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"I don't need a me who isn't perfect!"A character that has to be perfect at what they do, or at everything they do. There's a variation when some sort of special event is going on, where there's usually one crazy organizer who takes charge and the rest just go along. This chief organizer has a pretty good chance of becoming an overbearing perfectionist. Of course, said person obviously needs to learn that nothing is perfect in life. After all if it was, it'd be pretty boring. Whether or not the message gets through is up to the character. In a Four-Temperament Ensemble, this character is Choleric or Melancholic. Compare and contrast Super OCD (even if in Real Life perfectionism is more likely to be a trait of OCPD), as well as the Ultimate Life Form and Go-Getter Girl, who is "perfect". Also compare the Broken Ace, who often overlaps with this character.
— Ayaka, Ano Ko ni Kisu to Shirayuri wo
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Anime and Manga
- Death the Kid from Soul Eater. Symmetry is just his most prominent obsession. Others span from trivial ones like writing his name perfectly on test paper to maintaining perfect balance of good and evil in the world.
- For Chiri from Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, everything has to be done "properly" ... even things that are not right, if you don't do them the right way.... let's just say things don't get pretty.
- Deconstructed with Machi in Fruits Basket. Throughout her childhood, she was forced to be absolutely perfect. Now, perfection actually causes her to snap and wreck things on purpose.
- Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion, will not accept anything less of herself than being the best among the Evangelion pilots, because the integrity of her incredibly low self-esteem depends on it. The idea of Shinji surpassing her starts her breakdown.
- A Certain Magical Index has Shizuri Mugino, at least before her HeelFace Turn. Shiage Hamazura noted that if she hadn't been obsessed with a perfect victory, she would have been able to kill him in an instant. Instead, she toyed with him while waiting for the perfect moment to end the fight, allowing him to counterattack. He also describes her as someone who will freak out if they beat a video game without doing 100% completion.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, the teacher Ukyo Kitano acts like this when possessed by No. 34: Terror-Byte, to the point that he devotes some of his resources to make sure he never takes any damage. In his normal persona, he's a kind man who encourages his students to take risks and learn from their mistakes.
- Henry Wong from Digimon Tamers has this as one of his few flaws. In addition to the inherent problems this causes, it comes into conflict with his pacifism, since perfectionism abhors compromise.
- Miki Aono/Cure Berry from Fresh Pretty Cure! usually peppers her words with "Perfect" to the point her Catch-Phrase is "I'm perfect!". As an aspiring model, she usually goes out of her way to keep up with her perfect appearance and manner, but unlike most of the examples here, she could take failures better, by lamenting "I'm not perfect...". Also, if she really perceives that something is really her fault or there's bigger stakes at hand, she'd ignore whatever imperfect look she had, in order to fix that fault or solve that stake. Unlike most examples here, however, Miki remain a positively good and sane girl despite her 'perfectionist' stance.
- In Bleach, although one would expect him to be one considering his love for experimentation, Mayuri makes it quite clear that he absolutely loathes perfection. To him, perfection means there is no place left for additional knowledge and abilities and thus nothing left else for him as a scientist to strive for.
- In Naruto, the Sunny-Side Battle! OVA has Itachi attempting to make breakfast: every single one of his eggs is a failure in some way. Everyone else would just pick the eggshel out of the yolk or, if that seems too Squicky, settle for the egg whose yolk dripped out. But Itachi is having none of that. His sunny-side up egg has to be absolutely perfect.
- David has long been praised as absolute perfection of human anatomy. Michelangelo worked for two years straight on David, sleeping rarely and eating sparsely. There are hundreds of tiny details that you can see, from the raised veins on his hand from the grip on the stone to the small genitals, not only standard for the time and area, but also an example of pre-battle shrinkage.
The only notable anatomy flaw is that of a missing muscle in the back. But it was necessary. A flaw in the block of marble prevented Michelangelo from carving it, as mentioned in a letter he released at the time of finishing. It's the same flaw (among others) that had the block of marble sitting in a plaza for 40 years before Michelangelo took a chance.
Fan Fic
- Twilight Sparkle in Stardust upon being asked to take a break after working for nineteen hours: "Sleep is for B minus ponies. I'm an A+ pony."
- Vigil in The Irony Of Applejack has this as one of his defining traits. It also counts as his Fatal Flaw.
- Shirou in Fate Revelation Online became this as a blacksmith. If the sword he created didn't match what he envisioned, he immediately breaks it down and uses the materials to try again. Lisbeth doesn't understand how he can be so good at his job and yet, for quite a while, not produce a single sword he didn't deem a failure.
- In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, the Stardroid Terra sees any sign of imperfection as disgusting, even extending to things such as dirt.
- Lord Shen works for perfection in many aspects throughout The Vow, like his fighting style and appearance, the gifts and training for self-defense he gives Lianne, his coming wedding and his attempts to be theatrical.
- In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, Nova Shine is a textbook case, coupled with a large side-helping of Heroic Self-Deprecation when he fails to live up. He's immensely self-critical of how he was able to match Twilight Sparkle's spells during their first assessment but not the ease at which she could cast them, punishes himself for yelling at Twilight after she pushed his buttons one too many times, exiles himself to her basement for a whole week after he failed to make peace with his parents (even though his only goal earlier that day had been to make peace with a completely different pony, which he did succeed at), and won't even talk to her during that time.
Films — Animated
- The LEGO Movie: Lord "All I want is total perfection" Business, to the point where he doesn't believe in failure. This normally results in him exacting his murderous wrath on anyone when an imperfection turns up. He has also created a Police State where everyone has to follow the instructions, otherwise they will be put to sleep, connected with his hatred of Master Builders who are a lot more chaotic and individualistic than his system is. Mostly because he is a representation of Finn's father in real life, who likes order and control and doesn't want anyone messing with his LEGO sets.
Films — Live-Action
- Nina's Fatal Flaw in the Black Swan.
- In Pacific Rim, both Chuck Hansen and Mako Mori are perfectionists who have no social life, very few if any friends, and are completely invested in the Jaeger Program. They don't tolerate failure from anyone, including themselves.
- TRON: Legacy: "I'm Clu. I will create the perfect system."
- Mentioned by the Navy psychiatrist as one of Lt. Queeg's faults in The Caine Mutiny.
- Thoroughly Deconstructed in The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes, with the titular character.
