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POPSWhy Do We Say “Cheese” When Having Our Photo Taken? Photography was once a pursuit for the rich. A the turn of the century, though, Kodak’s $1 Brownie camera (introduced in 1900), combined with their line of how-to books and pamphlets for photographers and their heavy advertising in prominent national magazines (these were the days when everyone read Life), created a mass market for photography and established the company as the leading expert on the subject. Kodak came into a position of what Kotchemidova calls “cultural leadership,” by framing the way photography, for which they supplied the technology, was conceptualized and used in the culture at large.
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POPSAn American Catastrophe "Detroit and its environs are suffering the agonies of the economic damned because of policies, crafted at the highest national and corporate levels, that resulted in the implosion of crucially important components of America’s manufacturing base. Those decisions have had a profound effect on the fortunes not just of Detroit, or even Michigan, but the entire U.S. economy." I can't believe some of the words I read from another clipper describing hard working union members as incompetent and drunks. It's attitudes like his that have absolutely no compassion for loss of good paying jobs, the base of the middle class, and worker's rights to share some of the profits they helped create. It's small, petty, greedy, and jealous thinking with a superior ass attitude that the working man/woman doesn't deserve as good as himself.
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POPSThe Patient Grows Up In middle age, the only certainty is uncertainty. And we hope that whatever small wisdom we’ve gathered can offset the facts that we can no longer run as fast as we once did, that we squint a lot more, that we are vulnerable. On the plus side, though, as the poet Theodore Roethke wrote: “Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. When I was young and ill, all I cared about was the result, about scalpels and scars. But in this waltz with prostate cancer, I’ve cared about the process, too. All along, I’ve wanted to know what this cancer could teach me, and I like to think that I’ve gripped it just as hard as it has gripped me. In embracing the cancer and its teachings, I’ve also embraced mysteries that I couldn’t have imagined more than a year ago. And that’s an absolute adventure, too."
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POPSIs The Word Fuck Becoming More Acceptable? Do we give too much power to that word? I can remember the first time I heard it and I thought it was real bad. Really, really bad. Like going to hell bad. Through the years I've used that word a lot to express frustration. Maybe too much, because it kept me from expressing my frustration in a more intelligent and meaningful way. But it felt so good to say it. It released stress in the short term, but until someone came into my life that I really respected I didn't realize how offensive that word could be to others. I still reserve the right to use it to make a point that I feel cannot be made without it. Like the website FML does.
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POPSDrunks Videos This is a great video library for those in search for fun, information , news and all kinds of other things
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POPSOn-the-spot fines for being drunk in Ireland they might not have the resources to deal with that many people here there are various degrees of drunkeness being tipsy,merry,scuttered,plastered etc. they do stand to make a fortune on this Its lazy policing if you ask me a quick buck like a lot of stuff that goes on they call it the nanny state well thats what you get with paternal authority and everyone depending on them to take care of everything
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POPS‘I’m sick of trees’ this is what I'd call backwards thinking theres drunks and dumpers and lord knows what near our pitch It's them fhuckhin trees causin' problems
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POPSCollege Drinking Debate: 18 or 21? The minimum drinking age in Italy is 16. I've been in bars packed with teens and there was no excess drinking or obnoxious behavior. The only sloppy drunks I saw were two American kids outside of a bar in Florence: one was puking while the other was raving. http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/YouthIssues/1098903340.html
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POPSGoing Postal: Wild Turkeys, Flying Goats And Donkeys In Jail Mexican donkey jailed The ass bit and kicked two men. "The animal was locked up in a holding pen normally used for keeping drunks off the streets after it lashed out at the pair at a ranch in Chiapas state," according to this report. Now that's justice. And in other Going Postal news...Sulu marries gay partner George Takei, most commonly known by his Star Trek name Mr. Sulu, married his gay partner of 21 years in California. ""He helped me care for my ailing mother who lived with us for the last years of her life. He is my love and I can't imagine life without him." Sulu says.
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POPSThe Attack On Liberty Remember, there are NEVER any cover-ups or secrecy within the American Government, remember this folks!!! Regardless, the two links in this clip are quite informative and interesting.
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