From The Larrinator
Month: July 2003
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So, I was in the drugstore the other day in an effort to replenish my dwindling ephedra supply, when this duck walked in and right up to the counter. "I'd like some Chapstick," he said "and just put it on my bill."
From blueyoohoo
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"His most popular monster was a repulsive rodent named Rat Fink. Roth was a genius at designing cars, but it was "Finkie" who brought him fame and fortune. By 1963, pimply teenagers across America were buying Rat Fink model kits and mass-produced Rat Fink T-shirts."
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"Alienated adolescents who knew they'd never fit in now had their own heroes: Drag Nut, Mother's Worry, Mr. Gasser, and other members of the Rat Fink family. The message was clear (even if it wasn't the one Roth had intended): Ugly is beautiful, and being a weirdo is cool. It was a lesson some would never forget."
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HOW LANGUAGE STUNTS CREATIVITY
As the brain dies, new artistry is born
Brad Evenson
National Post
Dr. Miller made the link between dementia and creativity quite serendipitously in the mid-1990s.
"One of the tragic aspects of it is the beginning of creativity heralds the onset of disease," he says. "And as the disease progresses, we go through a period where someone perfects the artistic skill, so it steadily improves as the disease is progressing, and then the disease eventually overwhelms the process and eventually the creativity is gone."
More at http://www.nationalpost.com/national/story.html?id=C37BFDB8-575C-4551-9BAF-59175119F4A8
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Ton of Mashed Potato Flakes Is Missing
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Jul 17, 9:41 AM (ET)
CLARK, S.D. (AP) - The Potato Day celebration at Clark would not be the same without the mashed potato wrestling, so organizers were a little unnerved to learn that 2,000 pounds of dry mashed potato flakes were missing...
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"Love takes the world. That is to say, love is a bet, and you win the world. You bet on love and if you win, you win everything. Some might say that merely placing the bet is the same as winning, but I disagree. The world doesn't have to love you back, and if it doesn't, you might break even, but you won't win..." - HomerTheBrave
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