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Madeline's avatar

can these...be sold as stickers?!

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E.L. Zeitgeist's avatar

Yes, I demand stickers!

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Chris Seiberling's avatar

First of all, pation rhymes with nation, not ration. Or passion.

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Erin Shetron's avatar

but you knew what he was trying to do

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Chris Seiberling's avatar

rassion, pation, nascient, nation, let’s call the whole thing off. After all, his opening joke wasn’t his point. I was just dishing back.

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Erin Shetron's avatar

😅 love to see it

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Olivia Rafferty ✨'s avatar

not in my accent

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Kathie Kurt's avatar

Why is this true?!

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Eduardo de Leon's avatar

My mom once responded „You’re right, but no“ during a discussion. The title „both are true“ reminds me of that perplexing sentence.

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Caroline Smrstik's avatar

ha! I am a mom and this is also my sentence! Mom logic rules!

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Michael Estrin's avatar

I think we need to talk about Say Anything. Was Cusack a creeper? Maybe, but not by the standards of his generation. A grand gesture with a boom box is Xer gold, son. But yes, I can see how millennials would view it as some sort of agro creeper move. All that being said, her dad is the real objective creeper. Stealing from old people? Dude is a scumbag in any age. To hell with that guy, even though he was really good on Frasier.

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Olivia Rafferty ✨'s avatar

to be fair if anyone had a boombox and a copy of Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' i'd be sold almost immediately

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MonalisaSmile's avatar

The more I love reading your Substack, the more inferior I feel about my own. You are brilliant.

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T. D. Wolf's avatar

That second to last one is Killer.

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Dr. Mariana Calleja Ross's avatar

Refreshing as always. 💁🏻‍♀️

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Linda Anderson's avatar

If that is how you pronounce passion, then you sound just like Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler, and I want you to narrate my life. 😎

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kate's avatar

laughed out loud at the graph about the intersection of wishing you were a. a baller and b.a little bit taller- so good!

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Ororo Munroe's avatar

BWAHA! You definitely have a new career in graphics. I lurve your graphics because I'm a visual learner anyway so...

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Ian Simbotin's avatar

You had me at graphs

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

dear alex,

i love your art! and how pationate you are!

love

myq

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

These are awesome and hilarious. Do you use Canva?

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Debbie Weil's avatar

Alex, I think I might be getting [b]older. I'm not worrying so much about being as clever as your other commenters.

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Debbie Weil's avatar

ha! the 1st one nails it for me: anxiety -> write -> publish -> anxiety...

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