Angela Browne Puns

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As time inched closer to 5 o’clock, the ambient keyboard clicks on the accounting floor scattered and slowed. I fired off a few email replies and slid back my headset, rested it around my neck and rubbed my eyes until I saw spots.

I had no real problems with this job during my five months at Goldleaf Bank, only that the place was so colorless and dull that I felt myself turning more and more into a potted plant. And an artificial plant at that, since my cube was flooded with cold hospital lighting with not a window in sight to remind me that I was not permanently in white collar purgatory.

I had once tried to decorate my cube with homemade pieces from art school, but that was met with a passive aggressive email from our boss Cecelia, whose hair was always pulled back a bit too tight and seemed to own a pair of sensible heels in every shade of beige. We just think it does not quite jive with the bank’s long renowned conservative image, but we can certainly utilize your creativity somehow, I think! I am certain the best way the company who scoffed at my art could think to use my creativity would be using my pottery as a paperweight in a stuffy corner office. The only one who I could really share these feelings with was Nora.

Nora and I did not spend our time at the water cooler prattling on about the stock market or the caucus, or the current sale on patio furniture at Big Lots. With us, the conversation jumped from dirty jokes to stoner flicks to ranking each other’s Hollywood girl crushes. She began working as an assistant in the accounting office just a year or so before me, so I looked up to her professionally and personally. When she got promoted and I became her understudy, so to speak, we clicked instantly, and we have been throwing paper airplanes over our shared cubicle wall ever since.

Nora was skilled in botany, design, and drinking dry red wine. Since my choices in décor were a bit ostentatious for stuffed-shirt Cecelia, today Nora was kind enough to share fresh cut peachy tulips from her garden so my desk would not be so sad. She also had moody purple orchids on her desk that could nearly reach the top of the wall to peek over at me.

“Becky, I think my eyes are about to fall out my face,” Nora stood up and stretched her arms high, then lightly fluffing her thin chestnut hair. “You still coming over tonight?”

“Depends, are you going to keep trying to put me to work for you?” I teased her. Not only was Nora a botanist before switching l

I was holding so tight on the hope that this time around it would have been better.

This finale was DOGSHIT and a slap on the face overall, and I'm astonished anyone could ever possibly permit it to be made that way. How on EARTH could the people responsible for the revival of THE show with the WORST series finale of all time not prepare for a fucking proper finale at microscopical levels? It's all this show was about anyway. About giving this special show the ending it deserved. A proper send off to this character we've suck with for so long. It's the one thing New Blood had to do right, the one, and it's exactly when they went off the rails with it.

It's unfathomable how anyone in the writing room could ever imagine this would have been it. Do the producers ever watch their own shit before airing it and think "Man, this is horseshit"?

What would have cost them to make it last from three to five episodes more, in order to give Angela's investigation and Harrison's realization that the Dark Passenger has never been about saving anyone and that there was only one way to end this cycle more room to breathe in and develop? It was all so rushed and based on pure nothingness that it didn't feel unearned in the slightest.

And oh my fucking God, baiting us into reunioning Batista with Dexter only for it to dissolve like that. Props. I couldn't have thought of a bigger middle finger to the fans, which, you know, are the only ones watching this shit anyway. WHY they would do that I cannot even begin to imagine.

On a more subjective note, I really would have preferred it if Dexter's death would have been the result of his own decision making, or just a final realization. That running anymore was not worth it, that he had done too much damage, going way over the code, having hurt people who didn't deserve it. That, like Harrison beautifully put it, it had never been a Dark "Passenger", it had been driving this whole fucking time. It wasn't a realization for Harrison to make though, it was something that it would have felt more earned if Dexter himself came to that.

