Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:   shop

I bought two items to get a third free, and then I returned the two. I should be Shopper of the Year.
~Jarod Kintz

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
~Henry Ward Beecher

For some, shopping is an art; for others, it’s a sport. It can be a vice and it can be a cause. Some love it. Some hate it. Rarely is someone indifferent.
~Pamela Klaffke

EndQuote:
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
~Harold Coffin

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Exercise Prompt for 09/06:  room

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Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. “I need a coffee shop or something.” “I think I saw one in a cave down the road,” I said. That almost got a smile from her
~Richelle Mead

When you’re stuck on something creatively, you can’t solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.
~Eric Weiner

I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.
~William Butler Yeats

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Posted from the Grove

It was one of those puzzling facts of life that women either celebrated a happy event or solved their problems with a shopping spree.
~E A Bucchianeri

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
~Imelda Marcos

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs. I shop, okay?
~Danielle Fishel

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
~Tammy Faye Bakker

I shop, therefore I am.
~Heather Chandler

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~Jakob Ryce:  The Delicate Craft of Writing Poetry
https://blog.usejournal.com/the-delicate-craft-of-writing-poetry-1e0d6020ded0

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~Great Big Story:  5 Deliciously Unique Coffees Around the World   (6:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVh6yN36M0A

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
~Oscar Wilde

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
~Sinclair Lewis

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don’t need with money you don’t have.
~Author Unknown

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.
~Franklin P Jones

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
~Will Rogers

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
~Paul McCartney

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VIDEO:

One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there — that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
~Laurie Helgoe

Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.
~Mark Driscoll

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.
~Julie Roberts

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~Hanging Charlie Productions:  Coffee Shop Conversations   (1:58)   eavesdropping — 4 vignettes

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~Hughes William Thompson:  A New Man  (8:50)   refurbished life

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~ThinkModo/TV Boy:  Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise   (2:23)   messin’ with some minds

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I shop like a bull — I charge everything!
~Author Unknown

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.
~Joyce Brothers

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it’s not, and I need to do it again.
~Sophie Kinsella

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you’ve got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
~John Green

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In most betting shops you will see three windows marked ‘Bet Here’, but only one window with the legend ‘Pay Out’.
~Jeffrey Bernard

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
~Victoria Moran

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MUSIC:

I didn’t study anything really. I didn’t learn out of the books because I couldn’t read music very well, so it is what they say it is – you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.
~Joan Baez

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
~Jewel

Nothing’s going to keep me from making music. If I were in the want-ads in the back of the paper or playing to six people at a coffee shop, I’d still love to make music.
~Dave Grohl

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~Grey Zone:  Small Coffee Shop   (3:54)   Korean, no translation needed

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~inxskim:  Canon in D   (3:17)   Korean hip hop w/ breakdance duo

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~Peusoshi:  180624   (3:20)   Chinese orchestral mash-up; snarky comment section

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~I Love Lucy:  Silvery Moon   (8:00)   comedy, music, Bing Crosby

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The other line moves faster.
~Etorre’s Observation

If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.
~O’Brian’s Law

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line.
~Ann Landers

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
~Henny Youngman

I rationalize shopping. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.
~Rita Rudner

She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate.
~Henny Youngman

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?
~Rita Rudner

I haven’t reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
~Ilie Nastase

[On living in New York City:] I’m oblivious to everything. I just don’t notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman’s lap for an hour.
~Laura Kightlinger

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.
~Gina Barreca

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I like my money right where I can see it — hanging in my closet.
~Sex and the City

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I’ve been shopping all my life and still have nothing to wear.
~Sally Poplin

They came, they saw, they did a little shopping.
~Jeff Klooger

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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
~Elayne Boosler

Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
~John Wayne

If men liked shopping, they’d call it research.
~Cynthia Nelms

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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@Writers Platform

I’m partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.
~Marvin Bell

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
~Ernest Hemingway

I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they’re living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.
~Daisy Whitney

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have.
~Jerry Seinfeld

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Glass Table:

~Greenie:

Does

Does a Comet ever burn as bright
if there’s no one to see it soar through the night

Does the sun lose its brilliant heat
like two hearts whose love they never meet

Do the stars fade away and dim
like the passing of a frivolous whim

Do dreams burn away and end
if there’s no hope to carry them like wind

Does a lonely heart forever yearn
like solar flares that ever burn…

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@I Like The Rain

A Dream You Dream

Into my thoughts you move
Silently as you go
Tickling and teasing softly
Moving me so
Finding secrets hidden there
Even I did not see
Bringing out wings that spread
Showing mine to me
Soaring with me oh so high
Joys written on my face
Am I just a dream you dream
Pixels that dance in space

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Shopping is better than sex. If you’re not satisfied after shopping you can make an exchange for something you really like.
~Adrienne Gusoff

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it’s instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.
~Judith Krantz

Love is for free, just expensive to shop.
~Rick Ross

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Exercise Prompt:  shop

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~BarTalk:

Show Time

Tobias the Turtle singing bass as a barber
Had a shop next a tree down by the harbor
Harry the Hare was his next tree neighbor
Stitching and sewing as the baritone tailor
Sam the Seagull plied the skies as a sailor
Filled out the trio singing tenor with ardor
Mary the Mermaid singing gorgeous soprano
A solo act joined the group playing piano
Getting tickets for the show now much harder
Their Quintet Minus One at The Arbor

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Decisions

Shopping season not far yonder
Makes me wonder why I’m not fonder
Makes me ponder, brood and ruminate
Bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, dining
Basement, pantry, living, attic
Birthday gifts or Christmas shopping
Giving, getting, the mood erratic
Must I choose, one room in eight

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Staging

Warm and cozy away from home
Readers and writers, a living room
Scones and muffins buttered hot
Another round of caffeine shots
Dorky drinker next urbane suave
Share last table, fated for love
Solo musicians and fervid poets
Brand new season, fresh young crop
Incubating talent at the coffee shop

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5-7-5   5-7-5-7-7

love’s crowded market
shopping the shelves for talent
hearts swarm as sunshine

arms that hold, don’t grasp
smiles and curls, eyes bright with worlds
quip like gods with wit
priceless gold enshrined in skin
now informed, just beauty sells

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5-7-5 x 4

clean as a whistle
floor swept, scissors, clippers clean
ship-shape barber shop
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inspiration source
beer from hops or coffee shop
caffeinated muse
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wash and dry and fold
shopping center laundromat
guilt-free Stop ’n Read
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shop until you drop
flopping fish out of water
’til you re-enter

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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
~Berthold Auerbach

The vain — We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us ̶ in order to deceive ourselves.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach too near and gaze on it in shop windows.
~Tristan Bernard

There would be a price… But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?
~Terry Pratchett

I shop online because I don’t like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
~Marina Warner

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In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: “The best violins in all Italy.” Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: “The Best Violins In All The World!” At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: “The best violins on the block.”
~Freda Bright

The thing to do,’ I said as we gained the lane that leads to Beech Green and Fairacre, ‘is to get absolutely everything in the summer and lock it in a cupboard. Then order every scrap of food from a shop the week before Christmas and sit back and enjoy watching everyone else go mad. I’ve been meaning to do it for years.
~Miss Read

Only one shopping day left ’til tomorrow.
~Author Unknown

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