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alikiThe conventional wisdom is wrong. If you're a reasonably healthy adult, you DON'T need to drink eight glasses of water every day--unless you want to go to the bathroom a lot. Researchers from Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire have concluded that the long-standing advice from newspapers and health and beauty magazines to drink 64 ounces of H2O every day--commonly called "8x8"--is nothing more than a great marketing ploy for bottled water companies.
A woman with her 4-month old baby was stopped at security checkpoint at the airport (which is fine with me). He (security) checks her baby bags (i.e. milk, diapers, towels, clothes, etc.). Then he asks her what is in her 3 bottles of milk. "Breast milk," she says, as she would feel uncomfortable breastfeeding her baby in front of a stranger on the plane. He tells her that he can't allow her to carry it on-board, for security measures-- (get this) -- It might be an explosive poison. (Now what kind of poison is explosive? What kind of sense does this make?) He tells her she has to drink it, while she is still in line, with all the other passengers behind her, in plain public view. Drink her own breast milk and deprive her baby of it. For national security.
Two Wednesdays ago, the governor of NJ said that he was going to reduce the number of speciality plates-- not vanity plates, but plates that have "Support cancer", "Protect the meadowlands", and such slogans on it-- because they were costing the state too much to produce them. (Which is fine with me). A week later, he announces that a new "9-11" plates will be made in NJ, and everybody should purchase them to "demonstrate their national pride" (and such). The plates are being made by 2 start-up guys in Connecticut who haven't even begun production of these plates yet (i.e. let's take your money now, and then we'll see..), who claim that "100% of profits will go to anti-terroristic protections and homeland security". Now how are 2 guys in Connecticut going to do this again? Has anyone figured this out how they will execute anti-terroristic protections for the state of NJ from their backyards with the profits?
On Monday, I went sampling for fluke (i.e. fishing). Beforehand, Carol had expressed how utterly gross and disgusting it would be to be on a boat. So when we found her at 8am asleep, we left her at home and went to work. She called up later at 11am, saying: "Why didn't you take me out on the boat!?" (But you said you didn't want to go) "I just said I didn't want to go, I do, I do want to go!" (But you said..) "I Know, but I was just saying..."
A woman with her 4-month old baby was stopped at security checkpoint at the airport (which is fine with me). He (security) checks her baby bags (i.e. milk, diapers, towels, clothes, etc.). Then he asks her what is in her 3 bottles of milk. "Breast milk," she says, as she would feel uncomfortable breastfeeding her baby in front of a stranger on the plane. He tells her that he can't allow her to carry it on-board, for security measures-- (get this) -- It might be an explosive poison. (Now what kind of poison is explosive? What kind of sense does this make?) He tells her she has to drink it, while she is still in line, with all the other passengers behind her, in plain public view. Drink her own breast milk and deprive her baby of it. For national security.
Two Wednesdays ago, the governor of NJ said that he was going to reduce the number of speciality plates-- not vanity plates, but plates that have "Support cancer", "Protect the meadowlands", and such slogans on it-- because they were costing the state too much to produce them. (Which is fine with me). A week later, he announces that a new "9-11" plates will be made in NJ, and everybody should purchase them to "demonstrate their national pride" (and such). The plates are being made by 2 start-up guys in Connecticut who haven't even begun production of these plates yet (i.e. let's take your money now, and then we'll see..), who claim that "100% of profits will go to anti-terroristic protections and homeland security". Now how are 2 guys in Connecticut going to do this again? Has anyone figured this out how they will execute anti-terroristic protections for the state of NJ from their backyards with the profits?
On Monday, I went sampling for fluke (i.e. fishing). Beforehand, Carol had expressed how utterly gross and disgusting it would be to be on a boat. So when we found her at 8am asleep, we left her at home and went to work. She called up later at 11am, saying: "Why didn't you take me out on the boat!?" (But you said you didn't want to go) "I just said I didn't want to go, I do, I do want to go!" (But you said..) "I Know, but I was just saying..."
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Funny...
Date: 2002-08-13 09:32 am (UTC)I can't see how that much water was going to help me.
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Date: 2002-08-13 12:15 pm (UTC)Oh and the breast milk thing, she had to taste it in front of him, not drink the whole thing (eww). It's the stupid policy they have where no drinks can be taken on the plane.
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Date: 2002-08-14 07:06 am (UTC)http://www.the-aps.org/press_room/journal/release8-13-02.htm