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I get slandered, libeled, I hear words I never heard in the Bible

I’ve spent I don’t know how many hours at work lately revising a set of reports for a, shall we say, precise (pedantic) client. Every time I send it back to her, she comes back with 9,000 other new little problems that she’s discovered. I’m fairly certain that this is some kind of karmic just [...]

 
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It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.

Damn it. As I got off the bus on the way into work earlier this week, Rundle Mall (the main shopping street in Adelaide) was bedecked with plastic snowmen, Christmas bulbs and chubby Santas – in the first week of November. Nooooooooooooo! Are you seriously expecting me to be festive for two months, for one-sixth [...]

 
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As the flames rose to a Roman nose

“Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I’d like to smash every tooth
In your head.
Oh … sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed.”
I don’t know how we got there, but Dr. O’C and I were talking about bullying the other day. I think I expressed [...]

 
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