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...Gates recommends sexual abstention. "There is only one good reason why a man should assume the care of a woman--to be the guardian, guarantor and true conservator of his dear mate's purity of heart, protecting her from the world of which he is the representative...
...Nose Toward Mecca. These are only a few of the stories of U.S. subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism...
Bees, by & large, lead sad lives. Most young queens are killed by the reigning queen before they reach maturity. All the mature drones (males) are killed or starved by the workers (sterile females) before winter comes. Most drones die celibate; only one in thousands manages to mate with a virgin queen-and then pays with his life when she tears his genitals away...
Fifth and most refined we have the room-mate expert or phony reference ploy. Almost everybody sooner or later comes to a point in an examination where he ought to cite a reference. Of course, if he comes upon the rare occasion where he knows the name of a book, then all is fine. He just states the reference thusly "As Professor Banana says on page 207 of his work, 'The Dynamics of Idiocy.'" It really doesn't make any difference whether the page number is right--the grader certainly won't look it up. As a matter of fact...
When you don't know who thought of an idea, it is best to use a fictitious expert, preferably a roommate or something like that. Room-mates usually have names which sound familiar and graders can often be fooled into thinking they are really experts. You can even cite an unpublished work, like your room-mate's thesis, to back you up. It is one of the best reasons for having a room-mate...