- In Terra Ignota, the Utopians are an entire quasi-nation of perfectionists due to attracting this particular type of members. They always take the time to do everything perfectly, no matter how small an error or how long it takes. For example, the worldwide transit system is controlled by the Humanist Hive, and is the safest, fastest, and most efficient transit system in human history. There was an accident which resulted in a number of Utopians (and others) dying. Everyone else accepted it as an unfortunate statistical error, but the Utopians removed themselves from the Humanist system and created their own transit system. It is slower and smaller, but it has never caused even one death.
Live Action TV
- Monica Geller from Friends, especially in later seasons when Flanderization set in.
- Bree van de Kamp from Desperate Housewives, especially in the first season. Her second husband Orson could qualify too.
- Boston Legal: Denny Crane has never lost a case. Nowadays he only takes cases he thinks it's a lock to win, and/or takes second chair in cases so if he side does lose it doesn't count for his stats.
- Game of Thrones: A defining feature of Tywin Lannister. Tywin is obsessed with House Lannister's reputation, never misses an opportunity to point out his children's flaws and disrespects anyone that does not live up to his standards... which is everyone else but himself. On the other hand, his perfectionism is one of the major reasons he is aware of everything that goes on around him and what makes him a deadly strategist.
- In Star Trek, the entire Borg Collective is this trope, with special mention for Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager.
- Masato Jin/BeetBuster of Tokumei Sentai Go Busters is an inversion of this trope. While he sees nothing wrong with perfection, he feels that flaws make things more interesting.
- Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory counts, he constantly tells everyone how smart he is, and organizes everything he does to the smallest detail.
- Recurring character Craig "The world's most perfect paramedic" Brice on Emergency!. He drives the main characters nuts with his insistence on doing everything perfectly.
- Detective Amy Santiago in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, who describes herself as "a little OCD". This is a little like saying that the Atlantic Ocean is "a little wet". Detective Jake Peralta is an interesting case, in that he initially appears to be a lazy slacker who doesn't take anything seriously, but he can be surprisingly intense when it comes to doing his job successfully; he just has slightly different standards of 'perfect' than others.
- One of the My Kitchen Rules judge, Colin Fassnidge, is known for setting a very high standard for himself and others. Suffice to say, this gives him a reputation of being ultra-critical and awfully hard to please, and the scores he gives to the contestants is almost always in the lower margin.
- Lito in Sense8 always asks the director to film one more take, even after he's told that he nailed it.
- Deconstructed with Vanessa from Backstage: When she gets a role in a ballet production of Cinderella, she obsesses so much over dancing perfectly that she isn't able to relax and enjoy herself, which negatively affects her during rehearsals. Worse yet, she initially takes her teacher's attempts to remedy this as personal attacks, though she eventually eases up.
- In the Pilot Episode for the Amazon Studios series The Interestings, the members of the title group are having a hypothetical discussion about living people who could be God in disguise. When Ash Wolf (another member of the group) is brought up as a candidate, the suggestion is immediately shot down because Ash fits this trope. "She would never have let a mistake like Dick Nixon slide."
Newspaper Comics
- Oliver the Great from Dogs of C-Kennel.
Tabletop Games
- Canonically in most Dungeons & Dragons settings, it's a traditional mentality of elves. This means they spend centuries to improve some or other art, craft or fighting style as far as they can. So they end up regularly doing stuff that amazes others, but being too focused on refinement to ever do much of anything at all.
- Magic: The Gathering: Yawgmoth, and by extention every Phyrexian, is obsessed with perfection. Their methods to reach it always include a good dose of Body Horror. On New Phyrexia, the white Praetor Elesh Norn made it a religion.
Video Games
- Creepily shows up with Sirush from The Reconstruction. One of his passive abilities even revolves around this.
No room for error. None.
- The Avatar from Fire Emblem Awakening aims to have no war casualties and will consider any mission a failure, even if the mission was successful, if one of his/her units dies. Fitting considering how most gamers play Fire Emblem.
- Roy in Fire Emblem 6 has a similar attitude to his troops, as revealed in a support conversation with one of his cavillers.
- Relius Clover in BlazBlue is a horrific perfectionist, as he is also a Mad Scientist with penchant of Mind Rape and possessing complete Lack of Empathy. He's trying to achieve perfection and his goal was to create the "Perfect Doll". And he has never suffer a crushing defeat... until BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, where he witnessed his plan to reset the world completely obliterated by the hands of Bang Shishigami. As this was his first time taking utter, unsalvagable defeat right on his face and his plan cannot be prepared again in a short time, Relius ends up suffering a quiet, but massive and well-deserved Villainous Breakdown that he's willing to let himself be beaten down to near death (he was just about ready to get himself killed) by his rival, and then lets himself be put on the leash by the very son he deeply traumatized nonchalantly in his quest of perfection and the woman whose emotions and love he just recently manipulated just so he could get extra fodders.
- Amara in Fleuret Blanc is actually fairly successful at this, to the point that she's comfortable being a Snark Knight. Tying into the Central Theme of materialism, she tries to surround herself with only the most expensive and high-quality of items.
- Interestingly, her prized possession is a reminder of an instance where she slipped up: she used the metronome to maintain her rhythm during fencing practice, but accidentally damaged it with a botched thrust.
- Gaichû in Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong is a mild example, mentioning that his role in his former team was to be the one to hone the team to perfection in the minutiae and never being satisfied, thus keeping them constantly drilling. This meant that, when he was exposed to The Virus and became a ghoul, he became affixed on mastering his new form as if it was any other kind of handicap.
- The Jennerit from Battleborn in general are this. Anything they deem imperfect must be fixed or destroyed. If the Jennerit need to manipulate the laws of the universe in the process, so be it.
- Blue Revolver will accuse the player of being one if they restart Stage 1 three times in a row, "awarding" them the "The Perfectionist" achivement.
Visual Novels
- Jett in SC2VN leaves her old team because they're worse than bad - they're complacent.
- In Reflections on the River, Prince Shun tends this way. Being something of a Sheltered Aristocrat, he can often achieve perfection at home, but as Zheng's prisoner, he's exposed to new challenges. When cooking, for example, he's actually distressed to find that although most of the pieces of radish he sliced are exactly equal, there's one on the end which isn't. Zheng, who never bothers to even try, is bemused.
- Manfred von Karma from Ace Attorney, who maintained a perfect win record for over 40 years through perfectly coached witnesses and perfectly prepared evidence. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth manages to land a penalty on him, von Karma enacts a revenge that defines Disproportionate Retribution. (Unfortunately, his perfectionism has left him with the no ability to think on the fly nor to cope with a situation not perfectly under his control, leading to his downfall).
