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If I Send in a Penny, Can That Save Columbia House? | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. If I Send in a Penny, Can That Save Columbia House? August 11, 2015. If I still had access to the storage unit which I do not not, because rental companies enjoy it when one pays rent regularly, and I did not, so they auctioned the contents many years ago if I still had access to that unit, I might be able to help out Columbia House. The company that owns Columbia House, something called Pride Tree Holdings, Inc. Lose yourself in a fantasy of owning 12 for a penny …. And the offer was...
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The Gad About Town | All posts copyright 2013–2016 by Mark Aldrich. | Page 2
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The Gad About Town. Today in History: Oct. 29. Gimbels department store in Manhattan started to sell ballpoint pens on this date in 1945. Thus, today is sort-of the 71st birthday of the ballpoint pen. Now, the first patent for a pen utilizing the ballpoint design was granted in 1888, and newer patents that both refined the ballpoint pen design and the ink formula were awarded to various inventors through the years. Thank you for sharing this via one of these wonderful services:. A man like me don’t...
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Fire at the Mill | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. Fire at the Mill. August 15, 2015. My dad, also known to the world as my father, is 80 today. Cape Cod, here we come! Here is a little birthday card I published a couple days ago. Happy birthday, Gad’s dad! The Gad About Town. Some memories are of photographs and not the incident itself, but some feel to the rememberer like they are of a photo, with the details so clear and so accessible. There is one memory I could count the rocks in the creek bed if I would just take the time. Notif...
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Culture | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. Today in History: Oct. 29. Gimbels department store in Manhattan started to sell ballpoint pens on this date in 1945. Thus, today is sort-of the 71st birthday of the ballpoint pen. Now, the first patent for a pen utilizing the ballpoint design was granted in 1888, and newer patents that both refined the ballpoint pen design and the ink formula were awarded to various inventors through the years. Thank you for sharing this via one of these wonderful services:. 8216;The Flower’. With a ...
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Poetry | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. 8216;The Flower’. 1593 1633) was a priest who composed devotional poems as a hobby. As he approached his early death (age 39), he collected his poems and submitted them for publication. Went through eight editions in the next few decades, which speaks to its popularity in 17th century England. In a tumultuous era, his voice calm, assured, embracing doubt as a necessary part of devotion was a beloved one. 8220;Who would have thought my shriveled heart / Could have recovered greenness?
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Fiction | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. The French writer Guy de Maupassant was famous for approximately two things: one, his brief yet incredibly prolific writing career; and two, his claim that one of his many stories just happened to have been dictated to him by his ghost-double, his doppelganger. Thank you for sharing this via one of these wonderful services:. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Daniel Defoe is officially credited as the author of 28 title...
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Awards | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. Thank you for sharing this via one of these wonderful services:. Middot; June 15, 2014. Hi, I was invited to participate in a blog tour. I chose you as one of the three bloggers to continue on the tour. I posted the tour on my blog: http:/ susanneleist.wordpress.com. Could you check it out and see if you want to participate. All you have to do is answer 4 questions, nominate 3 bloggers, and share the link back to me. Thanks, Susanne. Middot; August 7, 2014. Middot; August 8, 2014.
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Raif Badawi & the Optimism of Dissent | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. Raif Badawi and the Optimism of Dissent. August 14, 2015. Raif Badawi was not flogged today, August 14. Official reasons were not given. Hope exists this week that his case and his sentence is being reviewed once again by the Saudi Arabian judicial system. In June, the Saudi judicial system revealed that it had reviewed his case and it upheld his sentence. Despite that, the whippings have not resumed. Ensaf told the Independent, “I cannot say that this is good news, just that I ...
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Humor | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. Silence Is the Loudest Meow. What follows is a rewritten version of a piece that first appeared almost a year ago: “ Hard Out Here for a Cat. More than once she has given public lectures about the number of chores that occupy a cat’s day. Perhaps you have attended. She tells me that they are very well-attended. (She is seen above with her second-best human, me.). Thank you for sharing this via one of these wonderful services:. One of my barbers back in the early 2000s was a World War ...
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Every Test a Testament | The Gad About Town
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The Gad About Town. Every Test a Testament. August 13, 2015. He thumbed yesterday’s newspaper, penlessly crossed out the employers he had called on. “Why did they place the ads if they aren’t hiring? 8221; There were no more circles for him to cross out tomorrow. 8220;I believe in you.” She said it automatically now, a tuneless reply to his every utterance the last two weeks. It meant everything from, “Dinner’s almost ready, sweetheart,” to, “What are we going to do? Do y ”. Follow The Gad About Town.
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