"I hope you realize that I'm the one who has to write about this stupid vacation next fall."
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vacation, vacations, homework, homework assignment, homework assignments, cliche, cliches, what i did this summer, road trip, road trips, back seat, back seats, complain, complains, complaint, complaints, car trip, car trips, car journey, car journeys, journey, journeys, gripe, gripes, whine, whines, whining, whinge, whinges, whinging, family vacation, family vacations, uninterested, disinterested, essay, essays, essay assignment, essay assignments"I'm not even away! The audacity!"
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animal, animals, talking animal, talking animals, talking pet, talking pets, pet, pets, pet owner, pet owners, talking cat, talking cats, cat, feline, felines, cats, cat owner, cat owners, mouse, mice, rat, rats, fun, play, playing, playground, playgrounds, slide, slides, swing, swings, swing set, swing sets, saxophone, music, musical instrument, musical instruments, cliche, cliches, expression, expressions, angry, upset, audacity, rude, word play, wordplay, when the cat's away"It's the old story. I was in the middle of successful acting career when I was bitten by the accounting bug."
"Pi what squared? Long John, you should be able to get this."
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myth, myths, legend, legends, pirate, pirates, long john silver, treasure island, literature, robert louis stevenson, book, books, fictional character, fictional characters, arr, math, maths, mathematics, area of a circle, pi, π, r, radius, area, circle, circles, equation, equations, formula, formulas, wordplay, word play, play on words, cliche, cliches, stereotype, stereotypes, stereotyping, education, school, schools, schooling, teacher, teachers, student, students, class, classes, classroom, classrooms, math teacher, math teachers, math class, math classes"Actually, I got some pretty good ideas when I was in the box."
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clichés, think outside the box, thinking outside the box, word play, office cubicle, office cubicles, office job, office jobs, office worker, office workers, cliche, ideas man, ideas men, innovator, innovators, creative thinking, creative thinker, creative thinkers, innovation, good ideas, bright ideas, equation, equations, formula, formulas, conformity, working environment, working environments, scientist, scientists, scientific, breakthrough, breakthroughs"I'm neither a good cop nor a bad cop, Jerome. Like yourself, I'm a complex amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that emerge or not, depending on circumstances."
"Thanks, Pop, but today's kids don't want money, they want leadership."
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leader, leaders, leadership, handout, handouts, cliche, cliches, political speech, political speeches, allowance, allowances, political candidate, political candidates, politician, politicians, motivation, motivations, motivate, motivates, motivating factor, motivating factors, kid, kids, child, children, generation gap, generation gaps"I bit someone once. It tasted like chicken."
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chicken, clichés, cliche, cliches, cliché, chickens, dog, dogs, dog bite, dog bites, dog attack, dog attacks, canine, canines, pet, pets, pet dog, pet dogs, dog owner, dog owners, dog lover, dog lovers, foodie, foodies, exotic food, exotic foods, taste, tastes"I was born an urban bird and I'll die an urban bird."
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animal, animals, talking animal, talking animals, bird, birds, urban, city, cities, city life, urban life, born, birth, die, death, traffic, car, cars, vehicle, vehicles, automobile, automobiles, catchphrase, catchphrases, catch phrase, catch phrases, cliche, cliches, pastoral, rural, rural life, rural lives, set in your ways, set in his ways"Oh, shush! You live by Janet Maslin, you're going to die by Janet Maslin."
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review, reviews, reviewer, reviewers, critic, critics, critique, critiques, critiquing, live by the sword, living by the sword, die by the sword, cliche, cliches, newspaper, newspapers, journalist, journalists, journalism, movie, movies, film, films, film critic, film critics, janet maslin, harsh critic, harsh critics, dislike, dislikes, bad movie, bad movies, bad film, bad films, disagree, disagrees, disagreeing, disagreement, disagreements, disagreeing"Call this an iceberg? When I was a kid we wouldn't have called this an iceburg!"
