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Cornsnarker
What do you get when you create a cheesegrater with an electric steam iron? Dr Antonio Speranzo from the Mayo Clinic, invented the Cornsnarker in 1992, to address those pesky growths of hardened yet waxy and flaky skin commonly afflicting human toes.
Only licensed dermatologists may operate a properly calibrated Cornsnarker, it is a delicate, precise tool in the hands of a seasoned professional and not something you ever find available for sale on eBay or Amazon.
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What do you get when you create a cheesegrater with an electric steam iron? Dr Antonio Speranzo from the Mayo Clinic, invented the Cornsnarker in 1992, to address those pesky growths of hardened yet waxy and flaky skin commonly afflicting human toes.
Only licensed dermatologists may operate a properly calibrated Cornsnarker, it is a delicate, precise tool in the hands of a seasoned professional and not something you ever find available for sale on eBay or Amazon.
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Tried it on my phone instead of my laptop & it works
Must be some weird setting on my laptop. I’m not tech savvy
Thanks for the suggestions x
Hmm, I don't know either, but my laptop is *old* (2012 cripes this is mind numbing BS) and there are things I cannot do, sign into, change passwords etc, with it.
But switching to my relatively new/recent tablet, (less than 12 months), I can do those things.
So maybe, just maybe, it could be more the *age* of your lap top, rather than anything else.
this calculated means of making sure *we* have to keep updating and buying the newest and neediest and most annoying systems, devices, thingies is maddening.
My laptop, a 2009 HP Pavilion dual core Intel cpu - is ancient by today's standards. I slipped a large capacity SSD into it and removed the prehistoric 5400rpm harddrive some years ago and it's still got enough horsepower to surf the web and double as a decent backup 'work laptop' as well as handle anything the StoriesSpace or it's sister site can throw at it.
Its battery pack no longer holds a charge, but if I can get wireless signal somewhere and there is an electrical outlet within 10 feet - I'm golden.
Windows7x64 Pro & Chrome browser.
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I remote viewed this website, in February 2010 after overhearing a couple of hot babes tossing ideas around, elsewhere. I was able to determine then that a nice young lady whom I knew as Lois Lane would pull my chain in September of that year about its actual existence.
Thanks Louise
Thanks Louise
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Next word: Freddlation
A popular, multi-liquor shot drink. It's origins have been traced to Spacer's Nightclub in Fredericksberg, Virginia. Circa 1983.
Equal parts bourbon, vodka, gin, rum, scotch and ale. For extra zing, add one eyelash from the bartender!
Ted had managed to maintain a semblance of sobriety through fifteen chugged pints, but it was the four Freddlations which finally did him in.
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The Town (previously published as: Prince of Thieves)...Chuck Hogan
I think it has been 'made' into a movie already.
I think it has been 'made' into a movie already.
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I have always avoided trying to pinpoint an exact geographic location as a setting for my stories. Primarily because as was noted in the Ask The Readers (of this same question) - my experiences at certain locations are most likely going to be different than what anyone who has ever visited a location I'm trying to describe, may well be different.
I've been to the Big Apple, but my experiences there, were mostly in industrial areas around The City. Nothing of much consequence has ever occurred in those areas. I might use my memories of the factories or settings to describe in future stories, but I won't identify them as specific locations.
It does not bother me as a reader, to see an author set up his or her story in a specific location. I realize that their perceptions will be different than my own.
I've been to the Big Apple, but my experiences there, were mostly in industrial areas around The City. Nothing of much consequence has ever occurred in those areas. I might use my memories of the factories or settings to describe in future stories, but I won't identify them as specific locations.
It does not bother me as a reader, to see an author set up his or her story in a specific location. I realize that their perceptions will be different than my own.
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The small fan atop my pc's cpu chip. There is also a cat, purring loudly at my feet. An interesting blend of sounds.
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The truth will set you free. It may also make people run for the hills.
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One draft, multiple self edits. Thank gawd for word processors. Then I enlist one or two other sets of eyeballs as a test audience.
A 7000 word story might take one week to one month.
Poems are 10 minutes to a few hours. Those can be nailed fairly quickly.
I write quite a bit of formal, business communications, and the writing is very dry and proper. Breaking out of those tendencies when I write creatively is the challenge for me.
A 7000 word story might take one week to one month.
Poems are 10 minutes to a few hours. Those can be nailed fairly quickly.
I write quite a bit of formal, business communications, and the writing is very dry and proper. Breaking out of those tendencies when I write creatively is the challenge for me.