Don't hate, cooperate!

I sent three people 12 choices for a meeting time. I tried, I swear!

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From the department of DUH, British study shows sword swallowing is pretty dangerous.

Sore throats—“sword throats”—occur when swallowers are learning, when performances are repeated frequently, or when odd shaped or multiple swords are used. Lower chest pains occur occasionally, most often after an obviously damaging swallow or when the “drop” is practised frequently. One performer described this pain after performing the drop 40 times a day in a state fair, and another described shoulder tip pain implying diaphragmatic irritation. Proprietary medicines are used for this problem, physicians are rarely consulted, and abstinence from swallowing swords is the main treatment.

Major injury is sometimes preceded by a previous painful performance, suggesting that minor injury may predispose to more serious damage. Occasionally a sword is difficult to advance or retract, presumably because of spasm or mucosal dryness related to nervousness or soreness. Overforceful efforts to move the sword may then cause trauma, and this resulted in oesophageal perforation in one performer. Several cases of perforation or severe haemorrhage occurred when swallowers used multiple or unusual swords or when a technical error was committed, often because of distraction. For example, one swallower lacerated his pharynx when trying to swallow a curved sabre, a second lacerated his oesophagus and developed pleurisy after being distracted by a misbehaving macaw on his shoulder, and a belly dancer suffered a major haemorrhage when a bystander pushed dollar bills into her belt causing three blades in her oesophagus to scissor.

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Proprietary medicines are used for this problem, physicians are rarely consulted, and abstinence from swallowing swords is the main treatment.

Abstinence? Come on. They can't just expect people to stop swallowing swords.

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Drunk man attacks shark with bare hands

A man who caught a 4-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach said on Friday he only tried the feat because he was drunk on vodka.

Phillip Kerkhof was fishing off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula 870 miles west of Sydney, when he spotted the bronze whaler shark swimming in the shallows, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

"I just snuck up behind him, and eventually I went for the big grab and I fluked it and got him," Kerkhof said.

"He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Kerkhof said.

The shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans, but he was uninjured.

"It's not something I'd recommend to do. When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, 'I'm a bit of an idiot for doing it'," Kerkhof said.

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I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'

I'm sure the October Revolutionists thought the same thing.

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Bones and House renewed for next year! Yay!

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Ooooh... updated om the Edmund Optics thing:

Associate director of CfA contacted them, got the same spiel as we've seen.

She then wrote again.

"Below is my letter to the CEO. As President of the company, you have done a disservice to women in the technical professions. If the company's product needs this kind of advertising, perhaps we should worry that the quality has diminished under your leadership.

I am responsible for maintaining a workplace free of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Will I need to ban your catalog?'"

Marisa Edmund, VP of Marketing, responded the same day (Feb 14), ``Thank you for your feedback. I will be sure to review your comments and concerns with the CEO and entire EO team. We have significantly changed our marketing campaigns moving forward and hope you will find them more appropriate.''

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Congrats bon bon!

Note that the plane was forced to land in Hawaii. I think the squirrel was just aiming for a free tropical vacation.

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Hooray!

I was trying to explain to my guys that if that cover was pinned up to the walls in their cubicles, I'd have a big problem with that.

I'm still steamed over the response I got back from them, like they were trying to make me feel like some sort of humorless dried up feminist. I'm a really funny, well moisturized feminist.

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Note that the plane was forced to land in Hawaii. I think the squirrel was just aiming for a free tropical vacation.

The ended up killing the squirrel, as they were afraid of rabies....

Maybe the squirrel wanted to be buried in Hawaii....

I'm a really funny, well moisturized feminist.

Hee!

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