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Tue 26 Dec 2006

Overheard in Pittsburgh Life Lessons™: If you can’t find fulfillment, at least you can still hang out.

Posted by Chris Griswold under Arts & Entertainment, Beliefs, Credos & Theories, Friends, Life Lessons™, Waterfront
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Loews Cineplex, Waterfront. Evening.
Both Eragon and The Pursuit of Happyness showing in preview screenings in adjacent theaters, and people are becoming confused about which one they need. A man wanders into the theater for the Eragon screening and then bumps around, lost:

Woman: Are you looking for Happyness?
Man: I gave up looking for happiness years ago. Now I’m just trying to find my friends.

— Overheard by Rob of UnSpace

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Tue 26 Dec 2006

Slovaklava

Posted by Chris Griswold under CCAC, Food & Drink, Holidays, Intelligence, Social Divisions
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Milton Hall, CCAC, North Side:

Girl #1: My mom makes so much food for Christmas Eve.
Girl #2: Oh, I know. I can’t wait. My mom makes baklava.
Girl #1: Ohhhh! I love that.
Girl #2: Yeah, my mom makes it with that real oily fish.
Girl #1: [disgusted] What?
Girl #2: You know; she uses that real oily fish to make her baklava.
Girl #1: Are you serious? That’s fucking disgusting!
Girl #2: [shrugging] Well, what can I say? We’re Slovak!

— Overheard by Michael Dittman

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Tue 26 Dec 2006

“The best part is when Scrooge eats a Power Pellet and chomps Clyde, the Ghost of Christmas Present.”

Posted by Chris Griswold under @ Library, Arts & Entertainment, Death, Education, Friends, Holidays, Oakland, Work
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Carnegie Library, Oakland.
One Janitor tells another the plot of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol:

Janitor #1: The first ghost was named “Pinkie”, and he beat the crap out of death.
Janitor #2: Aaah…

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