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An excerpt from The New Prohibition: Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War,
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I was doing a little work in the back yard yesterday when I cam across a praying mantis. I don't see too many, and this one was a handsome specimen so I took a couple of photos. I also shot a video, but he didn't do much other than lick his foreleg for a while. Maybe I'll upload it later on.... More.
I remember reading a book years ago that mentioned a CIA plan in the early 1960s to sprinkle thallium salts into Castro's boots, which "would cause his beard, eyebrows, and pubic hair to fall out... like a follicle deprived Samson."
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This old, yellowed, photocopy hangs near the bathroom at my favorite burger joint in San Francisco, Joe's Cable Car. I can just see back in time to the late 1980s or so when it was probably a popular faxed gag in corporate America. For some reason, the whole thing, especially imagining it tacked u... More.
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Sooo ... we all recognize this from Ren and Stimpy, right?
Yes, "happy, happy, joy, joy". Et cetera.
Indescribably evil.
First thought as well. "I'll teach you to be happy! I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!"
The stabbings will continue until morale improves.
I'd like to leave it on her chair and sulk all day
I can see them implementing these hats on slave wage workers at WalMarts and McDonalds all across the land.
I swear, if the Overlords catch wind of this and I am issued one in my Weekly PIA (Personal Items Allowance), I'm not going to be happy with you, Lauren.
I'll teach you to be happy! I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
It'll just train you to smile in response to pain.
"Why is he smiling like an idiot?"
"Oh, he just had a root canal."
Happiness is mandatory citizen.
You can catch more flies with honey than with a hat that drives a metal spike into your skull. . . so knit me a hat that dispenses honey, post-haste, and I'll be all smiles, I promise.
Lauren McCarthy vs. Barbara Ehrenreich?:
http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsided.htm
My money's on Ehrenreich.
This has one major design flaw: A big teethy evil is likely to be interpreted as a smile so trying to retrain, say, American McGee's Cheshire Cat would be futile.
Today is a terrible day for Disney theme park employees.
very Chindōgu, ne.
Did they use something like this to train the creepy grinning guy in the Enzyte commercials?
This is like 1/2 Ren & Stimpy HappyHappyJoyJoy, and 1/2 Scott Sigler & the Infected Blue Triangles (something about the smiling brought on by the tentacle of pain that does it)
Happiness is mandatory. Are you happy, citizen?
Why must the webs always introduce me to smart cuties I'll never meet...that makes me sad...*ouch*!
You're not spending enough time at your local high-end yarn shop. www.stitchnbitch.org can help you find a learn-to-knit group (of a younger demographic). Learn a useful skill and meet the ladies.
To be unhappy is treason.