Word: poison
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...piece of rice paper on a toad and poke it, it will secrete a milky substance. Then you eat it off the paper—which, I’ll allow, sounds pretty goddamn nasty—and trip for a long time. Apparently what evolved as a deadly poison to most of nature’s predators provokes not-unpleasant hallucinations for humans. At least, this guy said so. I digress, perhaps, but my point is: toads are freaking sweet. I damn near hallucinated over the fact that Toad charges no cover, yet books musicians who rock. I arrived...
LADY'S MAN When Lady Nancy Astor--the first woman member of Britain's House of Commons--told Winston Churchill during a fierce debate, "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee." Churchill replied, "If you were my wife, I'd drink...
...enough discarded plastic bags to stock a Wal-Mart. Night after night, they cut fences intended to hold in cattle and horses. Cows that eat the bags must often be killed because the plastic becomes lodged between the first and second stomachs. The immigrants steal vehicles and saddles. They poison dogs to quiet them. The illegal traffic is so heavy that some ranchers, because of the disruptions and noise, get very little sleep at night...
...costs associated with learning to use energy more sensibly. Second, we'll lose animals and plants. We would push the polar species and alpine species off the planet. On the other hand, the climate change and CO2 in the air will be good for aggressive, weedy plants such as poison...
...inbound from Ukraine, detaining many Ukrainian and Georgian citizens. Even allied Russian citizens were deported from Belarus, if their connection to Russian liberal parties or groups was established. Shortly before the election Belarusian and Russian TV stations showed one such terrorist who "confessed" to have been trained how to poison a city's water supply system planting a dead rat. But even many of those who had previously supported his Boss smelled the rat. "You listen to this-and you think: one of us must be an idiot," said Vasyl Koktysh, a construction worker, on the morning of the election...