OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

An Almost Modern Linguistic Phenomenon

I wanted to point out a new linguistic phenomenon out to the world.

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Male Modle

The poor kid was trying to be a gentleman and look in the opposite direction to the mass of perfectly-formed young female bodies each trying to get hurriedly changed from one swim-suit to another.

I thought this he was missing a great opportunity.

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Cold-Reading By Proxy

Oh no. How did I end up in another cold-reading situation?

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Dag För Dag

On Sunday, while looking for something else, I stumbled across a journal that I kept for six weeks in 1991.

So, what did I discover about my twenty-year-old self?

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Non-Smoking linked to Drinking

My father, Joe, smoked cigarettes when he was younger, but he decided he wanted to give up.

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Plumbing – the Male Psyche

In which Julian re-discovers his masculinity – it was in the wrong place all along

… and then he loses it again

… and proves he can turn the most mundane act into a story.

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Gambling and Meta-Gaming

Many years ago – I was still a preteen – my grandparents were hosting a dinner for all of their children and their grandchildren. After dinner, we kids played some cards, while the adults talked. We were playing Pontoon – which is a gambling game – but rather than using matches for tokens, we borrowed […]

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MoBoFo

Apparently my CPU has been getting up around 75°C.

I ignored it for a while. However, last weekend I decided it was time for action.

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It’s hard to wreck a nice face

Apparently, I am a dead ringer for Adrien Brody… and Clark Gable

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Security Questions

Before I can tell you your new password, I need you to garlphrumph kwellaos.

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