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Turkey Loaf

Yoob a dinkadee a dinkadoo a dinkadee A dinkadoo a dinkadee a dinkadoo Morp!  Morp!  Morp! Us Scandinavian Bachelor Chefs frequently find ourselves in the position of needing a last minute substitute for real food because planning ahead is not one of our strengths (if it were we probably wouldn’t be Bachelors anymore). Here’s a …

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It Be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

(ok, so I missed it a little.) The Pastafarian Service Council wants to remind you that today, September 19th, be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. As Slushy the Polar Bear says- “Only you can prevent Global Warming.  Arrgh.” Ahoy mateys.  It be Cap’n Hank Bloodbeard hijacking your blog ag’in.  Since the establishin’ of International …

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Solidarity Forever

A DocuDharma and The Stars Hollow Gazette tradition. Solidarity Forever When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one For the Union makes us strong Chorus Solidarity forever, solidarity forever Solidarity …

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La Marseillaise

Vive Le Quatorze Juillet! (An Annual Tradition) Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us of the tyranny The bloody banner is raised, The bloody banner is raised, Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar of those ferocious soldiers? They’re coming right into your arms To slit the throats …

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My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Better listen to him, Flounder. He’s pre-med. The Anacreontic Society was a gentlemen’s club of the kind that was popular in London in the late eighteenth century. In existence from approximately 1766 to 1792, the Society was dedicated to the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, who was renowned for his drinking songs and odes to love. …

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I find your lack of faith… disturbing.

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon …

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The Belmont Stakes 2016

The last of the Horse Races and I can safely ignore them until next year (Wait? What do you mean there’s another one in November?). The Belmont Stakes are perhaps the most democratic of the Triple Crown Races even though it is held Elmont right next to Queens. Indications of that are they can’t settle …

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The 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500

Wait. How can that be? Didn’t it start in 1911? You are correct, but you are not accounting for the years of 1917 and 1918 (The Great War) and 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945 (World War II) which is six years all together. Of course the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2.5 mile white elephant constructed …

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Pimlico- Race of Death

What? You think I’m kidding? Two horses, Homeboykris and Prameyda, die at Pimlico on Preakness Day By Dave Sheinin, Washington Post May 21 at 2:59 PM Prameyda, a 4-year-old filly, broke down on the final turn of a 1 1/16-mile turf race, suffering a broken cannon bone in her left front leg, and was euthanized …

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Happy Mother’s Day

A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …

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