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When I took my blogging break a few months ago, I left with confidence knowing that the humor-blogging corner of the internet was safe in the capable hands of my friends Lobo and Don Lewis…

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Re-Visiting Hours

by Brent on November 12, 2007

in Most Joking Aside

I have covered a lot of ground on this blog lately, so I thought I would double back for a bit and follow up on some recent posts, just to makes sure they haven’t developed shin splits or been accosted by marauding Yiddish telemarketers….

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Tomorrow is November 10th also known as the Annual Festival of Jarhead Inebriation.

As such, thousand of Marines will lift a glass or twelve to celebrate the 229th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Barking noises and random vowel sounds will probably also be uttered, in a time-honored expression of otherwise inexpressible maritime delight…

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Blogging Week – Thursday Thirty-Seven

by Brent on October 25, 2007

in Satire

Welcome back to the unending torment that is Blogging Week. Today’s meme is a barrage of banality I like to call Thursday Thirty-Seven, which weighs in with nearly three times the tedious trivia of its mundane cousin, Thursday Thirteen…

Thursday Thirty-Seven ~ the Ominous Comma

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Sometime back, while still suffering from the acute absence of my spouse, I was tagged by the Rosetta Rants Translator, who encouraged me to open up and declare several random facts about myself.

I abstained at the time to spare my readers any unpleasant revelations of my emotional well-being during my long and painful Camille-less state…

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One of the many reasons that I seldom mention my years in the Marine Corps is due to the cloud of enthusiastic and naive soon-to-be enlisted individuals that seems to materialize out of thin air whenever I let slip that sordid detail of my life. In fact, complete strangers will often pick me out of crowd, usually in the middle of a perfectly good story, to breathlessly announce the news of their imminent enlistment.

I don’t know why…

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