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...bugs. One woman claimed her children were traumatized after encountering an insect in their bedroom, and demanded to sleep in the car. Experts say the insects are harmless--good news, since there is little likelihood of eradicating them. ``They get immune to the poisons,'' says exterminator Thys van Rensburg. ``But it is easy to see why people want to get rid of them. They're big, ugly and, heh-heh, very scary...
...lead. "I was out of control up there, so I just took it faster and faster," said Kiehl, 23. A bit later, lanky Brigitte Oertli, the Swiss star no one hears about, edged Percy by .01 sec. for the silver medal. Two inexperienced U.S. women, Edith Thys, 21, and Kristen Krone, 19, swallowed their Olympic jitters, held their tucks and made their turns, and though the cameras did not show their courage, finished a creditable 18th and 20th. A cheer or two, please, for the merely excellent...
...modernize Shakespeare, pull him up by his Elizabethan pantoffles and bring his 37 plays into our more streamlined age. Do not ask why you would want to engage in such a bootless enterprise; just assume it was your task. Well, first you would change the thees, the thous, the thys and the thines. Instead of "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"-one of the Bard's most famous questions-you would have Juliet ask, "Wherefore art you Romeo?" The archaic verb must go as well, of course, and what you wind up with is an up-to-date...
...LYDDY has a mustache and byg chartyse For kydnappyngs and wyrtaps and tartyse.² What tale koud tell? Is thys some kind of Nutte? In gaol y-sits and keeps hys lippes shutte...
Thus spak the PATRYK GRAY, a baldyng guye, "Ful wel I loved to serv the FBYe, But shame, I burnd the fyls and sore hav synnd And dizzy-grow from hangyn slow, slow in the wynd." Thys was the merrye crew, on TV cache. And who can say if cumen in impeache? Nor yet whych man will ansyr to what cry me? No oon can know, at Thysse Poynt in Tyme...