Findings:
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
- Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
- It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
- Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant
- I think this hurts. I can't tell.
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
- And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
- I wanted to show you something, but the verb sucked
- I won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
- you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
- I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
- I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
- Show me some leg, baby...for a good cause
- just because you don't doesn't mean you can't
- Why can't Starbucks sell "small," "medium," and "large" drinks?
- show and tell
- A poem for two pages of panel art for a comic that was never written
- I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
- Things you can't tell just by looking at her
- She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- strange and too short but I was lonely
- The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
- I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
- On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
- I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- But the fire doesn't sing to them anymore
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
- as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
- She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
- Being a dickhead
- Trail your finger through the air, and then tell me you can't feel it
- you can't hear my voice cause i'm not loud enough
- I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
- Notelet nodelet utility for reading small text
- Why almost every node was written in the year 2000
- The German textbook that was written by Morrissey
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- Show, don't tell
- The "He can't tell the difference" beer commercial
- Can't nothin' fail but a try
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- Illness limits but doesn't define
- you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
- I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
- I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
- I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
- I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
- The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
- The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
- words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
- but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
- I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
- Tell Me a Story; the Catbox Story Archive
- If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
- I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
- i thought i was special, but it was you
- the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
- I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
- I love you, but I dare not tell you.
- When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
- I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
- There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
- you can't feel nothing small
- Can't tell if being trolled
- You can't tell sleep where to go
- I can't even begin to tell you how I feel about certain things for reasons that you may find difficult to understand
- If you can't tell, does it matter?
- Tell me what God is like, cause I'm starting to forget
- I don't tell her these things, and she doesn't ask
- I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
- i can't tell car accidents from car on-purposes
- Are you such a fucking loser you can't tell when you've won?
- It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
- Tomorrow, he must tell her that he doesn't love her anymore.
- Do war movies tell the story or show the violence?
- I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Text: The 2005 Halloween Horrorquest
- Bobby's Maturation in "Show and Tell"
- it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
- Would you tell me if it was true?
- I'll tell you what kind of guy I was
- The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
- Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
- The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
- what i'm trying to show you is something that i was shown
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- I can't tell the girl I love that I love her
- I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
- I can't get published, but this crap can
- You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
- If you can't help it, fuck it!
- I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
- I'm sorry, but we can't watch the rest of MacBeth until it is censored
- Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
- You can run, but you can't hide
- She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
- Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
- But life is hard when the written word is your first language
- There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for
- I will have her forever but I can't touch her
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
- Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
- I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
- Small but still a person
- But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
- How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
- People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
- Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
- but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
- Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
- They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
- It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
- /but what was the question?
- They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
- Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
- it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
- you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
- one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
- we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
- I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
- i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
- I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
- he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- Genuine but Insignificant Cause
- I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
- Just because you've ordered doesn't mean you can't look at the menu
- Things we say and do when we can't tell the truth
- I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
- Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
- Can't you tell we're barrelling toward an alien future?
- I can't tell you my username because I know you too well
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- some people touch it, but they can't hold on
- Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
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