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Do we know anyone who fits this description?
Muffin-Top
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
The fashion world is a fecund, fruitful and fertile source of metaphoric phrases. (Funny, that all these synonyms for ''productive'' begin with f.) In 1999, an outbreak of bare midsections in the fashion world led this department to a midriff riff: I expressed my preference for the informal term bellybutton to be ( Read more... ) -
A must see
Have any of you seen this? Unbelievable. Truly.
Hey, you're saving $5,000. Yeah, but I'm droppin' $8,000!! If I had that kind of money, even I don't think I'd be spending it on damn near ALL these books. maybe linguistics titles (but even that is excessive), but not these, sorry.
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On this day...
1946: The man who loves sex with secretaries and smoking *heavy duty* cigars was born today. Lets all wish him the big, warm birthday wish: Happy Birthday, Mr. Clinton!!
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On this day...
1997 - An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing ( Read more... ) -
The soldier and War
Lately, it seems like these stories never end. But they're good stories, not your average "war story." I think that distinguishes these from the war stories is that they're everything but that. They're tales of humanity and suffrage. A life seen from the eyes of someone we don't know--not "know" as in personally knowing them, but in the sense ( Read more... ) -
Religious teachings
I find myself a true believe in God and His word. However, I also believe that there is a point where there is too much. There is only so much we can do as mortals. Therefore, anything more would be unrealistic. But it's unrealistic in my terms, not the believer's. They, to us, seem like they are brainwashed and belong to a cult.
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Andy's rap
Awesome rap ( Read more... ) -
On this day...
1960 - The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1, a balloon satellite.
The beginning of the cell phone era. Ugh. Look what chaos they've created. Now, 11 year olds want phones "in case of emergencies." Yeah, right. I think we then need to ask them what constitutes as an emergency. Calling your ( Read more... )
