THURSDAY #4355

 One Of My Very Own

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EMAIL: 

ralh.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

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THOUGHTS ON THANKSGIVING

Only Americans are this collectively stupid.

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CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES

Barak, Michelle, Hilary, and Bill all took them:

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Messes with: _O_ _E_ _

Prepare to go next: _EE_ _

Break: _A_

Small trunks: _ _EE_ _ _

Word that can precede or follow "run": _ _ _

Critical time: _ _A_

What can take a punch?: _A_ _ _

____ beam: _ _N (It's not SUN)

Big diamonds: _ _ E _

Produce on a farm: _ _O_

Upfront: _ _O_ _U

Letters gone from most phones: _ _E_

Suite meet: T_ _ _T

In again: R_ _R_

ANSWERS TO FOLLOW

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LANGUAGE ITEMS

[verification needed]

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We wish.

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That is one of my very own.

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When your teenager gets a hold of the signboard...

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How she let her husband know she was pregnant.

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*MNBT

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As I understand it, the main port was in the province of Holland so the sailors began to say they were going to Holland and it stuck.

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It has been brought to my attention that the stick figure decals on the back windows of vehicles are not pedestrian kill scores. Bummer.

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OBJECTS OF INTEREST

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Singaporean apartment block

I think I've shown you that before but I just noticed that frees up a lot more green space on the roofs.

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Near Guadalajara, Mexico

The photo was taken in 1895

The photo was taken in 2016

This is another image I seem to remember showing you months ago. I talked to my most trusted advisor about reposts and she said that most people won't remember everything I've posted. I hope that's the case.

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[verification needed]

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Programmed to be sassy...

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Rare footage of a Halitrephes Maasi Jellyfish

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So very vulnerable...

...so far to go.

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Newspapers?! Who reads newspapers anymore?

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The manual model

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Watering plants with night condensation

Southern Spain has a whole bunch of those.

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I'm a Hydrox man myself. You can crumble them up in milk to make a delicious paste. Oreos have too much white shit for that.

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Growing up we had four of those in our house.

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That's magnificent! I would love to have a print of that hanging in my office.

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Putting yourself in the right spot at the right time.

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After I put a clap light in our bedroom, rough sex also became a rave.

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PEOPLE NOT LIKE US

He went into a ''Kneebar'' to help blood get back to his forearm.

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Shitty cropping.

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Can you spot the moment the graffiti canon exploded?

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CROSSWORD ANSWERS

Barak, Michelle, Hilary, and Bill all took them:

LSATS (Law school pre-test)

Messes with: MONKEYS

Prepare to go next: TEEUP

Break: GAP (as in a schedule)

Small trunks: SPEEDOS

Word that can precede or follow "run": DRY

(That took me much longer than it should have)

Critical time: DDAY

What can take a punch?: LADLE

____ beam: ION

Big diamonds: ACES

Produce on a farm: GROW

Upfront: SHORTU

(That's an old crossword trick. The U in up is a short U sound.)

Letters gone from most phones: OPER

Suite meet: TRYST

In again: RETRO

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