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Redundancy award of the week!

Wouldn’t they have to be ancient if they were found in fossilized shark poop? A more newsworthy headline would be ‘Living Tapeworms Found in Fossilized Shark Poop’. Found at http://www.livescience.com/26738-ancient-tapeworms-fossilized-shark-poop.html. Ancient Tapeworm Eggs Found in Fossilized Shark Poop  

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Planetary incontinence expected by intercontinental ballistic imbeciles hoping for something to fill Yet walking through the store today I did sense a sense of something wonderful A spirit if you will of comfort and ease in the rows of dried noodles and cookies An old man smiled and waved hello to me between the cat [...]

Musical Interlude by Katie Goodman : ‘I Didn’t Fuck It Up’

Katie Goodman of Broad Comedy sings: “I Didn’t Fuck It Up“                                  It’s interesting how many sites replace the vowel in “fuck” with an asterisk (f*ck). It seems to me that elevates the word to a religious dimension, like not using vowels in the tetragrammaton: YHWH. For more information please visit  www.unfuckitup.com

MLA Format for UCD Students

The Ad and the Ego Questions Ad Essay Directions Click here for example of Modern Language Association (MLA) format then leave comment: UCDMLA You can leave a comment without signing up to the site. You’ll have to type in the appropriate letters for the “re-Capcha” function. Shawn

165 euphemisms for sex

http://amog.com/lifestyle/sex-euphemisms/ How do you say you had sex? Do you tell your friends you banged her? She might say you made love. There is an infinite number of ways to say “having sex” without actually saying… “having sex.” With as many euphemisms as there are for sex, it seems as if we have no better way [...]

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Writing in the Active Voice

As a general rule, cast your sentences in the active voice.  In the active voice, the subject of the sentence does the action. In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence is not the agent doing the action. Instead of writing, “The cat was kicked by Joe,” write, ” Joe kicked the cat.”  It means the same thing, [...]

Doublespeak and Diet

The Corn Refiners Assocation wants to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup because evidence that it’s bad for us is hurting sales: http://www.grist.org/article/food-hfcs-name-changed-to-corn-sugar/ Excerpt: “So, when the facts and consumer sentiment are against you, what is a poor, misunderstood oligopoly to do? The answer: obfuscate! Surely, in wonderfully Orwellian style, a name change will take [...]