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Whoopi Goldberg. I worked there 2.5 years. For 5 months I was an apprentice embalmer. The rest of time I was a nightman. Back then there were only two mortuaries in the county. Each got to handle the autopsies. That was important because the family usually will choose the mortuary that has done the autopsy to do the funeral. Sometimes I got to help the doctor with the autopsies. One time I got to slice a brain. After seeing what went on at the mortuary my family decided on cremation.

I fondly remember the cavemen commercials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEICO_Cavemen And the tv show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavemen_(TV_series)

I once worked at a mortuary for several years. It was not a family one. Just before I left it was sold to the local cemetery and that was a family business.

Interesting idea! One might think that Communist China was a break with the past but so was the first Emperor who established Legalism as the official state philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy) Communism is merely a means to an end. And Mao might be viewed as a quasi Emperor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World I like "Brave New World". However I would have changed two things. I would include homosexuality. That would have been taboo at the time the book was written. And I would include euthanasia. Alphas and Betas at 60, Gammas at 50, Deltas at 40 and Epsilons at 30.

Good point! I had been thinking about cats and dogs having litters.

Human females have two breasts yet single births is the norm. Many mammal species have more than two breasts and have multiple births. Do you think that at one time in human evolution that having twins was ever the norm?

Isn't it wonderful! We have so many people here who are so knowledgeable about China and the history, culture and language!

I just made a thread about that. So why not have pizza to celebrate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coming_Out_Day

http://menofporn.typepad.com/menofporn/2018/10/brent-corrigan-was-paid-1500-per-scene-by-falcon-studios.html I have always wonder porn models make.

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/matthew-shepard-final-resting-place/#gs.PvWe19U And now 20 years on, his remains will see their final resting place at the Washington National Cathedral. VERY NICE!

Thank-you!

Interesting idea. I think hand and feet models get insured. Didn't Betty Grable get her legs insured? I think that it would be most appropriate for a male sex worker to have cock insurance.

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-pizza-month-october/ Back when I ate pizza I'd usually order two pizzas. One all meat with anchovies.

Do you know about San Francisco? I had a Chinese co-worker who told me the story that one time when she and her husband (he was Mexican-American) were in a store in Chinatown, San Francisco she overheard an employee there speaking Chinese saying that they should keep an eye on those two. My co-worker said nothing and she and her husband left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four I remember Mao's "little red book". I even got a copy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung In the dispute as to which is the real China I favor Taiwan.

How / where do Cro-Magnons fit it with modern humans and the Neanderthals?

My grandmother liked to set out on the back deck of her home in the evening. The problem were the insects. So I got some lamp/light device that attracted the insects. And that attracted the frogs! Easy food.

As an aside I wonder why Communist China has not renamed a major city after Chairman Mao?

I'm sure that I would have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-A-Joke

I just heard this on the radio. Why do dolphins swim in salt water? Because pepper water would make them sneeze. :p:p:p

Sorry I don't. I remember when could call the cinema and talk to a live person to see what movies were showing.

DOOL is the only American soap opera that I watch now. Years back I watched "All My Children" and "As The World Turns". Since last century I've watched the British soap "Coronation Street". Several years I began watching another Brit soap "Hollyoaks". I also watch two Australian soaps "Neighbours" and "Home and Away". Last year I started watching the New Zealand soap "Shortland Street".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EastSiders I've enjoyed the show. I fondly remember Van Hansis playing gay character Luke Snyder on the soap opera "As The World Turns". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Hansis