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Short Story: Mullah Nasruddin's sheer exasperation of exasperation

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 31 Aug 20

Mullah Nasruddin's father-in-law was now a permanent fixture in his house, in more ways than one. His stay was meant to be a temporary one at first, but now it looked like that it would be indefinite. [b]The man moved so...

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Short Story: Mullah Nusruddin's father in law gives him some major headaches in his life, but which turned out for him to be a blessing in disguise.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 30 Aug 20

The Mullah's father in law was staying in their house, with him, his wife, and his daughter, for an extended visit. His wife had died a year, or two, back, and it was hard for him to cope with his living on his own...

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The fun of vintage Disney animation

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 23 May 18

Today, I had a party for the elementary choir to celebrate a successful year. I looked on Youtube and found some really vintage Disney shorts called "Silly Symphonies." (I have used others in the past, from video or DVD, but these...

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Horror Comic Review - Askold Akisin - The Zombie

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Jan 17

2008 – The Mammoth Book Of Zombie Comics – spoiler alerts Most of the comics in this very diverse anthology from Mammoth are drawn from pulp comics from the 1950’s and 1960’s but Akisin’s tale was specially commissioned for the...

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Mythology

viana20 @viana20 (96) • Indonesia 8 Jan 09

Have anyone have an interest in reading about mythology and folk tales? About those creatures from the past, with its own beauty, kindness, madness and power? Yesterday i spent like 3/4 of the day to go browsing all the websites...

Bed time stories, read it or tell it?

klaudine @klaudine (3650) • Indonesia 8 Jan 09

Once someone told me that the bedtime stories gave lots of effects to your children's personality. My mother used to read me stories from the books, about fairy tales and the folk tales. My father was very good at making bed time...

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On Police Forces

mookhor @mookhor (304) • India 16 Dec 08

We have polices who are under either the state or the center. It is learned that they are to maintain the law and order of the society.But we have grown up with such ideas that always stand against the polices. We have always seen...

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legends in your life?

qwe123 @qwe123 (253) • China 20 Oct 08

the stories, folk tales and legands are passed down from generation to generation, and we grow up listening to some of them. are there any such stories you still remember from childhood? how does it relate to your life and do...

painted walls!

antony2best @antony2best (583) • India 12 Oct 08

do you think you could build a house from mud?in some parts of the world thats exactly how people make their houses.in places where there is life,where there is little rain,mud is an ideal building material.it is used to build all...

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Do U like to read Folktales like this?

msivaprakash @msivaprakash (35) • India 6 Dec 07

Check out my blog http://moralsandfables.blogspot.com/ Do u like to read this types of folk tales and fables. Do u have any collections like aesop fables, panchatantra tales, jataka tales, fairy tales, african folktales etc.......

Why do people like fairies so much?

SplitZip @SplitZip (1488) • Portugal 12 Jan 07

You know, the little fantasy creatures with the wings. In old folk tales, they'd make appearances and liven up the story arcs, but today, all you see are these representations that: a. are too skanky to be taken seriously b....

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Tales from Your Country!

michaelvanx @michaelvanx (568) • Malaysia 9 Dec 06

Hello peeps.. i guess every country has their own tales.. weird, funny, unrealistic, UFO, ghost, etc.. So what is your tale in your own country? Mine is mostly ghost story and supernatural sightings.. Ghosts:- orang...

folk tales from your country

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