- Manfred's daughter, Franziska, is also a perfectionist because she believes she has to uphold the family name. In a late, unguarded conversation with her brother, she admits that she's neither perfect nor a genius but she had to be.
- Klavier Gavin is not a perfectionist in court, where he's one of the few prosecutors who aren't at all amoral. When it comes to his career as a rock star, on the other hand, he won't tolerate even the slightest error in his band's performances.
Web Animation
- The cranes of Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story seem obsessed with keeping the Vinylmation figures in a very specific order.
- Irrelevator has the blue guy, calm and collected until it the perfection is broken.◊
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- Grandmaster of Theft's Cassidy Cain strives to be the perfect at anything she aims at, to the point where she relentlessly drills herself, seeks challenges to improve, and won't accept anything less of her.
- The Nostalgia Critic always wants everything to be perfect and breaks down in disappointment when the movies he's watching inevitably "fail" him.
- A lot of Stormtouched artists in Twisted Cogs are this. It's justified since making even the tiniest mistake can block your storm from acting properly.
- As an example, when Frederica, a Caelator, had to go on with her project, it ended with the sculpture being born...with its first memory being agonizing pain due to a scratch mark on its face.
- In Noob, Saphir, Justice guild's recruiter, has to make sure only the best players join the guild. She hence requires candidates not only to be maxed out on any in-game feature one can think of, but to have a spartiate lifestyle outside of it. Requirements include no job (e.g. either living with one's parents or living off unemployment benefits), no romantic relationships, not requiring too much sleep, having only one meal per day because having three is lost time in her opinion. She also seems to have a bane for interviewing players in Dead Character Walking form.
Western Animation
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula is shown to have heavy dosages of this, first seen when she is practicing her Lightningbending. Graceful execution, deadly precision, power, and striking speed... but a single hair out of place. Not satisfied with being "almost perfect", Azula's shown compulsively retrying her technique. Later down the road it turns out that being Daddy's Little Villain doesn't save you from being used in Ozai's schemes, and Azula's cool demeanor breaks, culminating in a colossal Villainous Breakdown.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Rarity, as a fashionista, is a bit of a Hollywood case. Though considering the clientele she keeps (a famous songwriter and dancer, a model, and several fashion moguls), her perfectionist tendencies tend to be rather justified.
- Twilight Sparkle even more so, with a heaping side-helping of Super OCD. She has the version of this you find in Real Life in people who did very well in early schooling... and thus never got used to getting less-than-perfect scores. The mere thought of not having a friendship lesson prepared for Princess Celestia and being tardy causes a meltdown that results in her brainwashing half the town in an attempt to engineer a friendship problem.
- Applejack likewise has an episode ("The Last Roundup") devoted to this character trait. Although in this case, it was less to do with the fact she didn't do perfectly in and of itself and more that the fact that she didn't do perfectly meant she didn't get the money she promised. She was less concerned about the fact that her performance was flawed and more that she made a promise to someone who was counting on her.
- We later see that Diamond Tiara exhibits the negative aspects of this trope, courtesy of the pressure put on her by her mother Spoiled Rich. The reason she acts like a bully is because of the pressure on her to be the best and her less-than-graceful handling of it when she isn't. The moment she turns around completely is when she lets go of being a "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl in favor of actually making friends with her classmates and listening to the positive reinforcement from the CMC instead of the negative criticism from her mother.
- Courtney from Total Drama, a straight-A student, an aspiring lawyer and an Insufferable Genius with a notoriously competitive streak who does not take well to failure. Ironically, her overly-competitive drive usually proves to be her greatest weakness in the game.
- Archibald Asparagus from VeggieTales.
- Peggy from King of the Hill in the later seasons who just can't stand being upstaged or wrong in the slightest.
- Helga's older sister Olga from Hey Arnold!, who once broke down into a state of teary depression over a B+.
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Mr. Harriman is this trope, full stop. The Camping Episode had him repeatedly demanding the tent to be torn down and set back up again when it doesn't reach his standards. When they finally have it perfect, he tells them to tear it down again and make it more perfect.
- Pearl from Steven Universe is clearly this.
- "Symmetrical means BOTH SIDES HAVE TO BE THE SAME!"
- In the early seasons, the titular Kim Possible strived for this. It was even lampshaded in her Animal Motif.
- In the rebooted series of Bob the Builder, Roley is this trope. His tendency to ensure his job is done perfectly can result in jobs being delayed, as shown in the episode "Car Wash".
Real Life
- Fred Astaire's flawless dancing technique came at a cost. He often failed to meet his own expectations, and constantly questioned whether or not he was a good dancer and we're talking about somebody who's considered to be the best dancer in the history of the Hollywood film industry.
- NBA legend Jerry West suffered from this. Even when he posted a quadruple-double he criticized how he played defence. During his playing days, when he won a game he'd feel nothing, when he lost it felt like the end of the world. When West was GM for the Lakers he often couldn't watch the Lakers play because he couldn't stomache the idea of losing.
- A positive example is Jerry Rice, the all-time NFL leader in...a lot of things. He was perfectionist about how he ran routes, his physical conditioning, his exact weight for a game, where he would catch the ball and the list goes on. During his hall of fame induction speech he (positively) credited being afraid of failure as the engine for his peerless work ethic and success.
- Thomas Andrews, the head designer for the RMS Titanic. He was aboard for its maiden voyage to observe the general performance of the new ship and note anything that needed improvement. Despite some cosmetic changes, he said to a friend that the ship was "as nearly perfect as human brains can make her." Of course, he said this on April 14th, only a few hours before the sinking.
- Richard Donner has this reputation, using the word "Verisimilitude" as a mantra during production of Superman, best exemplified in its tagline "You will believe a man can fly." Unfortunately, he got fired during production of Superman II because of his perfectionism. And years later, while making the music video for The Goonies soundtrack song "(Goonies 'R) Good Enough", Cyndi Lauper found him so hard to work with, doing take after take even when she was tired, that it wasn't until 2003 that she'd include the song in her discography.
- According to most accounts, George Broussard's rampant perfectionism was a primary factor in the Troubled Production and penultimate demise of Duke Nukem Forever.


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Working Paper No. 12-01
Son Preference and Gender Gaps in Child Nutrition: Does the Level of Female Autonomy Matter?
