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cheatsheet:

If you enjoyed Stephen Colbert interviewing the marvelous Maurice Sendak part 1, you’ll love part 2. 

Boyle: […] If they’ve taken everything else form us, Joxer, they’ve left us our memory.
Joxer: For mem’ry’s the only friend that grief can call it’s own, that grief…can…call…it’s own!
Juno and the Paycock (Act I) | Sean O’Casey
  -  28 January 2012

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latimes:

Sterilized by North Carolina, she felt raped once more: Elaine Riddick was only 14 when the state decided that she was not capable of mothering children and quietly cauterized her fallopian tubes. The $50,000 now offered to her only makes her angrier.
This is one of the most disturbing stories we’ve ever read.

Between 1929 and 1974, nearly 7,600 people were sterilized under orders from North Carolina’s Eugenics Board. Nearly 85% were women or girls, some as young as 10. The state estimates that 1,500 to 2,000 of the victims are still alive.
The board’s declared goal was to purify the state’s population by weeding out the mentally ill, diseased, feebleminded and others deemed undesirable.
In a 1950 pamphlet, the Human Betterment League of North Carolina said the board was protecting “the children of future generations and the community at large,” adding that “you wouldn’t expect a moron to run a train or a feebleminded woman to teach school.”
The pamphlet went on: “It is not barnyard castration!”

Photo: Elaine Riddick, 57, listens as Dr. Laura Gerald, unseen, chairwoman of the Governor’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force, announces on Jan. 10 the panel’s recommendation of a $50,000 payment to each victim. The meeting was held in Raleigh, N.C. Credit: Shawn Rocco, Raleigh News & Observer


alecshao:

Matteo Pugliese

7,475 notes   -  25 January 2012


deucedly

 \DOO-sid-lee, adverb:

Devilishly; damnably.

When I went in I had seen that there was a deucedly pretty girl sitting in that particular seat, so I had taken the next one.
— P. G. Wodehouse, Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories
It’s most important. You will put me in a deucedly awkward position if you don’t.
— C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

Deucedly is related to the word deuce which refers to the face of a die with one dot, as in “to roll deuces.” It comes from the Latin word for two, duos. In the mid-1600s, it became associated with bad luck, probably because it was the lowest score you could get when playing dice.

  -  25 January 2012



thatfilmduderyan:

Valentines day sucks but these stickers are deffo more up my street for a bit of a giggle if I had a girlfriend haha.

19,084 notes   -  22 January 2012

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sunnynorwayfilms:

F.N.M.


2 notes   -  22 January 2012