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PEOPLE LOVE FARTS! Not, you know, en­during them. But they love hearing them and hearing about them: fart jokes will prob­ably be with us until Sheldon Coop­er’s dreams of our brains being moved to non-tissue bodies are re­al­ized. [Continue reading]

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Mystical liberal who enjoys long walks in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig. For more information on me, refer to "A Little Background" in the Miscellany menu on the navigation bar above.

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