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| Introduction : on small things easily squished (and alternative destinies) | |
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| I choose the green crayon | |
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| Bald men grow hair when they want to | |
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| The "must put pickle" mentality | |
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| Campfires in boxer shorts - confessions of a hearing aid-less exhibitionist | |
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| Pushed into faith healing | |
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| Deaf man killed by flying golf ball - a eulogy of small accomplishments | |
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| I am not your poster child | |
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| Corresponding oval | |
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| Chris, Amy, and the floating motion sickness pills | |
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| Five beers away | |
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| Christmas is filling up a dinky little '01 Toyota Corolla gas tank | |
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| Responsibility is not a burden | |
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| Full circle | |
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| One guy vs. seven billion! : can he win? : can he?!? | |
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| "I don't understand" vs. "you're not making yourself understood" | |
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| Praying for the Hell's Angel | |
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| Noise paranoia | |
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| I stopped being disabled and nobody knows | |
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| A lot of bullets | |
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| Value beyond ASL, value beyond breasts | |
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| Plastic souls | |
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| Koko want | |
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| Point A to point B should be a straight line | |
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| But I don't want to buy a deaf person! | |
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| Fares | |
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| Babes from space! | |
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| I worship cochlear implants! | |
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| Have cell phone, am God | |
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| Shark and camel | |
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| One roll of tape and your whole world collapses | |
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| A bit less hearing, a bit less "hearing," but a bit more of both | |
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| Minority = pathology? | |
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| The real world - bigger than you think | |
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| Cash my check, you flying brick-headed rat-pole witch! | |
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| What criteria for "well-meaning?" | |
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| Popping the normal pill | |
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| Stuck | |
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| Empathy is not pity | |
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| Reborn, karma-style | |
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| He may not understand, but he still ranks a five | |
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| Why must we know? | |
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| Red is stop, deaf is ...? | |
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| That's you, that's your beer - keep them separate | |
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| Guess what? : my hearing ancestors had sex too! | |
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| Deaf rumor mills - the surest path to absolute freedom | |
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| Backstabbers aim for your back, so why cover your ass? | |
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| I am a crab | |
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| Who says oralism failed? | |
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| He wrote about Ring Bologna and disappeared | |
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| Spleen gone blues | |
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| Rubella bulge | |
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| Footballs at $1,400 each | |
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| You don't have 100 percent to give | |
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| Those who play by the rules ... | |
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| Never get mad without your prescription | |
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| Departure | |
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| Move on from Milan | |
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| Why deaf people no go boom | |
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| Making deaf awareness day effective | |
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| Just duck and they'll shoot each other! | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Nietzsche's downside | |
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| Advice on tennis and pain | |
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| Missing the bounce | |
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| Institutionalized just like you | |
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| Dishes done, institution-style! | |
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| Research - the best way to avoid real answers | |
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| The sign for administrator | |
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| When your cat is passive-aggressive | |
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| Invalidation : the mind-game gift that keeps on giving! | |
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| Institutions for the deaf? : Pfft | |
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| Guys in ties? : one tug closer to strangulation! | |
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| White dress shirts - making the world safer for workplace projection! | |
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| The tyranny of polyester | |
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| It's Vietnam all over again! | |
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| My son, the Manchurian candidate! | |
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| Engineering efficient institutions | |
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| The lie of dependency | |
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| In the depths of space, no one can lipread your scream | |
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| You're always caught in someone's machine | |
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| Visible scars | |
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| It wasn't self-pity that stopped me from becoming a telemarketer | |
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| If | |
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| Grant me the wisdom | |
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| The starving African children ain't got nothin' on us | |
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| Life is fairer when you get mugged | |
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| A message in a bottle from the governor of reality (hopefully you can grab this without rocking the boat)! | |
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| Man up, women! | |
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| Unfortunately, now you can't get a deaf president out of office | |
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| When enough do, most will | |
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| "... anything except hear," including believe inspirational bullshit | |
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| Another problem with "deaf people can ..." | |
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| Learn to recognize a smokescreen from a smoke job | |
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| The economics of presence | |
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| Why the deaf education teacher went to hell | |
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| "We can save the deaf!" (the official deaf education fight song) | |
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| On being brave | |
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| I thought you were KGB! | |
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| Don't stop with dreams | |
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| Strip club literacy | |
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| ASL is a visual language ... just like printed English! | |
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| Let's bring back "deaf and dumb" | |
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| Sometimes things break off | |
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| Parenthood in the blizzard | |
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| Denial rules everything | |
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| Coping | |
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| The economy of love and paying attention | |
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| The best defense is a good disqualification | |
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| The age of digital boob magic | |
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| Paternalism and sleeping cats | |
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| Murderball | |
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| Hearing parents know! | |
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| Final notes for hearing/nonsigning parents | |