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The least predictable emotion came from the most predictable demolition
One day a farmer and his helpers went out to their fields to tend to the crops. It was a warm sunny day and they were all slightly annoyed at the…
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Matt Jankowski
July 2021
When the armada gets lost in the fog, some of the fog gets enlightened by the armada
Every time I reset my password at a financial institution and then like a week later I get a physical paper in the mail confirming that I did this, it’s…
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A list of every science fiction film which accurately predicted a future innovation that came to be a real thing in the actual non-fictional…
Jumping into a warm pot of water to join the frog mid-boil With the games of the XXXII Olympiad merely a week or so away many people are coming down…
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Matt Jankowski
A simple solution to a complex issue
Bumper cars but where the cars are made of soap bubbles I was thinking about those “in case of emergency, break glass” boxes that have like panic…
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Matt Jankowski
There was a whole jumble of fruit seeds contained in the fruit seed jar
A jungle cat battles a non-jungle cat in a board game based in a jungle In a famous SNL skit which is a pretend episode of Behind the Music depicting…
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Matt Jankowski
June 2021
A commemorative stamp to commemorate the first time a commemorative stamp was issued
The canonical order for a parade is to put the parade leader first in line When I first heard the term “fly by wire” in reference to flying airplanes…
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Matt Jankowski
You could twist around the entire exterior surface, but had to contort and blur your vision to even glimpse the inside
The alarm clock rang to an empty household The region of La Mancha, in central Spain, famously has a bunch of windmills in it, as catalogued by Miguel…
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Matt Jankowski
The pattern was totally full of static, but when we looked deeper into the static we found it was utterly full of pattern as well
Imagine a really tall person in a really short bed and a really short person in a really long bed Fans of folk music will sometimes discuss the time…
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Matt Jankowski
A missing reference error can cause you days of trouble
The anomaly was noticed outside of the surface, but the inside seemed clean When the FBI or other police forces are about to perform a raid or serve a…
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Matt Jankowski
May 2021
The acrobatics in question required a relatively low level of flexibility, but a relatively high level of bravado
Doing your makeup with your eyes closed I’ve been listening to an audiobook about various ideas in physics. Part of how you talk about ideas in physics…
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Matt Jankowski
You can plan for the vacation of your dreams but you only get to experience the vacation of your reality
You’ve gotta look out for even bigger fish The “historical fiction” genre is one where an author will take an actual historical event or era, and place…
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The memories grew stronger even as the impact faded to dust
Validating your thesis via an under-powered data set I was thinking about going into someone’s house and re-labeling all the spice jars in their spice…
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Matt Jankowski
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