OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Poker Mondegreen

When I was a kid, I would watch my father, Joe, play poker with his mates. Sometimes, he would bluff with a terrible hand. Sometimes, his bluff would be called.

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Doing What You Can

A random memory from when I was a kid on holidays in Murray Bridge just occurred to me. I was listening to a local radio station that was running a promotion with a baby food manufacturer. They called their listeners at random, and if they could read off the serial number from a can of […]

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Short Story, 2/5/85

I wrote the following short story as an assignment in English class when I was 14 years old.

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Categories: Story-Telling

He Would Have Gotten Away With It, If It Wasn’t For That Damn Kid!

He was soon being groomed for the highest public office in the land… There was however, a fly in the ointment.

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BBS Nicknames

One day, Bream LeFish added an evil new feature to his BBS, and then sat back and watched the fun.

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Data entry? Here’s what I think of Data entry!

The most challenging part of the data-entry was keeping focussed on such a tedious task. Allow me to illustrate how desperate I got.

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The Rigger and the T-Shirt

But, today’s story isn’t about audience participation or nudity. It is about the rigger and the t-shirt.

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Unicycling Limbo

I had never played Unicycling Limbo before. I had never seen it played. I had never heard of it being played. It was, however, the perfect game for the occasion.

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How I Lied to an Innocent Child

Dear T-,

Thank you for your postcard. It was very nice to read it.

On Saturday, I helped to make a movie about monsters.

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The Coward Gets Interviewed…

… A slow second ticked past as I sat stunned. Did this guy really just challenge my manhood in a job interview? …

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Categories: Based On A True Story,Story-Telling
Tags: interview, sweden, unicycling