The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
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Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Head is feeling a bit burnt out, from trying to fit everything into a shorter day, but not long left of the day now.
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Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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- Anders
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Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
These Pearl Jam word games are awful anyway.Bammer wrote:You bottom pagin’ sunuvabitch!
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tragabigzanda wrote:Bonaparting Ways
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Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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Yeah, get bent, Ondish!tragabigzanda wrote:Fuck Off He GoesAnders wrote:These Pearl Jam word games are awful anyway.Bammer wrote:You bottom pagin’ sunuvabitch!
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Gotta start building my databases for my appraisal career in Minnesota but to do that i need to pay dues to the local Board of Realtors/MLS. Kind of dont want to spend that money yet.
Fuck mid life changes.
Just kidding i didnt mean that.
Fuck mid life changes.
Just kidding i didnt mean that.
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Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
just wait until there's a kid in the mix to complicate things even more
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Good thing that ain't happening!Chris_H_2 wrote:just wait until there's a kid in the mix to complicate things even more
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Spinster The Black CircleStrat wrote:Good thing that ain't happening!Chris_H_2 wrote:just wait until there's a kid in the mix to complicate things even more
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That’s not what a spinster is
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bammer is truly awful at puns.
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It’s pretty close, though.spike wrote:That’s not what a spinster is
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The only thing I’m kinda excited about with ChatGPT is maybe it can help bammer make better puns
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Not at allBammer wrote:It’s pretty close, though.spike wrote:That’s not what a spinster is
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
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I fired a client last week and today I learned that he’s an actor who played the title character in a movie that you may have seen and have definitely heard of.
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Was it Gary Busey?
LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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Get on my level. Try and keep up.Strat wrote:bammer is truly awful at puns.
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It's Tommy Wiseau
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait