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But take any animal, no matter how matted its fur, no matter how walled its eyes, no matter how “rabinous” it’s “central nervous system”, and put that tiny effer in a bandage, preferably brightly colored, and the next thing you know you’ll be tearing off your bra and nursing that little sucker back to health with the Pabst Blue Ribbon that slowly leaks out of your teet. »

February 21st, 2006

I didn’t know until today that Wasabi means “sauce of flaming nostrils” in Japanese. Paper Napkin

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