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Remarriage, which Samuel Johnson famously called "the triumph of hope over experience," is also a much more relaxed affair. "Nobody's freaking out over shades of pink," says Chicago wedding consultant Elaine Teter. "The wedding day is not necessarily the most important day of their lives," she adds. "After all, they've already been through it, and look what happened...
Luckily for taxmen worldwide, however, money isn't "money" just because some hacker says it is. We don't secretly print our own personal currency on pink paper at Kinko's--not because it's impossible but because nobody would want it. If Alan Greenspan were a masked Kleagle in a big white crypto hood, nobody would use dollars either...
...will we travel to our alternative universes? The most exciting possibility is to use some form of biologically engineered computer wired directly into our heads--an exobrain programmed to provide a better, more mathematically intricate imagination. In David Cronenberg's recent movie eXistenZ, squidgy pink packages called bioports plug directly into special jacks at the base of players' spines. The upshot is rather like what happens to your TV when you connect it to a VCR and press PLAY. Visual and aural information from the real world is overridden; your bioport provides all the sensory stimuli you need. Technically...
...mellow much, to lessen our demands, our insistent wish that the world pay attention to us, us, us!!! In a Del Webb survey of boomer attitudes, respondents said their greatest contribution in retirement will include "demanding funding for medical research." The red ribbon for AIDS and the pink ribbon of breast cancer will be replaced by gray ribbons of gerontology...
...Pink icings, caramel sauces, hot coffee and tea sandwiches are meticulously prepared by potential Phi Beta Kappas and budding medieval historians," reads an article about activities in the Jordans from the Radcliffe News in 1961. Today, students focus more on their scholarship and less on their cupcakes and have little time for cooking and cleaning...