Friday, May 14th 2010
Ouija Boards are brilliant. Some people think that they are not brilliant, but they are wrong. What a Ouija Board is, is a special type of wooden board with writing on it that students use to roll spliffs on. However, they have many other uses beyond the obvious: They can also be used by teenagers [...]
CANTON GLE SERIES HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEM ($3,046)
As tested, this system comprised a pair of GLE 490 floor-standing towers, a GLE 455 center speaker, a pair of GLE 420 surrounds, and an AS 85 SC powered subwoofer. The 1-inch soft-dome tweeter found in all the speakers employs a fabric dome, but this new-and-improved version also [...]
The whole world is going through tough times right now, requiring women everywhere to demonstrate their grit, nerve, courage, flair, and determination. And just because we here at Gorgeo.us believe that it’s every woman’s right to look her best all the time, to do whatever she wants whenever she wants, to define for herself what [...]
Every year, to coincide with its national conference, the American Library Association names its American Librarian of the Year. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this award, the in-house journal decided to locate the whereabouts of the first 25 winners:
1985: Keith Hingis. Died 1997. Froze to death on the Matterhorn.
1984: [...]
The intensification of the working day is familiar to anyone trying to keep their heads above water in the current cut-throat grind-teeth bump-knee chew-tongue finger-elbow climate brought on by head office’s opportunistic trouser-slashing under the prepuce of the recession. There’s nothing that any of us can do about it but smirk and bear it, but [...]
In keeping with the spirit of the times, Khmer Rouge Strippergram (in association with ILR) is launching its annual Limerick for Ireland competition. Entrants must endeavour to produce works that accurately represent and reflect life in 21st-century Ireland. It is our fervent hope that the naturally good-hearted and instinctively cheerful people of this fine and [...]
Treating injuries miles from the ER is an essential skill, but you don’t need to be a doctor, surgeon, nurse, paediatrician, obstetric gynaecologist, or even a plain old voyeur to learn what it takes to survive in the wild. Brad Chilterns is the founder of Outdoor Medicine, which specializes in teaching underedumacated back-country folk and [...]
“Swallow my luminous cack!” When Swindon mom Debbie Flobb heard her four-year-old son, Robert, use this phrase in conversation with a telecoms engineer on the phone one Monday morning, her first response was utter horror. “I can’t imagine where he might have picked up language like that,” said the 63-year-old mother of three from Didsbury. [...]
Excerpts from works by novelists who didn’t even get a look-in at this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, won by Romanian-born German novelist and poet Herta Müller.
Eric thought nothing of knocking out a couple of dozen portraits a day. Lenin. Bruce Lee. Archbishop Makarios. JFK. Rolf Harris. What frustrated him was how easily it came [...]
