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I was driving across the country when the pipe to the muffler broke like this. I first used a soda can, but that didn't last long. The soup can lasted long enough to get from Niagara Falls to western Michigan, where I got it fixed.
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In "Bloom County", Steve gets his hair burned off during the filming of a Tess Turbo MTV promo video gone wrong. He shouldn't have "brushed that flammable mascara all over [his] chest", said Opus. The psychological counselor who came by mistake, thinking he was a quadruple amputee, learns of his mishap. "How should I deal with this?" he asks her. "Ya got me. Smooth-chested men leave me clammy." [In 'Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (1985).]
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To be fair, CHiPs back in the 1970s had an episode with skateboarding kids interrupting traffic and grabbing on to passing cars. Things got more serious when one of the cars then went on the highway with the skateboarder still holding on. The elderly driver didn't hear the pleas of the skater, so the ChIPs had to save the day.
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Oxford dictionary says misogyny is "Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women". I mean precisely that, and not your reductionist version based only on the Greek roots. As a feminist, I also mean that the articles on McClintock and von Neumann should be held to the same standards. By what non-sexist standard do we include von Neumann's fondness for limericks and not McClintock's life beyond her research? (Hint: 'the charge that they don't take women seriously' is sexist, because we often talk about the personal lives of male scientists and also treat them as serious scientists.)

As a scientist, I laugh at your claim I am "anti-science". As an amateur historian of science, I think it's worthy to understand the people and social context behind the science, in order to better understand the process by which we do science ourselves. So no, you have misinterpreted me in multiple ways.
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