Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Tetris

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    OnLevelHighScoreDrops Total2007/10/18 08:459084,00039984,399Another inexplicable score.  See my other high scores.

  • Money

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    The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn

  • Just one word: Plastics

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    We never were told by Mr. McGuire in The Graduate just what we were facing with his one word future, but now fourty years later, we have a little better idea…In 1968, at the dawn of the modern environmental movement, the editor of Modern Plastics argued that his industry had been unfairly vilified.  Plastic was…

  • Hope

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    True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.Walter Anderson, American painter

  • Bad boys

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    Little boys, the thinking went, were naturally indisposed to bathing.  Bath toys not only made hygiene boyishly fun; they helped overcome the naughty urges that bathing tended to arouse: “The baby will not spend much time handling his genitals if he has other interesting things to do,” one government-issue child-care manual advised in 1942.  “See…

  • Sin

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    The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.Paula Poundstone

  • State of the Web

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    I ran across this interesting graphic the other day and thought it was interesting enough to hold on to.  Five years from now, we’ll look back and; laugh…via email from ,