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...wearing a T shirt that says, MY PARENTS CREATED THE UNIVERSE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T SHIRT. She does a hilarious bit about why she thinks people videotape themselves making love (they think they're really hot, or they need work). And there's a winning spiel on being the person at the other end of the 800 advice-line on shampoo bottles: "Did you wet your hair first?...Glad I could help...
...hide it. I am a Folklore and Mythology concentrator. You may drop your jaw in shock because you never thought a Folk and Myth student actually existed, but it's all right--I'm used to such a traumatic reaction. I've used the same spiel for years: "Yes, I concentrate in the overlooked and under-appreciated field of Folklore and Mythology. Yes, it is interesting. No, I do not know what I'm going to do with a degree in Folklore and Mythology...
Indeed, Jobs, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, recognized the computer as a tool not for top-down corporate repression but for bottom-up individual empowerment and creativity, a lifelong article of faith to which Apple and Pixar today bear living tribute. Before launching into his evangelistic spiel from the Flint Center stage last week, Jobs briefly eulogized Sony founder Akio Morita, grandfather of the consumer-electronics industry, who had died just a few days earlier. "He expressed his love for the human species in every product he made," Jobs said in a clear, quiet voice...
...Harshbarger seems like a fighter, he was a good attorney general," she went on, warming to her political spiel, "and I'd rather have him if there was a crisis in Massachusetts...
...positive side, Dartboard wishes to note what a useful exercise the lottery has been in building house spirit. We feel distinctly closer to the residents of our house now that approximately half of them have trooped through our room to inspect it. The room tour spiel quickly became a routine--windows are slightly drafty, fraternity across the street which is not too loud except on weekends, knock on the next door to see the bedroom...