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...most fun aspects of Super Bowl betting ? aside from the post-game scrambling for mortgage payment money ? are the various prop bets available to those who don't mind their check book balances predicated on which way an oblong ball bounces...
Enter Provigil. It’s a small, white and slightly oblong pill that has fewer side effects than caffeine, is safe even in large doses, and has not yet been shown to be any more addictive than your bottomless cup of coffee from Toscanini’s. Army helicopter pilots who have taken the drug were able to stay up for 40 hours, sleep for eight hours, and then stay up for another 40 hours without losing the ability to perform complex tasks. Although the military often experiments with ways to keep soldiers awake, the rest of us need...
...should, what with all the Creatine you've been getting. But Ted, you've been "on the bench" for five years. You need to know something: baseball's changed. We've added a clock, made the ball more oblong, stuck nets around the field so the ball always stays in play...
...Louisiana were shaky, and when he finally got back to the White House that night, his speech was uninspiring. Afterward, in the White House bunker built to withstand nuclear attack, he leaned forward in his blue chair and began the first meeting of his war council. Around the oblong table sat Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General John Ashcroft and chief of staff Andrew Card. "Make no mistake," Bush said, stabbing his finger into the table. "Understand my resolve, and all of your people need to understand this...
...central focus of the exhibit as one enters is two oblong glass cases in the middle of the room. The case on the left houses five immaculately folded Oxford shirts, their collars bedecked with brightly hued neckties, just as one might see in any ubiquitous department store. The case on the right displays five pairs of women’s dress shoes, again, arranged as if for sale. These accoutrements may seem mundane at first glance, but upon closer inspection, one finds that lewd text from erotic personal ads has been superimposed over the designer labels...