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“Mental institution”? Nah, "institution has a negative connotation. “Mental health center” is more like it.
more like “Mental Health RE-centering”
kill the bunnies!
I just wanna thank Dex for mentioning my idol, Milt Gross!
Hey! I once played the husband in Unicorn in the Garden in high school. And the narrator had enormous boobies. She didn’t get that the joke was on her till years later. She was also a cheerleader and didn’t get “push push through the bush”. Ah, good times.
‘Bubos’ was the term applied to the swollen lymph glands symptomatic during outbreaks of the bubonic plague–I think you’re missing somekind of link, as I see nothing connecting ale with grotesquely swollen lymph nodes…