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...epileptic Hmong child (very curiously, that is), and she proceeded to rap every word of the entire song. I immediately felt the symptoms of “quab dab peg” (Hmong for “The spirit catches you and you fall down.”) Wow, “Gold Digger” must be some song, right? It must be if this girl would sacrifice three minutes of conversation (with me, no less) to recite song lyrics. But while the song is pretty good; it is certainly not the best on Kanye’s latest...

Author: By Teddy M. Bressman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pop Screen | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...because we got to put balloons on cars," says Walters, who has since moved with her family to Florida. "A lot of people were like, 'Wow, are you serious, we waste four million gallons of gas every day?' And they said they'd pump their tires up. Only, like, one or two people just drove away and the balloons fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Young Conservationist | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...Internet may be great, but it is also the most compulsive waste of time man has yet devised. Your article adopted an uncritical "wow" attitude toward the Net. Jesus came specifically for those shut out from the good things of life. He challenges us to bend all technology to a human cause, not to plug ourselves in exclusively to a culture that exists only for a small minority. As a Catholic, I will be impressed with the Vatican's presence on the Net only if the church shows an awareness of the Net's prime difference from all other media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1997 | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...another independent digital cool hunter. His website, thecoolhunter.net evolved from his Australian syndicated column on cultural trends. Tikos, 33, is currently in the U.S. trying to develop a television show featuring a quintet of globetrotting cool hunters-just call them the Fab Five. "I'm looking for the wow factor," he says. "I often spend eight hours searching for one interesting thing. A couple of years ago, I didn't even know what cool hunting was. Now it's my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trendspotting: Messengers of Cool | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...know your expectations have fallen unreasonably low for what your $40,000/year is supposedly buying. Meanwhile, the humanities TF can usually speak English, but uses what verbal abilities they possess mostly to muse such pearls of wisdom as, “Great idea,” “Wow, that’s an excellent point,” and “Hmm, I don’t know…what do you think?” I once had a TF who asked someone else in my section to point to an elephant on a projection...

Author: By Andrew Kreicher, | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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