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June 28, 2009
I Thought It was Monday...
We were resting on the couch in the late morning today, watching The Invincibles, and eating salad & watermelons, when suddenly the door from the back yard was yanked open, and two armed policemen barged in with their guns drawn. We jumped up, Stella covered herself up, and I asked them, what are you doing here. They said that they responded to a 911 call that claimed there were 2 transients and a dog squatting illegally in our house. I told them ‘You’re trespassing’, they demanded to see my ID, we had some back-and-forth, after which they left apologizing for their mistake. Wow!
For some reason, I thought that today was
Monday, so after a few hours, I drove to
the local police station to find out who called with this report. The station looked
like the one in ‘Assault On Precinct 13’, it was empty and
nobody came from behind the bullet-resistant glass, when I rang the bell. It
took me a few hours to realize that today is Sunday... (More inside the comments)
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June 23, 2009
It’s a girl!
We found out last week that the baby is going to be a girl.
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June 16, 2009
Someone must have been
telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one
morning, he was arrested. Every day at
eight in the morning he was brought his breakfast by Mrs. Grubach's cook - Mrs. Grubach was his
landlady - but today she didn't come.
That had never happened before.
K. waited a little while, looked from his pillow at the old woman who
lived opposite and who was watching him with an inquisitiveness quite unusual
for her, and finally, both hungry and disconcerted, rang the bell. There was immediately a knock at the door and
a man entered. He had never seen the man
in this house before. He was slim but firmly
built, his clothes were black and close-fitting, with many folds and pockets,
buckles and buttons and a belt, all of which gave the impression of being very
practical but without making it very clear what they were actually for. "Who are you?" asked K., sitting
half upright in his bed. The man,
however, ignored the question as if his arrival simply had to be accepted, and
merely replied, "You rang?"
"Anna should have brought me my breakfast," said K. He tried to work out who the man actually
was, first in silence, just through observation and by thinking about it, but
the man didn't stay still to be looked at for very long. Instead he went over to the door, opened it
slightly, and said to someone who was clearly standing immediately behind it.......
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June 11, 2009
Why is it that the people
most likely to say the Holocaust didn't happen -
- are the people who wish it had?
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June 07, 2009
Your Winning Numbers
4, 12, 23, 25, 33 and 40
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June 02, 2009
Jazz Prodigy Ariel Lanyi
Ariel Lanyi is a young pianist, composer & a jazz musician. Lanyi started playing when he was two years old and gave his first concerts when he was five.
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