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A Purple Morning on a Big Yellow Bus
a short story by Doug Billings
Unpublished © 2006 Doug Billings
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Student Quotes
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
"I love sugar. If someone takes my sugar, it is 'ON' like Donkey Kong!" --Jessie M. B-1-- From a writing prompt with the word "sugar".
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St. Pancreas International Train Station - London, United Kingdom
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York, United Kingdom
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Micklegate Bar - York, United Kingdom
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York Train Station in the fog - York, United Kingdom
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Radcliffe Camera - Oxford, United Kingdom
built 1737-1749
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Oxford Street - Oxford, United Kingdom
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Big Ben - London, United Kingdom
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Westminster Abbey - London, United Kingdom
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Westminster Abbey, London Eye, and Big Ben -
London, United Kingdom
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London Eye, House of Parliment, Big Ben, and Westminster Abbey on the Thames River - London, United Kingdom
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Midnight, January 1, 2011 - New Year's Celebration -
London, United Kingdom
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Bow Narrows Fish Camp Lodge, Red Lake, Ontario, Canada
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Cabin #10 - Bow Narrows Fish Camp
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Fishing Boat on Red Lake
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Take-off...
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Lake Loon
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Beaver
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Bear cub swimming
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Bald Eagle
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Northern Pike filets
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Lake Loon calling
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Mates for life
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Mother and baby
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Lake Loon strutting
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Bald Eagle taking flight
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Sunset on Red Lake
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Split Rock Lighthouse - Minnesota
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Fireplace in one of the homes that William Shakespeare once lived, Oxford, United Kingdom
William Shakespeare
Does the Hokey-Pokey
The following is from the Washington Post Style Invitational contest that asked readers to submit "instructions" for something (anything), but written in the style of a famous person. The winning entry was The Hokey Pokey (as written by William Shakespeare).
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
-- by "William Shakespeare"Written by Jeff Brechlin, Potomac Falls, Maryland, and submitted by Katherine St. John.
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The Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts... On the evening of April 18, 1775, Mr. Billings's ancestor, Robert Newman, a friend of Paul Revere's, hung two lanterns in the belfry arch of The Old North Church, announcing to Revere and other alarm riders of the British army's intent to head inland by sea.
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Concord, Massachusetts - This town was founded in 1635 and is considered the first town established inland (away from the sea or a river connected to the sea) in all of America. Nathaniel Billings (ancestor of Mr. Billings) was one of the founding fathers of the town of Concord. He arrived in Massachusetts in the spring of 1635.
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The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The now famous, shot heard around the world, was fired by the Patriots, also referred to as Minutemen, at the Old North Bridge here in Concord on April 19, 1775.
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Fenway Park - Home of the Boston Red Sox
(photo taken above the Green Monster)
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Riding the Wind
A short story by Doug Billings
Unpublished © 2006 Doug Billings
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Quotes by
Famous People
ON WRITING
"You take a blank piece of paper and, whatever you're thinking, you write it down. I'm very satisfied if, in my mind, it increased the value of the paper. That's what writing should do."
"Writing should increase the value of the paper."
--Buddy Ebson--
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"Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints."
--Chief Seattle--
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"I cannot live without books."
1815
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"Nothing will work unless you do."
--Maya Angelou--
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"Outside a dog,
a book is a man's best friend.
Inside a dog,
it's too dark to read."
--Anonymous--
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"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
--Chief Joseph--
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"There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained."
--W.E.B. Du Bois--
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"When I was a boy of 14,
my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to
have the man around. But
when I got to be 21, I was
astonished at how much he
had learnt in 7 years."
--Mark Twain--
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"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
--Frederick Douglass--
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"The only thing necessary for tranquility in the world
is that every child grows up happy."
--Chief Dan George--
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On Baseball...
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.
I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
--Rogers Hornsby--
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Yogiisms...
"It ain't over till it's over." - After Berra's 1973 Mets trailed the Chicago Cubs by 9½ games in the National League East ; the Mets rallied to win the division title on the next-to-last day of the season.
"The towels were so thick there, I could hardly close my suitcase."
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there."
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
"It's like déjà vu all over again." Berra explained that this quote originated when he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hit back to back home runs in the Yankees' seasons in the early 1960s
On why he no longer went to a popular St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there no more; it's too crowded!"
As a general comment on baseball: "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."
--Yogi Berra--
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"When in Rome... Eat Spaghetti!"
--Anonymous--
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.--
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"I can't say as ever I was lost,
but I was bewildered once for three days."
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"We will be known by the tracks we leave behind..."
--Dakota Proverb--
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