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Since 1959, Seeger has written hundreds of songs. Those who regard Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Laura Nyro as the first generation of singer-songwriters to craft material from women's experiences should think again. Seeger is a missing link between the 1950s American folk-song revival and women's liberation; the guitar-toting chanteuses of the 1970s could not have existed without either of those movements. - Laura Pellegrinellli, The Village Voice

 

Fact & Fantasy 4

The world is divided into people who think they are right. (Anonymous)

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For sale: Hearing aid. Brand new. AHS Alfa Series. $300 or trade for guns. (I Wanna, Asheville, North Carolina)

Molly Maxwell, age 104, has finally been given the Cambridge degree she earned 80 years ago. In 1917 women were not allowed to receive degrees. (The Guardian, England, 1997)

Before you lash out again at your computer, you might want to take a look at yourself. People who experience routine electronic equipment breakdowns may be emanating hostile electromagnetism, according to parapsychology researchers interviewed in The Anomalist Fall 1996. Their bad vibes can, a la Uri Geller, physically cause computer breakdown. (The Utne Reader, April 1997)

The combined wealth of the worlds seven richest men could wipe out poverty and provide access to basic social services for the quarter of the world who live in severe need [said a United Nations study published this week] ... the net wealth of 10 billionaires is worth 1.5 times the combined national income of the 48 least developed countries. (The Guardian, England, June 22, 1997)

At a trade fair in Vienna, Austria in August, body-paint artist Karl Machamer demonstrated his design for a skin-tight latex condom, custom-painted onto a penis. He plans to market bottles with enough paint for three applications (along with instructions) for about $8. The main drawback is the seven-minute wait while the paint dries. (Now where did I get this information? And did Karl demonstrate his invention personally in Vienna?)

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Up to 50 million girls and women are missing from India's population, the result of systematic sex discrimination, including the selective abortion of female foetuses, according to a report produced by the United Nations Children's fund in India. (Guardian Weekly, November 26, 1995)

Advertisement in the New York Post, March 19, 1997:
PENILE ENLARGEMENT: FOR MEN ONLY

The Fortean Times reports that two Romanians from the town of Botosani have been barred from the Orthodox priesthood on the grounds that their penises don't reach the minimum length set down in the rules.

Bombay, India - An unhappy customer sued a salesman for $3,900 because his flying carpet didn't work, but his case was thrown out of court - when the judge found out the guy had put his carpet in a washing machine. .... [The customer] plans to appeal. (Where else but from The Enquirer, February 1997)

DSC00293.JPG"I had a sense that unless I was totally thin, my friends would tease me or I wouldn't get a girlfriend," said Martin, 18, who gave only his first name. Martin was committed to the hospital three months ago when he feared swallowing because he believed "my saliva had too many calories." (re. dieting among Peruvian teenagers, The Observer, England, January 1998)

Brigands of the world, they have wasted the land by their indiscriminate plunder and now they ransack the sea. The wealth of an enemy excites their cupidity, his poverty their lust for power. East and West have failed to glut their maw. They are unique in being as violently tempted to attack the poor as the wealthy. Robbery, butchery, rapine, the liars call empire. They create a desolation and call it peace. (From the address made by Calgacus to the Caledonian troops before their defeat by the Roman army under Agricola, AD 54)

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)

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If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people with all existing human relations remaining the same, the community would look like this: There would be:

  • 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans
  • 5l would be female and 49 would be male
  • 70 would be non-white and 30 would be white
  • 70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian
  • 50% of the entire worlds wealth would be in the hands of 6 people, and all 6 would be citizens of the USA
  • 80 would live in substandard housing
  • 70 would be unable to read
  • 50 would suffer from malnutrition
  • 1 would be near death
  • 1 would be near birth
  • Only 1 would have a college education
  • No one would own a computer

(Sent to me on the Internet)


Cost per minute to hear The Bill of Rights read over the phone in a provocative manner by a woman named Bambi: $1.98 (The Funny Times)
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