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...indentations with the acacia thorn, passing on or leaving the leaf somewhere for the recipient. We also learned how the fibrous branches of sokotei tree can be used as an effective toothbrush and toothpick, and heard about the medicinal properties of plants like plectranthus (used for sores and as bee repellent). On a visit to a manyatta (village), two goats were purchased for supper and killed in front of us; we drew the line at joining the crew in drinking the blood...
Laodicean adj.--The word spelled by 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee...
...sending him several political bits, including one about the silliness of not wanting terrorist prisoners on American soil. "There are already too many things we don't want on our soil: carmakers, soccer, nuclear power, Roman Polanski, ants, Mexicans and French soil." I also gave him a spelling-bee riff. "I assume that in India, nothing is misspelled. And have you noticed that none of these seemingly genius kids go on to do anything? When will parents figure out that turning your kid into a Microsoft Word function is not great training for the modern world? Learning to scream...
...that he couldn't use a lot of my material. "If I were to use all of this, I'd be facing this headline the next day, 'Glenn Beck: There are too many things we don't want on our soil ... [such as] Mexicans.' As far as the spelling-bee bit - I'd still be risking the inevitable 'Glenn Beck says Indian children grow up to be failures ... and he says it extra-racistly' headline." ((See the top 10 post-SNL careers...
...those questions.KS: Hm.RR: I think I’m going to go now.KS: I’d miss my freshman year roommates.RR: So you’ll miss the people.KS: Yeah, that and the strong religious faith of the students here.RR: Okay.KS: And the institutionalized public nudity. And the Bee. Definitely the Bee.RR: I see what you’re doing here. You’re saying things that aren’t true.KS: Well, what will you miss most?RR: I’d say the people.KS: But everyone says that.RR: That’s because it?...