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Sponsor’s Message You Might Be The Only Person To Ever Read This! And Like Beckett Said, “I can’t go on, I’ll go on”. So, Go On! Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Those who live in large stones shouldn’t throw glass houses Quote of the Day “Nothing is more real than nothing” (Samuel Beckett) A Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Open a door to find a window An Interesting, or otherwise, Metaphor that will probably never be used Like a drunk porn star eating raw food A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A dead deer has been found in Thailand with 7 kilograms of plastic in its stomach which included plastic bags and noodle packaging along with items such as towels and underwear. Thailand is one of the world’s largest consumers of plastic. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/27/deer-found-dead-in-thailand-with-plastic-bags-and-underwear-in-stomach Book Title You Will Probably Never See… A Breeding Conundrum with Pink Bubbled C

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Sponsor’s Message Let us marvel at the nothingness of everything. Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Drinking margaritas at the local drive-through is an epiphany at the Ballroom which is an UnBallroom in disguise. That was so funny which is… Quote of the Day “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man” (Arthur Schopenhauer) Something to Wear https://teespring.com/en-GB/lock-potential An Absurd World… A primary school in Perth, Australia, has abolished free play at recess in favour of ‘instructional play’ where teachers structure how students ‘play’ and interact. Now there is only 15 minutes for the entire day where students at this school can have ‘free play’ away from meddling adults armed with instructions https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-20/clarkson-primary-school-in-perth-abolishes-free-play-at-recess/11718014 A Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said The impermanence of the world is one thing, while the impermanence of the w

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Sponsor’s Message Go Absurd Now Has 10 million Subscribers Divided By 10 Million! Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity Purple and Pink Pity Part in my Pants and you’re Perverted Dual Quote of the Day “There is no solution, because there is no problem” (Marcel Duchamp) “There is no problem, because there is no solution” (Shigeko Kubota) A Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Say Nay or Yay but never Hey A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… An Instagram 'influencer' has received a barrage of online hate and criticism after promoting that she would be donating $1 to Australian bushfire victims for every one of her products sold. Her hideous crime? Only promising $1 instead of something significantly greater. She has now gone into hiding while her competitors, who promised no donation, are peacefully continuing on as normal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7680337/Sarahs-Day-attempt-raise-money-bushfire-victims-backfires-fans-turn-a

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Sponsor’s Message This is a sponsor’s message that no one will probably ever read! Yay! Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity I’m an oldborn – freshly delivered 85 years ago and How a tiger frees its mouth from an orgasm is no one’s guess Quote of the Day “If there are men whose absurd side has never been revealed, it is because no one has looked for it properly” (La Rochefoucauld) An Absurd World… A German couple are suing a cruise liner after being kicked off a cruise ship in Barbados for allegedly engaging in excessively loud ‘love-making’ https://news.yahoo.com/couple-furious-after-being-booted-from-cruise-for-loud-love-making-045635669.html A Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said To count for anything, it has to count for something; to count for something, it has to count for anything (both count for nothing) Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How to Become a German Porn Star in Mandarin Something to Wear

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Sponsor’s Message [Insert Your Own Message, or yourself, Here ] Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity A snowman that loves cocaine is what I call sane and insane! Quote of the Day “We are all of us in error, the humorists excepted. They alone have discerned, as though in jest, the inanity of all that is serious and even of all that is frivolous” (Emil Cioran) An Absurd World… Glasses are banned in the workplace for some Japanese women, with one employer reportedly saying that glasses gave women a “cold impression”. Japanese men have so far been exempt from this rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/11/08/women-japan-were-told-not-wear-glasses-work-their-response-has-been-fiery/ A Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said The only difference between right and wrong is that one starts with a r and the other with a w Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How to Make a Fetid Cake from 1723 Things You Will Probably Never Hear In 2019

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Sponsor’s Message Tired of Living and Dying? Go Absurd! Opening Absurdity “Let’s party like it’s 1863!” “Why 1863!?” “It sounds good!” Quote of the Day “The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.” (Charles Bukowski) A Possibly Wise Saying That Has Probably Been Said Dying started the day you were born Something to Wear   https://teespring.com/inside-history A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… An Indian man has died attempting to eat 50 eggs in one sitting to settle a dispute with a friend, after suddenly collapsing as he began eating his 42 nd egg https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/man-dies-eggs-eating-contest-death-india-uttar-pradesh-a9186111.html Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How to Write an Epic Fail: B

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Sponsor’s Message It’s Cheaper and Lighter than air to GO ABSURD! Opening Absurdity The language of orgasm is, oh, oh, oh, yeah! Quote of the Day “I am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilization” (Fenton Johnson – first line of his poem, Tired ) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Has Probably Been Said Imagination is only limited by what it can’t imagine A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A small number of people in the world suffer from a rare condition known as erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) where sufferers are allergic to light and can be stuck in a dark room for weeks on end because of the intense pain experienced when exposed to light. “Just two minutes of sun exposure is enough to leave them with searing pain likened to being thrown into a bath of boiling fat for days” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592965/Australias-real-life-vampires-allergic-light.html Book Title You Will Probably Never Se

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Sponsor’s Message low libido? High Libido? GO ABSURD! Opening Absurdity It wasn’t Gary who needed Gary; it was gary who needed gary Quote of the Day “Life is a hospital in which all the patients are obsessed with changing their beds. One would prefer to suffer beside the fire, another thinks he’d recover sooner if placed by the window.” (Charles Baudelaire) A Wise and Foolish Saying That May Have Already Been Said? The problem with delayed gratification is that it’s delayed A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A 3-year-old girl from Australia was rushed to hospital after ingesting a prescription pill while trick-or-treating on Halloween. A packet of pills, Seroquel – a treatment for bipolar disorder, was found in the girl’s trick-or-treat bag. At this stage it is being treated as an accident with no malicious intent likely.   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/halloween-drugs-trick-or-treat-girl-australia-melbourne-hospital-presc