Before a recent football match between Argentina and Brazil (an archrivalry), an Argentinean condom company posted ad to let Brazilians know what will presumably happen to them at the upcoming bout.


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"In Defense of 'Loose' Women: The Latest Crisis on College Campuses ( Read more... )

me: i REALLY like that poem
amy: [smile]
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From Sandra Cisneros' "Guadalupe the Sex Goddess":

One night a classmate I liked too much took me home with him. I meant all along to say something about how I wasn't on anything, but I never quite found my voice, never the right moment to cry out--Stop, this is dangerous to my brilliant career! Too afraid to sound stupid, afraid to ask him to ( Read more... )

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From The Onion:

Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out MenuCAMBRIDGE, MA-Jon Rosenblatt, 27, a Harvard University English graduate student specializing in modern and postmodern critical theory, deconstructed the take-out menu of a local Mexican restaurant "out of sheer force of habit" Monday ( Read more... )

At the polls on Election Day: "I'm gonna vote today. I gotta vote, 'cos I don't wanna die, man, don't wanna die."

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