Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
Month: June 2011
Every NBA player, apparently, excels at unconscious trigonometry.
slut, n. (OED)
2. …
b. In playful use, or without serious imputation of bad qualities.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1971) V. 55 Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut and pleases us mightily.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress 112 As the Mother cries out against her Child in her lap, when she calleth it Slut and naughty Girl, and then falls to hugging and kissing it.
1710–1 Swift Lett. (1767) III. 79 Ah! you’re a wheedling slut, you be so.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 207 Well did the dear Slut describe the Passion I struggled with.
1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xv. 278 [Henry VIII] Nanny, thou art a sweet slut.
1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnls. Kartoum (1885) 115 Why the black sluts would stone me if they thought I meditated such action.
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1862 Thackeray Philip xiii, You see I gave my cousin this dog,‥and the little slut remembers me.
in soviet russia, homeowner forecloses bank …
À la recherche du temps perdu
He told me that I needed to write down who I was “because you’re going to lose her and you may want her back some day.” I heeded that advice. I also held on to it as a warning about what would happen in the graduate program.
Amory Starr’s 17-Point Guide to Graduate School
Absalom, Absalom! 
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