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the present 

What the past left behind for us. The time we are living in right now is therefore a present from the past.
Person 1: Why is it called the present?
Person 2: Because everything we see is a present from the past
the present by hittaJ March 19, 2017
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The present 

You're always in the present.
Hym "Not to me. By the time the light bounces off you and gets to me you're already in the past... I'm not even in the present most of the time. I'm in the conceptual realm. "
The present by Hym Iam February 20, 2023

The Present 

The time right now because yesterday was history and tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift so it is called the present
In the present I am writing this definition right now.
The Present by Cutekittys May 5, 2023

Prisoner of the Present

1. A person whose entire worldview is shaped by current events, stumbling along from one crisis to another.
2. Someone without a historical perspective or hope for the future.
3. The mindset that causes "knee-jerk" reactions to almost any kind of social or economic change.
4. A state of perpetual panic about "the world today."
Larry says the U.S. economy will never recover no matter what happens in Washington -- he's a typical Prisoner of the Present.

how many gifts are they going to give us before we open the present

When an error, follie, or turn over happens in a sporting event and the opposing team does not capitalize.
A football team turns the ball over three times in succession, and all it does is result in three punts by their opponent.
how many gifts are they going to give us before we open the present

You don’t like Singapore your country is it. Then don’t direct message or else ask me what happened don’t ask the past focus on the present sigh. That’s what Ms Hema said to you. 

You don’t like Singapore your country is it. Then don’t direct message or else ask me what happened don’t ask the past focus on the present sigh. That’s what Ms Hema said to you.
You don’t like Singapore your country is it. Then don’t direct message or else ask me what happened don’t ask the past focus on the present sigh. That’s what Ms Hema said to you.

forget the past, walk the present, create future 

it is a phrase created by CsL in conjunction with new year eve to remind people around to leave what is deemed past and create your own desired future path.
don't be sad, as what past is deemed to be past. So, "forget the past, walk the present, create future".
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Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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hey let's get a drink of that?

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*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

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God Shot 

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city chicken 

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I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.
Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?
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