Harrison doing multiple 180 on Dexter, Angela solving a mistery that had been kept so secret for so long in five minutes, Batista cameoing for no fucking reason other than plot fucking convenience, Dexter fucking MURDERING Logan cold blodded because "there was no other way"? WHAT? You think that a fucking note handwritten by a decade working serial killer that literally says Dexter did it, a scre

As stated in the title, most fans of the show including myself are fine with what happened in the ending - from what I’ve read in posts over the weeks, most fans expected Dexter’s fallout to happen in some fashion if the show was going to end. However, the events that played out that got us there is where i believe the issue is with the fans & I do not believe the fans are childish or over dramatic if they feel as though the writers who delivered time and time again on the original show (Season 1-4) did not perform on their swan song of an ending.

Personally, I feel that the season was sufficient and was living up to the hype for the most part. Clancy Brown portrayed a wonderful villain, Michael C. Hall still embodied the persona of dexter wonderfully after all this time, and the events that buildup leading to the finale were promising. Yet, when we got to the end, it felt for many that there should have much more to it.

In fact, as we got closer to the end, things started to feel contrived, unnecessary and anticlimactic. There was also the potential for many story lines to play out and receive closure in a way that could have affected the story and Dexter’s outcome. A few unfinished, unnecessary and contrived plot points I can think of immediately are

1. The billionaire’s storyline not being finished although many felt that he served a bigger purpose, which he did not.

2. Molly’s appearance in the town because of one death when she normally reports on serial killers. What was the significance of her showing up in Iron Lake other than to be used as a plot device.

3. Batista coming to iron lake. Why hint this possibility if it falls apart? The story and finale could have taken a massive turn here that would have satisfied so many fans.

4. The fact that the story takes place over the course of a few weeks, but the writers try to make it seem like much more time has passed (a year mentioned by Clyde Phillips) to contrive an appropriate timeline and plot of characters changing their stances, decisions, and motivations. For example, Angela discovering Dexter is the BHB over a short period of time when it took the FBI much longer in the original show to come close. Or, Harrison switching up on Dexter for killing Logan although he was ready to kill a classmate to be seen as a hero and even broke a student’s arm all within the span of a few weeks.

5. My biggest gripe, Dexter killing Logan in the finale. This felt extremely forced and immediately fe

This post will be long. There are multiple posts in various subreddits.

Mood Spoiler: >!Wholesome, Optimistic, Tragic!<

u/worriedpopsneedhelp

First Post (r/parenting) - 5 years ago

I'm a single dad that wants to talk to my daughter about rape.

And I'm unsure as to how to go about it. My daughter is 13. Her mother, my wife, died 5 years ago. I'd always thought she'd be there to take the reigns on this but I'm on my own and I need to be there for my daughter.

I've had my daughter in BJJ since she was 6 years old so I've drilled self defense into her pretty well. I also plan on teaching her to shoot soon. I hope she decides to carry a concealed weapon on her.

How do I bring up this topic and what should I tell her?

Edit:I just want you all to know I am reading all of your responses and I appreciate it. I'm sure my daughter will appreciate it as well.

Second Post (r/relationships) - 5 years ago

My (34M) wife died 5 years ago. My daughter (13F) has been jokingly telling me I should get a girlfriend for a few months.

And truth be told, even if she's serious and understands what that means, I don't think I can. I've never been able to let go of my wife. I still haven't touched any of her clothes or items in our bedroom.

It's really tearing me apart because I'll never stop loving my wife. I'll never not want to be loyal to her. And I don't feel like I'll ever find someone else. But I'm so lonely, romantically. Painfully lonely.

And this isn't a sex issue, before anyone goes down that route. It's a companionship issue. Really, I just want my wife to come home. I know that can't happen, though.

I honestly don't even know what I'm here to ask.

tl;dr: My wife died 5 years ago. My daughter has been playfully encouraging me to start dating. Even if she understands what that means, I don't think I can, even though I want to. Can anyone help me figure out what I should do?

Third Post (r/parenting) - 5 years ago

For the first time since my wife died 5 years ago, I spoke about her with my daughter.

