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...Toilet paper...
This is all very colorful. And quite beside the point. Mozart has returned. This age is quite consumed with Wolfgang Amadeus' table manners and toilet practices. But the point is the music. Can he still compose? Do the gods still sing...
Merrill (to Bob the Dog): You have the nerve to discuss my manners? Who drinks out of the toilet and then comes up and kisses me on the face...
...Center in Fort Worth, the first fully functioning direct-supervision jail system in the state; it features sunny single cells with windows, no bars. "Since then," says the center's newly appointed warden, Major James Skidmore, "we have not had one piece of graffiti written on the walls, one toilet stopped up, one officer or inmate struck or injured. Our officer turnover rate has dropped to 5.4% from 18% in our linear jails, where on average an officer is injured once a day and costly compensation cases come up once a month. Having budgeted $20,000 for jailhouse repairs...
...banned from his vocabulary: "I will not 'share' anything with you. I will not 'relate' to you, and you will not 'identify' with me. I will give you no 'input,' and I will expect no 'feedback.' " Euphemisms that cloud our thinking are another favorite topic: "Sometime during my life, toilet paper became bathroom tissue, false teeth became dental appliances, the dump became the landfill, partly cloudy became partly sunny...