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Using Google powers for awesome

I came downstairs one morning and Miriam was hard at work on my computer researching My Little Pony. I wondered how she'd found the information she was looking at so I checked the Google search history. She had typed in

how rainbow dash got her cutie mark

and 

pony names

to Google. Nice. While I was looking through the history, I found these other gems from my own Googling.

people talking and not understanding each other. It was something related to a paper I was writing for my Language Acquisition class. I think I was looking for an illustration.

man from snowy river poo sliding off face. Don't you remember that scene? I couldn't remember if it was real or if it was an overactive childhood imagination, so I Googled it. (I didn't find anything conclusive, so I texted my sister instead.)

what time is it on the east coast. Sometimes my brain hurts from converting the time zones all the time and I wanted Google to ease the burden.

half of left pinkie cut off. Ummm, don't ask. Except that maybe someone I've known for almost a year - well, I just barely noticed that half of their left pinkie is cut off.

how old remove back of booster seat. The answer: not yet.

iron turns on won't heat up. Because my iron was doing that.

Anyway, that's what's going on with my Google searches in the past week. Did you realize that Google was saving all your searches? Because I didn't, not really. Yikes.

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