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Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sat December 16, 2023 9:35 pm
by epilogue
Jorge wrote:
epilogue wrote:I hold in sneezes.
Explains a lot!
Go on...

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 2:05 am
by Jorge
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:
epilogue wrote:I hold in sneezes.
Explains a lot!
Go on...
All your pent-up sneezes manifest in Weird Energy

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 2:06 am
by epilogue
Jorge wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Jorge wrote:
epilogue wrote:I hold in sneezes.
Explains a lot!
Go on...
All your pent-up sneezes manifest in Weird Energy
Ah.

That's disappointing. I was hoping for more.

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 4:15 am
by E.H. Ruddock
It’s unhealthy!

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 4:37 am
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 2:50 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
8

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 3:52 pm
by dad
0

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 5:10 pm
by Ello Sailor
tragabigzanda wrote:Bunch of delicate flowers in this thread
Allergy-shaming? In 2023?

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 5:11 pm
by Ello Sailor
doug rr wrote:I think my average sneeze session is probably 12-18
Alright wtf

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 5:12 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Sun December 17, 2023 5:14 pm
by Ello Sailor
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Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 2:38 am
by pepperwhiteMFC
I scrolled by a meme (quote or whatever) today that made me think of this thread.

“If you sneeze and fart at the same time, your body takes a screenshot.”

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 3:42 am
by Strat
cool thread, rud

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 4:17 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
5 so far

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 8:46 pm
by epilogue
pepperwhiteMFC wrote:I scrolled by a meme (quote or whatever) today that made me think of this thread.

“If you sneeze and fart at the same time, your body takes a screenshot.”
AL

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 8:52 pm
by dad
E.H. Ruddock wrote:5 so far
that's hardly enough.

you can do better.

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 8:54 pm
by tommy
dad wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:5 so far
that's hardly enough.

you can do better.
Yeah, even my cat has sneezed more than 5 times today

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 8:57 pm
by dad
tommy wrote:
dad wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:5 so far
that's hardly enough.

you can do better.
Yeah, even my cat has sneezed more than 5 times today
tell your cat i said bless you.

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 9:01 pm
by tommy
dad wrote:
tommy wrote:
dad wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:5 so far
that's hardly enough.

you can do better.
Yeah, even my cat has sneezed more than 5 times today
tell your cat i said bless you.
He didn't respond

Re: How many sneezes have you had today?

Posted: Tue December 19, 2023 9:25 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
dad wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:5 so far
that's hardly enough.

you can do better.
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