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Commuting to and from work or school is a great opportunity to focus on some of the things we might not find the time for during our busy schedules. Like reading. Since you’re stuck on the subway (aka the metro or the tube depending on where you’re from), you might as well sharpen your mind with some great literature.

However, some of the books that people read on their commute are so interesting and peculiar that others couldn’t help but snap a photo and send them to the Subway Creatures Instagram page. This community has over 2.1 million followers on IG and is dedicated to sharing all the weird things people see on public transit. Scroll on down, upvote your fave New York City subway book covers, and let us know what you like to read on your commute, dear Pandas.

Rick McGuire, the founder of 'Subway Creatures,' told Bored Panda that the subway always has the most interesting and unusual people because commuters are forced into a confined space and have no choice but to deal with each other. "The NYC subway is still one of the most efficient ways of getting around and if you need an audience, this is the perfect place to find one. This can sometimes work out for the best and the worst," he said.

Read on for our full interview with McGuire, as well as for Bored Panda's chat about productivity during commutes with certified career coach Rita Friedman.

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BusLady
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6 years ago

It worked.

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    Neon
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    6 years ago

    A guide to best imposter

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    Aleksandra Elias
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    6 years ago

    Where's the popcorn?

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    Helen Haley
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    6 years ago

    Good dang question.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    My life story.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Either he needs glasses, or there's some interesting pictures in that book.

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    Tina-Marie Tarrant
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    6 years ago

    Couples therapy, working out who is the optimist in the relationship.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    ...and Other Fascinating Facts

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Well, since he was Jewish...don't hold your breath.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    He's even wearing the red shirt.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    While listening to music.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    It's a cat. Next question.

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    Daria Z
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    6 years ago

    Very specific :)

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    Neon
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    6 years ago

    Preparing for 2021....??

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    Slinkman
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    6 years ago

    There has to be a whole book to answer that question?

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    Slinkman
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    6 years ago

    Step 1; Do not read these kind of books in public while looking for a female.

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    Cathelijne van Weelden
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    6 years ago

    That looks like a good read!!

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    A guidebook on how to survive the rest of 2020.

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    Slinkman
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    6 years ago

    The book we all need and hate at some point ;)

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    sp0
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    6 years ago (edited)

    I love seeing a masculine gender expressed person so publically respecting the wants and needs of women

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    What's the second issue? Guacamole and Manslaughter?

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    Stephanie Chapman
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    6 years ago

    A book for the game? Yes, there is a Dream Daddy game in which you play a gay man who is a single dad looking for love.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    That'll keep you busy.

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    Serial pacifist
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    6 years ago

    Don't hold your breath...

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    Deniz Vitvitskiji
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    6 years ago

    I read this and now Im the head russian mafia boss. 10;/10 would recommend if I didn't use my drug money the buy all the books

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago (edited)

    What!!!??? It's a book about cats.

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    Judi Michelle
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    6 years ago

    This book is pretty interesting if you're a low key bio nerd 10/10 recommended. And great book to have in the guest bathroom. That way people are not stuck reading the ingredients of the hand soap

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    Raine Soo
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    6 years ago

    Cannibals like to eat in. Ahem.

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    El Dee
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    6 years ago

    Book's about stress - but ulcers, as we know now, aren't stress related..

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    He reads it for the articles.

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    6 years ago

    Clever cover pic.

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    6 years ago

    Sex for Dummies.

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    El Dee
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    6 years ago

    I Googled this in the expectation that, like the other books, the content would have little to do with the title. Wrong! This IS porn, feminist porn, but still just porn..

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    Charley
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    6 years ago

    Beetlejuice

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Dude, get your hand out of your pants. People might suspect something.

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    Iris Wolfie (づ ◕‿◕ )づ
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    6 years ago

    Mansplaining effing sucks. My male cousins would always mansplain to me. Now, I girlsplain to them.

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    chi-wei shen
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    6 years ago

    Do plants dream of some vegetable form of sheep?

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    Raine Soo
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    6 years ago

    Because we are morbid in our curiosity.

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    Malakai
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    6 years ago

    So this actually looks like a really good book: it focuses on how its titular labels have been used to shame, demonize, and otherwise ostracize women through the ages and talks about the struggles of women through the ages against misogyny.

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    JessG
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    6 years ago

    "A companion to 'D**k'"

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    It's 2020. Everyone is in captivity.

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    6 years ago

    They censored the cover but not the spine.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    What kind of test? 😋

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    Tina-Marie Tarrant
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    6 years ago

    God, I hope it comes out before you finish the book. Or do you keep eating Lego until you 'build' up a tolerance???

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    Cathelijne van Weelden
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    6 years ago

    I googled this one and it actually looks very interesting!

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    Truth Monster
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    6 years ago

    ..."But They Are Still Delicious With Garlic Bread."

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    BusLady
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    That guy needs to stop manspreading.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Making other people laugh is always a joy.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Pimp manual.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    New Mom. Guide to breastfeeding?

