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"Ask Oxford" is universally both the weirdest, and the snarkiest.

Like today's:

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flemensfirth
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[FLEM-unz-firth] an Old English law term for the crime of harboring a banished person.

It's a corruption of an Old English term that literally means 'entertainment of fugitives', which makes you wonder that if the fugitives aren't having a really good time, is it still a crime? What if they're only smiling politely?

Also, GIP, courtesy of

truepenny.

whips, chains, whistles, dildos, and a book.

So I flew down to Galveston to run in the Galveston half-marathon with stillsostrange on Sunday, and also to do Writer Things and confab…
i'm gonna give all that i've got to give. cross my heart and i hope to live.

First, I must shill! I will be appearing as a call-in guest on the Flyover Zone radio show today at noon my time, 11 Central. We will be talking…
bring the noise

Airborne bear! Here I am at the finish line of the St. Paul Monster dash half marathon last weekend. We anyways look our best in race photos.

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whips, chains, whistles, dildos, and a book.

So I flew down to Galveston to run in the Galveston half-marathon with stillsostrange on Sunday, and also to do Writer Things and confab…
i'm gonna give all that i've got to give. cross my heart and i hope to live.

First, I must shill! I will be appearing as a call-in guest on the Flyover Zone radio show today at noon my time, 11 Central. We will be talking…
bring the noise

Airborne bear! Here I am at the finish line of the St. Paul Monster dash half marathon last weekend. We anyways look our best in race photos.

I'm on several "word of the day" mailing lists

whips, chains, whistles, dildos, and a book.

i'm gonna give all that i've got to give. cross my heart and i hope to live.

bring the noise

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whips, chains, whistles, dildos, and a book.

i'm gonna give all that i've got to give. cross my heart and i hope to live.

bring the noise