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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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