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Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction | LiveScience

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:28:47 -0600

Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction | LiveScience:

1) How to get volunteers for this?

2) This just proves once again how sadistic medical pratices can be.

3) What is the training for those administering this treatment?

4) Who came up with this idea???

"Man. Cops got called, people are fighting and throwing punches… working Black Friday is awesome!..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:27:00 -0600

“Man. Cops got called, people are fighting and throwing punches… working Black Friday is awesome! I’ve been called a bitch so many times today!”

- Text from Catherine who works at Babies’R’Us (via duplo)

LMAO

Word of the day

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:07:47 -0600

scienter

PRONUNCIATION:

(sy-EN-tuhr)

MEANING:

adverb: Deliberately; knowingly.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin scienter (knowingly), from scire (to know; to separate one thing from another). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split) that also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, and nice.

NOTES:

In law, scienter is an important concept. Scienter must be shown, i.e. a person was aware — for example, the currency note he was passing was counterfeit — to prove the guilt. The word is often used as a noun.

USAGE:

“The judge said that the complaint, if true, would show BankAtlantic’s executives acted with scienter — the intent or knowledge of wrongdoing that’s the key to a plaintiff’s argument in a class action complaint.”
Brian Bandell; Judge Lets Class Action Suit Proceed Against BankAtlantic Bancorp; South Florida Business Journal; May 22, 2009.

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:20:45 -0600

justinu84:

evangelworldorder:

thingsgohazy:

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thanks

"If Santa is always watching us to make sure we are being good enough to get presents then shouldn’t..."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:25:57 -0600

“If Santa is always watching us to make sure we are being good enough to get presents then shouldn’t he also be able to hear us say what we want him to bring us? Why do I have to write him a letter?”

- How much longer do we have to play this game? Because I am kind of over making up excuses for and answering questions about imaginary people for the endlessly inquisitive short people who are always one step ahead of me. I don’t understand why anyone thought it would be a good idea to lie to people whose primary occupation is asking questions and trying to figure the world out.

These interrogations aren’t good for my already pounding head. Also, in case you wanted to know, looking at turkey parts in a pot is making me want to die.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Vanilla vodka + pineapple juice + splash of grenadine = yummy pineapple upside-down cake martini

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:22:21 -0600

It really does taste like pineapple upside-down cake!

awesomespaces: liquidnight: Eugène Atget - Vue prise sur les...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:12:17 -0600

awesomespaces:

liquidnight:

Eugène Atget - Vue prise sur les tois (flying buttresses), Eglise Saint-Séverin, 1903

From Paris Eugène Atget

THE FUCKING WEATHER

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:58:32 -0600

THE FUCKING WEATHER

There will be other things of course, but this is the first year...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:56:52 -0600

There will be other things of course, but this is the first year I’m attempting a pheasant… thanks to Caleb.

Word of the day

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:49:00 -0600

apropos

PRONUNCIATION:(ap-ruh-PO)

MEANING:adverb: 1. In reference to. 2. Appropriately; relevantly.
adjective: Appropriate.

ETYMOLOGY:From French à propos (to the purpose), from Latin propositium (purpose), from ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away) that is also the source of pose, apposite, after, off, awkward, post, and puny.

USAGE:”Tom Stoppard said, apropos of his play Arcadia, that there were some works that made a playwright feel not so much proud as lucky.”
Alastair Macaulay; When Death (That Bowler-Hatted Gent) Comes Calling in Dreams; The New York Times; Mar 6, 2008.

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:30:09 -0600

justinu84:

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:56:32 -0600

awesomespaces:

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Bazil in the box 02 This might explain where all my Pibb...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:14:02 -0600

Bazil in the box 02

This might explain where all my Pibb goes…

Bazil in the box My Pibb box grew a butt and tail.

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:12:26 -0600

Bazil in the box

My Pibb box grew a butt and tail.

Goonie goo goo

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:03:08 -0600

technogeeknotes: The Food Chain foodchain.jpg (JPEG Image,...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:35:05 -0600

technogeeknotes:

The Food Chain

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"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:42:27 -0600

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

- Abraham Flexner, educator (1866-1959)

Word of the day

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:41:45 -0600

videlicet

PRONUNCIATION:(vi-DEL-uh-sit, wi-DAY-li-ket)

MEANING:adverb: That is; namely; to wit. (used to introduce examples or details).

ETYMOLOGY:From Latin videlicet, contraction of videre licet (it’s permissible to see), from videre (to see) and licere (to be permitted). The word is mostly used in its abbreviated form, viz. How did this abbreviation come about? In medieval Latin, the symbol of contraction for -et resembled the shape of z.

USAGE:”The choreographer, videlicet Victor Kabaniaev, received formal training in Russia and has created more than 40 dance and ballet works.”
Jeffrey R. Smith; A Jaw-Dropping Dracul at The Crucible; Alameda Sun (California); Jan 15, 2009.

“In 1902, the Wanganui Herald reported that the mayor had proposed ‘to have the name of our town spelt correctly - viz, by reinstating the letter h, making it Whanganui in accordance with its original name and meaning.’”
One Little Letter Means So Much; Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand); Sep 18, 2009.

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. (Lawrence Krauss)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:40:57 -0600

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ravekill:

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Mexican restaurant, mexican food, beer - Kansas City, Missouri...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:56:00 -0600

Mexican restaurant, mexican food, beer - Kansas City, Missouri

This here is a little, out-of-the-way Mexican restaurant on Paseo near 80th St that’s been around for 27 years. They have some pretty kick ass tamales and some really good chili relenos… but what makes it really good is this pork sauce they put on them. It’s amazing stuff!