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Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

Kippis!

Let me know when this happens. You'd be the Brewsky Dudeski.

3/ I do this when I have one of those days at work where I feel like I literally want to jump out of my skin. Filled my Owala with cold water and crushed ice before leaving work, consumed it on my 20 minute drive home… ahhh much more settled when I arrived in my driveway.

2/ The very cold water will stimulate your vagus nerve, which then activates a parasympathetic response, helping you shift from a state of “fight or flight” to “rest and digest”.

1/ Pro tip for regulating yourself when you are in a highly agitated state, drink a big glass of cold water with lots of ice, crushed ice if possible or small cubes so that you can chew/swallow.

You just explained my crushed ice and water addiction to me. I had no idea. Thank you.

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Sept 30 🧡 Today we wear orange to honor the children who never came home, and the survivors of residential (boarding) schools who carry those memories still. Truth, healing, and remembrance . Every child matters. #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters

Btw, if you’re gonna buy mums this year*, don’t. Buy asters instead. Mums are not native to N. America, asters are. Ideally one grown without pesticides but I know that’s hard to find. Any aster is better than a mum.

*if you live in N. America

How is he going to tell anyone where the President's head is? The President doesn't even know where his head is...though if he could bend backward far enough he might locate it.

Don't do it! Buy a wig from Amazon and live your best life. You can have all of the hair, not just one kind. The only limits are the ones you impose upon yourself.

(I 100% buy wigs and live my best life. The fiance LOVES it too.)

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Kippis!

You are the literal best.

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Okay...I'm clapping for you, but I also want to know how you have somehow have the spirit of Hank Hill in you. I just have Sam Kinison.

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Macarism [MAK-uh-riz-um]
(n.)
- A philosophy in which one derives their pleasure from the inspiration of joy in others; a beatitude.

Used in a sentence:
“He lived a life of macarism, quick to notice the kindness of a neighbor, and to turn them into moments of gentle celebration.”

She didn’t make the cut for the Spice Girls because she was too basic, but I think we can all agree...

Pumpkin turned out to be the most famous of them all.

Whatever I have given, I have gained. — Leonard Nimoy

Words of wisdom 🤩

Mitch! I still listen to his stuff. You made me really happy with the reference.

In the immortal words of Mitch Hedberg; escalators can't break...they just become stairs.

P.S. It was one of his own flying monkeys who turned the stupid thing off.

Freudian slip

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Say it louder for the morons in the back!

They are pro-birth not pro-life. No funding for head start, no universal childcare, no universal pre-k, opposed to free breakfast/lunch at schools, cutting funding for Title 1 services… and the list goes on.