There are only two empty seats on the tram- the one beside me and the one beside the man in front of me. An old lady gets on. As she goes to sit beside me, she glances at

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We are sitting in our post-doc office in Malostranske namesti.  A pigeon alights on the window sill. I tell Zoran that I hope it doesn't come in because pigeons are dirty dirty birds. He disagrees. He

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A lady comes up to me on the street. Lady: You know what your problem is? Me: Yeah. Lady: And what are you going to do about it? Me: You know. Lady: I'm glad we got

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I go shopping. I buy a passion fruit. When I get to the till, the cashier asks me what the passion fruit is. Thinking it'll save me some money, I tell him it's a

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I fly up to Copenhagen. I will spend the next week and a half solidifying my position as Jack's favourite uncle. I arrive at Copenhagen, and Richard is late coming to pick me up. When he

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I wake up to see a garden gnome trying to lift my TV. "Lift with the knees," I admonish helpfully.

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I'm standing on the metro platform with a very big heavy parcel. As the train approaches, I have the following conversational with the man beside me. Me: Excuse me. Could you help me lift this big

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It strikes me that I don't talk about God enough in my blog- seeing as He created the universe and everything in it, and I have the singular fortune of living in the apartment directly above

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