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Other tales about mysterious persons with equally mysterious motives include The Bourne Identity, To Catch A Thief and Charade.

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Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

But it's also nothing to be commended as a model for others, except as a cautionary tale about the effects of surrendering to the spirit of the age.

Completely absurd fairy tales about the origins of the world, Adam and Eve, Jonah, Noah, among others, should make it abundantly clear to anyone with half a brain, that the book is complete and utter bullshit.

Those «silly and quaint» religions mean just as much to other people as your fairy tales about a dude who walks on water and turns water into an all night kegger.

i don't know about you but a book written even a couple hundred years ago is useless and beyond outdated unless it was on the cosmos, mathematics, or geometry... oh and fairy tales such as canterbury, grimm, aesop, amoungst others, they carry moral lessons for society... and the bible, do we see a pattern here?

When one party has elevated lifestyle libertinism to the first of constitutional principles (and is prepared to kill unborn children, jettison free speech, and traduce religious freedom in service to hedonism), while the other is prepared to nominate a fantasist who spun grotesque fairy tales about an alleged connection between an opponent's family and Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he closed the deal?

do you think he is giving up christianity because the bible talks about unicorns, satyrs, dragons, c.cokatrice and other mythical creatures, making it sound like a fairy tale?

While it is laughable grown adults still believe in make believe and fairy tales, at least this guy wasn't as big of an idiot as other politicians who openly talk about religion and their beliefs.

We honestly don't know anything about any eyewitnesses other than what «unknown authors» have written, and we don't know how many of those stories from those unknown authors are simply copy - cat stories — just someone from a different town that heard the tale, but happened to know how to write.

Zeus Kreiszchte «The fact that the story of a Great Deluge happened to be popular in the region is no surprise, but that does not prove that «god did it» @Chad «good point, it's popular because it actually happened, looks like you are acknowledging that... does nt prove that God did it, however, it does demonstrate that the bible is accurate, and that your comment about it being «ripped off» from some other ancient tale is nonsense..

Open your mind and open a book, other than some several thousand year - old fairy tale about talking snakes, floods requiring more water than exists in the entire solar system to create, mythological heaven dwellers who stole men's wives, ful of numerology and suppossed «fulfilled prophesy».

Though conventionally viewed as destructive of community, gossip, Samuel Heilman demonstrates, is essential for corporate cohesion.16 Telling tales about other members, even maliciously, is an important way of identifying and characterizing the congregation.

This never - ending roller coaster of celebration can keep the delirious first few months of fairy tale romance alive almost indefinitely and stave off the hard work of learning about each other's actual day - to - day lives.

Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»

It's a cautionary tale about overrating raw talent against all the other things a franchise QB has to do.

Talk about all the old wives tales, fun gender prediction tests and share your scan pictures to see what others think.

Some explain the back story of this special day, while others just share a fun tale about a groundhog and his adventures.

It is a lovely tale of 2 hares talking about how much they love each other.

Anaïs delights in leaning about other cultures and traditions, and weaves her tales of her adventures around the world in the stories that she tells her students.

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Any other tales from the trenches about spirited kids or anyone else who deviates from the median?

To help get your youngsters egg - cited about Easter, Frankie Bridge has released her first storybook, The Tale of The Great Easter Bunny, where Jack and Molly discover mysterious clues that take them on an Easter egg hunt; but what they don't know is that at the end of their garden is hidden rabbit hole that belongs to none other than....

On the other hand, it can be argued that Quinn is not especially concerned with Thompson, and has in fact been thinking just as much about the soon - to - be candidacy of Anthony Weiner, as demonstrated by her Sharing Tour and upcoming memoir, seemingly tailor - made to trump Weiner's own Oprahtic tale of personal redemption.

There was also the somewhat unfortunate tale - reported widely - about an alleged attempt by the Tories to engender a «gentlemen's agreement» between the parties at Cardiff Bay not to raise the issue of each others» expense claims.

