One Liner Wednesday

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“It’s better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”

Ser Davos Seaworth from Game of Thrones, my favorite character, played by Liam Cunningham.

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https://lindaghill.com/2021/08/25/one-liner-wednesday-good-news-bad-news-2/#like-15663

Night Sounds

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The Air Force helicopters are out, practicing night maneuvers over my head. Drifts of music invade my window from the bar a half mile away and I wonder if my new upstairs neighbor may be one of the band members. He’s quiet during the day, absent at night and today I heard him softly singing and playing a guitar—a very pleasant sound. The air conditioner units hum outside my bedroom window, but my apartment stays a cool 70 degrees without it. A rare fire truck siren sounds, trains in the depot always busy, emitting their lonesome whistle calls and life goes on in a small western city.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #8

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bent down for the last challenge. The 6000 pound barbell was the heaviest he attempted in the last week, but he grabbed hold, hoping for a new record and became a world champion.

The greatest weight ever raised by a human being is 6,270 lbs. in a back lift (weight lifted off trestles) by 364- lb. Paul Anderson (U.S.) (b. 1932), the 1956 Olympic heavyweight champion, at Toccoa, Georgia, on June 12, 1957.”Anderson was born in Toccoa, Georgia, the only son of Ethel Bennett and Robert Anderson. As a teenager, he began his early weight training and gaming on his own in his family’s backyard to increase his size and strength so that he would be able to play on the Toccoa High School football team, where he earned a position as first-team blocking back. He used special homemade weights that his father created out of concrete poured into a wooden form. Anderson attended Furman University on a football scholarship where he began lifting weights. He later moved to Elizabethton, Tennessee with his parents, where he met weightlifter Bob Peoples, who would greatly influence him in squat training and introduce him into weightlifting circles
Sports: Weightlifting

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https://fivedotoh.com/2021/08/24/fandangos-story-starter-8/#like-60975

The wordofthedaychallenge: kakorrhaphiophobia

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I’m just putting this as a title so I don’t have to spell it again!😀

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Joey was the age of ten

When deciding never to ride again

The bike he borrowed fell apart

He fell not injured but broke his heart

When all the guys with laughter pinned

Fears outed, he’s now chagrined.

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https://cyranny.com/2021/08/24/kakorrhaphiophobia-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-59374

Simply 6 Minutes Challenge

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I’m not afraid, but I’m not bold

I rarely do what I’m told

I’m a special cat you see

What I do, I do for ME.

It was just this morning’s milk

Had been changed to the brand SILK

Now as healthy as a feline can be

This substitute is an atrocity!

Bring me whole or two percent

I’ll still smile with no resent

But other types, no thank you, sir

It has no appeal or allure

And while you’re listening to my wish

How about scrambled eggs on my dish?

And add a bit of shredded cheese

All of that would surely please.

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http://christinebialczak.com/2021/08/24/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-08-24-2021/