Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Really. We couldn't pound stuff on the floor because it was nasty old plywood under the ancient carpet."

• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• Because I couldn't
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• In the Gym the Floor Was Cold
• the seven hills of Rome
• The Important Stuff (or, Has Nobody Really Asked This Yet?) (e2poll)
• I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
• Because, perhaps she was cold
• There was an old lady
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Five minutes after falling off the cliff, I realized how high it really was
• I couldn't sit, it was Thursday
• The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• just because they never bothered to really do
• The dynasty made people die in nasty ways. This mess was necessary and they're not sorry.
• old cold, white, sweet stuff
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• Laying cable under a floor
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• Adam really was the first man
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
• Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
• Music was better in the old days
• It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• old stuffed animals
• Under Old Earth
• When I was ten years old
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• I married him because he was not mean
• The Monster under the Old Church
• Sex with my sister was always really, really good
• Was the Black Death really just Anthrax?
• Why Socrates was really executed
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• It was really hot, in a Silent Hill kind of way
• the horrible gift was really quite right
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• It Was an Ancient Place, and a Holy Place
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• Sex with my accountant was always really, really efficient
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Food was purer in the good old days
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• The demon was just under three feet tall
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• The Revolution was Postponed Because of Rain
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• the ancient novel
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Ancient Arrowhead
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• ancient children
• Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
• Kojiki
• Ancient of Days
• The Ancient Art of War in the Skies
• Ancient Chinese Toilets
• The Voice of the Ancient Bard
• Ancient (user)
• Ancient Greece
• What's Ancient Enough
• Ancient Egyptian clothing
• Ancient Egyptian Hunting And Fishing
• Ancient Egyptian Charms
• Ancient Egyptian Architecture
• What happened to all those ancient, advanced civilizations?
• Ancient Olympic Games
• Ancient Roman Graffiti
• Nothing new about Ancient Greece will be learned until the Vatican is plundered
• Ancient Korea
• Ancient Egyptian Forms Of Travelling
• Ancient Egyptian Food And Drink
• Civil War and Decline in Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Lights
• Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover
• ancient Greece and Rome timeline
• Ancient Greek calendar
• Ancient Eugenics
• Ancient Eugenics: Part II
• Ancient Eugenics: Part III
• Ancient Eugenics: Part IV
• Regal positions and symbolism in ancient Egyptian royal sculpture
• ancient Greek masks
• Werms: Metaphor or Fiction? Fact or Fancy? Secret Code or Ancient Bluff?
• Sex in ancient cultures
• Ancient Egypt
• Chicago dibs
• Home Life in Ancient Greece
• Ancient Library
• Technology, Religion, and Literature in Ancient Sumeria
• King's Field: The Ancient City
• Ancient Egyptian Goddesses
• Ancient Israel
• Cry of the Ancients
• Ancient Heart
• Ancient Order of Hibernians
• Of the lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd's dead, as it is told in ancient songs
• Aromatherapy from ancient times
• Herodotus on Ancient Egypt
• Marriage in Ancient Rome
• Ancient Egyptian toothpaste
• Ancient Civilizations in the Bulgarian Lands
• Public Offices in Ancient Rome
• Public entertainment in ancient Rome
• Why Ancient Historians wrote history
• Patronage in Ancient Rome
• Suffering and knowledge in ancient texts
• Sex Secrets of Ancient Atlantis
• Ancient Chinese secret
• Religious and funerary customs of Ancient Egypt
• Forgotten Ancient (user)
• Ancient Near East
• Ancient Provinces of Japan
• The beginnings of Christianity in India
• Christianity and Ancient Asia
• Ancient Church of the East
• Theology in ancient Greek natural philosophy
• The Importance of the Family in Ancient China
• Ancient Astronaut
• On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns
• Ancient Empires
• The ancient tree
• Ancient Greek
• Justified Ancients of Mummu
• Making Ice In Ancient Rome
• A Breakdown of Two Ancient Aesthetics
• Ancient Roman Sports
• Defense of the Ancients
• i've heard that's how they did it in ancient egypt
• The Ancient Song Of The Stone (Part II)
• the ancient sun that has shone on every one of us
• ancient human ritual and the fear of death
• Ancient Egyptian pregnancy tests
• Because
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• Don't Sit Next to Me Just Because I'm Asian
• Just because it happened to you
• Because I could not Stop for Death
• Because I dig you
• Because I say so
• The hole in the ground for bodily waste when camping
• Last night I could not sleep because of the noise in my head
• Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should
• Just because you should do something doesn't mean you can
• Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
• I realize that just because I like something a lot, it doesn't mean it is of high quality
• Gullet and I are standing in the kitchen because that's what we do.
• 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.
• Just because you both have the same problem does not mean you are one another's solution
• I care because you do
• Just because Linux is Free doesn't mean Linux Software has to be Free
• Because that would make sense
• Don't assume that just because I'm gay, all I want is sex
• If my mom doesn't let me play the violin because it's gay then ...
• The voting system doesn't work because I'm drunk and that fucks it up
• Chipirones en su tinta
• Do you cry out because the beauty is cruel?
• We don't write poetry because it's cute
• I can't be a scientist because I don't believe in God.

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