Word: whammo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official Whammo Hacky Sack is made of plastic beads coated with animal hide. "If you don't eat meat, it's hard to justify playing Hacky Sack says Lerdow. "That's the only trouble--thinking about all the dead animals the went into...
...Chemistry of Love is often laughable in both its language and its ideas. Liebowitz writes badly and thinks sloppily. His work is filled with meaningless sentences such as "Along comes a somewhat attractive and friendly soul and whammo, our brains are hit with megadoses of 'attachment juice." His logic is no better. "Biologically," he writes, "it appears that we have evolved two distinct chemical systems for romance; one basically serves to bring people together and the other to keep them together." The only evidence that he offers for all this elaborate chemical apparatus is that we fall in love...