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C L Spillard
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Sword

Sword of truth. Live by the sword. Sword and sorcery...

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Tomorrow's #thurds prompt word is: #array

Array of choices, arrayed against us, arrayed in splendour...

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Didn't the USA get rid of the "do not call" register a while ago on the grounds that "it violated the 1st amendment"?
I think that's the first streetscape photo I've ever seen where a car actually improves it.
Perhaps in 1930 there was still a bit of a shortage of men, after WW1.
Also people in very poor health tended not to get married - health (and prejudices!) are better now.
It's all in the best possible taste!
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #Bulge

Bulging wallet, giveaway bulge, battle of the bulge...

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Facts have a left wing bias.

(also, use of subjunctive:🏆 )
He took a deep breath.
“Ladies and gentlemen.”
Two dozen Brit faces fixed on him. Crooked teeth, ragged hair, dark eyes.
“I...”
Could he go through with this?
“Used to work at that Camp.”
He studied the eyes. #Curious, polite; expecting an explanation.
#MartialMonday
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It even rhymes!
It'd make a great opening pair of lines for a #clerihew - if you're into that sort of thing.
If that's where I think it is, we drove past it this morning and there were also Scottish, Welsh and Cornish flags!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
a black and white flag with a cross on it is flying in the wind
Alt: Flag of Cornwall (St Piran) - white 'square' cross on a black background
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FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.
'Sustrans' is far easier to say and remember, and includes *all* sustainable transport.
(Also, is 'Trust' and order, like Walk Wheel and Cycle, or does it mean that Sustrans is/was a trust?)
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This week's #thurds prompt word is: #scale

Scale the hights, large-scale, off the scale...

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what if it really is rapture day but there was only one person virtuous enough and they remained virtuous by living a quiet, solitary life and so nobody has noticed they’re gone and we’ll never know the rapture happened
So, did they not have the Law of Ancient Lights in olde Flanders?
#Wayfarer in time
Earth shifts in #frosty orbit -
balance point moves on

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#weirdMicro #equinox

(Every 72 years, the #PrecessionOfTheEquinox moves the date of spring equinox back one whole day. In just 9 years' time, I will have seen this happen.)
a diagram of a comet 's orbit around the sun and earth 's orbit
Alt: a diagram of earth's, and a comet's, orbit around the sun.
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It's all week.
Has to be, soory - I was ill on Thursday, so the prompt came 2 days late!
That's the one!
Couldn't recall it.
There's a name for the 'law of natute' that stipulates that the answer to all headlines formulated as questions is, "No."