Word: husked
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...bright and airy Wellness Center is set back from the beach and offers several rigorous regimens, fasts and colonics designed to clean the body inside and out. As a cleansing client, this means I spend my days in Thailand ingesting nothing but murky "shakes" of volcanic clay, psyllium husk and watermelon juice?all the while undergoing daily coffee colonics. In Nepal or Mongolia?places with little culinary cachet?fasting might make sense. But in the kingdom of miang khum and larb gai, skipping a dinner of piquant red-curry snapper in favor of clay is just cruel...
...humor. After hearing thousands of jokes, nothing seems funny to them anymore. "There's a massive number of variants of jokes," Wiseman says. "But I've heard the basic structure of pretty much every single one." Oh, he still is capable of laughter, but it's a dry husk of a laugh, a hollow been-there, heard-that chuckle designed to make you think you're funny even when you know you're not. Is it possible to burn out your joke receptors from overuse? This calls for more research. If you didn't laugh at the world's funniest...
...time the Gilberts' dog found my elbow three days later and brought it home with a telling corn husk attached to it, Mr. Harvey had closed it up. I was in transit during this. I didn't get to see him sweat it out, remove the wood reinforcement, bag any evidence along with my body parts, except that elbow. By the time I popped up with enough wherewithal to look down at the goings-on on Earth, I was more concerned with my family than anything else...
...believe a "Celebrity Survivor" when I actually see the emaciated husk of George Clooney licking rice dregs out of a coconut shell. For one thing, while I and the rest of civilization would absolutely watch, it would also effectively be the end of the series. You could never go back to real people once you've gone the "Battle of the Network Stars" route. What's more, given real stars' tight schedules and accustomedness to pampering, the danger is CBS would either have to water down the competition into a bogus vacation, or turn it into a "Hollywood Squares" full...
...Tells visitors to Husk World that the park is closed b. Was erected by Greenpeace to protest genetically altered food c. Has got to stop staying up all night and pounding the ethanol iced teas d. Is a victim of socialized dentistry...