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"Zone of Genius" is a catch-phrase that means nothing more than "what you're particularly good at", and in most cases "genius" has nothing to do with it.

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"Truth" once had a pretty absolute meaning, like 2+2=4, but these days it's apparently malleable by your life-experience, socio-economic status, or any number of equally irrelevant things that give an individual a unique "perspective"; in other words, humbug.   

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20 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

MCMXCIII, or 1993 in Arabic numerals, was a live album by the Velvet Underground released in October of that year.

[Side Bar] I was so upset that the band once again dissolved before they could carry on with some U.S. tours and/or the planned appearance on Unplugged. There's a documentary around from their tour of the Czech Republic, and their meeting with Václav Havel, 

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"Itself" is a somehow "permitted" contraction in the English language; whereas I employ "its self" when composing an email, etc., to one whose first language is not English

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English is full of all kinds of inconsistencies, but what drives me nuts is native English speakers who write "there" for everything that sounds like it, i.e. they're and their.

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Their confusion over there, their and they’re isn’t nearly as infuriating as when I see “should of” instead of “should’ve.”

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"Should've" ('cept it came out "shuda") "bin 'ere yestidye, myte" said the Australian fella when I asked him if he still had the advertised boxing kangaroo.

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