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magidI still can't quite believe I live in a city where "300-lb gorilla on the loose" could be a real headline. It's just so like a line from a joke. One of the commentators I heard suggested that some of the gorilla's behaviour was due to adolescence. Never can tell what those adolescent males will do next...
In a discussion about some other news, one announcer referred to something as a topic one would (or wouldn't) say to one's "foursome". I assume he meant golf, but...
There's a new oral contraceptive for women, pills that allow only four periods a year. There are debates as to whether this is healthy or not, whether it's ethical or not, etc. I was wondering if that meant that a woman would have periods for that much longer, since ovulation was so many times fewer/year. That would mean women who wanted to delay having kids could take this as a way to push off the later ticking of the biological clock.
In a discussion about some other news, one announcer referred to something as a topic one would (or wouldn't) say to one's "foursome". I assume he meant golf, but...
There's a new oral contraceptive for women, pills that allow only four periods a year. There are debates as to whether this is healthy or not, whether it's ethical or not, etc. I was wondering if that meant that a woman would have periods for that much longer, since ovulation was so many times fewer/year. That would mean women who wanted to delay having kids could take this as a way to push off the later ticking of the biological clock.
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:59 am (UTC)It's to scare off all the bad bridge players, it is.
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:05 am (UTC)The gorilla is back home, now, and they're taking all sorts of precautions, so you may get those bad bridge players, after all.
And, hey, who else can offer a gorilla with a bridge game?
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 10:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-30 11:20 am (UTC)On the radio, they mentioned that at one point, the gorilla was in a shrubbery (well, they said bushes, but why pass up a chance for shrubbery-mentioning?), and a passer-by thought that it was a man in a black overcoat, wearing a snorkel.
I guess people more expect to see someone in a snorkel than a gorilla...
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Date: 2003-09-30 11:24 am (UTC)It's caption was:
HUB NEWS IN BRIEF
It showed a gorilla holding a GO SOX! pennant on the top of the John Hancock building with its new owner's name MANULIFE on the top.
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Date: 2003-09-30 11:30 am (UTC)I can't decide if that's sad or good, though.
how many hundred pound gorilla
Date: 2003-09-30 02:05 pm (UTC)You can probably figure out who this is.
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Date: 2003-09-30 02:10 pm (UTC)and he was talking about microsnot.
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Date: 2003-09-30 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 09:41 am (UTC)*grin*
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Date: 2003-10-01 01:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 01:33 pm (UTC)I knew it! You were just going out for a bit of a walk. All those posts about your apartment didn't mention that it was an apartment at the ZOO!