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From the Ted Talk by Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

So I had the most profound ecrnneuots with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of pnoerlgod eye contact being allowed in a city street, and we would sort of fall in love a little bit. And my eyes would say — "Thank you. I see you." And their eyes would say — "Nobody ever sees me. Thank you."

I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their cars. "Get a job!" (Laughing) And I'd be, like, "This is my job." But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-joblike and unfair, shafemul. I had no idea how perfect a real education I was getting for the miusc business on this box. And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable ioncme, which was shocking to me, given I had no regular ctmorseus, but pretty much 60 bucks on a tuaesdy, 90 bucks on a Friday. It was cneisntost.

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(Laughter)

So I had the most profound __________ with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of _________ eye contact being allowed in a city street, and we would sort of fall in love a little bit. And my eyes would say — "Thank you. I see you." And their eyes would say — "Nobody ever sees me. Thank you."

I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their cars. "Get a job!" (Laughing) And I'd be, like, "This is my job." But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-joblike and unfair, ________. I had no idea how perfect a real education I was getting for the _____ business on this box. And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable ______, which was shocking to me, given I had no regular _________, but pretty much 60 bucks on a _______, 90 bucks on a Friday. It was __________.

Solution


  1. shameful
  2. consistent
  3. tuesday
  4. income
  5. music
  6. encounters
  7. customers
  8. prolonged

Original Text


(Laughter)

So I had the most profound encounters with people, especially lonely people who looked like they hadn't talked to anyone in weeks, and we would get this beautiful moment of prolonged eye contact being allowed in a city street, and we would sort of fall in love a little bit. And my eyes would say — "Thank you. I see you." And their eyes would say — "Nobody ever sees me. Thank you."

I would get harassed sometimes. People would yell at me from their cars. "Get a job!" (Laughing) And I'd be, like, "This is my job." But it hurt, because it made me fear that I was somehow doing something un-joblike and unfair, shameful. I had no idea how perfect a real education I was getting for the music business on this box. And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable income, which was shocking to me, given I had no regular customers, but pretty much 60 bucks on a Tuesday, 90 bucks on a Friday. It was consistent.

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