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Jul 14Liked by Norman T. Leonard

I was wondering, Norm, would you mind if I used the phrase, “his slime is an aphrodisiac” sometime? I have several shitbirds in mind who would fit such a thought-provoking description.

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Please do, and do so with impunity, my man.

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Jul 15Liked by Norman T. Leonard

Favorite line, "Like, if you could dream up the ideal face to fart on, it would be this kid."

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Sometimes the poetry just flows...

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Jul 14Liked by Norman T. Leonard

Oh, how I've wanted to do something like that. What I don't understand is why Mom didn't flatten your ass. 6'2' and 230 pounds is no match for a raging mother.

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Jul 15·edited Jul 15Author

I’ll let Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye respond on my behalf: “She looked like she might have a pretty damn good idea what a bastard she was the mother of.”

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If only that were the rule rather than the exception. I've only once been hit so hard that I almost lost consciousness. By whom? My own mother. She definitely had a bastard for a son.

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Jul 14Liked by Norman T. Leonard

Well done Norm. Good read and lightened my day...

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Mission accomplished! ;)

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Jul 19Liked by Norman T. Leonard

Ha!!

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You said it, sister.

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You struck a blow--several, actually--for Justice. Well done!

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Revenge is a dish best served with a dodgeball to the face hole.

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Jul 16Liked by Norman T. Leonard

Wow Norm, as I kept reading and picturing what that puke did to my grandkids, I pictured myself doing the same thing to the little ass creep! I would have finished with the mother since she obviously had to be part responsible for raising such a puke. It also brought back memories of all the bitch mean girls I dealt with as a kid. I try now not to think about mean things that I hoped might have happened to them as they grew up. I have heard how some of them turned out, and all I can say about that is Karma is a bitch 🤮

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Ha! Challenging the mom to a dodgeball duel would have been gangster.

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Jul 16·edited Jul 16Liked by Norman T. Leonard

This brought back the days of dodge ball in high school. I despised it! I had long skinny legs in school....kind of like now...and we wore shorts in gym class. My legs were beet red after playing this unforgiving "game". I really had no animosities towards any of the other girls in the class, so I didn't try to kill anyone. The balls were blown up tight and hard and hurt like heck. I was lucky if I even hit anyone across the gym from me. But I got splattered and with really hard shots. I always felt, "Why me? I never did anything to anybody." I was sad and wanted to say I had my period each and every time I knew dodge ball was on the Coaches' agenda so I could miss that class. Perhaps dodge ball was the greatest contributor to my lack of confidence as a teenager. I never really liked high school sports except field hockey. I could run like a deer. No running in dodge ball...I was like a trapped puppy.

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It's definitely a sport for barbarians. It lacks the grace, poetry, and nuance of many other sports. But if you have a physical advantage, and a brat on the other side is asking for it, dodgeball possesses its own internal grace (read: cosmic justice). :)

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You made me laugh. Semi-appalled by the grownup entering the "play" space but the little mink earned the rewards of his bad behavior.

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Jul 15·edited Sep 15Author

Full disclosure: trampoline parks, bounce houses, etc. -- I always enter the play space with my kids, though never aggressively. Until and unless there's a crime that has been committed, in which case, I turn into John Wick pretty quickly. ;)

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You're a bright spot in a dim world. Many, many thanks

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