A week ago I came to reddit to get some advice about my 13 year old daughter. I made two threads--one here a

Angela Marie Brown was last seen alive at her mother’s house in Livingston, Montana on October 15, 1997. She left to deliver a message to her brother and never returned. Dinner was left in the oven, and Angela did not take her purse with her. She left behind two daughters.

Angela was ‘in the drug world’ according to her mother, and was scheduled to appear in court in Billings, Montana for probation violations the week after she disappeared. However, according to her mother, Angela was working hard to stay clean and sober and had been for a year before she disappeared.

Her mother searched for Angela, believing she had fallen off the wagon or been arrested. She didn’t find Angela, but she did find Angela’s car, parked in a drug store parking lot.

After three days, Park County Sheriff’s deputies began to search for Angela. Although they pried the car open to check for Angela’s body, they refused to dust the car for fingerprints, despite being requested to by the victim’s family.

Four months later, Angela’s boy was found in the Yellowstone River near Springdale. The cause of death has never been formally released, however it has been confirmed that it was a traumatic death and not a suicide.

After Angela’s body was found, the Montana Criminal Investigation Bureau took Angela’s car for investigation. Unfortunately, Angela’s oldest daughter had been using the car for the past four months and there is a chance vital evidence was destroyed.

It is suspected by her lawyer and probation officer that someone may have thought Angela ‘snitched’ to get out of charges.

Angela’s murder may be connected to the murder of Sheila Jordan and the disappearance of Amy Johnson. All three were dark-haired young mothers.

If you have any information regarding Angela’s murder, please contact the Park County Sheriff's Office at (406) 222-2050.

Sources

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/park-county-authorities-trying-to-crack-cold-murder-cases/article_5410b211-f398-555c-bd42-4e59d24b091d.html

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/years-after-deaths-gallatin-and-park-county-authorities-still-seek-answers/article_60128870-efaf-11df-8c51-001cc4c03286.html

I love long audiobooks. I’ve listened to some long ones but I know there are others as long or longer. Can you recommend any?

Here are mine:

Musashi, 53 hours and 24 minutes.

By: Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry - translator Narrated by: Brian Nishii

War and Remembrance, 56 hours and 3 minutes.

By: Herman Wouk Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau

The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 57 hours and 23 minutes.

By: William Manchester Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

The Bible Experience, 65 hours and 27 minutes.

By: Inspired By Media Group Narrated by: Blair Underwood, Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, Paul Adefarasin, LL Cool J, Eartha Kitt, and many other African-American actors, singers, musicians, poets, personalities, and clergy in a cast of 200+.

The Power Broker, 66 hours and 9 minutes.

By: Robert A. Caro Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Edit:

Actually the longest book I’ve listened to I forgot to list until someone here mentioned it:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, By: Edward Gibbon

Narrated by: Charlton Griffin Length: 126 hrs and 31 mins

Thanks for the suggestions and by all means keep them coming! With the 5 credits I had available I bought:

Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins

Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, by Jane Austen

Narrated by: Beth Kesler Length: 76 hrs and 9 mins

Marlborough, His Life and Time, by Winston Churchill

Narrated by: Sean Barrett Length: 81 hrs and 23 mins

Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Mobius Missions, 1-16.5, by J. S. Morin

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore Length: 85 hrs and 6 mins

All Dead, by T.W. Brown

Narrated by: Andrew McFerrin Series: DEAD, Book 1-12 Length: 143 hrs and 15 mins

But I’ll definitely keep other suggestions in mind, since I’m getting another credit in a few days.

Edit 2:

The Count of Monte Cristo narrated by Bill Homewood (52 hrs and 41 mins) and The Complete Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry (62 hrs and 52 mins) are included in Audible’s Plus Catalog, so I downloaded those as well!

Wait, also War and Peace narrated by Thandiwe Newton (60 hrs and 14 mins)!

The Brandon Brown thread brought this to mind. It’s not just sponsors who are questionable. The Angela’s Motorsports team that never ran a race in the Busch series is one. It pretty much put the brakes on Mike McLaughlin’s career. I don’t know enough about J.D. Stacy to say whether he fits the bill, but I heard that he was shady.

