Marlow's Listener » discourse http://www.richard-careaga.com not having to think about what you are going to say when you can decently interrupt Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:13:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Letter to the Editor http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/315 http://www.richard-careaga.com/archives/315#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:34:00 +0000 Richard Careaga http://www.richard-careaga.com/?p=315 Ado.jpg

[contains profanity] An outraged writer publishes his complaints about the omission of a crucial word from his prose.

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(Via More Intelligent Life -.)

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