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American Sniper: American Sniper - The Battle For Fallujah - A Poem By Darryl Mason

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Friday, 10 January 2014. American Sniper - The Battle For Fallujah - A Poem By Darryl Mason. Kill one man, terrorise a thousand". The instructor had pointed to the sign. On the wall at the school where I learned. It didn't have a fancy name, this school. Like 'tactical depopulation training'. We called it what it was. Then they sent me here. Kill one man, terrorise a thousand". He smiled when he read the sign to me. My scores were good. He told me he was proud of me. I see him now still tapping that sign.

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People are Strange: May 2010

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Admit it. We are all strange. And in our culture, there is a certain fascination with strangeness. We love hearing weird stories and talking to weird people. I've heard my fair share of strange stories, and now, I'll share them with you. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Throughout the past couple weeks, I’ve chronicled strange. I’ve thought about why we love strange and I’ve examined lots of strange things we love, like weddings. Why did they post it- for good-natured humor or for 15 seconds of fame? To further my ...

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People are Strange: What is strange?

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Admit it. We are all strange. And in our culture, there is a certain fascination with strangeness. We love hearing weird stories and talking to weird people. I've heard my fair share of strange stories, and now, I'll share them with you. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Throughout the past couple weeks, I’ve chronicled strange. I’ve thought about why we love strange and I’ve examined lots of strange things we love, like weddings. Why did they post it- for good-natured humor or for 15 seconds of fame? To further my ...

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The Orstrahyun: When Australians Would Pose The Dead For Trophy Shots

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Readership - 2.5 million (April 2014) www.twitter.com/darrylmason. Monday, March 23, 2015. When Australians Would Pose The Dead For Trophy Shots. Wonder what the kid in the photo below thought years later about being present for the trophy photo shoo. T of a dead member of the Kelly Gang? Background on this extraordinary pic, which turns out to be Australia's First Press Photo. The image is part of an exhibition called The Photograph and Australia. At the Art Gallery of NSW, open now until June 8.

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The Orstrahyun: August 2013

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Readership - 2.5 million (April 2014) www.twitter.com/darrylmason. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. BREAKING NEWS: NewsCorp Reveals NewsCorp "Least Biased". It's a special kind of humiliation for the remaining decent journalists at Rupert Murdoch's crumbling Australian newspaper empire that they even have to think about 'crafting' stories like this, let alone having to run them all over their media ( image via TomWConnell. Not even Murdoch tabloid readers believe it. Posted by Darryl Mason. Newspoll, you're s...

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People are Strange: Strange Arbitrary rules

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Admit it. We are all strange. And in our culture, there is a certain fascination with strangeness. We love hearing weird stories and talking to weird people. I've heard my fair share of strange stories, and now, I'll share them with you. Thursday, May 6, 2010. It's basically a week long competition where fraternities and sororities pair up and participate in different challenges including philanthropy, attendance, speakers. Some of the rules for Airbands are ridiculous! Don't step outside the tape line&#...

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People are Strange: Strange Little Kid Talents

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Admit it. We are all strange. And in our culture, there is a certain fascination with strangeness. We love hearing weird stories and talking to weird people. I've heard my fair share of strange stories, and now, I'll share them with you. Thursday, May 13, 2010. Strange Little Kid Talents. I feel like every time I turn on my computer there is some new kid star doing a crazy video on YouTube. There were the British babies talking about charlie. Then there was the dancing kids, whether Beyonce. Who exploit ...

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People are Strange: Strange Maps

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Admit it. We are all strange. And in our culture, there is a certain fascination with strangeness. We love hearing weird stories and talking to weird people. I've heard my fair share of strange stories, and now, I'll share them with you. Friday, April 30, 2010. When walking home from breakfast this morning, I noticed all of the truly strange things around me. Being a college town, this is the perfect place to experiment with weird food, habits and people and of course, I wanted to share them with you!

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The Orstrahyun: Another World War For Australia?

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Readership - 2.5 million (April 2014) www.twitter.com/darrylmason. Thursday, June 04, 2015. Another World War For Australia? Australian, American and Chinese soldiers training together in the Northern Territory, in early May 2015. It could never happen again, we are told, Australians would never tolerate such large deployments, and the subsequent death tolls. And yet, the chances of Australia being drawn into a full-blown conflict between China and the United States may have never been higher. The source...