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Don’t get me wrong- I'm a fan of Alicia Keys, but c'mon,I know some people search the world/To find something like what we have/I know people will try/Try to divide something so realOr Akon’s,I feel 'em hopin' and prayin' things between us don't get betterOr this,Everybody believed we would never be/Look at us, up above we are so in loveOkay I get it, you think your special friend is so great.

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Don't give the black man foodgive the red man liquour;red man foolblack man niggerGive the yellow man toolmake him railroad builder;also give him panmake him pull gold from riverGive black man crack, glock and thingsgive red man craps, slot machines* * * *Black will not be asked to get back,brown can stick around;yellow will be mellow,the red man can get ahead, manand white will embrace what is

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Oh sweetheart. THUNK!For those familiar with onomatopoeias, WACK!, POW!, or COCKDOODLEDOO! should easily RING! a bell. The beauty of onomatopoeias rests in their expressive tonality, but largely so in their conveyance of purposeful action. Comic books stuff themselves with epic fights and sequences: very evil-doers get knocked out, stuffed in a sack, and shipped to prison on the island (I hope

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A non-exhaustive guide to the commercial seasons (Canadian version) and its natural foliage and fauna changes to boot. If you had missed any number of these in the past, don't despair. The calendar is wholly cyclic, so next time you are browsing your local stores be sure to pay very careful attention to recurring themes in decorated displays for clues as to which month you are currently in.* * *

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What's white, brown, looks like lasagna, and tastes better than ice-cream itself? According to a news release, Unilever Ice Cream has reintroduced Viennetta into the U.S. as of October this year. Big shocker. And a good one. Remember the gang of hand models jousting each other for that last slice of vanilla ice-cream dessert-- the kind that's wavy all over and has little chocolate layers in the

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like a ton of bricks it hit meoh dear, please get yourself out of the isle, the stewardess is trying to give us hungry people all a bag of peanutswoah, what are you doing to mewell me, along with everyone else within earshot (and that's the whole plane) can't help but gape at your eccentric display of moaning and singing?you're slowing killing meam I? sorry I am just sitting here, still waiting

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The doctor gave my Mom pills to minimize her heart condition. They seemed to make her worse. The few times I was home I saw that the effects of the medicine had confined her to lying and sitting down, and left her with great discomfort. Of course the labels on the bottle had given its obligatory warning. The little I could do to ease her headaches, her nausea could not stop the symptoms. Imagine

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Please accept your waiting stub. Numberless it read, Your message has been sent.... Maybe it's just me, but lately more people than usual have asked about the particulars of my schooling. I hadn't made a pact of silence with myself, and I tell of applying to Creative Writing undergrad. A pact of silence would have made this a more underground affair, no entry unless you are an uninvited mole.I

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Matteo: "Yes I have a race-car on my shirt and you know what, when I wear this shirt it makes me reeeaally fast like- vrooooooom!" (Running off)Maya: "Why am I cute?"Skyler: "I'm going to be a rock-star. My band is going to be called the Hitches."Tessa: "Oopsies, I tooted!"Sloane: "You can marry Skyler and I'm marrying Kevin."Shaki: "Sharon is big sweetie, you can be the grandma." (Obviously big

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Over these weeks of “bad foot” I’ve walked much slower than I'm used to. It’s something people notice, that I take relatively big steps. Only time I don’t is when my bag weighs more than twelve pounds, then I take to a slow mammoth walk, it is most appropriate. With the pain I could not help but take it slow.Walking slow wasn't a problem. A few times I surprised myself by enjoying my elongated

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If you think Angelina Jolie adopts a lot, consider Google.After dropping enormous dollars on acquisition-happy splurges in the last few years, Google is taking the internet family by storm.It is a name many household domains would love to share. My first solo search for Google brought me to a place where colourful monsters flagged the front page, Googles.What does Google not search? You can flip

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Two Liberal MPs wrapped up their cross-Canada talk-tour this week at a forum organized by UBC Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND). Held in the newly opened Irving K Barber Learning Centre, following MP Sukh Dhaliwal’s introduction, a warm reception welcomed MP Glen Pearson and his Sudanese-adopted daughter. A man with a steady gaze, Glen Pearson had spent time as a firefighter and FoodBank

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At first nothing came to me. Pencil and paper in hand, the metaphor was too obvious. That we had heard about God being the author and finisher of our story and now were given pieces of paper to write in, gave me no imagination. I drew pictures instead. Mine became a picture book. It had scenes and sights, marvellous things. Literally it was a picture book, maybe even a pop-up. I folded the sheet

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I love the twists and turns it took for “Heartpress Fermentations” to materialize. Speaking simply of deciding on this blog's title, it was not a monotonous process, not as easy as squishing a grape would guarantee a splish of coloured juice. Editing came swiftly last: only after my preceding excitement at discovering the content. Cool enough that heartpress fermentations did not appear on

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