Someone fast and someone slow
Ran away a year ago.

Someone fast- let’s call him Jack-
Ran so far he ran right back
He was so fast that he ran away
And got home back in one day

Someone slow- let’s call him Joe -  
ran and ran but was too slow.
He still had all of his going to go
He tried he did, he ran on and on
But he was so slow he never got gone.

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Oxymoron (pl. oxymora): an expression that contains two normally contradictory terms
Popular examples of oxymora include "mandatory option", "freezer burn", tight slacks" or "military intelligence" - the latter being an opinion oxymoron (an expression that may be or not be an oxymoron depending on your opinions). 
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    I feel sad this morning, because I found my bicycle stolen. I have a strange history with that one. It was one of those $80 Wal-mart bikes; my friend bought it and later realized she had no use for it, so I bought it from her - both to save her trouble selling and to finally have my own bike. Now that we lost it, even my spouse found a few nice ( Read more... )

 "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
                                              Abraham Lincoln

 "The Times demanded, "What in tarnation are those people doing?"   ...Not "what in the hell," which would have caused gasps at the copy desk, but the dialectically delicious "what in tarnation." This is a colonial New England regionalism, later picked up and still used in the South and West. The tarn is from tarnal, a corruption of the mild oath ( Read more... )

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is where we spent Monday and Tuesday.  There was Red River Revel - an annual art and music festival. Music is not all jazz as you might expect in Louisiana: it varies from classical ballet and opera to rock to local genres of cajun or zydeco.

Terrance Simien is known to let his fans on the stage for a percussion jam:

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