Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During reading period, which Dartboard largely spent reading women's magazines (Page 118: "How to Trim Those Ugly Thighs"; Page 119: "Quiz: Do You Have Low Self-Esteem?"), and during exam period itself, which Dartboard is largely spending removing the plastic wrap from textbooks for tomorrow's exams, it's easy to forget the real determining factor in every-one's exam experience...
Clearly it isn't how well you prepare-the academic success rate of pre-exam plastic wrap removal is far too great for that. It's not your grasp of the material or the quality of your breakfast or even how much sleep you got the night before. No, your final grade will be determined by a single unpredictable factor: your exam proctor...
...fight the future, but at least I can bask in enlightened misery as I wend my way through this game called life. How many more spins until I get the plastic kids and husband? After one more semester locked behind these ivory towers, my transformation will be complete. I'll be shipped out with all 1,599 of my compatriots, nicely packaged in inconspicuous black robes and mortarboards with a yellow tassel signaling that we are indeed, USDA-approved, primed and ready for corruption...
...until recently, I couldn't answer your questions. Then, a month ago, kismet. I was at a sushi bar in the middle of the desert (Las Vegas) listening with approval as the Brit on the stool next to me browbeat the chef: "It tastes like a black plastic bag," he whined, pointing to his tuna roll. "I can't eat the bahhhg-tasting thing!" Figuring he was a fellow critic, I struck up a conversation. The man turned out to be Joe McAllister--CEO of Monimals Trading Co. Ltd. of London! "Where can you buy those damn things?" I asked...
...case you are planning to save your card forever, Wamback says that "all cards of this type...will break between two and three years because of the hardening tendency inherent in this kind of plastic...