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  1. Look out for the Secret Shopper scams, they're getting popular: http://bit.ly/dwtGde 3:05 PM May 21st via web
  2. NFL player from Houston finds it's not good idea, if u r out on bond for drug chgs, to be on a flyer 4 niteclub party http://bit.ly/c2XH5Q 2:40 PM May 21st via web
  3. Sounds reasonable to me RT @KTRKHouston Arsonist sought in string of fires: 1:36 PM May 21st via web
  4. Harris County has a strip club it would like to sell you http://bit.ly/ddJXRj 1:26 PM May 21st via web
  5. I feel safer already RT @ebertchicago MPAA limit on blow jobs in R-rated film: Two head-bobs. 12:15 PM May 21st via web
  6. I feel like Nelson Muntz at "Naked Lunch" RT @thedailybeast Erotic Embroidery: View our NSFW gallery on Art Beast. http://thebea.st/brVRHM 12:13 PM May 21st via web
  7. Texas board puts Thomas Jefferson back in textbooks: But what about his middle name? (Trick question: he didn't have one.) 11:55 AM May 21st via web
  8. It's bad when you're just thankful the SBOE didn't debate whether to include birther stuff because "the question hasn't been settled yet." 11:52 AM May 21st via web
  9. Obviously the sirens affected my proofreading -- "if u leave Google open 2day" 9:41 AM May 21st via web
  10. So if u leave Googleopen t2day you get PacMan sound? I just put on headphones for a video, heard sirens & thought my computer was dying. 9:40 AM May 21st via web
  11. Latest SBOE nitemare idea: Use Barack HUSSEIN Obama in Tx textbooks. How long, Oh Lord, how long? http://bit.ly/dpAtGx 9:15 AM May 21st via web
  12. Visiting the capitol bldg in Austin just got a lot more hassle-filled: http://bit.ly/b5HneJ 8:37 AM May 21st via web
  13. Friendswood lowrider on tonight's Wife Swap says she's happy w/episode http://bit.ly/9JOPSE 7:51 AM May 21st via web
  14. Nick Nolte's classic mugshot would never have seen the light of day in Harris Co, thx to new policy http://bit.ly/aPHoT8 7:50 AM May 21st via web
  15. Up late drunk-bidding on eBay? Try for these Houston apt complexes, if you have a few spare million http://bit.ly/avagld 7:49 AM May 21st via web
  16. Streetcars and deep trenches for rail along Washington Ave? Only thing missing is $. See plans here http://bit.ly/bUpar9 4:56 PM May 20th via web
  17. Museblogger slowly losing her sanity at SBOE meet. RT @museblogger We've been doing 6th grade for an hour. Six more grades, six more hours? 3:35 PM May 20th via web
  18. Annise Parker happily poses with gunmen from an oppressive, merciless killing regime http://bit.ly/bCKrQk 11:22 AM May 20th via web
  19. Houston admittedly isn't much for sex scandals, but here are the five best http://bit.ly/donq1A Did we miss any? 9:40 AM May 20th via web
  20. Houston antique store yields 1920s British book teaching kids abt "pickannines" who jes' lub pickin' dat cotton http://bit.ly/bEEL7l 7:21 AM May 20th via web
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