Shatanjaya Dasgupta
February 2012; revised April 2012
This paper first examines whether gender gaps in child nutrition are evident in the presence of parental son preference and then tests if this relationship varies with the level of female autonomy. Using data from the 2005-06 round of the National Family and Health Survey, direct measures of son preference and status of female autonomy are derived from responses of couples in rural Indian households. When mothers have a son preference, gender gaps in child nutrition are observed if she is involved in making household decisions. This suggests that mothers, who are primarily responsible for the nutrition needs of small children, are able to act on their son preference when they have autonomy in decision making. In contrast, no independent association is found between child nutrition outcomes and paternal preferences.
JEL classification: I12, J16, O53
Keywords: Nutrition Standards; Son preference; India

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In the late Sixties when George Graham had a more mischievous, happy-go-lucky side, his irritation at his team-mates' protracted post-match tactical dissections was routinely encapsulated by his exasperated plea to "put the ball away".
As a former Leeds United manager, he will recognise that the club have effectively heeded his injunction for the past 11 years.
From the moment that Jonathan Woodgate was sold to Newcastle United in January 2003 and the full extent of Peter Ridsdale's ruinous profligacy became too pressing to gloss over with mollifying corporate flannel, to the overturning of the Football League's block on Massimo Cellino's takeover 10 days ago, football has been the least of Leeds's concerns.
Don Revie once said that "Leeds United is a lump of ground – it's the team that matters", but for the past decade they have amounted to little more than two tenancy agreements, the loyalty of a large and defiant fan base and a strategy defined by such short-termism that 33 players were brought in on loan during Simon Grayson's 37 months as manager.
Look at the boardroom cast list over the period – Ridsdale, Professor John McKenzie, Gerald Krasner, Simon Morris, Ken Bates, David Haigh and Salem Patel – and it is not difficult to see that, in a contrasting way to Barcelona, Leeds became more than a club: not so much a saga as a Hammer Films production of Howard's Way replete with blood on the carpet, rented goldfish, pastel-shirted PR consultants, unusual dentistry, an octogenarian who mistook bluntness and invective for candour and the latest allegation, surveillance equipment in executive lavatories.
As fans we used to talk about history and tradition, goals, formations, the potential for fun or wallow ruefully in misery.
Now we practise eternal vigilance, attempting to divine the meaning of official statements that bear the hallmarks of spin.
We have had to teach ourselves the rudiments of accountancy to understand the books, boggle our minds trying to piece together offshore ownership arrangements, delve into Italian civil and criminal law and trawl Middle-Eastern financial newswires trying to get some information when formerly garrulous board members clam up at the first sign of strife.
Gone are the days of clubs run by successful hauliers, furniture tycoons and paint magnates and anyone who remembers some of the high-handedness of the belligerent butcher Bob Lord, "the Khrushchev of Burnley" in Arthur Hopcraft's pithy phrase, will shed few tears for their passing.
Yet what we were supposed to get with professional management, openness and "customer focus" is an illusion that evaporates when the good times end.
Under GFH Capital, Leeds may have modernised their presence on Facebook and Twitter but simply being there and issuing glib maxims about pulling together is no substitute for proper engagement.
It is not only at Elland Road that communication has been positively North Korean; try getting a word out of the Glazers. Indeed Aston Villa's Randy Lerner rarely speaks anymore, Newcastle's Mike Ashley has been tight-lipped for years while "Silent" Stan Kroenke at Arsenal is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest's Chief Bromden – he can talk but chooses not to.
Little wonder then that Leeds fans have largely embraced Cellino, at least since the night he sacked Brian McDermott and was blockaded in the car park by scores of supporters.
His actions subsequently have been commendable and rare at Elland Road for a number of years, using his own money to bail the club out of imminent danger.
Ridsdale once had Max Clifford on the payroll to manage the club's and his image and anyone who had dealings with the GFH Capital regime knows about the people engaged to work on the principals' profiles.
The daft thing is that none of them could have come up with such a successful PR ruse as Cellino's encounter with a supporter turned phonejacker who broadcast his amusing diatribe of complaints and captured the apparent sincerity of his ardour for the club.
That passion and his resources seem for many to have pardoned all his previous transgressions as facts such as convictions, contempt for supporters at his Serie A club Cagliari and his serial sacking of managers become debating points and technicalities.
One phrase keeps being repeated on fans' forums – "buckle up for the ride".
But some of us have been rescued too often to be anything other than cautious, finding in the past that frying pan has led to fire, purgatory to the Inferno.
Optimism and scepticism make strange bedfellows but until we can be saved from the need for saviours, until we can get the ball out again, they will just have to rub along in a restless alliance.


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Demand for trucks is booming in developing economies. And that was great news last year for this Columbus, Ind., manufacturer of natural gas and diesel truck engines that power everything from heavy-duty trucks to RVs to pickups. During the fourth quarter, its sales in Brazil grew more than 30% vs. a year earlier while sales in China shot up 92%.
Cummins passed on some of the profits to shareholders by raising its dividend and repurchasing $241 million in stock.


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Ten Years With Custer; A 7th Cavalryman's Memoirs
Edited by Sandy Barnard
John Ryan's accomplishments are quite impressive. He was a Civil War veteran of the Irish Brigade, a survivor of Custer's Last Stand, a police captain who had worked his way up the ranks, a husband and a father. That is quite a life. John Ryan seemed to have realized that his life encompassed some important times in history, and he set his experiences to paper. Through John Ryan's writings the reader will receive a good perspective into the average soldier's experiences on the Great Plains after the Civil War.
...This book is another in a string of quality books by Sandy Barnard. It is our good fortune that Mr.Barnard located Ryan's memoir, purchased it, and edited and published it for students of the Indian Wars period to enjoy. Many parts of this book have never been published before. This book, like Mr.Barnard's previous works, is also well researched, well written and easy to read. He has consistently found unexplored subjects that provide overlooked and pertinent perspectives to this fascinating time in American History.
...If you are looking for an enlisted man's perspective on the Indian Wars period "Ten Years With Custer" is a good choice. If you are looking for a new insight into the 7th Cavalry, then "Ten years With Custer" is a must.
