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[theweaselking]

Carolyn Hax explains why "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?" is insulting to men, women, and cows.

Also,


Mothers use his name to scare their children while even adults hope they don't bump into him in the dark -- for more than 40 years Gopal Haldar has been making his living in India's Sunderbans mangrove region as a ghost.

Also,
Vaccine against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, expected within a year.

Also,
Pilot comes up with plan to earn a million free air miles in two months.

Also,
"Blind driver to attempt to set world speed record on BMW M5 with its electronic restrictors removed. What could possibly go wrong?"

Comments

[leighdb.livejournal.com]

That's one mobile plant.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you could possibly be referring to.

(Probably a tumbleweed)

[leighdb.livejournal.com]

Sneaky!

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Carolyn Hax is my new hero for that.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Agreed. If the rest of what she ahs to say is consistently as cool, I may gently file her in the Miss Manners category.

(Note: Not Emily Post. Emily Post produces no reaction more extreme than faint annoyance and boredom. Miss Manners, on the other hand, is funny as hell and has this wonderfully dry and correct way of putting things.)

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Carolyn Hax is my most favorite advice columnist ever.

She wrote a book a few years ago. It's really, really funny, and the advice isn't just love tips.