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from gorilla vs bear:
department of eagles
Department of Eagles - "In Ear Park" (DUMBO Session) from gorillavsbear.net
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pandora was playing a song i didn't really love, so i rated it a thumbs down. out of probably two dozen songs or so, it was the only one i didn't like. here was pandora's explanation:
i felt kind of bad, as though i'd hurt its feelings.
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from answers.com, dead man's hand:
A traditional cure for cysts, wens, scrofula, goitre, and ulcers was the touch of a dead man's hand—preferably, as Reginald Scot wrote in 1584, one who has died an untimely death. Aubrey knew of a man's wen and a child's hunchback cured by this means (Aubrey 1686/1880: 198). Margaret Courtney noted instances in 19th-century Cornwall where the cure was used for persistent sore eyes, for a ‘peculiar tuberous formation’ on a child's nose, and for a sore on a child's leg; she was told that ‘there is no virtue in the dead hand of a near relation’, presumably because that would be too easy of access (Courtney, 1890: 152-3).
Throughout England, the hand of a hanged man was thought to be especially effective. People went to public executions and paid the hangman to let them rub the corpse's hand across their swellings as it hung on the gallows; in 1785, Boswell saw ‘four diseased persons … rubbed with the sweaty hands of malefactors in the agonies of death’.
In the Fens, where families were large and poverty acute, it was thought that if a woman held the hand of a dead man for two minutes, she would not become pregnant during the next two years (Porter, 1969: 11-12, Sutton, 1992: 92).
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from nyt:
French Cuisine, Exalted by Chefs as a World Heritage Treasure
Even inside France, the idea has been ridiculed. Shortly after Mr. Sarkozy made his proposal, François Simon, Le Figaro’s acerbic food critic, wrote that if France wins Unesco status, “Opening the door of a restaurant, making a soufflé rise, shelling an oyster, will become part of cultural activity, like falling asleep at the opera, yawning at the theater or slumping over Joyce’s ‘Ulysses.’ ”
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this personal kaleidescope is very, very fun.
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lovely find:
related: iron and wine at the paradiso in amsterdam, 1/27/08
and:
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beards.
Beekeeper Steve Bryans of Alvinston, Ontario, Canada, gets a kiss from his fiance, Rachel Bannister, with his face full of bees at the Clovermead Bees and Honey, Bee Beard competition in Aylmer, Ontario, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007. Bryans won the competition.
Gunnar burst onto the international beard scene at the 2006 European Championships in Amberg, Germany, where he took third in the full beard natural category, traditionally the most competitive. At the 2007 worlds in Brighton, England 2007, where ABBA won the Eurovision SongContest in 1984, he succeeded in taking the silver medal performance in the same category. Gunnar is a peacelover and also a Master of Science in Computer Engineering. He lives in the woods near Gothenburg with his woman and his daughter.
the beard team usa blog
bristly chaps of los angeles
chicago league of bearded gentlemen
gotham city beardsman alliance
oklahoma confederation of flocculent visages
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