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Location: SE 32nd and Hawthorne
Hours: Wed-Sun, 11am-midnight
The Story:
Standing there at the intersection of Folsom and 24th in San Francisco last summer, I watched the zombies in food induced coma as they moved from cart to cart at the San Francisco Street Food Festival. Among the legit carts participating there were a few going rogue. Little push carts selling bacon wrapped hot dogs with tons of toppings. Little did I know that these were traditional Sonoran dogs and now Portland has its first cart serving them up – Papa-Pau!
Luis Miramontes grew up in Sonora, a northern state in Mexico south of Arizona. His parents started with one of those push carts selling Sonoran dogs and grew the business to have twelve. Luis smiled and chuckled remembering his high school years spent wrapping hot dogs for the family business. Luis went on to school and became a plan reviewer until recently when he and his wife decided to pursue a food cart. Since there are already plenty of Mexican trucks throughout the city, Luis decided to try what he new best – his mother's recipe. She gave it up, including how to make the homemade bun for the dog. I love hearing these types of stories. Every Sonoran dog they serve tells a generational story.
The Sonoran hot dog is either pork or beef, wrapped with bacon, grilled and topped with a huge list of condiments – chopped tomatoes and onions, pinto beans, grilled onions, mustard, mayo, jalapenos, guacamole, and cotija cheese. You can add more if you want – he has a giant list. The bun that carries all this is unique with both ends closed creating what Luis called an accordion that can hold both the dog and all the tasty additions. The bun also keeps everything together while you eat. Nothing squirts out the back or drops out the bottom and they are made in the cart. The dog was superb, a good quality dog mixed with the cold condiments and grilled onions made me smile. I just sat there, eating, listening to the wind waft through the trees while Mexican pop music played in the background.
Papa-Pau! has only been open for a couple of weeks and Luis already says they've been discovered. A group of men from sister state Sinaloa came on the second day of opening and had dinner at the cart for the next 9 days. This is a taste of home for them. Papa-Pau! is open Sunday-Thursday, 11am-midnight, Friday from 11am-9:30pm and then closed for the day on Saturday. They re-open for Saturday night at 9pm. Drop on by, say hi to Luis and his wife and let them know Food Carts Portland sent ya.
[Papa-Pau! has moved to SE 32nd and Hawthorne in November 2012]
Sample Menu:
The cart serves up the Sonoran style bacon wrapped hot dog with your choice of condiments and additions. You can get a Pork or Beef dog for $5 or a grilled turkey wiener for $4.
Hours: Wed-Sun, 11am-midnight
Phone: 503 890 3853
Facebook: Papa-Pau!


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Douglas County Sheriff's officers said Monday an 18-year-old Olathe man who was found dead early Saturday in a parking lot of east of Lawrence died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Sgt. Steve Lewis said officers did not suspect foul play after the man was found in the parking lot of the Out House in the 1800 block of North 1500 Road, but investigators were waiting on the results of the autopsy.
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Harry Potter and Company are growing up on the big screen. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is taller and his voice is deeper. His best friend Ron (Rupert Grint) has a waver in his voice too. The clever and somewhat haughty Hermione (Emma Watson) is looking more like a promising prom date for one of them. And the challenges the three amigos face in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets have gotten more frightening.
When Harry makes a dramatic return to the campus at Hogwarts School for Wizards, he discovers that there is danger on the loose. A mysterious villain has opened a "chamber of secrets" and unleashed a powerful monster that is turning students into stone. Harry, once again smarter than his teachers, must investigate the mystery with his two loyal friends and break school rules along the way.
The new adventure is told with more confidence, better pacing, and more elaborate special effects. Columbus turns down the volume on sentimentality and the John Williams score, and makes Chamber of Secrets funnier and more exciting than Sorcerer's Stone. But it is also long and scarier than the first movie—much scarier. Parents should think twice before buying tickets for small children. The spiders and snakes preying on poor Harry are the stuff of serious nightmares.
But moviegoers will probably find this episode more compelling for several reasons. The idea of hidden villains is increasingly more real to us, as reports of terrorists and snipers dominate the news.
New grownup cast members Kenneth Branagh, Rosemary Harris, Miriam Margolyes, and The Patriot's Jason Isaacs bring so much humor and enthusiasm to the proceedings, they'll make George Lucas's straitjacketed Star Wars actors want to switch franchises.
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RP Spotlight highlights little things people do to deepen their experience of the story of World of Warcraft, whether they are roleplayers or not.
Inadra's voice chills you from the very outset of her story: "I have walked on the bones of my people," she begins, "on a path so long that I could not see where it ended, or where it began..." So have you. You remember walking on those same bones, on the Path of Glory in Hellfire Peninsula -- where the corpses of the draenei people that were killed in a genocide by the Old Horde paved the way for the orcs' march to the Dark Portal and into Azeroth. (For more on the background of this genocide, find out how the orcs became so bloodthirsty.)
If you've done the quest called "Path of Glory" at Honor Hold, then you will have seen a glimpse of the tragedy in this story. Perhaps, like me, you felt touched at the cleansing of some draenei bones, reminded of real people who had suffered similar ends at the hands of merciless enemies.
Phaedria, of the Venture Co. realm, must have been touched too. She drew on this element within the Warcraft lore to craft a beautiful and heartbreaking tale of her own, set on Draenor just as the genocide against the draenei was beginning. It's about how the draenei in families such as her own faced such a terror with bravery and sacrifice, and how a few managed to survive with hope alive in their hearts. Phaedria narrates her tale in the voice of her main character, Inadra, and sets the mood perfectly, with background music, and subtle changes in her tone of voice.
It's a great piece of audiodrama; so give it about 10 or 20 minutes of your time. After listening to it, you may never see draenei, or the World of Warcraft, the same again.
[Thanks Tyche, for letting us know!]
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At Southern Cross, we will be getting together daily for some regular raids.
Here is an example of the week:
Monday: (Free for suggestions)
Tuesday: 12 man Draigoch (mains run)
Wednesday: 12 man skirmishes (OT, skirmishes)
Thursday: 3,6-12 man instances
Friday: 12 man (alts run)
Saturday: (Free for suggestions)
Sunday: (Free for suggestions)
Forming group will start at 7pm to latest 8pm. If we don't have enough kinnies on by 8pm for 12man (i.e Draigoch) raid then pugging will continue.
If we still don't have enough pugs and running 12 man seems impossible then we will do the 6 man instance such as Roots of Fangorn, Foundry etc...
At SC we aim to treat everyone fairly. Let's get a roster for raids going guys and make our kin strong whilst having fun!
