Mortgage broker

Mortgage broker is someone who sells mortgages.

When I was a young boy, I played some Monopoly. In Monopoly you can "mortgage" your property. That means you turn the card over and get cash money for it. This was usually a sign that you were in trouble, maybe even close to losing the game.

Nowadays I know that a mortgage is a loan that helps you buy a house.

In many ways, Monopoly gave me a skewed impression of how the real world works.


Tough times for the man with the wide left hand.
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Ftn

Ftn was a short-lived television channel in the British Isles.

Ftn broadcast between January 15, 2003 and October 1, 2007. It showed mostly entertainment and reality programming. It seems that Ftn was just an overnight broadcast; it was on between 6 pm and 6 am. It was geared toward nightshift workers and insomniacs and nocturnal animals like hamsters.

I had a hamster once. In fact, I think he's been mentioned in Wikibloogia before. His name was Mario. He would run on his wheel all night in my room and try to escape his cage.

He's dead now.

Just like Ftn.

Because that's the way it is.


Mario would have liked Ftn.
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Venetia Stanley

Venetia Stanley was a 17th-century third daughter of a minor English nobleman. Venetia had beauty. She had a licentious reputation. During her marriage to scientist and adventurer Kenelm Digby, she was a devout catholic.

There's other stuff too in Venetia's life story. There's a lot of intrigue. You can read all about it in the Wikipedia article. Near the end, she dies.


Venetia's blinds.
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Lori Easley

Lori Easley, a.k.a. Lori Easley Otter, is the First Lady of Idaho, and has been since 2007.

Lori is a former Miss Idaho USA, and she has a masters degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, & Education Administration. She is also a good athlete.

Her husband, the governor of Idaho, is named C.L. "Butch" Otter. That's a strong name. My name is Adam Shonkoff. That's not as strong. A lot of people have a hard time pronouncing it. Even though it sounds like it looks.

People are afraid. People are afraid of certain combinations of letters.


No relation.
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American Indian alcoholism

American Indian alcoholism is another awkward Wikibloogia entry. The other recent one was Massacre of Lviv professors.

I'd rather not write about sad and unfortunate things, but I must deal with what Wikibloogia gives me. Wikibloogia is like life, in that way. In a lot of other ways, Wikibloogia is not like life at all. For instance, Wikibloogia is a blog. Life is not a blog.

Or wait, maybe it is. Maybe life is a blog. Maybe life is just someone's blog.

I'd read that blog.

Alcoholism is bad. It's a problem in the American Indian community. But there are also a lot of American Indians who aren't alcoholics.


Non-alcoholic American Indian band.
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Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro

Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro is anime porn. It started as an erotic video game and then became a DVD. The title means Color of the Sky, Color of the Water.

Often, the color of the sky and the color of the water are the same. Because the water reflects the sky. Water, of course, is actually clear. But not when there's a lot of it in one place.

Sometimes, when you look directly at certain water, it looks exactly like you.

I'm not into anime porn.


Sexy cartoon boob sweat.
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Oghma (Forgotten Realms)

Oghma (Forgotten Realms) refers to Oghma, some powerful figure in some fantasy world. He was created by a man named Ed for his home Dungeons & Dragons game. But Oghma is also in the Celtic pantheon, or something. I don't really get it.

I don't care about Oghma.


Life is like a box of chocolates.
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