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The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams, crossword by Matt Jones, News of The Weird
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Drum ’til you pee blood!
I’ve heard and read stories about musicians, specifically hand drummers, pissing blood after playing a long set. The great Armando Peraza, Santana’s longtime bongo and conga player, told an interviewer: […]
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OMG ROFLMAO
Lead Story Belgian workers take sick leave nearly four times as often as U.S. workers, mostly attributed to Belgian law, which grants full salary the first month and then government-guaranteed […]
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Diary of the planet
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“Double Dip”
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Are Americans really dumb?
In a Straight Dope report I read online, the writer kindly reminded readers of the symbol for the euro. As a European, it seemed to me to be unnecessary until […]
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Strange days indeed
Lead Story Though India is recognized as a world leader in promoting the health benefits of urine, its dominance will be assured by the end of the year when a […]
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Diary of the planet
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“Just Playing”
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Why isn’t porn prosecuted as prostitution?
Why is it that if you film an act of prostitution and call it porn, suddenly it’s legal? The only difference I can see is that the male performer is […]
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Still pretty strange
Lead Story One Industry That Needs No Stimulus: (1) Drug officials in California’s Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties (north of San Francisco) estimated in January that two-thirds of the area’s […]
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“Verse for Wear”
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