Word: digging
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...Henry Higgins moaned in My Fair Lady, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" Today, the question is, "Why the heck would she want to be?" Men perpetrate almost all the world's mayhem, dig and fill its mass graves, dominate 90-something percent of the drug trade, sex tourism, child molesting, domestic and racial violence, alcoholism statistics, white collar crime. This destructiveness is not new, but now two of the hooks upon which fellows have been hanging the arguments for continuance - procreation and physical pleasure - are also going the way of Humpty Dumpty...
...pandas --fake Louis Vuitton handbags --Rumble in the Bronx II --black U.S. Army berets --Gap clothes --kung pao chicken --decent firecrackers --deer-antler powder --Falun Gong workout craze --kanji tattoos --7-ft.-tall B-ball players --campaign contributions --a place to dig holes...
...that inevitable feeling that the further things are in history, the more important it is to excavate them. Back in 1990, only 10 years on, the first time we re-released it on disc in Britain [on Rykodisc], it didn’t seem that important to dig up all the rest of the archives; they weren’t that far away. As you see us getting younger in the photographs, compared to our present-day selves, to the point where we wouldn’t even recognize ourselves from those pictures…it becomes more important...
This hackneyed film is not worth seeing in the theaters, perhaps not even worth renting. One of Joe Dirt’s favorite mottoes is “Life’s a garden, dig it.” I suggest you dig a deep hole, dump Joe Dirt inside and bury...
...money in the markets over the next few years, I think you’ll agree it’s time to focus on spending funds rather than raising them. Sure, Harvard’s been spending money recently—just look at our “Little Dig,” the Widener renovation, and you’ll see plenty of Benjamins flying out the windows. But why aren’t we spending money on undergraduates? No, Larry, Loker Commons absolutely does not count. Neil tried that argument...