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Iris Apfel: An Ode

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“Now when I walk down Fifth Avenue in the summertime I just want to throw up. It seems that the fatter and uglier people are, the fewer clothes they wear. The shorts and flip-flops and tight jeans on butts that go from here to Poughkeepsie.  I always say they should put people in jail for wearing clothes like that. Especially stretch jeans over [US] size 10 - they should be outlawed. Ten years ago people were starting to look like slobs in New York, now it's an epidemic.” Not that she would ever intervene on a bad case of misjudged style. “Oh, now that would be horrible. It's a free country - if you want to look like a freak, that's your problem. “Most of the young people today look dreadful. And celebrities look even worse. They don't know what to do with themselves. “At the Golden Globes and Oscars they all look alike - it seems like they're all wearing the same nightgown and this year nobody had any jewellery at all. “I mix everything up. A museum curat...

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christ is a sex god and other grave truths

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Once upon a time, St. Vincent of Ferrer started thinking about the alleged "explosion" of sex between Spanish Jews and Christians.  He thought and he thought, and he came away with some questions. Imagine that the King had a daughter.  Even if she consents with pleasure to have sex with you, do you not betray the king in lying with her?  Would you not deserve to be drawn and quartered?  The king is Jesus Christ: are prostitutes not His daughters?  Yes, surely, for he has engendered them in baptism, just as he has engendered you and all other Christians.  Jesus every day impregnates the Church, and the womb is the baptismal font, and he sends there his semen from heaven.  It is therefore the obligation of every Christian woman to honor father and mother, Jesus Christ and Holy Mother Church.  It is also every Christian woman's spousal duty to honor Christ as husband: If a king takes the daughter of a poor laborer as wife, and she leaves him and g...

Ohai!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IDF_soldier_put_on_tefillin.jpg enjoy!

RAZR

I may want to relive my glory days with a new Razr: http://gizmodo.com/5850922/motorola-droid-razr-the-worlds-thinnest-smartphone This time we won't have to worry about any tequila accidents...

At last...

Bad Old Days

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At least they used Helvetica.

She-Ra

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Under the guise of her superpowered alter ego She-Ra, Princess Adora -- He-Man's twin sister -- fights in the Great Rebellion to defend the Crystal Castle and save planet Etheria from the clutches of dark sorcerer Hordak and his evil minions. Adora entrusts her secret identity to only three close confidantes: sage advisor Light Hope, absentminded witch Madame Razz and less-than-courageous companion Kowl. "Find me on Netflix"

What the What?

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Corvee Smerd

None of these wikipedia pages are particularly interesting, outside of their completely absurd topics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_serfdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smerd Enjoy