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A highlight of your Fourth of July (whether or not you’re an American)

  1. Toasting the USA’s 238th
  2. Cleaning the house (we entertained on the fifth)
  3. Not hearing a single firework from the Macy’s (?) thingy in NYC
  4. I went to a Cool Yule luncheon.
  5. Watching fireworks from ten different local displays from the comfort of my front yard.
  6. Walking the dog.
  7. Abandoning a sinking kayak and swimming to shore
  8. Grilling all the things, drinking American microbrews
  9. Ruining a shirt and pair of pants by helping a family get their station wagon, er, “crossover vehicle” out of the mud during a fireworks display.
  10. Participating in a Carmina Burana sing-a-long.
  11. Becoming a great-great-aunt again (Welcome, Amanda Jane!)
27305

A highlight of your Fourth of July (whether or not you’re an American)

  1. Toasting the USA’s 238th
  2. Cleaning the house (we entertained on the fifth)
  3. Not hearing a single firework from the Macy’s (?) thingy in NYC
  4. I went to a Cool Yule luncheon.
  5. Watching fireworks from ten different local displays from the comfort of my front yard.
  6. Walking the dog.
  7. Abandoning a sinking kayak and swimming to shore
  8. Grilling all the things, drinking American microbrews
  9. Ruining a shirt and pair of pants by helping a family get their station wagon, er, “crossover vehicle” out of the mud during a fireworks display.
  10. Participating in a Carmina Burana sing-a-long.
  11. Becoming a great-great-aunt again (Welcome, Amanda Jane!)
  12. Finding my weight had dropped to 266, the lowest it’s been in over 20 years.
27306

A highlight of your Fourth of July (whether or not you’re an American)

  1. Toasting the USA’s 238th
  2. Cleaning the house (we entertained on the fifth)
  3. Not hearing a single firework from the Macy’s (?) thingy in NYC
  4. I went to a Cool Yule luncheon.
  5. Watching fireworks from ten different local displays from the comfort of my front yard.
  6. Walking the dog.
  7. Abandoning a sinking kayak and swimming to shore
  8. Grilling all the things, drinking American microbrews
  9. Ruining a shirt and pair of pants by helping a family get their station wagon, er, “crossover vehicle” out of the mud during a fireworks display.
  10. Participating in a Carmina Burana sing-a-long.
  11. Becoming a great-great-aunt again (Welcome, Amanda Jane!)
  12. Finding my weight had dropped to 266, the lowest it’s been in over 20 years.
  13. Walking around a lake.

New: Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
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New: Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
27308

New: Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King

Tom Cullen is given instructions under hypnosis before going west to spy on Flagg’s operations.

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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
27310

Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

No really: Jane (Priscilla Presley) is hypnotized into killing Frank Leslie Nielsen) by using Ludwig’s (Ricardo Montalbán’s) gun.

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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
  8. The Simpsons, “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”

Homer orders a subliminal message tape to listen to in his sleep, in order to help him lose weight. The warehouse is out of that tape, so they send him instead an “improve your vocabulary” tape. Hilarity and (it is implied) penis ensue.

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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
  8. The Simpsons, “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”
  9. Trance, directed by Danny Boyle
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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
  8. The Simpsons, “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”
  9. Trance, directed by Danny Boyle
  10. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin

I’ll never think of Antwerp the same again…

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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
  8. The Simpsons, “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”
  9. Trance, directed by Danny Boyle
  10. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
  11. Office Space
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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
  8. The Simpsons, “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”
  9. Trance, directed by Danny Boyle
  10. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
  11. Office Space
  12. The Naked Gun (Reggie Jackson is hypnotized to kill Queen Elizabeth)
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Fiction in which hypnosis is involved

  1. The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
  2. The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stand, by Stephen King
  4. Trilby by George du Maurier
  5. The Great Brain at the Academy, John D. Fitzgerald
  6. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  7. World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven
  8. The Simpsons, “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love”
  9. Trance, directed by Danny Boyle
  10. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
  11. Office Space
  12. The Naked Gun (Reggie Jackson is hypnotized to kill Queen Elizabeth)
  13. The Hypnotist, Ambrose Bierce
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New Topic:

Things for which you’re glad they can’t talk:

  1. My toilet
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New Topic:

Things for which you’re glad they can’t talk:

  1. My toilet
  2. My cat Ed- He’s 15 and was my bachelor cat. My wife and I have been together 10 years.
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Things for which you’re glad they can’t talk:

  1. My toilet
  2. My cat Ed- He’s 15 and was my bachelor cat. My wife and I have been together 10 years.
  3. My car. If it could nag me out loud to get its tires rotated, I think I’d be taking the bus today.
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Things for which you’re glad they can’t talk:

  1. My toilet
  2. My cat Ed- He’s 15 and was my bachelor cat. My wife and I have been together 10 years.
  3. My car. If it could nag me out loud to get its tires rotated, I think I’d be taking the bus today.
  4. My office chair
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Things for which you’re glad they can’t talk:

  1. My toilet
  2. My cat Ed- He’s 15 and was my bachelor cat. My wife and I have been together 10 years.
  3. My car. If it could nag me out loud to get its tires rotated, I think I’d be taking the bus today.
  4. My office chair
  5. Pizzas (it would be hard to eat them if they were screaming as I chewed.)