Word: pots
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...creates life in London as it might have been lived between 1724 and 1919. Each room captures a different era, but the attention to detail never wavers: a discarded wig on a chair; a quill resting in an inkwell; crumpets toasting on a crackling fire; a half-filled chamber pot hidden under a chaise longue. Unlike most museums there are no cordoned-off areas - visitors are encouraged to roam freely. Hidden tape recordings of a chiming grandfather clock, a muffled conversation in another room and the clip-clop of horses' hooves on the street evoke the historic atmosphere...
...First the obvious stuff: After weeks of pot-banging by President Bush about the future of Western civilization - a campaign designed to divert attention from Iraq and wake his party's disaffected base from its slumber - Foley has given a few key segments of the Republican coalition a jaw-dropping reason to stay home. It's hard to conceive a piece of news more likely to dampen the turnout of social conservatives than predatory sexual practices by a closeted gay Republican leader. I also doubt that the Republican coalition-minders were pleased when Foley blamed his problems on an adolescent...
...which is intended for that very purpose, and uses a mere 1.1 gallons of water per dose. Furthermore, the green toilet handles are, according to the new placards, bacteria resistant, so there’s no need to flush with your foot. And at only $15 a pot, it’s not just Mother Earth that will save a little green, Harvard will, too, in long-term water costs. There may be one disadvantage to the new handles, though. Different flushes mean different noises, and in the cozy river Houses, the whole suite might know the exact nature...
...unraveling so rapidly when he sat down to hammer out his academic discourse, which argues that Islam lacks the Christian concept of a rational God and that Europe must defend its Christian identity. Still, says one Vatican insider, the Pope may very well have wanted to stir up the pot - and have it plenty warm just in time to deliver a more elaborate sermon on Islam and the West while he is visiting a nation with some 70 million Muslims. "It may be like his predecessor," says the Vatican source, referring to John Paul II's knack for staying relevant...
...Teddy Wayne lives in New York City and St. Louis. He is working on a novel and a humor collection. Read more of his writing at the following websites: McSweeney's Internet Tendency Yankee Pot Roast...