It’s long, but…
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Mr Cazzle laughed his head off. It was the first SD column he’d ever read.
That Cecil has a way with words.
So many favorites, so little bandwidth!
Others have posted some of my favorites, such as “if ignorance were corn flakes” and chimps being vicious little bastards.
Therefore, I will include one that never fails to make me laugh.
For some reason, I always get the mental image of Ryne Sandberg standing at second base, with his head thrown back and torrential rain pounding on his face.
HAH! Without doubt, Cecil turns a masterful phrase.
Cecil on ear hair, nose hair, and heart attack propensity:
"(1) Even less is known about hairy noses than hairy ears.
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(3) It sure is hard to figure out what medical authors are talking about when they use words like “tragus” and “pinna” without telling you what they mean.
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(6) I bet hair on the tragus is what’s really important, but maybe that’s just because I have it.
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(8) You can get hairy ears as a result of using minoxidil and, boy, does it look gross.
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(10) I sure wish the people who published the relatively small number of ear-hair papers had had their acts a little more together, because it’s just about impossible to determine from their work whether ear hair becomes more common in men as they age and if so, where on the ear and with what indications for your health. But it’s not like counting ear hairs is a job that’s going to attract the great minds of our times.
(11) Some great mind is going to have to do a lot of this work over if we’re going to come to any firm conclusions about ear and nose hair.
(12) But it’s not going to be me."