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tho there are more than one panda.. if he was wearing a full panda costume then it’s not the person im thinking about, they only do the giant heads.
*rob*
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On the C train, a guy gets on, he’s in his late 20s/ early 30s, really really tall 6’4″ or 5″and he is wearing a giant Panda costume. He has a white hoodie on under his costume and has the hood part on his head with the string drawn, obscuring most of his face (wouldn’t you?). He was wearing a furry black and white costume, the white part was looking like he’d been getting a lot of work lately and he was carrying his panda head, then put in down on the seat next to him. Inside the head, he stored his panda hands and some other stuff.
was the guy black? if so i know him!!! he used to come to crazy parties my old roommates in harlem used to throw. my friend manda was in an organization called club animals and they all had different kind of giant animal heads. she was a cat! they do all kinds of performance art. sometimes he dresses like a milkman and hands out crack cocaine candy.
*rob*
rf, Don’t waste your breath. (so to speak.)
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Does anyone other than jews and white americans actually circumcise?
smart people do. foreskins are disgusting and totally ruin so many porn scenes! also people with foreskins have a higher chance of contracting and carry SO many kinds of STD’s and other grody diseases.
*rob*
benson,
The Challenger disaster was a sad day that I remember well.
I specifically remember the televised mission control announcer continuing the time count after launch despite what was being seen on the TV and what was happening in real time.
I said to myself, “Is this supposed to be happening?”
Did the military investigation release a conclusion on the issue you were testifying on?
Around 100 years ago, several big-wigs at the Bronx Zoo were big into eugenics and related scientific racism movements.
Benson:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opinion/27kristof.html
Hattie Lacks? Did Henrietta go by that name?
slopefarm,
Talk about informed consent!
If you read one of the books on the History of Medicine
you’ll quickly realize that many great advances were made at the unwitting expense of patients.
One of the great names in Anatomy is Vesalius,
who taught medicine at the great university in Padua during the middle ages.
During one of his Anatomical lectures in a hall surrounded by medical students overlooking a cadaver with chest cavity exposed, there was a sudden panic from the students as it was quickly realized that the “cadaver” wasn’t in fact dead!
…It took the Pope to step in and get the professor out of that one.
There is a bone in the human body named after Vesalius.