Wednesday, February 05, 2003
;There are about 5 million in-ground whirlpool spas in America, […] but to casually channel surf, you’d swear there were even more. Hot tubs everywhere! Filled with muscle-bound lunkheads and boob-augmented ditzes about to be “Elimidated” or denied the precious long-stemmed rose of survival; hot tubs occupied by conniving, fornicating housemates who live in over-decorated cribs, each about to vote the other off into teleblivion. (Source Link)
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
There are four private-sector lawyers<
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;In the 1992 book Intensive Care, by Dr. Robert Zussman, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, an I.C.U. intern reports a dream. In it, he finds penguins in a basement. The birds need to be in a cold environment or they will die, so to save one, he takes it, puts it into a blender with some ice and turns the blender on. The penguin is suddenly floating in a slushy pool of blood. The intern wakes up. The dream’s interpretation is clear enough: in the I.C.U., sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. (Source Link)
Monday, February 03, 2003
El paro is the Venezuelan name for the ant
More than 60 languages are spoken in Nepal.
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