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Randy's avatar

no parking

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Jim Pennington's avatar

It feels inappropriate to “like” this one. 🧩

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Erin O'Brien's avatar

A tiny puzzle piece!

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Steve Rugare's avatar

No wonder I feel illiteracy creeping over me. 😢

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Jules's avatar

As a compromise I have liked this post but will make this comment an emoji-free zone.

Great satire and I agree, your well-chosen photos beat an emoji any day.

I agree about Jennifer Coolidge. fabulous in Christopher Guest's movies!

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Erin O'Brien's avatar

Thanks, Jules.

As for Coolidge, whenever she is on the screen, I cannot take my eyes from her. I simply LOVE her!

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Jules's avatar

Me too! Very, very funny!

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Peter Vertes's avatar

Oh, how it needed to be said! Out, out, damned emojis!

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Ed Raffel's avatar

Agree, Erin. Emojis annoy the shit out of me, mainly because they are fake. They make the false claim that a picture is worth a thousand words, but they underperform this claim by nine hundred ninety-nine. As a bandaid for the chasm of disintimacy the smartphone has almost singularly created, the pretend emotion they lay claim to nearly always falls flat. What have we become as a species that we have allowed ourselves to be sold a bill of goods like this. Texting replacing real conversation and tiny symbols replacing real emotion. This is devolution at its worst.

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