If anyone has any suggestions or creative ideas, let me know!


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Rings is an upcoming American supernatural psychological horror film and directed by F.Javier Gutierrez. This movie is written by David Loucka, Jacob Estes and Akiva Goldsman. Rings is the 3rd feature movie in the American franchise based on the Japanese horror movie Ring which is following The Ring and The Ring Two. Laurie MacDonald is produce this movie.So very famous Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe and Johnny Galecki are stars of this movie. Principal photography star on 23rd March 2016 in Atlanta. Finally,The Ring Movie will be released on 28th August 2016. So, let's see the Rings Official Trailer HD.
The movie star Matilda Lutz plays a young woman who becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious video tape.This videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing it. She scarifies herself to save him and in doing so, makes a horrifying discovery. There is a movie within the movie that no one has ever seen before.
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- Directed by – F.Javier Gutierrez
- Produced by – Laurie MacDonald and Walter F. Parkes
- Written by – David Loucka, Jacob Estes and Akiva Goldsman
- Story By: David Loucka and Jacob Estes
- Starring – Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden,Laura Wiggins, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent D'Onofrio
- Music by – Ben Wallfisch
- Cinematography – Sharone Meir
- Edited by – Jeremiah O'Driscoll
- Distributed by- Paramount Pictures
- Release dates -28th October 2016
- Country – United States
- Language – English
- Budget – $33 Million
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The Karakuri unit was assembled to combat against the implanted 'human weapons'. The implants in these 'human weapons' were initially tests in order to cure the virus spread amongst Japan, but the military had much more evil intentions.
Possibly years, or even decades has passed since the start of Japan's pandemic, obliterating many, or little of the population. Not much is revealed to us, and yet all the specifics are instructed to us in an attempt to provoke more from this simple story. Was Kishimoto hoping for more from this One-shot, or was he trying to rush through his debut?
A somewhat confusing premise is presented to us in the first few pages, but an incredible feat at what Kishimoto can dish out with thought-provoking incentives.
Whatever the case was with this One-shot, it's obvious to us readers that Kishimoto was made to write much larger stories, stories that involve the entire world, and in writing such a story like Karakuri, we learn that the entire world cannot be summed up in 32 pages.
Kiru and his talking rat Ken are Karakuri elite members. They seem to travel separately from the rest of their unit, or are simply traveling alone because they are visiting some old friends.
Kishimoto really has no time to develop his characters in this story, although he's able to give us the welcoming brief on Kiru's character, the rest are there for accompanying purposes or 'damsel in distress' triggering situations, the least of which Kishimoto can provide for Kiru's basic character traits. The reader is left with a lazy protagonist who knows how to be serious is desperate times.
Nothing too over elaborate about the characters, it's not what you'd expect from Kishimoto in his more recent series, taking note of characters like Naruto and Sasuke.
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If you enjoyed the art in the beginning works of Naruto, all the rough drama and abrupt transitions, than this should be something of nostalgia to you. The main character Kiru, doesn't have that protagonist-look, with the different color hair or lack in fashion sense, or anything unique enough to distinguish him from the rest of the characters, but perhaps it's what Kishimoto was going for. He's telling us that there really isn't a main character to this virus-infected world.
I'm sure if he had the chance with a second installment to this series, we'd be seeing another Karakuri member's perspective, but we shouldn't dwell on what could've been.
Putting this as delicately as possible, is it possible to laugh and enjoy this world knowing a death-ridden pandemic has spread across your country? You can find the humor here due to an idle-minded protagonist paired with an over-the-top but trustworthy deuteragonist, but you'll never see them speak of the real world in a manner worth listening to.
A decent addition to Kishimoto's collection. Not one of his bests, but something you can read to escape the world of Naruto now and again. Would I go out of my way to read this simply because it's a Kishimoto production? I think not. But then again, people who bow before Kishimoto may think otherwise.
If I had to guess, this One-shot might've been the spawning of Kishimoto's brother and his series 666 Satan, as I can see the resemblance in mature premise and storyline. The art of course, is of something related to Naruto.
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Is S&P Being Sued Because It Downgraded the U.S.?
Why is the Justice Department suing Standard & Poor's for mis-rating structured credit securities before the financial crisis, and not suing Moody's, which gave a lot of the same products the same ratings? I have a theory, 1 but Standard & Poor's has another theory, and theirs is a corker:
The most obvious explanation is apparent. S&P alone among the major rating agencies downgraded the securities issued by the United States. As described below, the chronology of events relating to the downgrade and the commencement of this lawsuit provides powerful evidence linking the two. And beyond this showing, S&P submits with this motion the affidavit of the Chairman and, in August 2011, Chief Executive Officer and President of McGraw Hill, Harold McGraw III. Mr. McGraw describes personal communications made to him first on behalf of the Secretary of the Treasury, and then personally by the Secretary himself in the days following the downgrade. The Treasury Secretary angrily chastised S&P for the downgrade, stating that S&P's conduct would be "looked at very carefully" and that such behavior could not occur without a response from the United States.
Well! I mean, lots of people have had that theory. I would link to some of them, but S&P's motion that I just quoted comes with a helpful chronology of all the publications that have hinted at that theory, so you can just read that. 2 That chronology comes stapled to Harold McGraw's affidavit (McGraw Hill owns S&P) recounting the dramatic story of how Tim Geithner threatened him. It's sort of a nuanced story:
Mr. Geithner expressed anger at the downgrade. In the course of our discussion, he referred to an asserted two trillion dollar error in S&P's work, an error that he had described in various discussions with the media following the announcement of the downgrade. Having been briefed on the issue by S&P personnel in the wake of those statements by Mr. Geithner, I explained to him that in relying on Congressional Budget Office figures, as it had, S&P had not made an error. Mr. Geithner said that S&P had made a huge error and that "you are accountable for that." He added that S&P had a previous history of errors and that this was not the first mistake it had made.
As I reported contemporaneously to my colleagues, he said that "you have done an enormous disservice to yourselves and to your country", that the U.S. economy was bad and that the downgrade had done real damage. S&P's conduct would be "looked at very carefully" he said. Such behavior could not occur, he said, without a response from the government.
So, S&P did have a previous history of errors, and the $2 trillion thing was not the first mistake it had made! That's plausibly part of a reasoned discussion of the issues, rather than a "nice nationally recognized statistical rating organization you've got there, shame if a regulator were to bring a civil case against it" sort of thing. Also, Tim Geithner probably isn't the guy who decides what lawsuits the Justice Department brings. But, sure, McGraw probably felt intimidated.
