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Last Saturday was Butt-fucker's birthday. Everyone was chasing him around the House. "C'mon Butt-fucker," they screeched, "time for your BIRTHday present..." Eventually he tired, and they caught him, appropriately down near the boiler room. With well-practiced teamwork, five of them grabbed him like a cord of firewood and hustled him out into the middle of Beacon Street, where he received two rounds of boisterous "Happy Birthday" and 21 solid whacks from an official House paddling board. Laughing, they filed back inside to shower down for another Saturday night formal dinner at an MIT fraternity...
...line. But the slower speeds allow workers more time for the job at hand, and as a result the parts fit snugly and the screws are tight. Each Toyota worker is also a kind of one-man inspection unit. If he sees something amiss, he can pull a red cord that stops the whole assembly line. Until recently, any U.S. worker who halted the assembly line was courting dismissal...
...despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked, split and stacked their own supply of wood for the winter. In my town, for instance, there is a meadow in which stand, drying nobly, seven two-cord stacks of firewood. Clearly the fabricator of these splendid piles will be warm not only through the winter ahead, which all agree will be unusually cold, but even through the dark and dread winter of the year after next...
...knows what causes multiple sclerosis, and there is no known cure for it. A degenerative disease of the central nervous system, MS destroys patches of myelin, the fatty tissue that forms a protective sheath around the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This interferes with the flow of nerve impulses, much in the way that faulty insulation can cause electrical shortcircuits...
...they can pour out millions of infectious virus particles. The victim may become feverish and, in the case of women especially, experience a sharp burning during urination. In about ten days the sores heal, but the viruses do not go away. They retreat to nerves near the lower spinal cord, remaining there for the life of the victim. Under pressure of stress, menstruation or sudden change in temperature, they can return without warning-weeks, months or years after the first occurrence. Sometimes they never come back...