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Laurel-Ann translates the transmission, which is an instruction to remain indoors, not to use terms of endearment, baby talk, rhetorical discourse, or the English language.

Arse is self-perpetuating.

Straton was famous for hating almost everything – “card playing, cocktail drinking, poodle dogs, jazz music, the theater, low-cut dresses, divorce, novels, stuffy rooms, Clarence Darrow, overeating, the Museum of Natural History, evolution, the Standard Oil influence in the Baptist church, prizefighting, the private lives of actors, nude art, bridge playing, modernism and greyhound racing,” according to one partial contemporary account.

In 2005, Cadenhead achieved brief notoriety for registering the domain name benedictxvi.com several weeks before the name was chosen by Pope Benedict XVI, joking that he would give it to the Vatican in exchange for a mitre and “complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987.” Those demands not being met, he donated the domain to the Internet charity Modest Needs.

We can see the relative scarcity of wealthy cryonicists from the fact that cryonics hasn’t attracted adventuresses. If young, attractive women on the make thought they could meet a lot of lonely men with money at cryonics gatherings, they would have shown up by now. Instead, in the real world, cryonics acts as “female Kryptonite.”

Patients who would traditionally be declared “dead,” the societal signal to abandon their care, are not considered "dead” by the new criteria.

The professor said he asked why the photo had set off such a reaction, and that the security official said that “fire” could be a kind of proxy for “AK-47s.”

Phone calls to the ghost riders are never answered, according to local news outlet The Paper.

You stand under the tree, as before. From the upper limbs a bone falls dry and hollow at your shoe side. You stoop and examine, stoop and examine. You ask yourself, “A human bone?” Not a boneman, you cannot answer.

For anyone who hasn’t seen the relevant xkcd comic, this may lead to some sort of collapse of the social sphere. We haven’t really tested that aspect of it, so maybe exercise caution.