mefi quote, no. 48

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She didnt' touch the pigs (too big?) so we got lots of ham bacon and eventually soap, but I wasn't willing to tell her that she deserved less than me, so I let her have her way.
posted by yesster at 7:16 PM on August 18

You can and should judge any "re-enactment" by the number and accuracy of the bad-guys.
Did I mention we were the British? Unlce John's eldest daughter got into a lot of trouble in Kindergarten for belting out "God Save the King" during the Pledge of allegiance...
posted by Slap*Happy at 7:35 PM on August 17

I understand that magicians in Qld can get a license to allow them to possess rabbits.
posted by pompomtom at 9:56 PM on July 9
there it was - one dead Jackrabbit, its neck broken but otherwise completely untouched, skin not even broken, delicately deposited on top of Harriet's grave. Never figured out how those two crazy mutts pulled it off.
posted by allkindsoftime at 11:19 PM on July 9

I rushed home and spent several hours rolling all my bees in it one by one, like tiny stinging cannoli. The best part was that for days afterward, little white bee ghosts could be seen flying around the yard.
posted by staggering termagant at 2:08 PM on October 9

Seriously, the only time I smelled putrifying shark skin, in salt, in tanning pits, was a long time ago, in Brazil, and the mere memory of that horrible stench still brings sweat to my forehead, as I write this.
posted by paulsc at 7:04 PM on October 9

In Afghanistan I once sold a truck, met the buyer in his bazaar stall, and spent two hours counting the crumpled notes and rejecting the smeared ones, the foreign ones, the newspaper ones, the cut-in-half ones, until we had more or less reached the agreed price.
posted by aqsakal at 11:25 PM on October 14

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