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Of course, they can turn it off too:

I'm dedicating today's word to my dad. I lost him six years ago today. Dad never let people drive his golf cart... I think he thought everyone drove like this... Funny part of that last story is he got busted all the way down and promoted back to PFC by the same Colonel on the same day because the job he was doing in the location they were required the rank and no one else knew how to do the job. I also want to thank my dear friends here on the site that helped me through that year. Miss ya dad! Dad and I when I was about 4.

In my experience, it is one of 2 things: Corrupted Cache on the browser. This seems to happen a more frequently on Apple's Safari than other places. An odd delay in recognizing a click to go past the ad. I've had this happen a time or two on my android phone. Best option is try clearing the cache and then trying again.

Another great article Comsie! I think sub-plots are critical to any but the barest of stories. They are especially important in speculative fiction worlds. Unless you are using spaceship as background and calling that Science Fiction because spaceship... lol. In my own writing, I use sub-plot items to tie my short stories together to the world and make the world feel lived in. My only problem is making sure I keep everything consistent. Because if I mentioned it, it ties into something somewhere. Some of things are planting seeds for a bigger payoff later on. I think JMS's Babylon 5 show is my inspiration for story arcs and ties across different stand alone stories. There wasn't a single episode in 5 seasons that didn't have some, often significant, plot tie to the bigger picture or the characters that inhabited that world. This was up against the "planet of the week" sort of thing you got from Star Trek at the time. In fact, if you are fan of Star Trek Deep Space 9, you'll see the "Babylon 5" effect in the shows prior to Babylon 5 and shows after Babylon 5's success. The whole Dominion War story arc only appeared after B5 blazed the path. They did a good job with focusing their previously random sub-plots.

You don't like those pencil phallus symbols?

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As usual, I took it to the next level and deleted those dangerous cesspools of toxic bovine excrement.

Art Bell... I think

Thanks @Comicality! You have definitely given us more food for thought with plenty of videos that help put your point across visually.

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So, Amazon has a new proposed Poop Emoji Headquarters for Arlington, VA. Go ahead.. Try unseeing this... Seems about right too.

@wildone is gold-plated! No tin there...