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Feb. 17th, 2006 09:18 amThe zxt ants got into the zxt bread. THIS MEANS WAR.
Feb. 17th, 2006
More House
Feb. 17th, 2006 10:21 am*antenna goes up*
House is cynical enough, and like too many smart people arrogant enough, to be taken in by the "30% of fathers aren't" myth about paternity. You'd think his understanding of statistics - crucial for medicine - would be better, but I reckon he picked that up out of Soaps Digest rather than JAMA or something.
That's the guy from Dead Poets, isn't it? Is the other guy Australian?
ETA: Lots of great bits, especially the poor kid's night terrors. Obviously ran under a little, though. :-)
House is cynical enough, and like too many smart people arrogant enough, to be taken in by the "30% of fathers aren't" myth about paternity. You'd think his understanding of statistics - crucial for medicine - would be better, but I reckon he picked that up out of Soaps Digest rather than JAMA or something.
That's the guy from Dead Poets, isn't it? Is the other guy Australian?
ETA: Lots of great bits, especially the poor kid's night terrors. Obviously ran under a little, though. :-)
Couch and bon-bons
Feb. 17th, 2006 10:08 pmI first encountered the image of the pampered, lazy housewife, chatting mindlessly on the phone while she lies on the sofa eating candy, in soc.men. Big surprise there. Really, that must be the first time I noticed the image. I just came across it again, in Will Worthington's 1959 post-apocalyptic short story Plenitude:
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