Word Skillz

Oddly shaped pearls in an ocean of words

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According to Johnson, wearing one-legged pants is a way to dress for an uncertain future.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/64849/1/why-are-one-legged-pants-taking-over-the-runways-an-investigation

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Oregon police find bag full of drugs marked ‘definitely not a bag full of drugs’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/oregon-police-portland-drugs-bag

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Mr. Vonnegut seemed to have more faith in GHQ [board game] than in most of his writing. “He had great hopes that GHQ was going to rescue him,” his son said.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kurt-vonneguts-ghq-the-lost-board-game-mars-international/1146300521

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/crosswords/kurt-vonnegut-board-game-ghq.html

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Taylor grew up in California – the perfect breeding grounds for a tree-lover – and has always had a deep affinity for trees.

-https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/worlds-largest-sugar-pine-discovered-in-yosemite

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Однажды я об этом разговаривал с Синявским, который сказал, что в романе Горького «Мать» есть только один человеческий персонаж — это самовар. Каждый раз, когда Горький хотел как-то очеловечить ситуацию, он писал: «Вносят самовар»

https://www.svoboda.org/a/28880700.html

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Postexposure Prophylaxis for Rabies After Consumption of a Prepackaged Salad Containing a Bat Carcass — Florida, 2017

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6642a7.htm?s_cid=mm6642a7_e

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But in an ironic twist, protecting the furry, dark-brown carnivore requires killing its main competitor, the equally winsome American mink

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/scientists-think-they-can-save-european-mink-killing-its-ruthless-rivals

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Anyone offered large quantities [of chocolate] via unconventional channels should report it to the police immediately

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/15/543702067/truck-with-20-tons-of-nutella-and-chocolate-vanishes-police-hunt-for-semis-sweet

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Women under Communism enjoyed more sexual pleasure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html

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As Céline Dion is trending, take a minute to remember her namesake, the endangered solenodon

New Scientist

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My first response to that is show me the dead Canadians. Where are the dead Canadians?

former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, responding to a claim that Canadian medicines are illegal and unsafe; http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2003/11/20/pawlenty-pitches-prescription-plan-to-congress

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“Скорбите глубже, мы взволнованы" [Mourn more deeply, we are agitated] - http://www.svoboda.org/a/28199558.html

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The sauna’s healing properties, he said, had served him well after he injected frog poison into his forearms as a form of alternative medicine. (“I have a frog guy in Brooklyn,” he explained.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/nyregion/korean-spa-new-jersey-king-spa-fitness.html

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But it does seem like characters are shot in the chest quite a lot in this series. After a while, you do hope for something a little more dramatic – particularly when the assembled parties are gathered next to a shark tank.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/02/sherlock-recap-series-four-episode-one-the-six-thatchers

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Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth

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At 17, she landed a summer job washing glassware and observing the sex habits of sea urchins at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., which she fondly remembers for its 'decaying sea-creature smell.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/dining/compost-pail-leslie-vosshall.html

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The US navy also uses sea mammals to carry out military tasks, with sea lions deployed to Bahrain in 2003 to support Operation Enduring Freedom after the 9/11 attacks.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/russia-five-combat-dolphins-cold-war-marine-mammals-crimea