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Daniel Mallory Ortberg
American
Writer
Born:
Nov 28
,
1986
Day
First
Reading
Write
Writing
You
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
You
Natural
Earth
Moose
Pound
True
Know
Surroundings
Very
Did
Tune
With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Few
Birds
Unnatural
Marshmallow
Claws
Exceptions
Armed
Vulnerable
Normal
Trusted
Bodies
Slashing
Soft
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Statement
Mission
Toast
Specific
I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Have Fun
Internet
Wish
Twitter
Everyone
Way
Could
Feel
Safe
Comfortable
Going
Fun
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Love
Faith
People
Smart
Perspective
Circle
Secular
Reading
Books
Religious
Religious Faith
More
Tend
Smart People
Sort
Reading Books
Always
Authors
Move
Just
Really
Cool
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Great
You
Responsibility
Tool
Nuts
Abdicate
Go
Texting
Person
Hands
Wants
Really
Who
Things
It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Parents
Fairly
Unusual
Up
Pastors
Certainly
Growing
Growing Up
Two
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
You
Guard
Side
Intimidate
Staying
Join
Most
Partition
Course
Off
Sneeze
Trying
Hands
Artist
Process
Subway
Customer
Customers
Sandwich
Successful
Your
Who
Assembling
Keep
Suggestion
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Me
Try
Men
Reading
Think
Our
Say
Okay
Out
Would
Insignificant
About
Percent
Because
Audience
Dudes
Doing
Discourage
Male
Shocked
Site
Which
Toast
Who
Apparently
Actively
Number
It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Love
Good
Writing
Care
Spine
Entire
Write
Perfectly
Bed
dont Care
Hands
Body
Awful
Desk
In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Bible
Sports
School
Year
Before
Young
Group
Christian
Final
High
Rural
High School
Attending
Instead
Study
Missouri
Learn
Read
Camp
Began
Offer
Wanted
Afternoon
Elective
Who
Started
Chance
Christians
We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Church
Dinner
Parents
Before
Summer
Ministry
Brother
Week
Allowed
Simpsons
Over
Employed
Were
Prayed
The Simpsons
Younger
Younger Brother
Fought
Twice
Twice A Week
Watch
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Humor
Someone
More
Had
Like
Always
Five
Than
Experiences
Interesting
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Day
Great
Women
Comedy
Humor
Type
Say
One Of The Things
Would
Would-Be
Some
Writers
Female
Lots
Just
Just One
Many
Things
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
First
Read
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