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Have you ever been in love?

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:08:09 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks:

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.

Tags: neil gaiman, the sandman, comics, quotes

Legalize Marijuana...WHY NOT?

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:07:25 GMT

clipped by: amy1nyc
clipper's remarks: It is 2007 - and here we still are - fighting to legalize a drug that should have been legalized 100 years ago. Not that I am an avid pot smoker..b/c I am not. But I took a trip not so long ago to Anguilla and went to a place called Banky Banks. It is literally the most incredible place I have ever been. It is a bascially a house built in a tree. The place is SICK. It has a bar, live reggae music, and a lounge that overlooks the beach. Banky made it himself. It is very private. You can't go there and not smoke pot. Music Legends have played there...(actually the Stones played there right before we got there). Anyway sitting there you cant help but think how ridiculous it is that pot isnt legal. So my point in all this..is i think for all you people who think pot shouldnt be legal..take a trip to Anguilla, visit Banky Banks and then come back and tell me you disagree. Life there is great, NO CRIME, FRIENDLIEST PEOPLE. It is bascially legal even though its not. I know many people

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Richardson to legalize medical marijuana

Tags: pot

History of tipping in the U.S.

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:48:57 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: My wife has always told me I tip too much. Genearally 15-20% depending on the service. I am considering no longer tipping at all. Any thoughts?

Clip Source: www.newyorker.com

The opponents of tipping got some important things right. They saw that tipping was an aberration in a freemarket economy, and that tips had a lot in common with gifts. They also understood that economics alone could not explain why customers were willing to tip. What they missed was that the very things they thought made tipping un-American—the waiters’ need to cultivate a relationship with the customer, and their reliance on that customer’s largesse—were exactly what would eventually make tipping a powerful social norm.

So why tip? When people are asked, they usually say that they tip to reward good service. Yet how much people tip is determined mainly by how much their meal cost, and the cost of a meal at a given restaurant is usually only tenuously connected to the work required to serve it. (It’s just as easy to open a hundred-dollar bottle of wine as it is to open a thirty-dollar bottle.) In an extensive survey of tipping studies, Michael Lynn, a professor at Cornell, found only a weak correlation between the quality of service that people report receiving and the tips they give. On average, exceptional service raised tips by about 1.5 per cent, which, Lynn argues, is too small for waiters to notice. And countries where there’s no tipping—like Australia and Japan—don’t have worse service than the United States.

Tags: society, culture, service, business, economics

Letters to Bad Santa

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:26:45 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: www.lettersfrombadsanta.com

Santa has thousands of letters
from little boys and girls who

have grown up to be quite famous!

Click on the pictures to see a few samples...

Donald Trump

Tom Cruise

Martha Stewart

Paris Hilton

John Kerry

Tags: humor, humour

things we didn't know this time last year

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:37:33 GMT

clipped by: Deepti
clipper's remarks: ...things I didn't know untill coming across this article

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.

7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.

11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.

14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.

15. Lionesses like their males to be deep brunettes.

10 on Ford GT40 by Tony Crowther

20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.

22. The length of a man's fingers can reveal how physically aggressive he is, scientists say.

35. The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.

37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.

43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
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45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.

52. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
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56. The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.

67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

10 kebabs by Harpreet Punny

90. Ordinary - not avian - flu kills about 12,000 people in the UK every winter.

93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).

94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.

Tags: stuff, general, knowledge, news, worldwide, bbc

Candy Cane Cocktail

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:15:54 GMT

clipped by: Sarix

Clip Source: www.foodnetwork.com

Candy Cane Cocktail

Recipe courtesy Sandra Lee
See this recipe on air Sunday Dec. 17 at 11:00 AM ET/PT.
Show:	Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee
Episode:	Holiday Cocktail Party

1 shot vanilla rum
1 shot white chocolate liqueur (recommended: Godiva)
1 shot peppermint schnapps
Candy cane, garnish

Add all liquid ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into martini glass. Garnish with candy cane.

Tags: alcohol

Frosty Cocktail

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:15:11 GMT

clipped by: Sarix

Clip Source: www.foodnetwork.com

Frosty Cocktail

Recipe courtesy Sandra Lee
See this recipe on air Sunday Dec. 17 at 11:00 AM ET/PT.
Show:	Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee
Episode:	Holiday Cocktail Party

1 shot vodka (recommended: Blue Ice)
1 shot blue fruit- and cognac- liqueur (recommended: Envy)
1/2 shot orange-flavored liqueur (recommended: Cointreau)
1 cup ice cubes

Add all ingredients to blender and blend on high until smooth. Pour into rocks glasses and serve with straw.

Other Recipes from this Episode

	Blue Cheese with Date Spread
	Marmalade Meat Balls
	Rock Shrimp with Spicy Creamy Sauce
	Candy Cane Cocktail
	Gingerbread Martini
	Santa's Sleigh Favors

Tags: alcohol, cocktails

The Philosophy of Sex

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:42:40 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: A few of these have already been clipped...no pun intended.

Clip Source: moronland.net

The Philosophy of Sex

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
--Tom Clancy

"You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither."
--Steve Martin

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
--Woody Allen

"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
--Rodney Dangerfield

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other e eight are unimportant."
--George Burns

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."
--Sharon Stone

"My girlfriend always laughs during sex ---no matter what she's reading."
--Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple Computers)

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
--Jack Nicholson

"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."
--Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady -- and you didn't think Barbara had a sense of humor)

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
--Billy Crystal

"According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful."
--Robert De Niro

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"
--Dustin Hoffman

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked."
--Jerry Seinfeld

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
--Rod Stewart

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
--Robin Williams

Tags: humour, battle of the sexes, funny, sex, men, women