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September 2004

9/30/04

Weekend Assignment #27: That Special Month

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9/29/04

Debates? Au Contraire!

9/29/04

Suggest a Weekend Assignment!

9/29/04

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A Baseball Strike, Japanese Style

9/29/04

What to Name the Washington Team

9/28/04

It's Not Easy, Running the World

9/28/04

Have You Registered to Vote?

9/28/04

Now This is Funny

9/28/04

Sarah McLachlan Spends Like a Swell

9/28/04

9/27/04

Road Games For the 21st Century

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Happiness Is...

9/27/04

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9/26/04

Are Bloggers Adding to the Problem?

9/26/04

Sibling Stories, Part II

9/25/04

Authors Blogging

9/25/04

Sibling Stories, Part I

9/24/04

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Drive Yourself Insane

9/24/04

On the Flip Side

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Not the Way to Feel Comfortable With Electronic Voting

9/23/04

Weekend Assignment #25: Sibling Revelry

9/23/04

Your Groan-Inducing Joke of the Day

9/23/04

Accelerated Kids

9/23/04

Two Pictures for the Price of One

9/23/04

I Guess it Had to Happen...

9/22/04

Your Silly Bit of Science News for the Day

9/22/04

AOL Journals 1.8 is Here

9/22/04

Abolish the Electoral College?

9/22/04

Better Be Hungry

9/21/04

Things Not to Do On Amazon

9/21/04

9/21/04

So That Explains It

9/21/04

Let Us Now Praise Fine Editors

9/20/04

Food For Mars, Food For Thought

9/20/04

A Hairy Defense

9/20/04

Beam Me Up... To The Kitchen

9/20/04

9/19/04

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Music for Marriages, Part II

9/18/04

Music for Marriages

9/18/04

Say Hi to My Mom

9/17/04

Tomorrow is Be Nice to Your Waitress Day...

9/17/04

Making a Pillow We Can't Refuse

9/17/04

Links for Thought

9/17/04

Can It Be November Already?

9/16/04

Weekend Assignment #24: First Dance Songs

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Worth a Plug Nickel?

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9/15/04

Happy New Year!

9/15/04

And Ivan. Ivan So Far Away

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Judy Blume, Award Winner

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Look Out! Here Comes a Spider, Man

9/14/04

Invoking, Part II

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Beyond the Far Side

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And Then The Zombies Came Out of the Fogbank

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Silly Trucks, 2004 Edition

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Make Money Fast!!

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The Face of Tomorrow

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More Gifts to the Future

9/11/04

Remembrance & Celebration

9/11/04

Gifts to the Future

9/10/04

A Thing I Didn't Know I Didn't Know

9/10/04

Must...Stop...Drooling..., Part 2

9/10/04

September Garden

9/10/04

Cracking the Seals

9/9/04

Weekend Assignment #23: A Personal Time Capsule

9/9/04

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The Animals Are Always the First to Know

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The High Whirring Sounds of Dentistry

9/8/04

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To Rip or Not to Rip?

9/8/04

Better Than the Lottery

9/8/04

When the Field Attacks!

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An AOL-J Get-together?

9/7/04

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Death to Floppies

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Frightening Frances

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My Supercool Wife

9/6/04

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One More Picture

9/5/04

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Evil, in Cuddly Form

9/4/04

So Cute Your Eyes Will Bleed

9/4/04

Picture, Perfect

9/3/04

Final Thoughts?

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Weekend Assignment #22: Picture This

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Convention Thoughts

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9/1/04

Something Pretty

9/1/04

You've Got Journal!

9/1/04

More Convention Thoughts

9/1/04

Procedural Note

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Thursday, September 23, 2004
8:55:00 AM EDT
Hearing Witchy Woman -- the Eagles

I Guess it Had to Happen...

Someone breaks up using PowerPoint (note: link has some mild profanity). Aside from the "innovation" of the method of breaking up, the reasons for the breakup will sound absolutely familiar to anyone who had that ill-advised relationship in the first year of college, the one that no one involve likes talking about, especially the bystanders.

Incidentally, don't ever do this. Unless your relationship started with a note that said "Do You Like Me?" with check boxes for "yes" and "no," you pretty much owe it to whomever you are dating to call it off face to face. Breaking up with someone via PowerPoint will get you talked about (and not in a good way), and will make it more difficult for you to get that next relationship, because no one will want to date "That PowerPoint Dude." I'm just trying to help, here.

Update: The link has changed to something not pleasant, so I've deleted it.

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#4 Comment from glopsblink
9/23/04 4:22 PM | Permalink

Ahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually, I like it. If she's as bad he makes her sound, she deserved that, since from the looks of it if he tried to tell her face to face she'd just dis him off.

Kind of reminds me of the guy who got married and gave everyone at the wedding a photograph of his then wife cheating on him, then annuled the marriage the next day. OUCH!!!!!!!

http://journals.aol.com/glopsblink/ATreasureTroveofGoodies
#3 Comment from musenla
9/23/04 3:29 PM | Permalink

It's the internet equivalent of a dear John letter. It was bound to happen.
#2 Comment from justcherie
9/23/04 10:03 AM | Permalink

LOL...that was funny. And I suppose there are worse ways to get the news...
#1 Comment from tjexpressions
9/23/04 9:14 AM | Permalink

I am still laughing....PowerPoint Dude sure went to a whole bunch of work to do the job two words would have covered "IT's Over!"
Thanks for sharing...
TJ
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