The fun thing is what S&P is doing now, which is fighting the Justice Department's lawsuit on the theory that it was only brought to retaliate against S&P for exercising its First Amendment rights. (You have a First Amendment right to downgrade the U.S., look it up.) Yesterday's motion was filed to demand discovery on that theory, seeking (among other things) documents from the government that refer both to S&P's downgrade of the U.S. and to the investigation into S&P's pre-crisis ratings. What will they find? Oh who knows. I don't think you can entirely rule out the possibility that the Justice Department wants to punish S&P for more than just mis-rating securities, or the related possibility that someone at DoJ said something like that in an e-mail. Though you'd hope that long experience of reading bankers' dumb e-mails would make them more careful.
But here's the thing: All of that is pretty much irrelevant to the question of whether S&P mis-rated securities. It just gets to the question of whether S&P was unfairly singled out for mis-rating securities that everyone else was mis-rating too. And, ordinarily, "everybody else was doing it" is not much of a defense to charges of fraud and misbehavior. That's true whether the government actually goes after everyone, 3 or just does a few exemplary prosecutions and calls it a day. 4 If you and your biggest competitor both do the same exact fraudy thing, and the government charges you and leaves your competitor alone: Tough! That's up to the government.
S&P seems to have found a loophole: If the government is singling you out to retaliate against you for exercising your First Amendment rights to criticize the government, then perhaps you can get the case dismissed. 5 Or, at least, you can demand enough embarrassing internal government communications to make the government think twice about bringing charges.
If this works, it's quite a discovery! You occasionally hear speculation that JPMorgan's horrible year of fines last year was driven in part by retaliation for Jamie Dimon's outspokenness on regulation, and on everything, but imagine JPMorgan fighting some of those fines by making that claim, and seeking documents from regulators to back it up.
Even better, it shifts the incentives a bit. Financial firms generally want to be on good terms with their regulators, and to avoid criticizing them publicly. But S&P's defense suggests that the opposite strategy might have some appeal: Just criticize your regulators constantly and harshly and in as high-profile a way as possible. Then, if they ever do go after you, argue that it's just retaliation for the criticism. Criticizing your regulators could serve as (pretty weak, but still) insurance against lawsuits from those regulators. Plus, it's more fun than pretending to approve of everything they do.
There are claims that (1) Moody's was rating those securities pretty generously to begin with, (2) S&P was worried about losing business to Moody's, so (3) S&P relaxed its standards to be closer to Moody's. If you believe this narrative -- and there are gaps and exceptions and so forth in it -- then Moody's looks worse than S&P, which at least tried to be strict for a while but eventually gave up. But S&P looks easier to sue, because there are lots of emails to the effect of "hey let's relax our standards to be more competitive with Moody's." I have a similar theory about JPMorgan in China.
As general background I think that the lawsuit against S&P is pretty silly on its terms, though the impulse to get mad at S&P for misrating everything that caused the financial crisis is pretty understandable. Anyway here's what I said about the lawsuit when it came out.
Highlights include the Atlantic saying "Even if this investigation was started before any of this downgraded business began, it is now hopelessly compromised"; McClatchy Newspapers quoting a "person familiar with the case" saying "After the U.S. downgrade, Moody's is no longer part of this"; a Wall Street Journal editorial, and the Guardian pointing out that:
Egan Jones and S&P share two characteristics that should raise an eyebrow: both downgraded the US and subsequently faced disciplinary action from the US government. Perhaps this helps explain why Moody's chose to downgrade the UK while leaving the US at Aaa.
As they have in, for instance, CDO fraud cases, where pretty much every bank paid a big settlement for doing stuff that they all seem to have thought was market standard. Libor is shaping up to be broadly similar.
That's one way to view the SAC-related insider trading cases. Lots of people were involved and not charged, for one thing. For another thing, if talking to investor relations people at companies is illegal, a lot of investors should be in jail.
That's their theory. I ... don't know? The cases they cite don't exactly say that, as far as I can tell. But, whatever, seems reasonable.
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Rashneel Kumar
Saturday, June 07, 2014
GYE Oh maintains her lead in the Women's Open golf tournament after day three competitions at the Fiji Golf Club course in Vatuwaqa.
Oh managed to score an overall gross of 228 after hitting another four over par 76 yesterday to remain in the hunt for the top prize.
Maxine Pretty, who made a bad start on the opening day of the competition, leapfrogged to second place and trails Oh by a shot on 229.
Pretty, who is also leading division one with best nett score, is former national rep Sylvia Joe's daughter and is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Defending champions Joe maintains her third rank on 241 and will need a miracle on the final day today to retain the title.
Women's Golf Fiji president Susie Yee said tough round of competition was expected adding the race was between Oh and Pretty.
"Oh has been playing consistently and Maxine has recovered from a poor start on the opening day to close in on the number one spot," Yee said.
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Sunday, 19 February 2012 09:02
Iranian warships have crossed the Suez Canal and docked in Syria's port city of Tartous, Iranian state media has reported.
The Mehr news agency said on Sunday that Tehran's show of support has caused "extreme worry for zionist forces".
Youcef Bouandel, professor of international affairs at Qatar University, said that Iran's deployment has to be viewed as part of a "broader picture" - that it to say that the Iranian government feels that "Syria is the first step towards putting Iran in the corner".
"Iran has been having a few standoffs with the West in general over its nuclear programme and over its oil emabrgo," said Bouandel, who said that the docking of the ships on the Syrian coast had two largely symbolic meanings.
"Iran has been threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz and has been a strong ally of Syria over the last year in particular... the two ships... crossed the Suez Canal without being stopped or searched [which] suggests that they do not carry any weapons," he said.
Tensions over the nature of Iran's nuclear programme have led to ever-tightening sanctions on the country's oil exports, prompting Iran to threaten to close the strait, the world's most important chokepoint for oil transport.
Move a 'provocation'
Reacting to the news on Saturday, Israel's foreign ministry denounced the deployment as a "provocation" and a "power play".
Israel said it will be watching the ships' movements closely to ensure they do not approach its coast.
Tom Donilon, the US national security advisor is due to meet Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in Jerusalam on Sunday where the deployment is expected to be discussed.
