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Month: July 2016

To my wife, on our five-year anniversary

By: | Post date: July 9, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
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Reposted from: To my wife, on our five-year anniversary My love, whose smile is wide enough to claspthe heavens in; whose sorrow can expendthe deep-dug wells of earth; whose anger’s graspno whisper can unravel; whose amend no benison of rainbows can surpass;whose passion strides where armies never went,and lays what claims it pleases; and whose […]

VICE PRESIDENT SOPHIA DE TRICHT’S REIGN OF TERROR!!

By: | Post date: July 7, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Sophia de Tricht’s answer to Who would turn down Donald Trump if asked to be his Vice President? Sophia de Tricht welcomed the opportunity to become VP in an El Donaldo administration, in order to… creatively subvert it: My gaffes would be art. I’m talking about hung over vomiting in the Louvre on camera, calling […]

How many nationalities have you met?

By: | Post date: July 7, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
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A fun question! And I’m not going to win. But I do live in God’s Own (Australia), which gives me an unfair advantage. I’m listing people I’ve had conversations with In Real Life. Albania: random guy at a shopping centre cafe a months ago, several in Greece in various capacities. Algeria: boyfriend of a fellow […]

Anon fails to deliver

By: | Post date: July 6, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Who likes low quality questions on Quora? Noone, amirite? https://www.quora.com/How-are-st… An easily Googleable question from Anon? I’m going to be commenting this in to any low quality Anon questions I answer, from now on. Feel free to take this and go viral. Pictures of toy trucks will be fine too. Posted 2016-07-06 [Originally posted on […]

How well can you get by visiting Turkey without speaking Turkish?

By: | Post date: July 5, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
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Well, I guess it was just us then. Spent three or four days over our honeymoon in Istanbul, pretty much Sultanahmet, with a couple of excursions to Üsküdar. Sultanahmet, certainly, is Grand Tourist Central. I was astonished how few English speakers we found. Which proved particularly devastating when we got a taxi to Üsküdar, and […]

Edward Conway dreams of Fire and Ice

By: | Post date: July 4, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

A sequel to Pegah and Lyonel’s mutually assured destruction. Edward Conway, bless him, commented: https://galleryofawesomery.quora… This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “A Song of Ice and Fire”. I look forward to watching the battles play out between Lyonel Perabo’s frozen tourist zombies (powered by the northern lights and the awesomeness that is […]

Pegah and Lyonel’s mutually assured destruction

By: | Post date: July 3, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Lyonel Perabo and Pegah Esmaili had an odd exchange in their respective answers Pegah Esmaili’s answer to What would you do if you were the only female in the world? and Lyonel Perabo’s answer to What would you do if you were the only male in the world? This mainly played out in the comment […]

In Memoriam, Jimmy Liu

By: | Post date: July 3, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
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https://www.quora.com/Have-you-e… (Nick Nicholas): Jay Liu. Gone, never forgotten. (Lyonel Perabo): We should have a memorial stone for him, somewhere… Posted 2016-07-03 [Originally posted on https://galleryofawesomery.quora.com/In-Memoriam-Jimmy-Liu]