Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "It took them several years, a kidnapping or two, a lot of court time and a few police calls to straighten their shit out."

• Do we forgive our fathers in their time or in our time?
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• What do you call several thousand lawyers working for a lot less money?
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
• I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
• How Eulenspiegel talked two hundred boys out of their shoes
• we've got a lot of time, or maybe we don't
• Two times more -- or twice as much?
• Stand up for yourself, OR: How I got the shit kicked out of me
• You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
• This dance is called: Two People, Trying to Occupy the Same Space at the Same Time
• Two outs, run on anything
• You are at the beginning of your next trillion years, and you can spend it with us, or you can spend it curled up and shivering.
• Demons snatch unclaimed prayers out of the air to admire their gossamer wings
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Deal with the flames on their terms or yours
• call me garbage one more time
• Isn't it about time you grew out of all that juvenile screaming nonsense?
• food fight
• The transition out of misery begins with discipline. You have always known this. It's time you resigned yourself to it.
• There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.
• Hints for Etiquette; or, Dining Out made Easy
• Is this the last four years or what?
• I must have called a thousand times
• Sometimes fate intervenes: terribly late or wonderfully in time.
• I dropped out of school to smoke pot full time
• I can hang out with guys without fucking them!
• A lot of houses don't even have anyone to board them up.
• We've got all this beauty and just enough time to figure out how to destroy it.
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• Running Out Of Time
• I Came Out Here To Have A Good Time And Honestly I Am Feeling So Attacked Right Now
• More of The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister
• as time goes to infinity, all truths come out
• Mike the talking chicken finds out some disturbing shit
• Took a lot to live a lot like you
• Fun for 2 years as a little kid, school for 16 or 20 years, then work until you die.
• I take a long time to ejaculate. Do I have a problem?
• Strange man makes permanent visit
• The pros and cons of leaving your computer on
• Let him hold out hope that someone or other might come. Then fuckin' kill him.
• socketes matures during 4 14 years. - reflections upon an obscure Dadaist genius in our midst; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the troll.
• I am attracted to gay men, famous actors, and men who live in different time zones or are already taken. It's safer that way.
• Beautiful Times (Or: How I Embraced the Escapist Mindset and Tuned in to My Imagination)
• We must remember them or they cease to be.
• I've seen what you call a museum, and it hasn't improved in 10 years
• Bears scare the shit out of me
• What Happened to Our Two Travelers with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages, Called Oreillons
• Time Out Film Guide
• to drive out the clinging, to give it time to soak
• Take a twenty-pound sledgehammer and vigorously and fanatically wield it against your confining ten-pound mold, your five-pound rut and smash the ever loving shit out of it, lovingly.
• Covid-19: masks work, we figured that out YEARS ago
• and when all the stars have fallen one last time and the skies are crumbling into my hands and the sirens are bleeding out on the beaches and the earth fades; you will remain
• I'd rather drag out slimy skeletons and nail them dripping to your children's pastel walls
• I don't mind it when authors take their time
• By their fruits you shall know them
• Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
• a constant, low wind trembles through him, catching his words and sending them out into the world
• About two men called Harold Budd
• NOCed around a few times
• i don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it feels like to be gored by a chainsaw
• I like your head. A lot of different stuff comes out of it.
• I am not one of the millions that went in. I am one of the few that came out.
• How to scare the Hell out of a Lexus driver, or: Don't take sharp corners at 50mph in the rain
• edev: Writeuptype bugs, or how nate got stuck between two parentheses
• Achieve riding happiness with $75 and 30 year old motorcycle. Malarkey? Or effective way?
• No Time, No Room, No Thought, or Writing Can
• Cooking for One
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• Getting your Christmas cards out at the last possible moment
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• Days or Years
• What time do you call this, then?
• Shit or Go Blind
• How to scare the living shit out of an arachnophobe with a black shoelace
• Hush, I stole them out of the moon
• I want them to go out as unseen as they came
• Paintings bulging out of their frames like the freaked-out spine-damage erections of accident victims
• Two out of three ain't bad
• Out of Time
• a radical thing called "talking to women and taking their answers seriously"
• A World Out of Time
• In the end it took me a dictionary, to find out the meaning of unrequited...
• Stomp my guts out. I'm not using them.
• Car stuffed to the brim. Pulling out into the dark avenue, two cats in the laundry hamper voicing feline displeasure.
• Hand them a straw, and they'll suck the life out of you.
• At time's end we step out of the corn into the cool shadows of the lawn
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• One last time, to dance me out of your heart
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• Mike the talking chicken finds out some disturbing shit (fiction) mp3 (recording)
• Building a rabbit trap out of two aluminum cans
• The Shadow Out of Time
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Even if they're in my dreams, if I'm not willing to try to reach out to them then do I really miss them?
• time stretches out like frayed rope
• steal out the eyes from the angels and set them as stars
• Put them out with your vajra-shovel.
• Ever seen two people talking to each other in their sleep?
• HOT DAMN 6! This time, karma debt ain't allowed to do shit
• Wasting police time
• The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister
• Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done
• Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country
• Day Out of Time
• When my ten year old niece found out about masturbation
• We perceive time as linear, as an ant at the center of a basketball court perceives the world as flat
• When will you humans learn that your "feelings" (as you so call them) can stand in the way of big cash payoffs?
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• A chorus of phones each time she calls
• Crawling, on the planet's face. Some insects, called the Human Race. Lost in time, and lost in space... and in meaning.
• IPO, company parking lot one year later
• I only crashed into your house a few times, come on
• Written in Dubrovnik a few years ago
• Those terminators do an awful lot of messing with time
• the city means you let a lot of things go or you die in an alley
• It turns out there are lots of badasses out there flipping coins.
• You can tell a lot about a person from their e-mail address
• The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one
• I call them "Wraps"
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• We who do not have regular names spend a lot of time by ourselves. It suits us.
• You Better Watch Out, or the Insects Will Get You
• Shit or get off the pot
• Ruining your illusions of me. Or cementing them.
• Why guys care if their partner spits or swallows
• How to share your Cable Modem or DSL connection between two computers
• One lump or two?
• seven, plus or minus two
• Or do we like time's children come also at last to the silent shadowlands?
• Telephone solicitors now call me at their own risk
• Some things exist whether you believe in them or not
• How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?
• Screaming Bullet of Compact Imported Death, or: How I Found Out My Mazda Protege Could Go 130mph
• i hope i make it out, because i have a lot to tell you
• Things to consider before you call that cute girl or guy
• the galaxy that may or may not exist between them
• Nine years of moments or A Definition of Love
• If you're allowed one phone call at a police station why not one URL instead
• I'll spot you one friend, or two chair legs
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• The presence or absence of stimuli: part two
• Them Or Us
• Eat shit or puke trying
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others
• time out
• Shit, it talks; I'm out of here
• Time to get the hell out of Oly
• The shit that gets carried out in His name
• I dropped out of school to do ecstasy full time
• You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth
• Flushing out your enemies from their lair with bad rock music
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• It's time to take the penny out of circulation
• Time travel or Space travel
• Some things are True whether you believe in them or not
• Please inquire of past generations, and consider the things searched out by their fathers
• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
• How to scare the shit out of someone
• i kissed her one last time, then walked out of her life forever
• For a good time, call your partner, not that 900 number
• A step out of time
• Those are giants; and if thou art afraid, away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat
• Time Out of Joint
• seek out my creations and destroy them
• Average Call Time

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