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i decided to get back into writing poetry after realizing that 'sloop larsen b' - a combination of the beach boys' song and the antarctic ice shelf - made a hilarious and disturbingly appropriate combination. can anyone think of clever ways to relate the high-point of the beach boys critical output, which was to be followed by a magnificent crash ( Read more... )

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Countries with the greatest percentage of women elected to national government (as of November 2004)

49.0 Rwanda
45.3 Sweden
42.0 South Africa
42.0 Namibia
38.0 Denmark

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* kickball became very interesting even before we played a game - a wandering crazy man decided to pick a fight with the 40 or so people just standing around. and despite there being so many of us, we had the least threatening group of hipster geeks and rock nerds that could have possibly be assembled. this didn't stop him from repeating 'you want ( Read more... )

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as of june 1st, we'll be renting a two-storey condo in this building:

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"Now, I know there's some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well-known liberal bias."

-Stephen Colbert