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		<title>The Major Leagues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why the team got rid of me.&#8221; &#8220;Widegger, you&#8217;re an OK outfielder, but you&#8217;re too naive.&#8221; &#8220;What do you mean? I never renegotiated my contract, and my stats are above average.&#8221; &#8220;You haven&#8217;t heard what they&#8217;re saying?  &#8216;You can catch more flies with money than with Widegger.&#8217;&#8221;]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why the team got rid of me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Widegger, you&#8217;re an OK outfielder, but you&#8217;re too naive.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What do you mean? I never renegotiated my contract, and my stats are above average.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You haven&#8217;t heard what they&#8217;re saying?  &#8216;You can catch more flies with money than with Widegger.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The End of the World, As We Know It, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another sequel to an early story of mine from back in july 2009: The day after Google went down, civilization collapsed.  Even people who&#8217;d never heard of Google were affected. Information stopped flowing. People lost things and got lost themselves. Finding things by yourself was just too big a chore. In the end, [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is another sequel to <a title="The End of the World, As We Know It" href="http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=23">an early story of mine from back in july 2009</a>:</p>
<p>The day after Google went down, civilization collapsed.  Even people who&#8217;d never heard of Google were affected.</p>
<p>Information stopped flowing.</p>
<p>People lost things and got lost themselves.</p>
<p>Finding things by yourself was just too big a chore.</p>
<p>In the end, people only needed to learn to find one thing:</p>
<p>Themselves.</p>
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