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She knows that Dad will try something he shouldn't, that he will stub his toe, that he will complain, and that she will have to give him something to stop the pain.
I am willing to take Bryson's word for many of the bits of information with which this book abounds, to wit, “Among the Xoxa tribe of South Africa the most provocative remark is hlebeshako -- `your mother's ears,' ” the wisdom that “Some cultures don't swear at all,” and the revelation that in Finland, “When you stub your toe getting up to answer the wrong number at 2.00 a.m.,” you mutter (shout?)
Or, put another way, why would, say, a ticket stub to the rockumentary Hype be arts-index-worthy, but purchasing the soundtrack would not?
Samples were layered over 0.3 ml of a cushion composed of 5 parts of dibutyl phthalate and 3 parts of di-isodecyl phthalate (density 20 = 1.01) and centrifuged at approximately 14,000 × g . After removing the supernatant and phthalate oil, the base of the tube was severed with a razor blade and the stub, which contained the pellet, was recovered for radioactivity counting.
Minor was so guilt-ridden over his prodigious sexual appetites that he committed an autopenectomy, reducing his organ to a stub that extended about one inch from its base.