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...crew and the tank commander, that tank is your home, and you don't know how long you're going to be there. You don't know when the shower and laundry guys might catch up with you. You don't know when you'll get hot water to shave with. So you take care of yourself, and you better take care of your vehicle, because that's your way back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving Out | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

They are everyman and everydog. Cartoon lovers embraced Wallace and Gromit when Nick Park created them out of Plasticine for three stop-motion animated shorts (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave), two of which won Oscars. Here was the definitive English couple, manacled to each other for life: Wallace, a bachelor with a love for cheese and a weakness for inventing things that blow up, and Gromit, his silent pet, indentured servant and reluctant savior. Next year they'll star in The Great Vegetable Plot, Park's first feature film since the delicious Chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dog Bytes | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...When Letterman almost bumped Nightline off ABC, long editorials were written saying that Ted Koppel's show is indeed smart--many by Ted Koppel himself. After extensive video review, we determined that people should not dangle their babies over the railing of the third-floor balconies or shave off their entire nose. We pretended to get newly upset about all sorts of things we already knew, like that figure-skating judges are corrupt. Wait until people find out how boxing works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Off The Presses: Old News! | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...People wrote news stories that seriously examined Ulrika Jonsson or fat people suing fast-food restaurants, leaving very little for Have I Got News For You to do. After extensive video review, we determined that people should not dangle their babies over the railing of third floor balconies, or shave off their entire nose. We pretended to get newly upset about all sorts of things we already knew, like that some priests are creepy or that figure skating judges are corrupt. Wait until people find out how boxing works. I know we're worried about dirty bombs and biowarfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Been There, Done That | 12/22/2002 | See Source »

...recruits who now had to refer to him as “sir” rather than “Sam.” “You’d be surprised how ill-prepared young men are for military life. Common sense deserts them when you shave their hair off,” says Myat San with an amused grin, citing examples of recruits unsure of how to mop or sweep. He found one young man washing his rifle in the sink...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Shots | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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