"The strategic navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has passed through the Suez Canal for the second time since the [1979] Islamic Revolution," Admiral Habibollah Sayari said in remarks quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
Sayari did not say how many vessels had crossed the canal, or what missions they were planning to carry out in the Mediterranean, but said the flotilla had previously docked in the Saudi port city of Jeddah.
Two Iranian ships, the destroyer Shahid Qandi and supply vessel Kharg, had docked in the Red Sea port on February 4, according to Iranian media.
Sayari said the naval deployment to the Mediterranean would carry a "message of peace" but also put on display "the might" of Iran's military.
"It will prove to the world that despite increasing enemy sanctions over the past 33 years, our manpower, obedient to the orders of the leader Imam Khamenei, continue to add to their academic and military abilities," Sayari said.
The first Iranian presence in the Mediterranean in February 2011 provoked strong reactions from Israel and the US.
During the 2011 deployment, two Iranian vessels, a destroyer and a supply ship, sailed past the coast of Israel and docked at the port of Latakia in Syria before returning to Iran via the Red Sea.
Russia, who has close relations with Iran and has at every turn opposed military action against Syria, also has a base in Tartous.
UK warning
The latest announcement comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel, fuelled by a longstanding dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme and rising speculation that Israel might launch pre-emptive strikes against Iranian facilities.
William Hague, the British foreign minister, on Saturday warned that an attack on Iran would carry huge costs.
Although Iran's suspected drive for atomic weapons could lead to a dangerous nuclear standoff in the Middle East, he said he favoured more time to allow for increased diplomacy and economic pressure.
"We are very clear to all concerned that we are not advocating military action,'' Hague said.
Israeli officials accused Tehran of orchestrating anti-Israeli bombings in India and Georgia as well as blasts in Thailand last week, allegations that Iran denies.
Iran has accused Israel of assassinating several of its nuclear scientists.
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"I don't even like cats," our submitter in San Francisco admits, "but reading the note made me want to go inside to see what someone would be so inclined to steal."
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"I don't even like cats," our submitter in San Francisco admits, "but reading the note made me want to go inside to see what someone would be so inclined to steal."
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Aleister in London found this critique slipped under his door after an impromptu Thursday night sing-along. "I am a big fan of my neighbours' critical opinion," Alastair says. "I won't offer much defense other than that our music selection was exceptional and I was on my way to work when I found it."
Well done, Flat 3. Dry wit, a soft touch, and lovely handwriting? This is one note that definitely deserves a place of honor on the fridge.
If you absolutely must write a note, I'd say this is how to do it.
related: It was an ironic dance party, okay?
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"Some serious shit must have gone down with the previous office toaster," says our anonymous submitter from Canada. (Maybe it was left without wearing any socks or shoes?)
Meanwhile, Marilyn in Pittsburgh says that her office lunchroom has inexplicably gone through nearly half a dozen toasters over the past year. "It's unclear as to what keeps happening to them, but nonetheless, we keep having to replace them." Within a few days of the latest model's appearance, it seems that tensions are already running dangerously hot.
Please, won't somebody think of the toast?!
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Alex and his wife, Kathy, have an 18-month-old son who, among other his hobbies, enjoys pulling off his socks and shoes at any opportunity. (Perhaps he's a future marathon-running superathlete. Or, you know, a normal 18-month-old.)
Recently, Kathy took her son with her on a trip to the store in their hometown of Las Vegas (temperature: a bone-chilling 64 degrees). When she came back to the car, she found this helpful bit of parenting advice waiting on her windshield.
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As a Valentine's Day gift to you all, I present you with this epic love story (which Teddie in Minneapolis discovered pinned to the bulletin board in his apartment building).
Teddie's love note to this love note: "I love that this person (he? she?) used commas, ellipses, and possibly a semicolon, but no periods. I also love how the all-caps rant in the middle segues into a plea to be Myspace friends again with an offhand 'anyway.' Also, what happened to her dad?"
Oh, Charles. You are so SUPER ATTRACTIVE I can hardly help myself. Deseray doesn't know what's she missing!
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Not all messages from the beyond come in the form of, say, a Jesus-shaped Cheeto.
"Usually Oprah and her magazine are empowering and inspiring," says Bek in Cape Coral, Florida — but then she opened her latest issue of O and found this "Live Your Best Life weekend" sweepstakes entry code. "Now I know the truth. They should just mail the magazine in a brown paper bag so I could wear it over my head. *sniff*"
Meanwhile, Matt in Tulsa, Oklahoma was trying to submit a note right here at Passiveaggressivenotes.com. "Then the Captcha widget pulled out its Ouija board and cast its voodoo on my employment situation," he says. "I almost cried."
And then, of course, there's always the bizarrely ominous fortune cookie…
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Erin in Arlington, Virginia says this sign appeared in every elevator in her building during the D.C. area's Snowmaggedon of 2010. "Apparently cabin fever requires drinks…and only people in their 20s and early 30s."
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You know how it's usually way easier to write off someone off as an annoying asshole than it is to feel sorry for them? But then something happens — like this whiteboard note — and suddenly, you feel like the asshole…but you still resent the person for making you feel that way. And now it's just awkward all around, because that person doesn't want pity from an asshole like you, anyway. Sigh.
This note makes me sad, so I will choose to deal with these uncomfortable feelings by blaming the parents, even though I know that isn't fair either. Now I feel sorry for the parents, too. Okay, I'm going to look at more pictures from the Puppy Bowl now.
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"My wife and I have been busy lately," writes Sean in Vancouver, "and we forgot to get the newly-lost baby tooth from under my daughter's pillow. We finally remembered a few days later. When my wife went in to slip some money under the pillow, I could hear her trying hard not to crack up." When she came out (red-faced and laughing), to show me the note, I understood why."
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Writes Brittney in California: "Apparently, my mom's boyfriend was stuck with an insufficient amount of toilet paper, and being passive aggressive (because he really is) he decides to write a note about it and stick it on the mirror, rather than confront her."
Mom's response?
And, in the end….everybody loses!
Tags: California · rebuttals · sad face · sig o · smiley · toilet paper


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The lights are on
Crysis 2 is amazing game because the gameplay is kind of smart that mean this game is strategy. Crysis 2 is not the war, its just kind of stealth so you don't need to killed your enemy because there lots of enemy. The gameplay feel like nano-suit so you can be invisible,, armor, or strength. The graphics looks amazing and wow. The sound is so loud so you can turn off the volume. The problem is kind of framerate.
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