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~inquiry

> I think of BOOM BOOM Here Lies O'Leary, from Scaries
> Stories Vol 2. I, a guy named O'Leary, remembers this tale
> along with all other lore surrounding the (fairly rare)
> O'Leary name. Esp the Chicago Fire, ty Auntie ;)

You gots me remembering a Moody Blues song called "Legend of a Mind".

> No, I was thinking of wordplay, wordsmith'ing, how a good
> way to describe someone insulting a person with intentful
> hurt and personal hatred would be:
>
> "...she spoke her disgust deliberately, as if saying
> it while still in the crowd we departed from. As though
> sky-writing "FUCK YOU" at night, where no one else would
> see it - just me, the night owl, while the rest of the
> neighborhood slumbered"

That (to my knowledge) there's never been a competitive word-smithing show says about all one need to know about this species.

> as deleting writing is nearly as important as writing it

Heart!

> Also, I have Google Fi - terrible for tethering, but it
> works somewhat. 50gb of *truly* unlim 5G speeds. not capped
> at 22gb like other carriers.

There a bad "I smell the blood of an Englishmun!" in that somewhere.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

That (to my knowledge) there's never been a competitive word-smithing show says about all one need to know about this species.

I think we did, it was informally called Sentence Contest but most called it Twitter. Then "headlines" got lazy and angry - people lost taste for wanting to "be good" at writing things. Ricochets the importance/weight of those who DO like to write back unto them. So sayeth Zarathustra (haha)

There a bad "I smell the blood of an Englishmun!" in that somewhere.

fees are low, Google is still a foe, and fumbling the network config is constant. Now I want an English muffin.