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Cliches may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person's cliche is another's sliced bread

Dothan Eagle 03 Nov 2021
When overrused phrases reach the point of aggravation, they become cliches. yongyuan/iStock/Getty Images Plus ... Are we adulting now?. Overused phrases seem to bother people – even professional word nerds like us, a linguist and a folklorist ... As Nov ... Idioms, slang, cliches ... ballpoint pen, bench press, day trader, microprogramming, talent show, videotape ... .
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Olathe artist Brett Hall's exhibition "A Checkered Past" on display at Carnegie Center

The Ottawa Herald 02 Nov 2021
It's called "A Checkered Past", and it consists of abstract illustrations made using pens of all different colors. Hall started doodling with ballpoint pens a few years ago for fun, but he never told anyone about his hobby ... "I'm actually pretty self-conscious about my art," Hall admitted ... .
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Frugal laundry tips will save you a fortune

The Grand Island Independent 30 Oct 2021
Mary Hunt. If you’ve ever suffered the heartbreak of stains or other kinds of annoying laundry issues, you’re going to love this! These laundry hacks will elevate you to laundry genius in no time. Dried-on latex paint ... Not paint thinner or mineral spirits. It must be lacquer thinner ... Hint ... I’m talking ballpoint pen ink and ever-permanent marker ink ... .
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Popular this year: toys that soothe, comfort and pop

The Keene Sentinel 30 Oct 2021
Her shopping list sums up a tough two years ... Whether it’s counting prayer beads, clicking a ballpoint pen or tapping their fingers, “people have been fidgeting with things basically forever,” according to Katherine Isbister, a professor of computational media at the University of California at Santa Cruz, whose work focuses on games and play ... .
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On This Day in:

Evening Times 29 Oct 2021
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I ... 1682 – William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA ... 1945 – The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of ... Gen ... .
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Merriam-Webster adds 455 new words to the dictionary, including 'fluffernutter' and 'dad bod'

Lincoln Journal Star 29 Oct 2021
Amirite, or amirite? As the world evolves, words follow, which is why Merriam-Webster has added 455 new ones to the dictionary this month. TBH, many have emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic that has shaped so much of people's lives over the past 20 months ... *** ... 1920 ... U.S ... ballpoint pen, bench press, day trader, microprogramming, talent show, videotape ... .
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Art group seeks to 'destroy' Warhol work by mixing with 999 copies

The Jakarta Post 28 Oct 2021
On a website called the Museum of Forgeries, the group known as MSCHF says it bought a 1954 ballpoint pen sketch by the pop art master ...
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Frugal laundry tips

The Star Democrat 28 Oct 2021
If you’ve ever suffered the heartbreak of stains or other kinds of annoying laundry issues, you’re going to love this! These laundry hacks will elevate you to laundry genius in no time. DRIED-ON LATEX PAINT. Getting any kind of paint on clothes or other items you care about is awful ... I’m talking ballpoint pen ink and ever-permanent marker ink ... .
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Frugal laundry tips that will save you a fortune | Everyday Cheapskate

Red Bluff Daily News 28 Oct 2021
If you’ve ever suffered the heartbreak of stains or other kinds of annoying laundry issues, you’re going to love this! These laundry hacks will elevate you to laundry genius in no time. DRIED-ON LATEX PAINT ... Not paint thinner or mineral spirits. It must be lacquer thinner ... I’m talking ballpoint pen ink and ever-permanent marker ink.
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Art group mixes original of Warhol drawing with 999 copies

RTE 27 Oct 2021
On a website called the Museum of Forgeries, the group known as MSCHF says it bought a 1954 ballpoint pen sketch by the pop art master called "Fairies", which it says is worth $20,000, made 999 exact copies of it and mixed the original in with them.
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Hints from Heloise: Cleaning comforters

The Athens Messenger 27 Oct 2021
Dear Readers. With fall and winter weather on its way, now is the time to pull out your comforters to see if they need to be cleaned. Your cotton, synthetic and rayon comforters get dirty or might be stale from being stored in a closet ... Some comforters might need to be dry-cleaned ... — Heloise. More moving hints. Dear Heloise ... Ballpoint pen ink stains ... .
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9 best pens to write with, from ballpoints to fountain pens

The Independent 26 Oct 2021
There are two types of people in the world – those who think a pen is just a pen and those who know that a pen is an instrument of such power that they are fanatically particular about what they write with ... but here we are focusing on pens for handwriting ... £2.39, Ryman.co.ukBest for students – Bic 4 colours shine ballpoint pen.
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Katherine Compton: Hauntingly good pumpkin seed toffee

Victoria Advocate 26 Oct 2021
Pretty spooky stuff considering it was written in 1949, but just perfect for this Sunday's Halloween. I have always loved Halloween ... When we were finished, we got ballpoint pens and drew rudimentary triangle eyes, noses and gap-tooth grins on our gourds that my mom or dad would then cut out with a paring knife ... They are such sweet memories ... ....
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Built-for-rent houses are booming in North Carolina suburbs

The Lexington Dispatch 26 Oct 2021
Completed last summer, Melissa Holland's wide, two-story house west of Charlotte offers an open concept interior, two-car garage, granite countertops, and a fenced backyard ... More ... Another factor ... More ... A pair of doors have started sticking to their frames, and Holland said her shower tiles have cracks big enough to fit a ballpoint pen ... More ... .
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Nigerian ballpoint pen artist leaves her mark on the global art scene

Independent online (SA) 25 Oct 2021
Cape TownNigerian ballpoint pen artist and draughtswoman, ... “I love the ballpoint pen, especially the black ballpoint pen, because it’s easy to create layers upon layers with crisp, clear strokes and also because it gives me a precise level of contrast when I’m shading.”.
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