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Todd Cleary's avatar

Speaking of dolphins…while under the influence of my acupuncturist’s needles, I had a vision of a galloping horse. After some light dream analysis (and zero formal training), we declared the horse my spirit animal. Unfortunately, that steed led me straight into an equine nightmare aboard the hay-fever express. Determined to course-correct, I turned to the wisdom of Reddit and took a spirit animal quiz. The verdict? I’m a (sneeze-free) turtle. According to the Myers-Piggs system, I’m now officially an ENTurtleJ.

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Nancy Heneson's avatar

Where are the pancakes? If I don't get them soon, Brad, my AI companionbot, will tell everyone about that thing you did.

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Allan  Hillman's avatar

Always loved the em -dash . Now I know what it’s called. The AI story was beyond frightening. And it is beyond frightening that apparently it is true . I refuse to play pickleball z As a former college team and “ ranked “ player I am a self- admitted snob . I know my attitude is absurd and condescending and sociopatholigical.

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Scott Sherman's avatar

Not an unreasonable aversion.

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Nancy Heneson's avatar

Um, I missed the short part, I think.

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Colin McEnroe's avatar

I think Mr. Karp does not get enough credit for reducing sentence length. I refer you to his rewrite of the Declaration of Independence. "King terrible. Time to leave."

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Broccoliboy's avatar

Actually if Elon had done it, it would have been even shorter, for example he would have cut out every vowel - "they're just administrative and lead to woke thinking, anyway, right?"

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Darrell's avatar

I always learn something new from this Meandering. Did not know the formal name of the “‘em dash” but now realize I use it quite frequently in my everyday writing — but not pickleball! Hemingway made the short sentence fashionable — glad to see you are continuing the tradition Mr. Sherman.

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David Conn's avatar

There is a USA Pickleball (https://usapickleball.org) and an American Pickleball Association (https://americanpickleball-association.com) ~ but shockingly no American Pickleball Association of America (APAA)... yet. Calling Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn.

- American Friends of the Tilde ~ of America

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Scott Sherman's avatar

Tilde!

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Broccoliboy's avatar

Did Elon help you with your 20% reduction

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CapeJ's avatar

Improved price per word

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Doug Karp's avatar

In defense of the Golds, perhaps they are indicating that the property (note posting in photo) is theirs (Gold's)

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Nancy Heneson's avatar

That would be Golds'.

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Scott Sherman's avatar

Exactly.

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