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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...might be expected, Borat has a difficult time understanding American customs and hilarity ensues as he consistently fails at navigating the waters of social interaction, notably by telling feminists that women have smaller brains and by bringing a bag of his own excrement to a dining room table during a formal dinner...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Movie for Make Laugh | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...THIS ARABIAN LIFE News channel Al-Jazeera English debuts in the U.S., prompting howls from some conservatives over its "anti-American propaganda." We agree - it's bad enough to be critical of the American government, but to do so without even offering a tote bag? We're totally ignoring the pledge drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ana Log | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

Corporal Michael Compton carries a plastic bag containing a pair of his wife's underwear. She gave it to him before his first deployment to Iraq, when they were still dating. "She said that she would stick by me," he says. But on a patrol outside Fallujah, the bag fell out of his pocket and blew away. "I thought it was long gone," he says. A week later, while "out in the middle of nowhere," he noticed a plastic bag and picked it up. The underwear was inside. "I couldn't believe it. I guess it was a sign because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things They Carry | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

Jackie Bibby, a.k.a. "The Texas Snake Man," had four records, including sitting in a bathtub with 81 rattlesnakes and sharing a sleeping bag with 109. He earned a fifth last week, holding ten 212-ft. Western diamondback rattlesnakes in his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For Guinness | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...enigmas. That Pynchon himself was one of them, that he never gave interviews or permitted his photograph to be published, only made him more irresistible. To this day his only public "appearances" have been two guest spots on The Simpsons. Both times he was wearing a bag over his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pynchon vs. the Toaster | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

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