Word: absurdities
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...sense of the options before us and question our place and privilege in the world. The most pernicious aspect of the entrenched recruiting system is that it precludes this challenge to a large degree. Flipping through the advertisements in The Crimson or paying a visit to OCS creates the absurd impression that there is only one thing to do next year--make money...
...retrospect, the whole thing looks like an outrageous violation of old-fashioned American free-market principles. But in 1966 virtually no one but Rozelle was thinking of pro sports as a seriously big business. The notion of pro football's "bargaining power" was patently absurd. Having formed his cartel, however, Rozelle managed it in much the same way the Japanese zaibatsu manage their cartels--with a view to market share (read: global domination...
...Sports Illustrated publicly wonders where daddy is. In an article exposing the strong paternalistic instinct of certain athletes, black basketball players with absurd numbers of out-of-wedlock children seem the running joke. The magazine mockingly forms an "NBA All-Paternity team"-nine black players and Larry Bird-who have been the subjects of paternity-related lawsuits...
...story, which entices visually and appeals to journalism's need to find what's next. This has happened before (more about Cabbage Patch Kids in a minute), but the creation of the Furby--more important, the invention of a Furby craze--has set a new standard for an absurd game. Unlike even Tickle Me Elmo, the Furby became a must-have item this Christmas before almost any kid had made...
Other friends have been judged as romantic duos in absurd circumstances. Augustine dressed up in a wild outfit to take a female friend out for her birthday and was shocked to find that people took them to be boyfriend and girlfriend. "I was wearing shiny black pants, my platforms and a tight bright blue turtleneck and people assumed we were a couple even though I was outwardly expressing homosexuality," Augustine says...