About this Book: The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution Ian Tattersall Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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9 The Shark That Walks on Land: And other strange but true tales of mysterious sea creatures by Michael Bright, The Robson Press, # 12.99 / $ 16.99 This is a book about the ocean's marvels, mythical and real — among them the metre - long epaulette shark that does indeed walk on its paddle - shaped fins.

Only the apocryphal tale about a young George Washington seemed to inspire the kids to admit to peeking: Children who heard the tale in which the future first president is praised for confessing his transgression were three times more likely to tell the truth than their peers who heard other stories.

A short, bearded, excitable man, LeBlanc accuses Fry of perpetuating «fairy tales» about levels of violence among hunter - gatherers and other pre-state people.

A reader phoned in the following tale the other day about Feedback's sovereign, Queen Elizabeth.

Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland talks about his new book The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, a Chaucerian take on doctors and their relationships with patients and each other.

Then we headed to a NITARP meeting / discussion session / photo shoot with everyone in the program and right to something I was pretty excited about, «Tales from the Twitterverse and other Media Excursions» with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Bermudez, who speaks in America and abroad about the power of persistence and the need for justice reform, calls his story «a cautionary tale against this happening to others as a public safety problem that allows true perpetrators to escape punishment while families are ripped apart.»

I have a bajillion of these, and I'll talk about other stuff sometimes and sprinkle these in, just to keep you motivated with others» fun tales of their health improving: I tried the green smoothie after juicing for several years.

If we were raised in a world of metaphor where we learned that the princes and princesses in fairy tales aren't meant to be taken literally (but represent aspects of ourselves), we wouldn't jump to panic when we dream about exes or other lovers.

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The Bounce Back Podcast There is no cure - all for a break - up but most people will tell you talking about it and hearing other tales of woe is an easy way to make yourself feel less alone.

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I found it refreshing to actually have meaningful conversations about something other than tales of wives and lives lost.

That makes the film a pretty straightforward morality tale about a man, who actually does have a soul, weighing the price of taking advantage of people, who are just like him, against the need to provide for his family, who are living in a hotel with a group of other people who have been evicted from their own homes.

A witty tale about a free - spirited older woman who has a discerning eye for other people's husbands.

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This is obviously a far more grounded exploration of the topic than this year's other films about religious oppression, Red State and Footloose, and would make an ace double feature with Sean Durkin's upcoming Martha Marcy May Marlene with their duelling tales of disengagement of rigid cult - like communities.

Rumors about this game started up a couple of weeks ago, and tonight's announcement confirms it: The folks behind other good adventure game series like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands will be tackling Peter Quill's gang of rogues.

-- Namco Bandai understands that fans want more Tales game in English — Time and money get in the way — Namco Bandai has taken steps to alleviate the issues above, and hopefully we can now look forward to seeing more Tales games worldwide — It's been difficult to fit the game on the 3DS card due to size restrictions — Voice data in particular was challenging to put on the card and feels they solved the problem while keeping the quality high — «Every part of the game, with the exception of the animated cut - scenes, has been redone in 3D» — Yoshizumi believes this makes the game seem more real / immersive than before — Character models rebuilt to improve performance — Rest of the game has been ported over seamlessly — Some changes made to «in - game parameters» to compensate for control differences — No other additions, no new weapons / artes — No communication features (StreetPass, SpotPass)-- Namco Bandai have talked about a sequel, but haven't yet come up with something that would be good enough for a full game — Yoshizumi says he appreciates the comments he receives on Twitter from worldwide fans, and he hopes that more Tales games can make it over in the future — Load times have been improved on significantly — Steadier frame rate (may have been referring to the world map specifically)-- Skits will remain unvoiced

As this is a tale about two groups trying to outsmart each other, this craftiness does pass into the genetics of how this movie harps on fraternal shenanigans.

«Nocturnal Animals» is two movies for the price of one, with each tale telling and revealing more about the other.