Tag: awkward

Hall’s Rules of Social Order # 9 and #10

24 May, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

#9 – You can’t control who you fall in love with.  Love just happens.    #10 – AIDS and babies, however, do not.  Keep it in your pants and wait until you’re married.

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Hall’s Rules of Social Order #202

3 May, 2010 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

Unless you’re standing in isolation on top of a mountain somewhere, it is never acceptable to urinate with your hands on your hip with your elbows out.  Not only do you look silly, but that’s just asking for an accident.   CONTROL YOUR FLOW.

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the english language is ridiculous

30 April, 2007 (02:11) | Ramblings

i was reading the lord of the flies this weekend, and came upon a sentence that struck me as awkward as it started out.  "Here there were waves that beat against the sandy shore."  Awkward, because of the first three words.  Here.  There.  Were.  3 words, that look aesthetically the same, but phonetically are completely different.  […]

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the beltway

29 January, 2007 (02:36) | Thoughts & Ideas

I put my belt on the “wrong” way yesterday. I usually feed it through counter-clockwise. I faintly remember something awkward about the act when i did it, but i didn’t realize what i had done until i went to the bathroom later in the day. I’m struck by this occurence. What changed to make me […]

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