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The penalty in the British Navy for popping your pecker in a poop hole was death.
"By and Large"- we have all used this phrase, meaning: generally speaking, on the whole etc...
Where did this phrase originate?
Where did this phrase originate?
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Around the year 1900 cocaine was not a regulated substance, you could buy cocaine without a prescription at any drug store without a doctors prescription. Sear sold cocaine kits with a vial of cocaine and a syringe in their mail order catalog.
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September 21, 2009
SEPTEMBER 21 - A woman, two Jews, and a cripple
Lately, when politicians and bureaucrats say stupidly offensive things, they increasingly seem to be doing it on purpose, to get press attention. The more classic style of stupidly offensive quotes by politicians and bureaucrats are those that aren’t necessarily intended to generate firestorms in the press.
One famous example of the latter occurred on September 21, 1983.
James G. Watt (b. 1938), who had been appointed as U.S. Secretary of the Interior by President Ronald Reagan, was giving a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At one point, he explained the diversity of the members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing with this dunderheaded description:
“We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.”
Even for that less politically correct era, it was a stupendously idiotic remark to make in a public speech with reporters present. Naturally, it created a huge flap.
White men, black men, white women, black women.
I forget the numbers, but there is a staggering number of toilets in the pentagon.
Ted Cassidy who played "Lurch" on "the Addams Family", was the narrator on "The incredible HUlk"
