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Showerthoughts

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The static on old CRT TVs with rabbit ears was the cosmic microwave background. No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the most beautiful opening lines to a novel.

Abundantly clearly not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This is it:
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Torrents >> TV

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uh, no:

"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"She strutted into my office wearing a dress that clung to her like Saran Wrap to a sloppily butchered pork knuckle, bone and sinew jutting and lurching asymmetrically beneath its folds, the tightness exaggerating the granularity of the suet and causing what little palatable meat there was to sweat, its transparency the thief of imagination."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Look here dude, we still doing "no nut November" or what?! Why must you tempt me?!