How much do you pay for almost-sober semi-retirees to accost passerby while wearing a sandwich board touting your wares, Sir?
  20. Sounds like the kid skipped a couple of grades.
  21. "Vouz avez un nez... très grand." [I fucked up. Start it at 1:50.]
  22. Everything sounds great in a Mexican radio announcer's voice. Those motherfuckers love life, every word hitting like fresh rivets from a dude who just found out his 20-year-old mistress is going to name her baby after him and this one will bring him pride, hombre, not like that slacker poet gorducho ese sitting on the sofa at home playing sus bloop bloop bloop videojueguiiiitos to' el pinche día weyyy. Yeah. So when I taught Spanish, and Tyler and Kendra would mope through their readings, I'd stop them, and ask them to get in touch with their inner Mexican radio announcers. Dunno if it helped, but at least I was less bored.
  23. My Texas brethren, after growing up in the almost most retarded state of Alabama (Thanks Mississippi, now jump for the cookie-- GOOD BOY) I need to tell you, you never wanna go full Abbott.
  24. You want bottle of water? Smash store window. Looted store is empty, and you still want water? Advance to next town.
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