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...still on a mission for a worthwhile, less time-intensive pet, to love and care for and play with during those depressing all-nighters. In a sudden flush of benevolence, I adopted Charlie the python from an emergency pet center. He was a quiet and portable pet who traveled in a pillowcase, enjoyed silently slithering around my room while I studied, and had an affection for one of my roommates, whom he followed around. The perfect dorm pet. But looks can be deceiving. It was a nuisance to hide evidence of Charlie during room inspections, including his two-yard long...
...whether or not you have the time to deal with it. It was a respiratory infection. The treatment: two sets of seven shots. One has not experienced the true hellish potential of dormlife until one has spent the night before two final exams chasing a four-foot long ball python with a syringe hanging out of its abdomen around a dorm room. Charlie was not amused. Neither was I. After 12 more shots, hundreds of dollars on vet bills and many subway trips to the vet hospital with a snake poking around my backpack, Charlie passed away. I breathed...
...Dave Barry meets Monty Python this is not. The amateur quality of some of the weaker sketches—from little Timmy getting his first boner for Chistmas to a sexually-charged nightclub act—may make a critic cringe, but the tempo of the whole show is so upbeat that the players are largely forgiven their comedic sins...
...galactic case of writer's block. "I love deadlines," Adams once said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Adams learned to avoid reality around age 5, when his parents divorced. Tall, shy and unathletic, he longed to be John Cleese, star of the Monty Python troupe. Adams had the height (hitting his full 1.91 m as a teen) and a taste for clowning. So when he went off to Cambridge he gravitated, as his hero had a dozen years earlier, to the university's famed Footlights drama society. Improbably, he ran into Cleese...
...DIED. SAMANTHA, around 30, 26-foot, 275-pound python who was the largest snake in captivity; of old age; in the Bronx Zoo. According to her keepers, "Samantha was a rather mellow and easy-going creature...