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#TwistedTropes 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons Everything was awkward about the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow. As a young man, Maslow had very few friends, so he made books his companions, married one of his cousins by accident, and then spent the rest of his life trying to discover the meaning of life. Adam's poisoned apple 21.

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#TwistedTropes 30. Halley's boring comet

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Adam's poisoned apple 21. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Batman's tangled cape 16. Cupid's bent arrow 17. Fermat's dodgy last theorem 18. Moore's obsolete law 19. Lucifer's idiotic fall 20. Hadrian's busted wall 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge 23. Dale's shameful cone 24. Schindler's shopping list 26. Whistler's angry mother 27.

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#TwistedTropes 26. Whistler's angry mother

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Adam's poisoned apple 21. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Batman's tangled cape 16. Cupid's bent arrow 17. Fermat's dodgy last theorem 18. Moore's obsolete law 19. Lucifer's idiotic fall 20. Hadrian's busted wall 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge 23. Dale's shameful cone 24. Unported License.

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#TwistedTropes 27. Washington's wooden teeth

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Adam's poisoned apple 21. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Batman's tangled cape 16. Cupid's bent arrow 17. Fermat's dodgy last theorem 18. Moore's obsolete law 19. Lucifer's idiotic fall 20. Hadrian's busted wall 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge 23. Dale's shameful cone 24. Schindler's shopping list 26. Unported License.

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#TwistedTrope 23: Dale's crappy cone

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Next time: 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy Previous posts in the #TwistedTropes series 1. Adam's poisoned apple 21. Editor's note: I don't know what the author was smoking when he wrote this, but please take it all with a pinch of salt - as you should with Dale's Cone of Experience. Pavlov's drooling dog 2. Chekhov's smoking gun 3.

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#TwistedTrope 29. Santa's marginalised reindeer

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Adam's poisoned apple 21. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Batman's tangled cape 16. Cupid's bent arrow 17. Fermat's dodgy last theorem 18. Moore's obsolete law 19. Lucifer's idiotic fall 20. Hadrian's busted wall 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge 23. Dale's shameful cone 24. Schindler's shopping list 26. Whistler's angry mother 27.

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#TwistedTropes 28. Jonah's necessary whale

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Adam's poisoned apple 21. Maslow's awkward hierarchy 25. Batman's tangled cape 16. Cupid's bent arrow 17. Fermat's dodgy last theorem 18. Moore's obsolete law 19. Lucifer's idiotic fall 20. Hadrian's busted wall 22. Montezuma's terrible revenge 23. Dale's shameful cone 24. Schindler's shopping list 26. Whistler's angry mother 27.

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