Alias Eleanor

Trying to cut down on adjectives. See also Eleanor's un-Similes @SimileThe - not to mention Eleanor's limericks at @ELimericks

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Linda longed to linger longer, but the alliteration police were nearly onto her

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A bottle washes up on the beach You can see a letter inside it. You walk on, because you don’t like to open someone else’s correspondence.

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@shershovitz How to Pray to a God You Don’t Believe In.
At last, someone who expresses my own views exactly.

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“You mean, a flaw in the structure of reality?” [hums thoughtfully]

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It’s time for the patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church to develop a spine. Growing splendid beards and dressing up in comical medieval robes is not enough.

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Medieval Kyiv, with the Dnieper River

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Today I learned that the Welsh word for ‘scorer’ (as in football) is Sgorwr. I like it. In fact I prihfwr it.

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Feeling a little fungible today. But tangible, you know?

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Okaaaay … I just read this sentence. “For now, let us assume light is the torsional deformation of filamentary atomic material, which radiates from the shell of the atom in accordance with probability density (p(x) = |ψ(x)|2) solutions to the wave equation for the electron.”

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Suddenly, the western world is ‘woke’ … to international power structures and military realities.

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But what if your boots don’t have straps?

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Generations have passed since civilians, en masse (young people especially), have had to face the thought of actually dying for their country. Does that level of patriotism still even exist? #Ukraine has shown that the answer is yes.

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Day by day, reading with a horrified fascination and almost disbelief the stories of ordinary young Ukrainians preparing to face Russian tanks and troops. Deep admiration. Deep respect. God be with them.

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Never have I experienced such hatred as I now feel for the Putin regime.

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HRH The Prince of Wales
Dreams of banging nails
Into the coffin of the dear old Queen.
Respectfully, I mean.

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The only good thing to say about Putin is he takes social distancing seriously.

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The yumbat: a small Australian mammal, particularly tasty.

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At the heart of all political thought should lie the question: why do Finland (and Scandinavian countries in general) so consistently come out in front in global surveys of happiness?

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@brucedenby Just what I've always said.

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Winsome is as winsome does

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@_RedGeranium too late now to vaccinate the phone