{"id":742,"date":"2010-10-08T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/it-does-exist\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T19:33:00","slug":"it-does-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/08\/it-does-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"It does exist!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In conversation, I tend to exaggerate wildly when I don’t know the specifics of something – as an amusing clue to the listener that I don’t really have any idea what I’m talking about. <\/p>\n

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So, a large amount of something becomes “extra gigantic” or “several bazillion”. In geographic terms, a vague but distant location becomes “south central Mongolia”, “downtown Siberia”, or “Cheboygan” – which I was convinced was a made up place. <\/div>\n
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Recently, one of my friends and I took a trip to Michigan and we made a stop along the way in Cheboygan, MI. It was raining and we stopped just long enough to get a picture of me next to the “city limit” sign before driving on. Proof positive that the town really does exist.<\/p>\n
I’ll have more details on the trip later, but I thought I’d share this little bit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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