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...sons work for their tuition and upkeep-a time-honored American custom that does wonders to ward off the temptations of hippieism, yippieism and other forms of juvenile parasitism. Mr. Bell should encourage his sons to try it some time. Perhaps if he did, he might not need to switch from one public trough to another...
...world. This fact may be ascertained in any technical manual on human biology, and has been documented by the Defense Department's classified file on manpower emergencies. You might not think that the McGuire twins, Billie and Bennie (whose combined weight exceeds 1300 pounds, and who have to wear custom built undershorts to keep their stomachs from banging against their knees) would be much in the speed department, but recent tests performed at a Utah laboratory prove that they are the equal of any Olympic sprinter in speed and agility...
Drained by the ordeal, Kissinger returned to his office. The phone rang. It was Nixon. Following custom, Kissinger's aide Larry Eagleburger listened on an extension-and was appalled. The President was drunk, rambling. Eagleburger hung up. The distraught Nixon requested of Kissinger: "Henry, please don't ever tell anyone that I cried and that I was not strong...
...time. And, too, there are the sloshed and sleazy Buffett songs that sum it-up, like "Brand New Country Star" off the "3/4 Time" album: Well, he outgrew his sequinned suit, sold his Trailways bus Let his hair get a little too long, ducktails bit the dust. His custom-made pearl-inlaid guitar slipped from his hands And in its place a new electric one he had flown in from Japan. He's a cheeseburger-eatin', abandoned- Sunday-meetin', Brand New Country Star. He rides around in a Lincoln Continental, no steer horns on his car. The recordmen...
...this guy play out front for the Isleys. This guy played like a maniac and we both knew he was gonna end up being Jimi Hendrix. Green sharkskin suit, patent leather shoes--he was wearing a do-rag then. He played a Strat--old or fake?--Lefthanded. Custom. Remember when they did "Shout"? how maniac...