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...saffron loiters idly beside a Bangkok noodle stand, cradling a bowl stuffed with money. It's a dead giveaway. Real monks don't loiter when they beg. Real monks keep walking. It's part of the patimokkha?the monastic vows. But Thailand is teeming with phony monks. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fraudulent holy men roaming the country's roads and markets, bilking people out of cash, food and other donations. And that's just the beginning of Thailand's rogue monk problem. In recent years, real monks have been caught embezzling, selling and using drugs, seducing parishioners...
...dreading the good times. His firm, Sioux Chief Manufacturing of Peculiar, Mo., makes water-hammer arresters, which stop pipes from clanging. When demand periodically surged, the 350-person company was overwhelmed trying to handle the workload. "We had to do a lot of overtime, pull people off other departments, beg customers to take partial delivery of orders," says Howard, 61, Sioux Chief's materials manager. "It cost us money...
...beg to acknowledge your letter of December 6 in regard to the hen which has made such an astounding record as a layer. The contest to which you refer was not conducted by the university. I should think that probably you could get full information in regard to the history of this hen, and also the name of her owner, by addressing the National Poultry Association...
Dearest, delicate TIME.comix readers, I must beg your pardon, but to describe "Trashed" as anything other than the ultimate of all "shitty-job" stories would be patronizing and dishonest. What else could you call it when Derf hauls fly-encrusted, sagging baggies from the dog kennels? Told with perfect comic timing the hilariously filthy humiliations pile up. Continually on the lookout for the kind of petty foreman who always makes these jobs that much more intolerable, Derf and crew scrape up road kill, empty out rotted-meat-filled refrigerators, shake maggots out of their hair before lunch, and then watch...
...family to crack defensive jokes about his inexplicably bad-mannered actions. If the point is that no matter how hard you try to understand or explain love, you just can’t do it, there’s got to be a better way than having Stevie beg for an explanation then cut him off every few seconds to smash furniture. Her defensive humor never seems sufficiently defensive, and the punch lines just aren’t satisfactory...