Word: phlegming
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...onstage companion, Achmed insists he's not a Muslim: "Look at my butt. It says MADE IN CHINA." But through him, Dunham taps into a repertoire of Muslim stereotypes. Achmed spells his name "A ... C ... phlegm ..." and he's dismayed when he looks into the audience for the 72 virgins he was promised as a martyr, and they are either ugly or men. Nor is Achmed the only one of Dunham's workmates exploring the outer edges of taste. In the regular rotation are Hispanic José Jalapeño, grumpy old Walter, black "manager" Sweet Daddy Dee, redneck Bubba...
...Things" trend helps people understand each other, and the millions and millions of poorly punctuated revelations have united people in a way no mere chain letter ever could. How else to explain such outpourings of compassion as "I too have been injured by a ninja throwing star," "Phlegm problems? Ugh, tell me about it," and "I am another straight man who listens to Jewel." (See the best and worst blogs...
...wander through each chartered street...And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.â€In her prose, Chevalier lyrically captures the prevailing mood of London as a lurid “yellow light from the pub staining the fog the color of phlegm.†Yet she has this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.â€The explosions can have a terribly destructive effect but they can also bring peals of laughter...
...while wearing patched trousers. Although China has mostly shed Chairman Mao's class-busting ideology and cities like Shanghai boast skyscrapers and bustling shopping malls, the deportment of some citizens evokes an era of subsistence. Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like hawking phlegm onto the pavement or picking their noses at business meetings. "Chinese have gotten rich so fast, they haven't had time to learn the manners that usually go along with wealth," says Hedy Lee, a Chinese-American etiquette educator in Beijing, who recalls a recent sign in her apartment...
...Doctors outside China were scrambling last week to pin down how the pathogen is transmitted?critical in stopping the disease from spreading further. After painstakingly tracing patients' histories, scientists have deduced that the disease is probably spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as phlegm. Here again, cooperation from Chinese authorities might have helped. As long ago as Jan. 21, an official internal advisory?issued to doctors in Guangdong and later obtained by Time?laid out how the disease appears to be transmitted. "Given that the explosion of the epidemic was mainly in the same area and some patients...