Findings:
- They had left, but her mascara kept running
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
- you can use a lot of words and ideas to try to hide it, but you're always making a choice between love and hate
- Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
- The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
- Like a distant star, on the horizon
- don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
- A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
- no ideas but in things
- He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
- Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
- Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
- You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea.
- A date idea, but not for the first date
- Became
- What Happened to Them at Surinam, and How Candide Became Acquainted with Martin
- Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
- The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
- Why I became a geneticist
- The day I became a capitalist swine, hell-bent on gorging on the fruits of slave labor
- How I Became a Socialist
- Crazy mixed up kids who stopped living and became zombies
- The amazing true story of how I became the sixth Backstreet Boy
- How I became the Naked Guy
- I wish you could have met me before I became food
- How I lost twenty pounds and became fit in two months
- Reasons why George W. Bush became president
- How Dorothy Became a Princess
- How I became disabled
- How Scandinavians Became Hideously White
- I'll become what you became to me
- When I became beautiful
- Out of Necessity, we became the Mothers of Invention
- Ladies, it's high time you became friends with your clitoris
- How Eulenspiegel became a page
- How Eulenspiegel became a sexton
- Why I never became a Geologist
- How Eulenspiegel became a trumpeter
- How Eulenspiegel became an eyeglass maker
- The moment I became disillusioned with Sci-Fi
- How I became king of the world
- How Salem became the Capital of Oregon
- Why I became a writer
- How I Became a Hooligan
- TGoP: Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec
- How People Became People
- When he became an old man
- their laughter became the second song
- It suddenly became clear
- I became a fish and a hundred years passed in a blurred stream. I remember it from long ago.
- How I accidentally became a Methodist
- since we became accelerated readers, we never leave the house
- the lie became the truth
- In the 20th century economics became a philosophy of life
- Belief, or How I Became an Honorary Jew
- i became a flower and a hundred years passed on a whisper of wind
- Lucky Girl: How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story
- And That's How I Became a Labor Organizer
- But who codes the coders?
- Everything But the Girl
- butt
- butt naked
- I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
- but
- Mr. Butts
- Words that sound dirty but really aren't
- Good from far, but far from good
- But I'm a Cheerleader
- I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
- Every Which Way but Loose
- That'd be the butt, Bob
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
- Butt hinge
- Butt joint
- Butt shaft
- Butt weld
- Water butt
- We have nothing to fear but fear itself
- But thanks for playing
- There are many like it, but this one is mine
- Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
- butt log
- I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
- I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
- But my computer really IS possessed
- I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
- Butt crack of dawn
- Lots of MIPS but no I/O
- Things people put up their butts
- Project B.U.T.T.
- It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
- Butted mail
- The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten
- The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
- it's not what you node, but how you node
- cigarette butt
- How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
- Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
- Mandibular block injection
- old chestnut: all but two
- answer: all but two
- anti-abortion but pro-choice
- Straight but not Narrow
- sending out sparks of dream and sleepthought
- The odds are good, but the goods are odd
- Scrabble words with a Q but no U
- Monkey Butt!
- butt breath
- Japanese puns that are not funny but at least are puns
- Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
- You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
- Something Childish, but Very Natural
- Genuine but Insignificant Cause
- You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
- Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
- English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
- I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
- Sororities are nothing but social crutches
- butts ARE litter
- You may think I'm lying, but it's true
- But what are they really thinking?
- Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
- I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
- I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
- If I could slip this skin but for a moment
- Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
- My library books are late, but I don't care
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
- BQN: But, one for all?
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- Sexist jokes
- Yard Butt
- Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
- Not really by the rules, but...
- No, but I'll have a beer
- Free but worthless shares
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
- Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
- I know you are, but what am I?
- You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
- I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
- You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
- A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
- 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
- It never rains but it pours
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
- I am but a moth before your flame
- 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
- But seriously, a tragic thing happened down the street
- But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
- I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
- Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
- Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
- I'm not pregnant, but thanks for asking
- Not atheist, but what then?
- Longing for brief, but ever unattainable moment of... lucid thought?
- silent but deadly
- equal but opposite
- Don't litter, but go ahead and throw your cigarette butt on the ground
- Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
- Fell, But Tried
- I'm straight, but you might be the one
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