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...people and areas near military bases. In Plattsburgh, N.Y., a booklet prepared with FEMA'S help advises residents to have on hand, packed and ready to go, like a giant doomsday picnic basket, some 55 items, including large supplies of tinned foods, blankets, axes, flashlights and a portable toilet. As one local skeptic noted: "We'll all need U-Hauls to take that junk along with our families...
...costume, is in effect a tiny radio, broadcasting to a receiver offstage.) And everyone in the business remembers the time one actress forgot to turn off her mike when she went backstage. The audience was treated to a few obscenities and the electronically enhanced sound of a toilet flushing...
...when it consists of getting onto a big plane and eating a tray dinner and having a drink and watching a movie? And then getting off the plane at an airport much like the one we left and riding to a big hotel and finding a room where the toilet seat wears a preposterous paper sash FOR YOUR SANITARY PROTECTION? Our amazement at the world simply curdles into irony...
...Louie!?" Murray snorted. "That malevolent little fireplug? That broken toilet of a man? That Rumpelstiltskin sadist to whom everything human was alien? Who was happy only when he could make everyone else miserable-which was most of the time? Who gave new meaning to the phrase old meany...
Most campaign promises have a limited scope. A recent candidate for jailor promised his neighbors to buy a new coffee pot and make sure the jail's toilet tissue dispenser was always full. Other aspirants rely on more tested means, like the hopeful who left bottles of bourbon on doorsteps throughout town. And occasionally the elections can get nasty. Last year, the independent candidate for sheriff shot his opponent and continued to campaign from the jail...