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Sex in the nineties is boring....

Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.

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A member of the committee slap...

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. 'What shall we name the other one?' I smiled. She was not amused.

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Remember, you can lead a fifty...

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

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Crocodiles have a smile I've s...

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

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The mole rat is the only roden...

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

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People usually survive their i...

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

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We even switched to a newly-fo...

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

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Babies should enjoy the freedo...

Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved.

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The fact that Americans drag a...

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

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Some of the best fiction write...

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

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I convinced him his luggage ha...

I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.

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It is fast approaching the poi...

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.

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My type of humor is almost pur...

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

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If God had meant us to walk ar...

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

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Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly ca...

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

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When they told me I needed a m...

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

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Maybe you know why a child can...

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

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To my way of thinking, the Ame...

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

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What does it profit a 78-year-...

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

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Maybe age is kinder to us than...

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....