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It seems to be a fairly widespread malediction: "My curse will bring you tears, and then more tears." From Dark Shadows episode 797.
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Thanks to Jim G. who wrote, "All of the skits in Penetralia are especially unique with word definitions and terrific art sketches and original songs. No one anywhere else is doing anything even remotely close to it."
And George Parker said: "Oh, those laughtracks...is it peer pressure, or a magic spell, or a mirror neuron response, I can't help but start laughing. It could also be your ever charming personality of course."
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There is, indeed, an art to being agreeable, and so few people are born artists. From The Art of Being Agreeable by Margaret E. Sangster, 1897.
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It's easier now than in the 1970s, what with messaging apps, for mothers and their at-home sons to keep in touch. The text reads, "It's good for a mother and son to keep in touch—especially when they live in the same house." From Together, 1972.
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There’s nothing to worry about because …
- it will automatically shut itself off
- this is the new normal
- all the testimonies have been shredded
- you’re in capable hands
- you’re not one of “them”
- all this is part of your dream
- you can change your will as often as you like
- nothing has been lost—just as nothing will be gained
- you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe playing hide-and-seek with itself
- things are much better than they used to be
- it is so enormously complex that nobody is going to figure it out
- Mother Nature will intervene somehow
- you don’t plan to do anything about it anyway
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"What will we do now?"
"Wait for the next step and try to prevent that."
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A Hindu lamentation for a dead son: "My lion, my arrow, my blood, my body, my soul, my third eye! Gone, gone, gone!" From Hand-book of Bible Manners and Customs by James Midwinter Freeman, 1874
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