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“You can’t possibly mean to hurt me with that weapon.”

“Why not?” Mina raised the gun, aiming down the sights. Slowly, deliberately, she angled it to point at his groin.

His eyes widened briefly, then he smiled. “I’m a vampire.”

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From dictionary.com’s Word of the Day:

bloviate: to speak or write in a pompous manner.

So I propose a new word:

blogiate: to write in a blog

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Euphemism

“Smurf.”

“What?”

“Smurf, honey.  Never use that ugly word you just said.”

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Kudzu

I sit here, late, at my desk, slaving over some documentation project that seems desperately critical in the daytime, when it’s noisy and there are so many mouths around, talking about what would happen if Product Didn’t Make it Out on Schedule, but that now seems small and insignificant next to [...]

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The campus of our engineering school was tiny – it might have consisted of twenty buildings, including dorms. It was a confusion of concrete, adobe, and brick; post-war cache’ and modern electronics. Grown organically on a postage-stamp of desert land, the buildings and sidewalk sprouted up wherever they were needed at [...]

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