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...Scofflaws' ode, "William Shatner," is another prime example of the gleeful nature of ska. Dedicated to the actor of Star Trek fame, the few words of the song not suprisingly treat William Shatner as a mere synonym for Captain Kirk: "He's got a fine tan shirt with an emblem on the chest/ The interstellar girls all like him the best." MU330 from St. Louis also show their wackiness with the song "Stuff." Described playfully in the liner notes as being "a hopeless romantic sort of thing, really," this tune contains such memorable lines as "I'm just so tired...
...fact that insurance companies can learn whether a patient had an HIV test raises a dangerous potentiality: the insurance company can interpret the mere fact that someone had an HIV test as a danger sign, an indicator that a prospective client leads a risky life that puts them in danger of contracting HIV. Simply having had an HIV test could then be held against someone seeking medical insurance...
Every Japanese school had a shrine that contained a picture of the Emperor. Every Japanese had to jump to attention at the mere mention of the imperial name. History lessons began with myths told as truth about the divine ancestry of the Emperor and, by extension, the Japanese race. Self-sacrifice was extolled as the highest virtue. When winning the war had become hopeless, the Japanese people were told to prepare for a suicidal last stand...
...been to discern, in advance, in helpful detail, how to pass Go and (nowadays) collect $200 million domestic, God knows what in the ancillaries. For movie trends-or even individual hits-do not reveal themselves until they are actually thundering down on us. No executive, no agent, certainly no mere movie reviewer usually spots one until it is actually rolling over his toes, sharp pain belatedly signaling where the most money is likely to be found for the next few months-and that the victim has once again been looking for it in all the wrong places...
Professor Mitchell says he has heard offirst-year holding goodluck slumber parties withtheir blocking groups after rooming assignmentsarrive and then opening the fateful envelopetogether the next morning. How could a mere mortalwait an entire night before opening the envelopewhich contains her fate for the next three years...