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Anna Schott's avatar

Chirp.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

chirp

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Tommy, I too am 'satisfied with your offering'. I'm just going to give you an 'A' and say no more.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Thank you teacher

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Believe it or not, I actually was a teacher, but II forgot that. Too busy now being a poet.

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Patris's avatar

Déjà-vu all over again. This is nonstop hilarious—

(Public Service Announcement: Was about to take a hammer to a carbon monoxide detector last summer when I heard the one downstairs go off… guess whose ceramic chimney liner has quietly collapsed? The a/c was pumping bad stuff through the vents]

En garde my friend!

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

En garde, comrade

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Kevin Maher's avatar

😂

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Reflections's avatar

Well I just ripped mine out and I guess I’ll burn to death. Good piece

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AVK's avatar

You're actually a left brain dominant hysteric. Check out Master and His Emissary. You're also a better bodhi than i be. Mine is currently at the bottom of the Pacific near the Venice Pier.

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

I stand corrected (on my step ladder)

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Heather Medway's avatar

Parallel universe

i started tangoing with my carbon monoxide alarm this morning

it's 5X the volume of the smoke directors

Did the fresh battery ...

never thought of a hunk of plastic as having a

"best by" date ... let it expire and you likely suffer sound poisoning with can lead to mental illness

(or just trigger the underlying condition)

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Sound poisoning! The carbon monoxide tango can give it you if the band's not good.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Don't you think sometimes you should just blow out all the candles and take the batteries out of the smoke alarm?

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

and figure it out in the dark?

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Isn’t it where everything gets figured out anyway? (Great response, by the way, got a real laugh out of me).

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Rob Tourtelot's avatar

[Chef's kiss]

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Geraldine A. V. Hughes's avatar

Steely Dan, boom!

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Geraldine A. V. Hughes's avatar

I didn’t even resort to wire thingies I said to myself, let it rip Geraldine and ripped two of em off the walls and there they are still, screwed there, a quick and easy fix, I really don’t notice them. A wonderful meditation Sir Bodhisattva.

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Geraldine A. V. Hughes's avatar

Hilarious, I’m laughing off my armchair, “help I can’t get up” just kidding, that’s such a crass jest, but it had a life of its own. Silly me today, thanks Sir. Geraldine

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Jessica Drake's avatar

Fabulous

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Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Thanks Jessica. Glad it hit you right.

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