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Dasar orang Amerika.

Kalo dipikir-pikir lagi, ngapain juga nanya “Trick or Treat?”. Menurut Wikipedia :

The “trick” part of “trick or treat” is an idle threat to play a trick on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given.^{[citation needed]}

Yup, citation needed. Don’t care. Ambil skenario si pemilik rumah (assuming you DO know what “Trick or Treat” means) menjawab “Trick”. In America.

Anak-anak  : (berkostum (tidak) seram dengan wajah bahagia. American.) “Trick or Treat!”

Pemilik Rumah (In America) : (Gak mau ngasih permen, ga punya) “Trick”.

Anak-anak : (Diam sejenak karena biasanya dikasih permen) “Um…DOR!”

Pemilik rumah : “AAAAH KAGET”

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(Anak-anak pergi dengan wajah lesu dan lunglai)

That’s why, kids, we don’t dress like failures and go around asking for sweets. In America.

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Buku tempat H.P. Lovecraft nulis ide-idenya. Some of them are damn disturbing and scary.

• A thing that sat on a sleeper’s chest. Gone in morning, but something left behind.
• Autonomic nervous system and subconscious mind do not reside in the head. Have mad physician decapitate a man but keep him alive and subconsciously controlled. Avoid copying tale by W. C. Morrow.
• The dreams of one man actually create a strange half-mad world of quasi-material substance in another dimension. Another man, also a dreamer, blunders into this world in a dream. What he finds. Intelligence of denizens. Their dependence on the first dreamer. What happens at his death.
• The sculptured hand—or other artificial hand—which strangles its creator.
• The man who would not sleep—dares not sleep—takes drugs to keep himself awake. Finally falls asleep—and something happens.
• Castle by pool or river—reflection fixed thro’ centuries—castle destroyed, reflection lives to avenge destroyers weirdly.
• Enchanted garden where moon casts shadow of object or ghost invisible to the human eye.

…dan masih banyak lagi. Terima kasih pada depe untuk linknya dari TIGsource. Sebenernya ada kontes bikin game berdasarkan ide dari buku ini, tapi karena satu dan lain hal (BANYAK hal jadinya. Sejak kapan sih ada istilah “satu dan lain” ini) gw gak ikut. Kecuali pada ngajakin :>

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Ngebaca salah satu How To… nya Wired, ada satu “How to bluff a music geek”, dan salah satu poinnya adalah :

“Use the magic words. To paint bands you know nothing about with broad, meaningless strokes, you need only two adjectives : overrated and underrated. With careful use, you can position yourself as a sophisticated critic of criticism, a qualified judge of not just music but the canon itself. Leg-sweep your foes with baffling pronouncements. The Beatles? Underrated.

Karena gw baik, gw akan meng-expand teknik ini untuk semua topik!

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Back by popular demand (ya, singular), DailyWhatever.net melanjutkan apa yang dimulai di Catatan Hari-hari yang Tak Penting, yaitu SMS Lebaran Award! As we might already know, SMS lebaran kini menjadi ajang kreativitas, mulai dari kreasi gagal sampe kreasi lebih gagal lagi. Without further ado, here is. You just have to click btw.

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