Again not the original poster, this is continued from my previous post. To fit into two posts I had to cut the second update in two. Now back to the story!

Trigger Warning: Child Abuse

For a second I couldn’t believe it, I sort of just froze and stared at his name as though it would morph into something else, but it didn’t. The letters stayed exactly as they were and I dragged the cursor over the ‘accept’ button, hovering in thought for no more than a couple of seconds before I rapidly clicked on it.

I accepted the friend request, and dove into his profile.

The comments on his wall, the apps, the people in his friends list, and eventually, the photos, too. I spent a good three hours creeping his profile, to the point that it was dark outside when I finally stopped. I came to realize he went to the same school as Dean’s little brother. The one in the next city over. They were apparently on the debate team together, and … from what I had gathered in my innocent snooping … Nicky had seen one of the funny comments I had left on one of Dean’s brother’s pictures, recognized my name, and added me.

It was a silly picture. Something from Halloween if I remember correctly.

I remember thinking a few things while viewing the pictures in Nicky’s profile.

First, his hair was different. Slightly darker but still blond. Second, he was a lot taller. Very close to six feet if not all the way there. Third, he was the spitting image of his father.

I felt a lump in my throat, one that didn’t really go away until my mother called me down to have dinner.

Within an instant my parents could tell something was up. They didn’t ask, they just knew. Still, I tried my best to act normal and stuff my face the way I usually did. Once dinner was done, I took our empty dishes to the sink and washed them by hand, the way I did every evening. The whole time I was thinking about Nicky, the way he looked so happy in his pictures, and the fact that he had added me out of nowhere. Truthfully I had considered searching him up on Facebook many a time, but I had never followed through. In part, because I was afraid he wouldn’t remember me … and in part, because he had very clearly severed ties with me before moving. I had no idea if he even wanted to hear from me. The fact that he had added me, however, had put an end to those worries.

I went upstairs after, slipping into my bedroom with the lights off, and plopped down on my desk chair.

This time there was a message from h

Do your worst!

From Injustice by Whitson:

>Lou Smit and I are unaware of any other case throughout history where a parent strangled their child with a garotte. (Whitson, 110, published in 2012)

I've done some digging, and I've found a handful of cases where parents have killed their children via ligature strangulation (as well as a few edge cases where I haven't been able to establish if the cause of death was manual or ligature strangulation).

As with some of my intruder murder posts, I find it interesting to contrast known elements of the Ramsey case with known elements of resolved cases to see if anything seems to line up.

This allows us a little insight into why a parent chooses to kill their child in this manner, among the least common method of killing in filicides. (For the morbidly curious the most common are smothering, drowning and beating. This was such depressing research.)

If anyone knows of any other cases, please leave them in the comments.

Amy Gregory

>Early life
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>She was born Amy Smart in West Brighton on 16 February 1872 and married Frederick James Gregory (born 5 June 1867, Worthing) in Richmond in 1889. Her first child, Amy Sarah Ann, was born on 13 May that year and this was followed by the birth of a son, James William Walter, on 27 January 1892. In 1891 they were living at Albert Road, Richmond. Frederick was variously described as a groom, coachman, house-painter, 'paperhanger' (1911) or paper monger (1939). Her parents, John and Ann Smart, were living at Sheendale Terrace in 1891, and at 96 Mortlake Road in 1901.
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>The murder
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>The events leading up to her being charged are outlined in the witness statements from the inquest and trial and reported widely in the press.
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>The birth
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>At the time that Amy gave birth to Frances witnesses said that she had not been living with her husband for about 15 months. According to a neighbour, Mrs Priest, he and the children were staying with his parents. The reason for the separation from her husband and children was never made clear.
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>Amy entered the workhouse in Richmond on 12 December, describing herself as being single. Her daughter was born in Richmond Workhouse on 31 December 1894, registered as Frances Maud Smart on 12 January, and baptised on 20 January

Truckin’ - 5/7/72