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In a better world, not a great one necessarily, but a better one, a "polymarket" would be a dating service for slightly annoying people who nonetheless had more sex by volume than any charismatic and conventionally attractive person you have ever met.

Our mountain guide gave me a stern talking to about "wandering off purposefully trying to get lost" after my "Gochujang, what's next Vegetachang!" joke landed flat at camp last night. He wouldn't tell me if he got the joke, but did tie a rope between us.

"A poor man's vegetable they call this back in Finland" I say as I scrape my finger through what I think is ketchup, but is blood, and immediately contaminate the crime scene I've been brought in as a temp to tape off.

Very good!

I have not!

I climbed K2, grew a mohawk in my fifties and raised funds for several local charities in an effort to no longer be known as "the guy whose wife left him for his parrot". These attempts were all decidedly unsuccessful. Quite unfair, she's the weird one!

My dentist, and good friend, Sylvia Plaque is a distant relation of motorsport impresario "Rude" Paul Plaque. I met Paul once, having grown up a fan of Rude Paul's Drag Racing, I had to ask him how felt about the show of a similar name. He was magnanimous and said "those divas are swell".

"My, my, your life is quite the picaresque adventure is it not?"

"The lady flatters me I suspect, but I'm afraid I never watched The Next Generation, I must be going before the railroad bull returns, but I will never forget this encounter mademoiselle."

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I'm proud to be a dues paying member of the International Hopscotch Hall of Fame, but they have to stop doing these "RIP X, you would have loved hopscotch" posts when someone famous dies. HoF members and maybe celebrities that were pictured playing the game, but no theoretical shout-outs.

Whenever Ken introduces a new girlfriend to the boys, he goes through us one by one, tells the lady one thing we taught him, and how much we can bench. When he gets to me he always says, I taught him "to hear women" (nice, whatever), but then says I'm "more of a reader than a lifter" (wtf?).

Maybe the best writer I know of is my friend Cindy. She writes "Haven't heard from you in a while" win-back customer emails for dominatrices. An incredibly tough tone to get right. She's a radical feminist and leftist, but publicly identifies as a fiscal conservative to annoy an ex-stepfather.

Big problem at family dinner, Uncle Tim was allowed to attend on the promise he won't do his "Chairman" character. He arrived in a power suit and after being easily tricked by his niece into emptying his pockets, a gavel was discovered among the items in his possession. Not good.

"Lapsen suusta kuulee totuuden"

Just sharing an old and appreciated Finnish proverb that states you hear the truth from the mouth of a child. Just some additional context.

You're fascinating man, I almost wish I was dating you not my sister. No just joking, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on Road to Perdition, you've seen it I presume?

Big problem at family dinner, Uncle Tim was allowed to attend on the promise he won't do his "Chairman" character. He arrived in a power suit and after being easily tricked by his niece into emptying his pockets, a gavel was discovered among the items in his possession. Not good.

Is a community centre a club exactly? No, no it is not and this has been pointed out to Mike. But we agreed to table the topic on the day as Maria had to go pick up her husband's kid. She's the child's mother but prefers that terminology. It is not my place to dig or opine.

The working group for the new community centre has met a couple times now. Last time we ended by agreeing "Next time we have to discuss the big difficult question" Everyone else had materials ready to discuss funding, but Mike prepared a slideshow on "Whether we should allow girls into the club".

Whenever I have need to visit the apothecary I ask the salesperson "And you vouch for this tincture?", they usually do so with an honest eye. I avoid generics, as I believe balms and potions should have a specific purpose, I am not so foolish as to believe in a panacea.

Most women at the party want to sleep with my lawyer, notary, and literary agent Sterling Brochure. I don't blame them, the tall polyglot tends to get what he wants, whether that's a record advance, a no fault divorce, or papers signed while he watches. I steal glances at him while I make the dip.

"I was on the front end, so it wasn't as bad for me, but you hate to think of the guys at the other end", shut the fuck up Barry. You're making this worse for everyone.

I obviously don't hate anyone as much as the mad doctor who abducted my whole recreational male ringette team and stitched us together by our pinky fingers, but a close second is Barry, who started referring to what happened in interviews as being "finger human centipeded". Why make that comparison?

It can be unclear to the reader what an editor does. My two biggest "wins" during my career were convincing Tolkien to not include the appendix that spelled out which fantasy race corresponds to which real world people group, and making Nader focus on cars and not tricycles in Unsafe at Any Speed.

I sat down my goddaughter after she turned ten and showed her the 1988 Kentucky Derby, won by Winning Colors, and told her afterwards with a grave seriousness that "ladies can do anything". Her mother wanted to offer some context afterwards, but seemed to appreciate the sentiment.

The fellow is obsequious, though he cannot spell or define the term, the fellow is capable of receiving up to ten PDF documents at a time. Once the fellow has responded more than ten times in a dialogue it is best to initiate a new one, that does not require them to remember the old one.

I've signed paperwork, and received a generous portion of Pizza Hut coupons in exchange for doing so, stating that I will never comment on whether anyone mentioned did or did not groom me. But I can say he is very good at cyber.

Almost everyone would be better at their job if they had a half-wit personal assistant helping them with it. But historically not so much better that it's worth paying for that assistant for most people. But who knows.

That seems like a real issue to me as well. It is totally feasible that the high-end of these tools make lots of jobs X percent more "productive", but the cost of that additional production will eventually have to be priced at what it actually costs. Maybe they solve that, but it's an open question.

"It's becoming clear you are a man of the three wheeled industry" is not a traditional insult. But it was clearly meant as such at the time.