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blagger: (noun) a very British term meaning someone who uses cunning, deception, charm, or manipulation to obtain what they want. There is also “to blag,” which is the verb form of the word, as in: Quit your blagging you old blagger.

The Almost Daily

It was on this day that the Bikini was invented... more or less. There have been two-piece bathing suits for just about forever, but they weren’t called bikinis. That name comes from the Bikini Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands, which was nuked on June 17, 1946, as part of Operation Crossroads, the first peacetime detonation of nuclear weapons (two of them) designed to show how navel vessels react when they get the hell blown out of them. And, yes, you can vacation at the Bikini Atoll, though it is not an easy place to get to. It was chosen for that reason in the first place, to reduce the risk of fallout and such. Those people who do go there can dive down among the hulls of the ships that weren’t completely vapourized in the explosions. They say there isn’t much danger of radiation, but you are advised not to touch anything metal.

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One Thousand Years

A thousand years from now

that’s hard to believe

but that time shall pass

just as it already has

just as a thousand years ago

somebody wondered

somebody much like me

what it would be like to be now

In a thousand years

the wind will blow

and the leaves will fall

and in the spring

they will all come back again

And I will be a part of it all

whether I know it or not.

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