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		<title>EX: Writer&#8217;s Toolbox &#8211; Popsicle Sticks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He swore on his mother&#8217;s grave, but then he swore on just about everything. Mark was also a habitual liar. It was no wonder that he had a rap sheet with the Detriot police a mile long. He was constantly in and out of jail for gambling and conning people out of their money. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EX: Writer&#8217;s Toolbox &#8211; Popsicle Sticks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Sentence: There I was, just standing there, when what I wanted to do was forbidden. Non Sequitur: I cheated on my spouse. And it wasn&#8217;t the first time. Last Sentence: The day her mother slapped her face. There I was, just standing there, when what I wanted to do was forbiddeb. I looked around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepytime Crusade</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the hours of 2pm and 4pm, I suffer from my usual post lunch lethargy. Nothing I do can shake the head nods and the eyelid drifts. Getting up and moving around for a few minutes to get the blood flowing helps for all of a few minutes before I am once again in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WOTD &#8211; May 8th, 2007: kibitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 15:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[kibitz (KIB-its) verb intr. 1. To look on at some activity and offer unwanted advice or criticism. 2. To chat or banter. [From Yiddish kibitsen, from German kiebitzen (to look on at cards), from Kiebitz (busybody, literally pewit or lapwing, a shorebird with a bad reputation as a meddler).] I often play chess, checkers, cribbage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WOTD &#8211; May 2nd, 2007: Asyndeton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 16:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[asyndeton (uh-SIN-di-ton, -tuhn) noun Omission of conjunctions, as in &#8220;I came, I saw, I conquered.&#8221; [From Late Latin, from Greek, from neuter of asyndetos (not linked), from a- + syndetos (bound together), from syndein (to bind together), from syn- + dein (to bind).] Our 11th grade English teacher thought it would be fun to host [...]]]></description>
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