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...Virgin Update: Kim S. Kilpatrick ’05 finally popped her cherry, lubricated by about a quart of Everclear punch. God, how we wish that was only a metaphor...
Espy’s sense of style is something of a punch line among those who know him. “He’ll wear $300 shoes and $2 sweatpants,” says Graham, laughing. Espy has ably justified his spending habits. “He borrows from Future Matt,” Pengelly says. “He spends the money he expects to make as his future self.” Espy also once climbed a mountain wearing a bathrobe—though that was only because he had no jacket...
...Peeing off the bow of the Spee boat during a Saturday outing, very drunk punch Gerry S. Botwin ’04 was surprised when his urine was carried on the wind back towards him. “Aah! Why is this happening?” he screamed as he was battered by a hurricane of piss...
Then there were the decorative arts: hard-stone (pietre dure) inlays, gems, tapestries. The tapestries in particular were a way of extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs--fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed...
...What’s novel about this study was that we were trying to figure out why this was,” Hare said. “The punch line is that during domestication, there has been cognitive evolution...