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dad, dads, grandpa, grandpas, father, fathers, grandfather, grandfathers, senior, seniors, growing up, growing old, growing older, when i was a boy, cliche, cliches, war story, war stories, parent, parents, grandparent, grandparents, curmudgeon, curmudgeons, codger, codgers, penguin, penguins, iceberg, icebergs, complain, complaints, complainer, complaining, good old days"When I was a boy, I had to walk five miles through the snow to change the channel."
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remote, remote control, remote controls, tall tale, tall tales, dad, dads, father, fathers, parent, parents, war story, war stories, story, stories, grow up, grows up, growing up, tv, tvs, tv remote, tv remotes, when i was a boy, cliche, cliches, walk, walks, walking, get up, getting up, smart device, smart devices, generation gap, generation gaps"And, for insurance purposes, you must buy insurance."
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insure, insurance, insuring, insurance purposes, self serving, self-serving, business, businesses, corporate culture, corporate-culture, force, forced purchase, unfair, government, executive, executives, governments, health insurance, mandatory, jargon, cliche, purposeless, circular, illogical, management, managing, managers, manager, interest, interests, authoritarian"Is it cold in here or is it just the Ice Age?"
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pre-history, prehistory, pre-historic, prehistoric, caveman, cavemen, cavewoman, cavewomen, stone age, neanderthal, neanderthals, cave, caves, cave-dweller, cave dwellers, cold, ice age, freezing, season, seasons, winter, snow, ice, heating, heater, heaters, cliche, cliches, word play, wordplay, always cold, woman, women, complaint, complaints, complaining, complaining about the cold, complaining about the weather, weather, temperature, temperatures, stereotype, stereotypes"We have testimony that you walk like a duck and you quack like a duck. Tell the court - are you a duck?"
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cliches, cliche, clichés, cliché, expression, expressions, idiom, idioms, duck, ducks, court, courts, courtroom, courtrooms, trial, trials, walk like a duck, quack like a duck, witness stand, witness stands, witness, witnesses, lawyer, lawyers, attorney, attorneys, solicitor, solicitors, cross examination, cross examinations"It's a game of power, speed, agility, and grace, but, most of all, Tom, it's a game of points."
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football, american football, football player, football players, interview, interviews, interviewed, cliche, cliches, cliched, game, games, match, matches, point, points, score, scores, scoring, sports journalist, sports journalists, banal, banality, obvious, agile, test, tests, pretentious, pretentiousness, self-important, self-importance"I know what you're thinking, but let me offer a competing narrative."
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cheat, cheating, adultery, adulterer, adulterers, cheat, cheaters, infidelity, infidelities, cheats, cheater, adulterer, adulterers, its not what it looks like, relationship, relationships, marriage, marriages, let me explain, explain, explaining, cliche, cliches, saying, saying, married, marry, narrative, narrative, sympathy, lie, lies, liar, liarsMan on a sinking ship blowing up an inflatable desert island.
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ship, ships, boat, boats, storm, storms, stormy, rain, rainy, sea, seas, ocean, sinking, sinking ship, sinking ships, capsize, going down, inflate, inflatables, blow-up, blow up, blowing up, island, islands, desert island, desert islands, castaway, castaways, shipwreck, shipwrecks, shipwrecked, lifeboat, lifeboats, sailing, sailboat, sailboats, sailor, sailors, modern life, convenient, convenience, emergency, emergencies, safety, prepared, cliche, cliches, cartoon cliches"It was a lot more satisfying before 'catch and release.'"
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culture clash, literature, literary, culture, cultural, lit major, book, books, book lover, book lovers, bookish, book worm, book worms, pop culture, pop culture reference, moby dick, moby, white whale, whale, whales, whaling, mount, mounted, hunt, hunting, hunter, hunters, trope, tropes, cliche, cliches, captain ahab, bar, bar flies, bar fly, catch and release, capture and release, irony, ironic, ironically, animal rights, animal rights activist, environmental, environmentalism, environmentalist, catch and release, catch-and-release, herman melville