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    Katie Peter
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    6 years ago

    Sounds like something a lesbian would write towards the hets

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    El Dee
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    6 years ago

    So, no 'porking'?? Lol!

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    Samantha Lomb
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    6 years ago

    Given all the sticky notes it may be something for a university class. There are plenty of courses on things like critical race theory, whiteness and race relations

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    Henry Cheves
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    6 years ago

    Dear Abby, are you taking up drugs?

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Myth or legend?

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    Philler Space
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    6 years ago

    Or a memoir of dating a whole lot of Mr. Rights, depending on where your preference lies.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    And now I'm a happy f*ck.

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    Grace Marraffa
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    6 years ago

    I need this book

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    How to Pretend to be Reading This Book While Attracting Women.

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    PhantomBuni
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    6 years ago

    Well that’s nice

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    Dennis Stanley
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    6 years ago

    Really now? You betcha!

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Go to work for Fedex, have a plane crash, and end up on an uninhabited island.

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    Alex T
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    6 years ago

    *gasp* oh my lORD yoU worSiP SaTaN *dramatic gasping* SiNnER!!

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    Serial pacifist
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    6 years ago

    A federation between Poland and Cornwall.

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    Tina-Marie Tarrant
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    6 years ago

    Did he, though?

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    Truth Monster
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    6 years ago

    promo quote should be "Held Me Captive for Hours"

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    Philler Space
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    6 years ago

    I've looked for that book but it can be hard to find. A lot of retailers will tell you it doesn't actually exist.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Mating, while standing on your head. That can't be easy.

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    Clove Kentwell
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    6 years ago

    is that my mom?

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Subtitle: How to be a Successful Sociopath.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    What is anti-money laundering and why is it in a nutshell?

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    Anamaria Mazer de Toledo
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    6 years ago

    It had to be #69...

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    Hubertus Touché
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    6 years ago

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    aka 'How to Grow Cobwebs for Dummies'

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    'Ya Mon'

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    How about both? What do you mean that's not an option?

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    Jennifer Gould
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    6 years ago

    Almost missed the bottom part "lessons learned being married to a porn star"

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    I think I wrote that one.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Is that the same as choking a chicken? Asking for a friend.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    That guy seems interested.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Guide to Medicare Part D.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    6 years ago

    So all those women with a "resting b!tch face" PAID to get it?

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Well, apparently this guy needs 2.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Just live on the yacht, Mama.

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    Jackson Allinder
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    6 years ago

    Fun fact about Alabama, there is no reverse cowgirl because you don't turn your back on family.

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    Bacony Cakes
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    6 years ago

    As opposed to Australopithecus Thug.

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    Nevid
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    6 years ago

    That's actually an interesting book. It talks about jobs that are fundamentally useless to society, but exist because with the model of society we have, everybody must have a job, rather than a use.

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    Raine Soo
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    6 years ago

    Does this involve a Ouija board?

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    Hubertus Touché
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    6 years ago

    Something something, stand-up guy, something something...

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Order TODAY before we run out.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    What would I know about good beer? I drink Coors Light.

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    Bacony Cakes
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    6 years ago

    What do you mean "Take Back The English Language"?

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    More like You are H*rny?

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    That is actually sad.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    A book we all need to read.

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    Tina-Marie Tarrant
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    6 years ago

    Snap, Crackle and Coke.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    The definition of insanity.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Stephen King's newest?

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    Truth Monster
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    6 years ago

    Depends on your definition of "dead". There was a case in 2011 a Danish group of students drowned in an icy body of water. Their hearts were stopped for several hours. All seven of them revived. There are stories like this all over, where people we think are dead/should be dead, get up and resume their lives.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Little old catlady? Love the leggings.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    That's a very thin book. And this guy is wearing a wedding ring.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Planning a trip to Paris?

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    Alex T
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    6 years ago

    :0 he is the one

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Yeah to all our teachers. Not a job I could handle.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Written by a hick from the sticks.

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    Tina-Marie Tarrant
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    6 years ago

    And this is why you haven't lost it yet.

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    Vic
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    6 years ago

    All I can see are those shoes..

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    Alex T
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    6 years ago

    its a self-help book

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    Facebook

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    Malakai
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    6 years ago

    This looks like a bag or box recycled to be a book cover--maybe to protrect the original or obscure the actual book or both

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    Alex K
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    6 years ago

    the first step is realising you are a d**k.

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    Alex T
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    6 years ago

    he's preparing for his sundown tussle with Jimmy (jimmy took his snickers)

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    You might be a rapist if...

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    Bacony Cakes
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    6 years ago

    This is what every alien slave owner says before his alien slave girls escape and kill him.

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    Alex T
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    6 years ago

    everyone should read this book

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    Arctic Fox Lover
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    6 years ago

    I don't think we can do anything about it any more.

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    BusLady
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    6 years ago

    And everyone moves away from this guy...

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    Allan Breum
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    6 years ago

    No.